Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser., 1845-02-15
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Extracts from MIR. Owens Speech
ON Anne xatiOn.
The effect of Annexation upon the in
stitution. Of Slavery:
!, But. now, dismissing the question bf
right, we are met BY numerous objections
against the expediency Of annexation, as
measure fraught with evil consequences
to human improvement, even with dam
ger to the integrity Of the Union. One Of
these estimated the gravest 5y some good
men-is made in a sacred cause, in the
name Of human liberty. 1t is, that, in re-
ceiving Texas, we increase and perpetu-
ate slavery among men.
We increase slavery? BY what pro.
cess? When, by act Of Congress or 9th
erwise, we cause that country now called
the Republic of Texas to be styled hence
forth the Territory, or the State Of Texas,
does that reduce single human being, not
now slave, to the condition Of forced vas
salage? No one will pretend that it can.
But it will increase the rumber Of slaves
in the United Sates9 Undoubtedly. And
so also will it surely increase, within the
United States, the number Of murders,
thefts, and breaches Of the peace, unless
we imagine Texas Utopia, where crimes
and offences are utterly unknown.
!. Every human enterprise is OF checkered
consequences. 1.-THE lives of the best of
u.s." as it has been somewhere well said,
.arei spent in choosing between evils"
In this world of imperfections, the practi-
cal question TO be answered before we act,
is, not whether. our action is to produce
unmixed good-to no human policy is it
given thus to operate---but whether the
good it promises will preponderate over
the evils to which it may open the door.
In admitting Texas we increase, to some
extent, our slave territory. But shall we
count it for nothing; on the other hand,
that we increase also, by one-siSth, our
Union; happy, prosperous, blessed, even
with all her faults, as we feel her to be.
Is 1t privilege to be citizen of these
United States, 10 sit down in peace and
safety under the shelter of our republican
institutions? And shall we count for
nothing the extension Of that privilege to
tens Of thousands now living; its pros
pective extension to millions more yet to
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right or it is wrong, it is wise or it is un-
wise-apart from all temporary and Sec
tional considerations-to extend the ma
tional territory. If right and wise, we
must be content, in carrying out such ex-
tension, to take things as we find them.
Who are we, that we should be thus scru-
pulous in admitting into our confederacy
a territory now tolerating slavery, te-
cause, in SO doing, we are still to contin-
ne, over that territory or over portion Of
it, TO tolerate, for time, that institution?
Who are we, and what has been our
course? Have we hitherto added one foot
to the national domain by treaty with the
Red Man. Isay not without finding evils
III the added territory, but without Great
ting them there? What think you of the
transition state Of the Indian, brought upon
him by us? in which we take from him
the bold, rude. virtues Of aboriginal life,
and bestow, in return. only the lowest
vices Of civilization? What think you Of
the slavery Of intemperante, the hiseries
of disease-our fatal gifts to the original
lords Of this broad land; now melting them
away, till their very name will disappear
from, the living tribes Of earth9 Yet when
did the consideration Of such consequences
ever arrest the signature Of an Indian
treatyp i "a, 81.
But Texas annexation win perpetmt.
slavery. To me its probable consequences
seem the very reverse Of this. The i'm.
preston is becoming general, that it wouie
speedily drain off large portion of the
save pOpuIdlou VI tue uoIuHcTu SldVs
States, and aid in effec,ing, what moderr
abolition has retatded, the peaceful ant
gradual emancipation of slaves in Ken
tucky, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, ant
then in other States. But there is. yet an
other view to be taken Of It. Slavery
like monarchy, is . temporary evil. l
will disappear, as all temporary evils mus
disappear, so soon as it becomes. and j
generrlly felt to be, commercially unproft
able. We are rapidly nearing that point
The growing density Of population an
consequent increasing Of competition i
manual labor, is driving US, year BY year
towards it. And as It is gradually reached
In the several States; as the, day arrive
when slave becomes negative quantit
in the market; when his master shall de
, sire, by emancipation, to free himself frol
an incumbrance; in that day, whittier sha'
the negro 60? Are his friends wise, i
desiring 10 have the United States hemme
in on the southwest? in wishing to see
foreign, It might be ahostile Power, inter
. posed between us and Mexico9 If ther
be for the liberated African path Of de
Kverance and place Of refuge beyqn,
. that path lies through TeSas; that plac
Of refuge, where the sun suits his bloc
and the inslituiions recognize the equ,
rights Of his color, is to Be- found in Mel