The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-08-08
REMUNERATION OF II f XAS-
PERPETUITY OF SLAVERY AMI
INCREASE OF SLAVE POWER
READ BOTH SIDES.
THE COON SIDE.

| am firmly persuaded that the CERT.fiN
AND I'VE i'IT.4BLE TE.NDE.NCIES
of the annexnon of r xns are 10 promote THE
ABOLITION or SLAFERY; more so IN
deed. than any other measure which has hereto.
fore been proposed.
III believed, with Nr. Walker, that abolition
either was or would become beneficial or necessary
for the South | should certainly be in favor OF
annexation, as both the most certain and best
mode of accomplishing that object, -,
Our slaves will
then be carried TO Texas, by the force Of Lave as
fixed and certain as that by which water finds It's
level. The Slaves will very soon disappear from
MARYLAND, Virginia, North Carolina, tennessee
and Kentucky, aud in period very short Tor such
an operation, those states will become NON
SLAVEHDLDiNCS STATES; and whenever that
is the case they will not only no longer have a
common interest with The remaining sld,eholdlng
states TO defend the institution, but will very soon
parlake Of that fhna,ica spirit Of false phanlhro'
py which is per,ading the whole world. 1hu'
shall WE lose the most important Of our ALLIES
most important in numerical strength at the bat
lot box; still more important if we should be driven
to the carlouch box as our last defence. And
what are the advantages which we are to gain by
this measure! mean WE OF TIE SLAVE
HOLDING STATES.
II is said ho, the annexation of Texas will in
crease the political power Of the slaveholding
states, and their vote in congress. Such canno
he the result in the House of Representatives.
| believe that slavery is IN NO SENSE d.'
EVIL, that the African Is not only more con
tented and happy, enjoys more physical comior
and is more moral, religious, and yiruous IN the
condition of domestic slavery than in any other
but DO most confidently believe that the only
alternative of that condition is vice. ideness, anc
dcbnucheiy, ultimately leadnglo barbarsm
Uoddy Thompson's (coOn) letter dated jul!
3, 1914.
The Boston Atlas (coon) publishes his letter il
full, and says Of it,
"This letter is calculated TO produce very
decided effect, ia dspeng the loco foco humbut
Of annexation.
every slave Gin case o
re anneSaiion) Withdrawn from the present slave
States. will have his influence in lessning the rep
resenaion If the district from which he goes
This career Of settlement upon The Gulf of Mexico
will sooner or later, convert Maryland, Virginia
| North Carolina, Kentucky. and other States int,
/ fee States twill break down South Carolina
weaken Georgia and Tennessee, and probably re
duce the value Of land in Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana. Hon. John 2. Kennedy. (coonI
representative in congress from Baltimore, and til,
friend and hiographer Of Mr. Clay, in letter unde
date of the 9Th Of May last.
! .But this il not ALL We know that in some o
( the States, such AZ Kentucky and Tennessee the
disposition 10 get rid Of their slaves. and TO turr
their attention TO manufactures, is increasing. aud
that IN others, such as Mar, land and Virginia
slave labor produces but small return upon the
capital invested. II is from these States that til,
South han been principally supplied with The
slaves that she needed. Let Texas be annexed
nnd such an opening will be presented that, in al
probability, sone not all of these States. will be
drained Of their slaves, as the South does no
possess more, ifas many as she requires, and
would not be, therefore, able 10 furnish them
What, then. becomes Of this bugbear the bal