Litchfield enquirer., 1844-09-05

" Americanus" shall De mmselI again WhS" soI,r- ern Whigs, no longer rallying to the lead ot MT: Ctav shaIl resume their natural position, or shall divide on the question; when the whole tactics of nartv the united or general strength of the south, inc vast and multiform influence of strong Execu- five shall be combined; when the measure comes to be pressed, under every spacious name, by aid of every spacious topic of patriotism and aggrandise
 ment; when, if any one, or two, or ten, or twenty members of Congress, should manifest symptoms of recusancy, or should try the effect of little sweet, reluctant auforous delay" the weird sis ters of ambitious hearts shall play before their eyes images of foreign missions, and departments, and benches of justice-do not deceive yourselves into the belief, that the majority of will not be se- cured. speak now of the admission of Texas as a mere territory. The erection of that territory into States will be very different undertaking later, less promising, far more dreadful trial of the ties of Union. Of that have something to say hereafter; but have no doubt whatever and feel it to be urgent duty to declare it, that the territory, as territory will be admitted in twelve months after MT. Folks election, unless some ex- traordinary interpretation of the people, which dare not speculate, shall prevent it.
 [Mr. Choate then proceeded to observe upon a letter, which he had read in the National Intelli- gencer, signed by seven prominent members of the Democratic party in New York, including the &C., complished editor of the Evening Post, in which the writers declare their purpose of supporting MT. Polk, but recommend the election of members of Congress "who will reject the unwarrantable | scheme now pressed on the country" He remark ed on the concessions of the letter. to witt s that 1 the Baltimore Convention had placed the Demo- cratic party at the North, in position of great di6culty"-that it exposed the party to the con- stant taunt "that the Contention rejected .Mr. 1 Vnn B,ven and nominated .t1T. Polk, for reasons l connected with the SnamediGte annexation Of
 1'eras,-ss that it went still further and interpo- lated into the party creed c,o doctrine hitherto l unknown among us; at war with some of our es- tablshed principles, and ahhorrent to the opinions and feelings of great majority of Northern free | men :" And he doubted whether State which should give its vote for President nominated sole- l ly for the very purpose of anneyng Texas, would or could, in the same breath, elect members of l Congress to go and defeat the scheme"-s wn- ecarrantGbie" enough, no doubt, but yet the pre- else and single st scheme" which MT. Polk was brought forward to accomplishment whether they, 1 or such as they, who surrendered to the candidate
 at Baltimore, would be very likely to beard and
 baffle the incumbent at Washington. He then re-
 samed :-l eGs
 The election of MI. Polk, then, will, or may 1 probably, annex Texas as territory. The election
 of MT. Clay defeats or postpones 1t indefinitely Some persons pretend to doubt, or at least seem to deny this. But do they do him, themselves, and the great subject, justice! Read his letter upon 1 this subject; observe the broad and permanent grounds of exclusion which he there sketches; ad- vert to the well weighed declaration, that 50 long as any considerable opposition to the measure shall
 be manifested he will resist it and you cannot fail to see, that unless you yourselves-unless Massa- chusatts. and Vermont, and Ohio, should withdraw their opposition, for his term at least you are safe
 and all are safe. That letter, in my judgment, makes him title to every anti-Texas vote in America. The circumstances under which it was given to the world, happened we'll to know. It was before either convention had assembled at Bal- tmore. It was as yet, to me at least, uncertain | what ground MT. Van Buren would take. Warm 1 friends of Mir. Clay in Congress would have dis snaded him from immediate publication. They feared it's effect even on the Whig convention it. 1 self; they feared it's wider and more permanent effect. Wait little, they said Feel the pulse of the delegates as they come to Washington. Attend for few days, the rising voice of the general press af the South. He rejected these councils of inde- cision and directed it to be given to the country
 In my judgment, that act saved the country. It lxed and rallied the universal Whig opinion upon this subject instantly and every where. It sus- pended the warm feelings of the South, until its sober second thought could discern, as now it has begun to discern, that fair and tempting as this forbidden fruit shows to the sense, it brings with 1t death, and all wo, with loss of Eden. The po- sItion which Mir. Clay held--the inhabitant of a slave State-his birthplace Virginia-thc part he transacted in the Missouri controversy-his known aiiu intense Americanism of feeling, eager enough
 eager in the man as in the boy, to lay hold of every occasion to carry up his country to the oti- est summit of durable and just glory, and there- fore not dsincned to mere enlargement of territo- r' the acquisition had been just, prudent, equita- bic, honorable ;-this felicity of position enabled him to do what few other men of even equal capa- city and patriotism could do enable him to ouench m the spark, If now the people sustain him, this stupendous conception of madness and of guilt.
 If the election of MT. Polk then, may annex
 lexas' and that of MT. Clay defeat or indefinitely postpone Ii, what are the moral duties of the oppo- nents of annexation, of all parties? You are a Democrat, for example. and you would or every other account, than this of Texas desire the s,c- cess of the Democratic ticket. You are m aboli- tlonls, and without expecting the success of your ticket, you would desire to give it the utmost prac- tlcable appearance of growth and strength. But can you, in sense and fairncss say, that all the other good which even on your principles, the election of MT Polk or the exhibition of growing vote for MT. Birney, would accomplish, or all the other evils which either of these results would prevent, would compensate for the various and the transcendent evil of annexation. Can you doubt, when you calmly weigh all the othor good which you achieve by eftecting your object, against the mischief you do by annexation, can you doubt that the least thing which you owe your conscience, your country, the utmost which pride and consis- tency have right to exact of you is, neutrality i? You will not say for instance, that you believe
 that mere postponement of democratic ascendant cy for live years, will permanently and irreparably lmpalr the constitution and the prosperity of our country, or bereave her of ray of her glory She can endure so long, even you do not doubt the evil of of the politics which you disapprove. She can afford to wait So long, even you will admit, for the politics which you prefer. But the evil of annex aton is as immediate irretrievablc, and as eter
 nal as 1t is enormous! Time-terms of Presiden- tia office aSes-instead of healing, will but dis. play will but exasperate, the immedicable wound. ,Yes' yes. file who, some space hereafter,-how long, how brief that space, you may not ail taste of death until you knoM-he who another .rh,se..1