New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-05-16

own potent armed intervention against any illegi
innate consummalion injurious TO US, whether
Diplomatic or forcibIe. The assumption Of Texas
for the sole purpose of extending the bounds OF
tho Na.ion, Dominion, with all the fatal lights Of
History bcaming full upon US, is too absurd for
-ofntstiop. and can only be used for effect, by the
most reckless demagogues, which class OF men 1t
was not your nor is now M, purpose to address.
As measure of Economy, as means Of De
fence, and as mere extension of Boundary, ;1e
both agree that Texas cannot be admitted All
those high moral and constitutional considerations
which have declined using for the present are
most certainly against its Annexation. Every
one would conclude, then, that we both would
come to the same @. E. D.-Texas, therefore, Is
not to be admitted But no Setting cut with
the same data, granting the same postuiates, fol-
lowing the same method of demonstration, we
come to utterly different concusions--i, that
Texas ought not, aoil not, and, 81 far as form
an integral portion ofNational power, shall not be
annexed-you, that she 0ugdt not perhaps yet '0iil
and 50 far as you are concerned, shall be allied
10 US. Ii am right, you are wrong-if you are
right, then is the American People stutified and
dishonored by your own showing. For II
oecuniary interests, good policy and good faith
lead them 10 abstain from Texas, then no =" lnsa-
table craving for good land" excuses their rapa-
city, nor any " determination rightfuly or wrong
fully to have it." evidences their wisdom or con-
ceals their dishonor. What terrible power is
this then, which, overriding all considerations Of
moral and material interest determines US to seize
on Foreign Nation, and, in spite the faith of
Treaties, the feelings and wishes of the majority
of the Nation in violation of the National Con-
s,tution, and ct the hazard OF the Dissolution Of
the Union, " wrongiully' to appropriate it to our
selves? You are constrained TO make the hu-
hunliating confession-H is S!dccry, which
makes the & South desire the Annexation, though
contrary to her interests" and the North TO re-
fuse the alliance, "though contrary TO her inter-
ests' But here you seem to contradict your
previous showing that the Admission OF Texas
would be injurious to the North. And it may be
farther safely said that no monopoly OF trade
IN Texas secured to the North by alliance can
compensate her for her losses by the perpetuation
Of Slavery, which Texas at least for some cen
turies, would probably insure For we are con-
sumers, not mostly because we have Slaves,
but because we are Planters; and every Slave
made free is so much the greater consumer of
Northern Manufactures, as an intelligent edu-
Gated freeman produces more to give IN exchange
than an uneduca,cd slave. Add 20 this that by
Emancipation the whole class of masters Is add
ed 10 the producing class, instead of being mere
" the agents of the consumption of the fruits Of
others labor. Am right, then, when plant
myself upon physical wcll-bcing, and say Texas
cannot be admitted am right, when stand
upon the faith of Treaties and declare, she ought
not 10 come in Am fright, even if Mexico assent
to the Union, when | inlerpose the bulwarks Of
tbs Constitution, and proclaim that, till these
shall be leveled to the ground, she cannot be
ours? Am / right, when | gather about me all
the glorious principles and hallowed associations
which illustrate the American name, and confess,
that all these must perish. before Texas can be-
come one Tor more) of these United States .
Then no more of this memorable necessty-ths
l.omened . must :" 1t is the command of q su.
perior to an inierior-the language OF King 10
slave. We are vet free-the day on which Texas
must be welded TO us-the day on which, as YOU
seem to anticipate, she shall be thrust upon us
we are free no more. In Kentucky, the gross
population may be sc. down at 100000: 81 ,495
only. the Auditors books show to be Slavehold-
ers; not one in four or five, rs estimated by you
to be the ratio in the five States of Maryland,
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, but
one in Twenty-Five only, is stakeholder; anG this
is probably the ratio III all the five States named,
the number ofSlaveholders decreasing as YOU go
farther Southr To this insignificant minority
we have sacrificed Common Schools-wc cannot
sustain ,hem-the Supremacy of the Laws, it
has not been vindicscd-the National and State
foot Liberty of Speech aud of the Press, there
is not despotsm in Europe that has less than
wa Navy, it cannot he ours-Manulactures,
they are impossible with Slave Labor--all the
Arts and Sciences the useful and ornamental, they
perish here-the Christian Morality, " the salt has
lost lis savor"-hish intellectual development
such only as can exist where the spirit is free in
its flights and untrammeled in its utterance:
Slavery, like the tabled Stygian lake, paralyses
the wings of Genus-dresd, gloomy and re-
morseess, she suffers none-none to escape-each
victim bu. adds more and more to that noyious
atmosphere which infects her inhospitable shores,
making her very weakness, exhaustion and decay
her impregnabe defence. Have the less than one
in twenty five, to say nothing of the entire ten
millions of the North, imposed upon us ali these
sacrifices, and do they now come on once more
with that everlasting word crust {" ? Surely,
this is unworthy of us! or else arc VIC most IN
worthy OF our Patriot Sres. If Slavery has al
ready grown 50 great that YOU are forced to cry
out, II is time for every Statesman, wherever
located, TO look it full in the face :" is it not.
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