The North-Carolina standard., 1844-04-17

i Iy double the size OF Texas and Texas Is toe
remote, why is not Oregon also, when ten day:
q will take US to the mouth of the Del Norte
whereas three months by land, and five months by
sea, must be required for the journey to the mouth
rIof the Columbia. Texas, also, is part of the
i valley of the Mississippi, watered by the same
streams, and united with it by nature, one and
indivisible; whereas Oregon is separated from
us by mountain barriers, and pours It's waters
into another and distant ocean. And if Ore
I gon, although disputed, and occupied by for
leigh power, If, as believe it to be, In truth
and Justice, all our own, Texas was once, and
for many years, within our limits, and may now
iagain become our own by the free and unani-
Emous consent, already given, of all by whom il
lis owned and occupied Ihaxe not thus contrast
/ ed Texas and Oregon with = view 20 Oppoee the
1ecenpation. Of Oregon, 1of have always been the
ardenf friend Of that measure. fadvoeaied 1t in a
speech published long before became member
OF. the Senate, and now, since the death of the
patriotic and lamented Linn, am the Oldest sur
viving member of the special committee of the
Senate which has pressed upon that body, for SO
many years, the immediate occupation of the
whole Territory of Oregon. There, upon the
shores of the distant Pacific, if my vote can ac-
complish il, shall be planted the banner of the
Union and, with my consent, never shall be sur
rendered single point of IFS coast an atom OF its
soil, or drop of all its waters. But while am
against the surrender of any portion of Oregon, l
| am also against the Tcsurrender of the territory
of Texas; for, disguise it as we may, it is case
of resurremder, when it once was all our own,
and now again is ours by the free consent of those
to whom it belongs, already given, and waiting
only the ceremony of a formal acceptance Let
not those, then, who advocate the occupation of
Oregon, tell that Texas is too distant too in
accessible too extensive for American occupan-
icy. Let the friends of Oregon reflect. also, that
Texas, at the head of the Arkansas, IS conligu-
Gus to Oregon, and within twenty miles of the
pass which commands the entrance through all
that territory, and the occupation of which pass
by foreign power, would separate the people
and Territory of Oregon from the rest of the Tn.
ion, and leave them an easy prey TO the army of
an invader. In truth, Texas is nearly as indis,
pensable for the safe and permanent occupation of
Oregon, as it is for the security of New Orleans
and the Gulf
The only remaining objection is the question of
slavery And have a question which is to
curtail the limits of the republc-to threaten its
existence-to aim deadly blow atall its great
and vital interests-to court alliances with foreign
and with hostile powers-to recall our commerce
and expel our manufactures from bays and rivers
that once were all our own--to strike down the
flag Of the Union, as it advances towards our an
cient boundary-to resurrender mighty territory,
and invite to its occupancy the deadfiest lin truth,
the only foes this government has ever encoun-
tered2 Is anti-slavery to do all this2 And is it
so to endanger New Orleans and the valley and
commerce and outlet of the West that we would
hold them, not by our own strength, but by the
slender tenure of the will and of the mercy of
Great BritaD2 If anti-slavery effect all this,
may God, in his infinite mercy, save and perpetu-
ate this Union; for the efforts of man would be
feeble and impotent The avowed object of this
party is the Immediate abolition of slavery. For
this, they traverse sea and land; for this, they
hold conventions in the capital of England; and
there they brood over schemes Of abolition, in as
soclaton with British societies; there they join in
dehunciations of their countrymen until their
hearts are filled with treason and they return
home, Americans in name, but Englishmen in
feelings and principles Let US all, then feel and
know, whether we live North or South, that this
party, if not vanqnished must overthrow the gov
ernment, and dissolve the Union. This party
propose the immediate abolition of slavery thro'-
out the Union. Ifthis were practicable, let US
look at the consequences. By the returns of the
last census the products of the slaveholding States
in 1S40, amounted in value to S404. .429638
These products, then of the South must have
alone enabled it to furnish a home market for all
the surplus manufactures of the North, as also a
market for the products of its forests and fisheries
and giving mighty impulse to allits CONNER
CIdl duu navigating 1NOWj ucdtly dii
these agricultural products of the South which ac-
compIish all these great purposes is the result of
slave labor; and, strike down these products BY
the immediate abolition of slavery, and the mark
cts of the South, for want of the means to pur-
chase, will be lost to the people of the North
and North and South will be involved in one
common ruin. Yes, in the harbors of the North
lat Philadelphia, New York and Boston, the YES
sells would lot at their wharves for want of ex-
changeable, products to carry; the building OF
ships would cease, and the grass would grow IN |
many street now enlivened by an active and pro-
gressve industry. In the interior, the railroads
and canals would languish for want of business
and the factories and manufacturing towns and
cities, decaying and deserted would stand as blast
ed monuments of the folly of man. One univer-
sal bankruptcy would oVerspread the country to-
gether with all the decentralization and crime
which ever accompany such a catastrophe; and
the notices at every corner would point only to
sales on execution, by the constable, the sheriff,
the marshal, and the auctioneer; whilst the beg
gars would ask us in the streets, not for money!
but for bread Dark as the picture may be, it
could not exceed the gloomy reality. Such would
be the effects in the North; whilst in the South,
no human heart can conceive, nor pen describe,
the dreadful consequences. Let US look at anoth-
er result to the North. The slaves being eman-
cipated not by the South, but by the North, would
fly there for safety and protection; and three mil
lions of free blacks would be thrown at once, as
if by convulsion of nature, upon the States of