Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-08-06

By this natural transfer il is that Delaware
has become to all practical purposes free
State; Maryland nearly so, and Virginia
to great extent :-and the same cause is
operating largely in other States.
If Texas is annexed to the United States,
with its more fertile soil and warmer sky,
is it not certain that the parts of it nea, the
sea-board, which are peculiarly adapted by
nature to productions in which the negro's
labor is most profitable, will b. filled by
emigration from the Slave States9 Gao
we not see, that in Maryland and Virginia
and Kentucky, and the other States in
which slavery is on the decline, the OPEN
ing of Texas mus; necessarily hasten its
departure; and, thus silently, without COM
plant, without effort, this dark visitation Of
anxiety and evil, once The just stigma of
British cup dity, and now her unjust and
nsolent taunt, may at last depart from our
shores?
When by any possibility the abolition
OF slavery is ever to be affected by other
means-in advance Of the arrival of the
period when it must yield to the silent ope-
ration of the pressure of population, in this
as in all other countries where it has ex-
isted-is problem which we do not here
feel called upon to discuss. That any COM
pulsory power from without can ever ac-
complish that end, such as the Abolition
lists " Of the day are striving 10 apply, it
appears the absurdest folly TO suppose
1t has hitherto had no other effect than TO
exasperate the master, and make heavier
n nd tInh hn cha
does there appear much likelihood of its
exerting any other influence in its future
continuance. If, as has been ardently
hoped and fondly believed by many of the
truer friends of the negro, the result Of the
British experiment Of emancipation in the
West India Islands shall be such as to prove
its safety and wisdom, so as to open The
eyes of the master himself TO the truth
urged upon him by his northern neighbor,
the grounds Of The question will be ia no
respect changed by the existence of Texas
in the Union. The master in Texas will
be open to the same means of conviction
as he would if still on his old plantation in
Virginia. Ii, on the other hand, that ex-
pertinent shall not prove successful, so as
to disprove the asserted possibility of the
co existence Of the two races and two CO.
lors, side by side, on the same soil, in
relation of freedom and equality Of rights,
how can any of the friends Of either desire
to keep them forcby penl up within limits
where every day is tending faster and fas-
ter to terment the discordan: elements mo
a result which threatens to be the desola-
non oil both-lnstead Of opening this safety
valve by which the noxious danger NAV
pass off harmlessly and insensibly.
Crowd, then, your population into the
Southern States as you may, rapidly and
without fear. Texas will open before it
as an outlet, and slavery, retiring from the
Middle and Southern States OF the present
confederacy, will find for a time resting
place there. But only for time for the
irreversable law OF population, which de-
crees that in a densely peopled region
slavery shall cease to exist, will emanci-
pate Texas in her turn, and the Negro will
then pass TO land Of political freedom and
social dignity under genial sky. He will
pass, without civil convulsien, and leaving
no domestic ruin in his path. As his labor
becomes less and less valuable, Emancipa-
ton, gradual, progressive, at last universal,
will pass him over the Southern border to
his more appropriate home in Mexico and
the States beyond
I" But if Texas is to be the outlet for
American slavery, why not suffer her 20
be SO, without, making her patty to the
Union! Will she not be as broad an out
let, and as certain, whether she comes to
,ss cL M
friendly neighborp
1t might be so, indeed, if we could only
be certain that Texas, pressed by necessi-
ties, and spurned from our confederacy,
would always continue TO be ind pendent
and friendly. But what security have we
that forty years hence she will be either
She is, indeed, Young State with Ameri-
can sympathies, anxious now 10 become a
member Of that American brerhe rhood from
which most Of her citizens have been emf
grants, and she has proffered herself TO us
without reserve or condition But she is
not without other woers. Great Britain
has never yet lost chance Of getting
foothoId on the outskirts Of her neighbors'
territory. She has Gibraltar in Spain. the
Cape of Good Hope in Africa, and Hong
Kong in China. Once, Calcutta might
have been added to this list, but that is now
the capital Of her empire possessions of the
East. With the West India Islands as SEN
lincls upon our coast. she keeps Canada 10
The North Of US, and claiming Oregon on
the West, is actually negotiating with Tex
as on the South.
She is medating. as she terms it, be.
tween Mexico and Texas. And with what
object? Not to obtain exclusive privileges,
says Lord Aberdeen not TO advance any
peculiar interests of EIgland, or with re-
ference TO any peculiar influence. Truly,
she negotales for none Of these. But the
slave mistress of India, the oversepr and
,ask-msster of Ireland. she who but vester-
day played the bully of the opium SNUG
glers, and fought the Chinese into accep-
lance OF the dccencies Of intoxication, has
become a saint in these later days-a very
Pscksniff-and now
"Compounds for sins that she S inclined TO,
BY damning those she mas mind to-
s. She desires" says Lord Aberdeen, :. To-
see slavery abolished throughout the world,
and will not desist from her honest efforts