The Port-Gibson correspondent., 1844-07-13
SENATOR WALKER-GEN HUSTON
TEXAS AND THE PORT GIBSON
HER AID

with which the editor of the Herald uses up
Senator Walker and Gen Huston at one da sh.
We have heard certain gentleman IN argu-
ment differ with Judge Story-and legal
friend of ours pronounce VattelI doubtful au-
thority, but the m ortifcation of seeing Senator
Walker used up, has been reserved as the clo-
sing act in this burieSque drama.
That Gen. Huston did state that one Of the
reasons for wishing to annex Texas was the fact
that we should acquire some Eve new States
is fact, and he showed plainly that Mr.. Clay
was ignorant of the country, soil, climate, &c.
when he asserted that the Northern portion of
that country is not adapted to slave labor
There is no fact more clearly established or
more generally admitted, than that slavery can
not always exist in the United States. The
abiest statesman of our country admit and
prove the fact. and in that abest of all works
on the same subject, De ToqueYles Democ-
racy in America, we find the matter argued
In a plain matter of fact sort of way that ad-
mits of no doubt. Now the only difference be-
tween the Northern and Southern States is
plainly to be seen. We all know the fact that
diate abolition Of slavery-they desire it re-
gardless Of all consequences-not caring what
rights they may trample on, or whose blood
they may sh ed. The object of Senator Walk
er and Gen. Huston, and every friend TO an
nexation is TO secure, and strengthen the South
against the needless efforts of these infatuated
p philanthropists, by increasing the political
strength Of the south in the National Congress.
How will they do it, By ygetting the slaves of
Maryland Delaware and Kentucky concentra-
ted at one point,-Texas whose rich and fer
tile lands hold out inducements for capitalists
to invest their funds. Does the Southern man
not see that slavery is fast receding from the
North! does he not see that slave labor be-
comes improbable in the old States that slave
ry must either be be abolished in those States,
or provisions made for bringing the slaves
South, and thus preserving the balance OF pow
er IF he Cannot see these things he must in
deed be blind. In view of this, what is it that
Senator Walker and Gen Huston wish to do.
They wish to annex, the rich lands OF Texas,
glowing with wealthy soil and healthy at
mosphere-giving it the protection of our laws
and a. share of the blessings of our institutions,
States to the American Union. But how says
the Anti-Annexationists will you populate
them.-We answer by bringing the slaves of
Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware and other
States in which slave labor is getting to be un-
profitable and slarery unpopular to the fertile
lands of Texas-thus strengthening the South
politically, and the whole country in CONNER
oial and military or maratime point of view.
But says the anti, how, if you only transPose
the slaves from the States enumerated to the
five new States of Texas, how do you strength
en- the representative in Congress.
We answer in the fist place by repeating
what we have once said, that if new induce
ments-rich lands and cheap, are not soon Of
fered to the slave holder of the States enumer-
ated he must from necessity and the change Of
public sentiment in those States, emancipate
his slaves. If he does that, we loose that much
strength in Congress-but if he only removes
his slaves to Texas, and assists in popuIating
the Eve States in that lovely country, we save
to the South proper what we hold as doubt
full claim in the North in the popular branch
of Congress, and zoe gain ten Senators for the
.JiUe neW States or one sixth of the whole. The
single State of Virginia has almost exclusively
populated Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana, and we believe could fill in few
years the five new States of Texas without
loosing much if any of her sttength in Con-
gress. Recurring then TO Gen. Huston and
Senator Walker, we believe it plain, self-eVi.
dently SO that the annexation of Texas will in
crease the strength of the South and at the
same time open door for the peaceabie and
gradual disappearance of slavery "into the
boundless regions of Mexico and Central and
Southern America" Thus will the suicidal
doctrines of the modern aboIitionists be pros
aated, and what must eventually come to