The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-01-29

TEXAS IN The 1OCOC."I AM
METT-HUDSON, MARSH
MR.. BENTON IN THE SENATE.
Correspondence of the Tribune.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 20. 1855.
House OF REPREsENTATIvEs.-Mr.Nc-
KAY introduced the annual Fertilization
Bill. Read twice and referred.
Mr.. SLIDEiL moved resolution rela-
tive to persons employed in the Custom
Houses ofNewOrleans,N Newly ork &c. ask
ing for information from the Secretary of
the Treasury whether the number per-
SONS employed was sufficient, Passed.
MIR. HAMMETT of Mississippi, having
the floor from "Wednesday last, proceeded
to address the House in favor of Annexa-
ton. The unfortunate debates tibet had
sprung up to interrupt him. might have
weakened his ardor in addressing the
House, but this was the greatest question
of the day. He quoted the opinions OF
10. Adams, Mr. Clay and others, who,
he commended, insisted on our right to the
territory of Texas If gentlemen would
not believe Jefferson and jackson they
might RELY on these names.
MIR. HAMME1T's bearing toward his pc
liticai opponents is dignifed aud high
toned. have merely attempted to give
an outline Of the heads of his speech.
The conflicting sounds, created by the
strange echoes ofthe House, prevent me
from giving fuller account of it, the best
speech that has been made on this side Of
the question.
Mr. HUBS N Of Massachusetts, then OBJ
tanned the floor over some dozen claim
ants. He referred TO the speech made by
the gentleman from Alabama, Mr.. Yam
cey) lie would not defend Massachu-
sets. They 1.-THE people of that State)
were charged with being penurons. They
might not be very rich, but they did not
live on gains wrung from slave-labor per-
formed under the lash. If they try to cut
down tradesmen in their prices (as was
the case with a gentleman who had been
referred to- in buying vest) they usually
paid the prices, when they did buy, and
that was more than other parts Of the
country could say.
Dul We are " q SiCdt W
our shipping, and an increased demand
for manufactures by annezing Texas !
Why, the ports Of Texas are SO shallow
that even Jefferson's gun boats would get
aground in them. The most ofthe ports
are about from 3 to 6 feet deep. The
population of Texas are too few to give an
increased demand for our manufactures.
The population does not amount TO that
of two or three unimportant counties IN
Massachusetts. II was new country too
and new countries do moi consume manu-
features as much as old countries.
The argument in favor of the Western
Interests is as ridiculous as the others.
The gentleman last up (Mr. Hammett)
made the statement that Texas was a
fruitful country, and yet Immediately
afterward he said that it would be mar
ket for butter, Beef, Pork, Cheese, &c. of
the West In place that, Texas wou Id
yet become rival with the Western
States in these articles.
| The military argument is one that we
ought to approach with more reverence,
since Gen Jackson, who once defended
New-Orleans, says that it could not be de-
Tended again withou, Texas. Gen Jack
son, then, would make us believe that the
best way for England to get at New-Or-
leans was to land her troops by boats in
four feet water in Texas cross sterile de-
serts and float down the Red River, NTH
out boats 1T would be the same as if
England wanted 10 attack New York
and should cross through the Disputed
Territory, over the White Mountains, and
float down the Hudson.
Mr.. HuDsoN then gave his reasons for
opposing Annexation, having answered
the arguments in favor Of the measure
He was opposed TO it on account Gifts
debt, its violation of faith, its tendency to
involve US in war--and lis unconstitu-
tionality. AT the conclusion he revie wed
Mr.. CaIhoun's and Mr. Upshur's reasons
for Annexation. If the Constitution per-
rnits us TO admit a State, TO perpetnate
Slavery in the South, we have a lso right
to eject State FOR the sake ofperpetuating
freedom at the North. In fact, we have
the same right to put Slaveholdiug South
Carolina out of the Union as to bring
Texas into 1T for the sake of defending and
strengthing Slavery.
/ Mr. MARSH of Vermont next got the
foor and made capital speech against
,he Annexation of Texas He took up
Mr.. Yancey's speech, and criticised it
with great severity. That gentleman
had proved the divine right to hold the
descendants of Ham in slavery at the
South, and he almost went so far as say
that the statesmen of the South had
divine right TO rule over the meaner in
tellect of the North. Upin the Green
Mountains they had great doubts about
this doctrine OF Divine Rights He went
on TO notice the various phases in which
this question had been advocated, and
concluded his hour in an. eloquent and
convincing summing up ofthe argument
against disturbing the Union as it u.s..
Many ofyour readers doubles heard Mr..
MARSH in his Grafton before the New
England Society month ago.
January 22d