Litchfield enquirer., 1844-09-05

it silently away. Nol No! That Is not the Union we came into. That is not the race we set out to run. We agreed to love, honor and cherish, a cer- tain national identity. We agreed to take our chance of any constitutional administration of gov ernment any fashion of politics. any predominance of interests, opinions and institutions, to which that might constitUtionally subject us But we dld not agree to love-we did not agree to be governed by 01 credtiOn! We did not agree that the mer- chants of Matanzas, the gold miners of Mexico, the logwood cutters of Honduras the Indian traders of Santa Fe, Coahuila, or Chihuahua, whose "barbar- ous appellations," we can neither pronounce nor | spell, should make our laws. .NOn hBc in t0'derG vinG! Take care lest the people of all regions,bnt one, should give the transation-' we made no such bargain, and we stand no such nonsense" "'
 With these impressions ofthe evils of annexation, it is difficult to suppress sentiment of indignation at what would otherwise deserve nothing but rldl- cu1e--the reasons which men give for this measure who are ashamed or afraid to give the true one- "Texas is fair and fertile" they say as if this were just as good an argument for annexing France "a better one, since France, though not so large, is fairer and more fertile. w It will increase our
 portations of cotton and sugar so muchn--as if we should not grasp Egypt, and Brazil, and Hindostan on that reason; if Colonel Holiness letter, just published did not tell US that the consumption of cotton is already stationary in England and France, and that the thing aimed at by South Carolina, IS not to increase the supply against that demand but to increase that demand by increasing English abil
 ity to consume; and to do that by gictng to fhc Engfish me0nWfGctures the market 9f America (. The waters of Texas flow into our Mississippi and therefore it would be impotls not to reunite what nature had joined" Impious !--as if there would not be exactly the clamor for it, if its waters
 flowed into know not what lake of fire or of death! "1t will consume such unknown quantities of nor thern manufactures" Unknown, indeed as if we were quite so yerdan as not to be perfectly aware that the precise object of some of the more promi- nent movers of this business IS to get Texan votes to stop your mills, not Texan customers to buy your cloth that some of those men would be glad to day. see you send your children or your horses to England to be shod that what they notoriously aim at is not at all an increased ability oconsume your ne0naf fActtues, bat increased vote against your tariff, and easier victory over your labor. Tex as will admit British goods, duty free, or under low duties, and they will be smuggled in such quan
 titles into the United States, to dimishour reve
 nue, and eyade our law of protection !'--a reason which I am sorry to see receive the sanction Of a convention of Massachusetts men, of whatever pol- itics,scarcely satisfactory venture to conjecture to any manlyminded and intelligent member of that body of our Democratic fellow citizens, who have just made their nomination ofGovcrnor-as if Tex as, starved to death, crushed paralyscd for want of money-Texas, almost compelled to let go the sweet and proud boom of national independence be- cause she has not the financial abifty to assert her title to it--as if she can afford to admit English goods free of dnty, or under duties far below own, as to warrant such an absurb apprehension as if all Louisiana and Arkansas and Missouri were going to form great copartnership of smuggling with Yorkshire and Liverpool; as if, on this hypo- thesis. you must not have Mexico too for she isn- der English influence, and will lend hand to this hopeful scheme of rnrning the flanS of the tariff and Canada-which is England herself-in direct contact with more States than Texas touches-nay as if you must not, as good Alabama Whig said, make up your minds to have ~ no outside row at all fO .Ss flxp dna6 fO thn
 water all round, at once, not forgetting your right to marine league, of say couple of thousand
 miles long, to prevent lowering on your coasts.
 No, fellow citizens. there is no case made for neXation at all. Let him who is making hs mind
 up the subject, and who desires to so do not in the small spirit of narrow and local selGshness,
 but as patriot, unionst,a statesman, Christian,
 lover of his kind let him unroIl the map of our territory now we hold it, broad, boundless as an ocean; let him on that map observe how II at ter
 ritory spreads itself out from the St. John to the Sabine, eight and twenty miles of coast, and inland to the Rocky mountains, aye, to the great tranquil
 sea. more than thirty-fve hundred miles--wider than the vast Atlantic let him mark how it extends through twenty parallels eT latitude and thirty of longitude, through all climates and all soils; let him observe as he descends from North to South, how ittsuccessvely displays sample and rival of all the great productions, and all the great produc- tive regions of the gobe,-pine forests, like those of Norway; wheat fields outfneasuring those of Pc. land; pastures ampler and fairer than the shep. herds of England and Spain ever saw cotton, rice, for the world, though Egypt and India were smitten
 with instant and perpetual sterlty; let him reflect
 that there limits of nations territorial extent
 which the laws of nature and of man do not permit
 them to transcend, beyond which the warm tides of the national heart cannot be propelled, or cannot flow back beyond which, unity, indentty, nation> ality, are dissolved and dissipatcd; and then let him bear in mind that territory already three times larger than England, Spain, France and Italy, all put together; larger than the Roman Empire in its zenith; and he will be prepared to say whether with or without the cost of war; with or without the approval of the moral judgements of the world irrespective of all influence upon his own State, or region of States he thinks 1t we'll to add to this vast regioaanother forty tines larger than than France, for the purpose of perpetuatihg slavery, on soil, certain otlier- wise, and speedily, to b. free. How far wiser more innocent. more glorious. to improve what we have to fell our iotests to construct railroads to re- claim our earth to fit it all up to be the spacious and beautiful abode of our harmonioas family of Man.
 And, now, fellow-citizens. if these are the evils ofannexation; and if the election of Mr. Polk will. or probably may. effect annexation, and that of Mir Clay will defeat, or postpone it iudefniteiywhat,
 ask once more, are the duties of the opponents of of this measure, of all parties! What are your moral duties! Hthe mischiefs of Mir Folks ad | ministfaton would agree to take any shape but this: It they were certain not to go beyond four years of dsordered currency; interrupted Improvements indscrcet disposition of the lands; unstable and insufficient protection oflabor-if this were all-I would not ask a man--I would not thank a man to change or to withhold a vote know there are | Wings enough, Whigs from their mothers arms!-t now and always such, who without this stimulus of uncomprsing hostility to Texas without that on calm, habitual estimate of the general politics involved, could turn Mir. Polk back again upon fine