New-York daily tribune., 1844-03-19
The Texas Question.


The Texas Question.
We still indulge the hope that the confident
minors which reach US of disposition IN the
Senate to favor the Annexation Of Texas are un
founded, as the confident statement that the
Treaty haa been confirmed confessedly was
warranted And ifso, what basis is there for the
excitement now brewing on the subject! That
John Tyler and his little junto are pushing on
the Annexation project we all knew long since;
but what does that signify! They hope to make
some capital, to give themselves the benefit of
some lucky chance, by agitating this question.
If they can but embroil the South with the North,
thev may rende. Mr.. Clay unpopular with one
section or the other, and put the Accident at the
head of local feeling if not of party. This is
clearly the game, SO far as it has any Political
bearing; while the spectators who wish to make
themselves suddenly, immensely rich by selling
their square leagues of Texas lands in the States
or Virginia Slaves in Texas supply the slnews
of war. We knew, days before it appeared, that
room was to be bought in one Of our New York
papers for Senator Walkers long array of sophis-
try in favor of Annexation, and were not whit
surprised to see appear in double sheet Herald.
The Texas fund at Washington paid for it,
and it is now procuring the insertion of Editorials
of similar tenor in all our purchasable journals.
For our own part, while we do not deny that
some Commercial advantages might result from
the Annexation and a little more symmetrical
Boundary be obtained by it, we perceive no rea-
sons for the step which will not just as forcibly
plead for a universal extension of our limits-for
the acquisition of Cuba, and Canada, and Califor-
MIA. A man always perceive urgent reasons
for taking the property of his neghbors if at heart
he cevets it.
We cannot be mistaken in believing that the
object OF pressing the Annexation at this time is
to raise new Missouri Question, fan the embers
of Abolition into sweeping fame, breaking over
the present lines OF party, and thus if possible de-
feat Mr.. Clay. The agitators know that, among
the more moral, conscientious, rejecting People
of the Free States, Who are content to fulfil IN ST.
lence their Constitutional obligations to the South
there is au lnvlnclble repugnance to any extension
of our covenants to tolerate Human Slavery-to
make our Free States savc1casehers for new
region as large as the whole UnivG North of the
Potomac, and one into which Slavery has but
recently been extended 10y rebellion and the sword.
This feeling, il once fully aroused, will be uncon-
trollabe aud oyerpowering; and, from the nature
of parties, it will take vastly stronger hold ON
the Wing strength than that OF the Loco tocos,
who 90 for the party, support the Regular
We hat nartu S
dong, protesting, or sustaining Every new i'm
pulse to the Abolition excitement, therefore, incv-
itably abstracts twenty votes from the Wings to
one rom the Loco t'ocos and tins is the reason
why cur Democracy look compaccntly on
the gathering OF the Texas tornado.
The wretched sophistry with which this Slave
ry aspect OF the Texas question is sought to be
disguised, is the worst feature Of the business
Thus The Netc- York San, following closely in
the wake of Senator Walkers Letter, gives the
following as one OF the reasons for Annexation
,.cfi WI Ia The s9uIss Of ,ne terminate slavery in ken
Southern Western say,s BY allowing the slaves 70 emi.
ate 70 ena aud We ihe'eoy increase the of the
Now, the direct contrary of this is the truth.
Slavery has long been sustained IN the States
above-named merely by the market for Slaves in
the newer and more fertile States farther South
Ii we had never acquired Louisiana, Slavery
would have nearly run itself out among US by
this time. II we now receive Texas, loaded with
shls curse we shall prolong Slavery in the old
States oy at least century, by increasing the de-
mand for and the price OF Slaves, and thus giving
renewed vitality and activity to the detested bust
ness OF Slave-breeding. The Free States cannot
become party to this
We do hope this project of Annexation will
receive no countenance IN the Senate. Its ori
pinators and most Jealous advocates are bent on a
Dissolution Of the Union, and "a new Southern Con-
federacy, of which Calhoun shall be the master
spirit Those who like this will go ahead with it
so far as they are able-we prefer the Umon as
1t is. To unite our fortunes with Texas is to
form partnership with bankrupt nation. utter.
ly without resources except IN its lands, (and
these would be fo"nd to belong to Tom, Dick
or Harry II we ever undertook to sell them
without Navy or Military defences, with a
large, indefinite Debt, and War on lis hands
which we must father, and which would at once
expose our West India and Pacific trade to
thousand priyateers. Better mind our own bust
ness.
GTThe Young Friends of Ireland had go-
rious Festival last evening IN remembrance Of st.
Patrick An account oft Tomorrow