Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-05-09
HOW THEY TALK IN TEXAS.

The Texas oracles IN our City were some days
since favored with an extra from the Galveston
News, filled with the Address of Meuucan Hunt
and five others, Committee appointed at an Annex
alton Meeting in Galveston TO urge on the People
of Texas the acceptance of the terms of union Of
Tered by our Government They all announced
The receipt of this document, but were very chary
of copying from ii, or letting their readers know on
rhdt grounds it urged the instant consunmatlOn Of
the great Slave-breeding Conspiracy Weshavc
recently obtained, through the kindness of friend
in the South West, n copy Of this precious docu-
ment, from which extract enough to let our Bir-
neyites more clearly what they have made by
throwing away their $4,000 votes and giving the
victory TO the Texas party when they held in their
hands the means OF preventing it. This Address
presents the Slavery aspect of Annexation as fol-
ows:-Irtblme.
Let us now carefully consider the influence of
this measure in its tendency to develope our agri-
cultural resources, and furnish market for our
products. Cotton, sugar and tobacco are the three
great staples that must long constitute the prnci-
pal riches Of this country, and be the of ma
tonal revenue, and individual prosperity. lllther-
to they have been furnished TO the market Of the
world almost exclusively by slave labor. The only
attempts that have been made to produce them by
free labor have been attended with the most dsas-
rous consequences, involving immense losses, and
rendering the most prolific regions barren and un.
British Government nearly two hundred millions Of
dollars and is said to cost eight millions
nualy and the result is, at this tme that her West
India Planters have been nearly ruined, and the ex-
ports almost destroyed.
1t is then of the utmost importance to our future
prosperity, that should offer every possible
curty to that species Of property, without which
our most productive lands can never be cultivated
Do the planters of the Southern States feel any
fdence in the guarantees which our present Gov
eminent offers for lie protection Of Stare labor, and
The peypetuty Of lis institutions? On the one hand
they behold the most powerful nation of the EARTH
procaiming it her settled policy to overthrow the
institution of slavery wherever it exists, and at the
same time pouring forth her myrads Of emigrants
into every Garner of the world and on the other,
they behold our Government offering unlimited suf-
frage, and all the rights Of citizenship 10 every i'm
migrant almost as as he treads upon our soil.
Do they not know that the whole population Of our
Government will scarcely equal the annual emigra-
ton of Great Britain And can we be blind to
the fact, that even one-founh part Of the annual
emigration to the city of New York, once diverted
to our Shores would hold the balance Of power in
their hands, and control the destinies Of this
tryY Can we close our eyes to the important ruth,
| that the Constitution of the American Union, Is at
this moment the strongest buwark, and almost the
only protection against the growing power, the fan.
atheism, and reckless violence Of Abolitonlsm In
the face Of ministerial denunciations against our
insitutions-with the full knowledge that the two
most powerful Governments of Europe are now OPP
Grating in conjunction to accomplish the same hos
tile pocy-with all those dsorganizing materials
and revolutionary elements in full operation before
our eyes, it be the part Of prudence TO boast of
our independence and entire exemption from all
those dangerous and threatening Influences: 1t is
this great uncertainty in our condition-the thou
sand casualties with which we are surrounded
it is this manifest exposure to all those agitations
and commissions which ore daily acquiring new nc
tivty and power under the imposing garb of phi
| anthropy and relgion--it is those ayowed designs