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

for a compromise Suppose her safely enthroned
in Eastern Texas, and she scents once more the
orange groves OF Western Texas, exciting again
her "insatiable craving u ask you win I'll
the fearful energy OF self-defence, what new guar
anty for The preservation Of the compromise GO
YOU offsr US Can you suppose that the few
halfstaryed negroes who should find their way to
this new Colonization eIysium would oppose their
Westward progress Can you bring any new
Constitutional or moral barriers more strong than
those which already oppose the dreadful '"as'
in vain VIII the addition Of three or i've Slave
States, by giving Slavery preponderance IN the
Senate. strengthen the defences OF Constitutional
Liberty and oppose more efectual barriers 10 the
expansion of the limits Of servitude than Sena-
torial equality can now do? Have not the mad pro-
iec,ors OF this fatal scheme MISREPRESENTATION
the high sanctuary, the inner temple OF the world
wide Republicanism, the American Senate, that
this whole Continent is or should be ours ASIDE
from this, could Free Black colony exist along
side Of Slaveholding Tcxas3-woud not the slaves
flee to i. from oppression and would the Colo
nsts return their black brethren once again into
bondage and would not a Texan invasion be
the sure consequence Caa all the power Of the
Union now shield the harborer Of the runaway
slave from vengeance did it protect the Cher
okees of Georgia or save the tribes Of FLORIDA
from determination would miserable Black
colony fare better. in word, than native, free
born, white American citizens have done The
idea, then, Of Free Black colony alongside Of
Slaveholding Texas, with due Difference TO your
more mature reflections, pronounce absolutely
absurd and impossible. Louisiana, Arkansas and
Missouri, am willing to recognise as States pos
sessng equality with the rest; | submit to the
past decision Of the Nation; at the same time
most solemnly protest against the precedent, and
deny the Constitutional possibility of the Annex
alton of new Slave States to this Union. Let
Slavery subsidc into It's Constitutional limits
stand by the Constitution. Ii, in TIC dread No.
ccssities of coming time, Americans shall, like
the Spartans, in night thin ont Americans, IS
YOU intimate, let not this blood be upon our gar
men:s-not for all the Cotton and Sugar which,
since creations dawn, has grown on the green
earth beneath the dewy heavens, would l have
pos,erity of mine look upon this "sorry sight"
Let the aspirations Of kcntuckians ascend IN
gratitude to the Father of Destiny, that cur own
loved native State is subject to no such miserable
slave growing Cotton and Sugar necessity as this
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and
Missouri must then, as you say, soon become
nonslaveholding States ]. z. Adams thinks
that the Slave Trade cannot be suppressed TIL
Africa is Chrstanized, and the supply of Slaves
cut off. J. with great Difference contend that
the market must be destroyed before the trade can
be suppressed. oyou stop the vent foT Slaves
from these five States by taking in Texas No.
Then never let these States take in Texas. No,
we must stop here-now; the time grows strin-
gent fcariulIy pressing. Americans, Liberty, or
Slavery
Under which King, Bezonan speak die
| am firmly OF opinion that you are mistaken
in the supposed necessity of Colonization all ad.
ditonal expense and complicated arrangement
for the disposal of ernancpatcd blacks regard rs
so many obstacles to doing any thing-it but
adds new links 10 ga frightening chain" Free
blacks are not tax on the North, as we have
been taught to believe"-they would be a better
class here, because Of the climate. Whenever
kentucky moves in earnest on this subject-as
move she will-thc great mass of Slaves will be
removed and sold elsewhere. There viii not be
more left than we will be glad to employ in such
mental Offices as they now tiii-where they will
not be at all in the way OF atincrease ofintclh-
gence and provdent Labor which adds so much
to the substance and glory of People. The
time has passed when we are to console ourselves
with vain reflections upon Northern Abotionisis
the time has come when we are to regard
not names but things-not inquire what one
may be called, but whether he be right
Is not all injustice retributve And while we
Join in feeding the false and morbid appetite of
pro.slavery men, by denouncing Abotionists,
do we not place the very obstacles in the way OF
progress Of which you so bitterly complain II
wav.l;.rer say to me, "Y gu rascal get out OF
the way that steam-car Will crush you" shall
shut my eyes and in blind obstinacy be crush
cd Or shall not rather FIST save myself, and
then nurture my gratitude OF vengeance for a ii;
opportunity of manifestation If the former
course be folly in a single individual, how much
more should a great State be ashamed TO practice
such absurdities and the Statesman who dare
not meet ana expose them is more coward than
he who shows his back to his Country's inva-
ders. l conclude, then, that the bounds OF Anne
mean Slavery should not be enlarged-that the
FIVE Middle Slave States, as you say, will not
dllotc the Dissolution of this Union; we are
Nation, and nothing but revolution can sever US
there should be no new Slave State added 10
this Union-Slavery will be abolished in the Dis
trct of Columbia--the North will by the Ballot
Box dive Slavery into its Constitutional limits
the present Thirteen Slave States, and there leave
ii, to ourselves, 10 our consciences, and to Des-
tiny-all the non Cotton growing States wl by
pcaceablc means free themselves from Slavery