The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-03-13

ObS1onduO"iHg utI ldlI ueiuS Win tHc per
petual eclipse Of slavery, and booming her
soil to its everlasting curse
Il IS too obvious 10 need remark, how
precisely this provision of the Texia n
Constitution placed her in position 10
become,without. the slightest change Of her
fundamental law member of the slave
holding brotherhood IN this confederacy.-
What an appropriate foundation for the
mime slave States as large as Xentuc-
XIV %
1t was soon after the promulgation Of
this Constitution that the great movement
was made upon Congress to obtain re-
cognition of Texan Independence, which
finally resulted as have shown in SNUG
Cling through Congress at the last hour
of Gen Jackson's administration, an APP
preparation for tie outfit and salary Of a
minister to that country And then came
the formal application through the Texan
Ministe: for admission into our Confeder'
acy with the presentation to Congress of
numerous petitions of slave holders, and
resolutions Of the Legislatures of slavehol-
ding States. in favor of the solicited ad-
mission.
From among the numerous evidences
Of the continued operation at this period,
of the motive for annexation t. which |
have referred, select the following:
The Mobile Advertiser held the follow.
ing language:
"The South wish 10 have Texas admit
ted into :he Union FOR two reasons; First
TO equaHze The South iciik the North, and,
secondly. as a convenient and safe place,
calculated, FROM its peculiar good soil and
salubrIous climate, for slape population.
Interest and political safely both alike
prompt the action and enforce tie argu'
ment.'
The following toast was about the same
time given at public meeting Of distin'
guished men at Columbia, S c.:
"TExAs-If united 20 our government
as a State, it will prove an invaluable ac'
QUESTION to the Southern States and their
Domestic Institutions.
From the resolutions Of State Legisla-
lures, at this period, in favor Of annexa-
ton, take the following from Mississippi
as specimen
"Resolred, that the annexation of Tex
as to this Republic is essential to the fu'
ture safety and repose of the Southern
States of this Confederacy"
The report of the Committee who repor'
ted this resolution to the Legislature CEN
tains tho following remarkable passage:
"rhe Northern States have no inter-
est Of their own which requires any spe'
cial safeguards for their defence. save on
ly their domestic manufactures and God
knows they have already received protec
from the government on a most liberal
scale, under which encouragement they
have improved and fourished beyond ex
ample. The South has rery peculiar inter
eSts TO preSerUe -interests already violent
" assailed, and boldly threatened. Your
Committee are fully persuaded that this
protection to her best interests will be att
or1ed by the annexation Of Texas An
equipoise of influence in the Halls Of Con
gress will be secured which will furnish us
a permanent guaranty Of protection.
Thus we see protection to slavery
claimed as a compensation for protection
to free labor and that not by maintain
the right Of the states TO perpetuate slave
ry within their limits, nor by according to
them the right of defending it, as best
they may, against the moral power Of re-
deemed and purified Christianity; but by
Remembering a foreign country-intro
ducing into it slavery from our own ma
king it perpetual by the constitution-and
then adding the whole-tcrritory, slavery,
Constitution and all, to this Republic
Such was the scheme, and such the mo-
tives.-The project then failed Of Rc'
complishment but as we have seen, wns
not abandoned for, TO nothing has the
slave power chung with more tenacity
than this. The purpose of the great
movement so fully described in the
Mississippi Report, has been, since, more
strikingly manifested in a speech of Nj
Wise delivered in Congress in January
1912, from which ] make short extract.
In considering the subject Of the equation
of power between freedom and slavery, which
it seems, must be maintained at all hazards
Mr.. Wise said
"If Iowa be added to the one side, Florida
will be added to the other. But there the
equation must stop. Let one more Northern
State be admitted, and the equilibrium is gone
forever gone. The balance of interest j;
gone-the safeguard of American property
of the American Constitution, of the Ameri
can Union, vanished into thin air. This mus
be the inevitable result, unless by treaty with
Mexico, the South can add more l0eight to he1
end of the Lerer. Let the South stop at the
Sabine while the North may spread, uncheck-
ed, beyond the Rocky Mountains, and III
Southern scale mnst kick The beam"
Here stands forth the whole purpose, un-
disguised. And what purpose Texas tC
be united to this Confederacy, to reinforce
SLAVERY in its contest with freedom! The
Constitution gone,-the Union gone, wher
the equilibrium" between freedom and slave
nv is gone as though that equilibrium wa
an essential element OF the Constitution-th'
corner stone Of this Republic! Why, th'
truth is, there never should have been al
equilibrium" between freedom and slaverI
| in this Confederacy: and there never woulo
have been. but for violation Of the Consti