The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-01-23
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u would appear int The S0nlhem gen
llemea gsEe lie measure - enc Necessary
70 tls preservation Of slavery and rs IN
slsaai0ns among themselves; and hat lhe
Northern supporters of lhe policy adEo-
rae Il On lie ground of is beng certain
10 hing sboui, better Dian any otieE de-
vice, tbe extinction % slavery.
Toe Free Trade pany-insplFed with =
sudden iendprness lorlhe manufacturing m
sers.s, and alarmed = The idea Of free IN.
trOaucEon of British goods--insist that an-
nexalion i necessary 10 protect that tariff
which lhey arc threatening n home 20 nEl.
iify: and IN spisscflheold warning. = 1fBasO
Daaaas q a0na lsFenfss." l@i FEAR the
Greeks sBd Lhose their gifts who bring. y
Oh supposed democratic friends Of home
Industry Join 10 The notion snd The aHgn-
ment.
The President. tie Secretary Of Stale,
and the Texan Commissioners assure ns,
thai, besides is soils and climate admlFas
bly suited 10 the prOduciian Of cotton and
sugar. TEXAS has still wider regions that
af5rd the grain crops in prOfnsion and can
craze harAs Of every sort almost without
end. But Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois are.
throughout their democratic representa-
ton. struck with the magnificent mart
which this land Of plenty viii offer i..r
Their bread SUITS and sailed meats. In
like manner. We may possibly. in the pro-
gross Of the discussion, hear the cotton
planters maintain that Il will present q
great outlet Tor that staple, and the sugar
planters enlarge on The increased eonsnmI
ton Cor sugar and nlolasses.
All on that side exlol the wise. the be-
neEccn;. he purc.y republican institutions
fTexas, modelled spGn our own, and ri-
vaIling them in their cxcellencei bun 10
realargc the area Of freedom" is one Of
tle most jealous purposes Of the entire
plan.
Allaprsr 10 agree illat, while we stretch
ac,oss 10 the Pacific, and possess, IN waste
fertility, a domain that will scarcely be
sold il enc hundred and fifty years, ror
reduced to general cultivation in FIVE hun
dred. we are vet greatly In want OF terri
territory. Already We rival those Ger
manic nations described by Crsar in his
Commentaries, who made il their highest
national boas, 10 exceed all their neigh
Dor, in the extent Of desolaiiOn upon their
frontiers: alrcady our people, like objects
all charged with the same negative cleo
trici,y, ~ off from each other, I'LL each
escapes beyond the sphere OF another's
repuision. less sociable than many Of
the animal creation, they seem, like the
inrkey, % have a natural propensity to
grow wild again; and il is the polite in
r!inasion Of some statesmen and legisla-
tors to nourish, by new acquisitions, this
tendency.
Meantime, who are they that, BY ap-
peals 10 our nationality, would stimulate
us TO this vas: and loose extent Of domln-
ion! Those precisely, all whose theories
deuy the use Of whatever public powers
can bind remote regions togelher. Within
onr present extent, they are the enemies Of
every thirg National. If,hey thus stretch
ont this rnion and invite iis thin popula-
ton TO scatter yet more widely, what pub
lie improvements, either general or local;
will any longer be practicable! And as to
those already made by the state govern.
menis) and unpaid for, or those only be.
gun, what must become Of them. To Ii.
qui,Ia.e the debt contracted for them. hea.
W t1xes mast be laid upon lands diminr
ishel in sa!ns, upon industrial pursuits
checked By the Withdrawal Of laborers CT
Tie ruin Of manufacturers under free trade
policy; and the weight of TAXATION in tbs
states ;hus improved win act as f.esl
cause Of :a:sra,ion.
These, however, are arguments of oil
own: let US rather return 70. those of 9th
ers, which We set cut with.
These gentlemen reason, as il, to aggran
die a country, yol are but to add tn il
enormous wilds frpsh ones as vast, and a
flo dispense a people and. confound thei
tongues, az God did in his wrath to III;
presamptlous race on Shinar, were bles
sing instead of curse. In this manne
they talk, seciionally, against sactiona
feelings in matter VIGOROUSLY meant L
strengthen ono section at the expense q
another; and, while dilating agains: loca
feelings aud lacal interests, aim To multi
ply both. BY including within our limit
sagions Of new sol! and climate, peopl
parity of hostile race, and language an,
faith. and partly emigran,s from our own
sho, in the mere wan.onness of self-expa
&rasion, have preferred the wilderness o
a f9rs:c, country to the vast and fertil,
gilds Of or own.
They saeak n,Ich also Of the moneve:
value Of the Texas lands forgetting o.
emitting to notice The fact that, first, tllos,
lands have probalay already, for ever,
acre, two claims at least. under titles a,
lawful as any thai can again be given; Sc
condiy, that there will, therefore, be M
fund 10 pay the debt of Texas to lie as
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