Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1844-07-12
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sprrx,f OF MR.. ). n. GIDDINGs, OF OHIO,
- rpou the Annexation Of Texas.@
n,,,vrRrp IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
r.. s.. NAV 81, 1914.

A. ctpnrNGs said. that his prIncipa object III
addressing tho committee. at this tlno, was to call
tho attention of gentlemen to the real question at
issue before the people of this nation.
Tho real issue has been made up; it has boon
r,,ced mon the records of the Government, and
rriI remain there in all coming time, sub ject to
the inspection Of those who shall come after
Il has boon published in newspapers, and IS
ALREADY before the people, who arc tho constltu-
tonal triers to determine tho issue. Tho Presl-
don't and his cabinet, and the southern Democrats
ayer that this nation shall take upon itself the
support and pcrpetuation of slavery in Texas
and of tho slave trade between Slave brood
ing States and the people Of that Government
They urge that our army and our navy shall be
employed, and national energies put FORTH
our character disgraced before the civilized world
in order to attain that object. They insist that
we shall violate our treaty stipuations with Mex
ico that we shall abandon principles in favor
Of human liberty; acknowledging ourselves ma
ton of political hypocrites; bring dishonor upon
the memory of our revolutionary patriots; turn
traitors to the sacred cause of freedom; and wage
unccasing upon humanity itself. These
the matters urged on ono side, and objected to
by tho other. This is the issue to be determined
by the pcople--by the electors of the north and
of tho south, of the east and Of tho west. On
this issue the Wings, the Democrats, and Liberty
to pas, Judgment.
1t is truo that the annexation of Texas to these
United States is brought forward as the proposed
means by which may extend and perpetuate
slavery, and continue tho slave trade but that OBJ
joct is merely collateral to the great and Interior
design of supporting slavery and the slave trade.
The object and purpose for which it is sought
to Texas to tho United States is clearly
and unequvocally set forth in the official cores
pondoncc between tho Secretary of State and Mr..
Everett, minister at the court of st. James,
between said Secretary and our ''charge de af
4. in h,t,vo md RrIti oh
minister resident in this city. In every letter of
that correspondence tho object is frankly avowed,
without any apparent delicacy or attempt at con-
coalmcnt. The same object of maintaining the
slave trade between tho slave breeding States Of
this snd is aao SRd TIE peEp9qaAG
nv Democratic paper south of Mason and Dixon 8
line by nearly every address upon that subject,
and by the proceedings of nearly all the pubic
meetings held in tho slave States for tho purpose
Of promoting the cause OF annexation. no
samo motives wcro fully and frankly avowcd on
this floor during the debate of yesterday by the
gentleman from South Carolina, Mr.. Holiness
and in the debate of to-day by the gentleman
from Virginia; (Mr. Atkinson.) and by tho gen.
tleman from Alabama, (Mr. Beser.) These gen
tlemen, with commcndable sincerity and frank
ness. mot the issue fairly. Not with tho gen
teman from Indiana, (Ir. Owcn.) He is from a
free State and evidently felt somewhat cmba rrass-
cd in advocating tho interests of slave breeders
and slave dealers; he, therefore. as far as posi-
Bile, avoided tho main ISSUE He, however, spoke
learnedy of treaties, and boundaries. ana OF ear
" writer's upon international law and of govern
ments ''de facto, and governments ''de Jure,
while his illusions to the subjects of slavery and
the slave trade wore very slight, although they
had, up to the tmo of his speech, formed tht
prominent thcmo of those who advocated witt
him the annexation of Texas.
| regret that tho honorable gentleman has lei
of oII re-
marks to him. as we'll as to his constituents
There arc objections to tho annexation OF Iexa:
which met us at the very Threshold OF the ar
gumcnt Whom It is proposed by tho paoplo O
Texas to craso the name of that republic iron
the list of nations: to surrender their existence rs
a separate independent people; and to place them
selves under tho Government OF tho United states
we know there must be an object, and actuatlns
motive that induces them thus to mingle with the
people of these States. These objects are all Sc
forth in the treaty under discussion IN th'
other ond of this Capitol. The first OF those ob
;octs to which | will call tho attention of tho com
mittee is tho payment of their debts by the poo
pie of this Union. This is of the vital con
ditions of the treaty, without which tho poo
ple of Texas would not for q moment listen t
any proposition for annexation.
To this think there some strong objections
A portion of the Representatives in this Hall ar
DESTROYS that tho people of our FREQ States shall
twenty millions of dollars. to satisfy the debts o
slaveholding, repudiating Texas. To this propo
stion tho Wings, both north and south, object
Tho president, the Southern Democrats, and The
gentleman from Indiana, urge its propricty. ant
ihS's' mat It Is tho duty of people to pay the
debts of Texas, in order to have slavery there
and TO provide market for our slave breeding
States.
And now what say our Democrats of New
England, and New York. and Ohio! | call upor
them to como forth and show their colors play The
man, meet the issue. and lot us have no lodging
We shall soon return to our constituents, and mus
meet this question before the people. Will thu
The direct question was amendment the nava
appropriation BILL restrict tho expenditure.
more than one half the should be expended
ahe Isl of January, ls45 This amendment had
20 the conduct of the President in sending ships bocka
Vera Cruz Here discussion turned upon tn. annex,