The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-02-19


embracing her ,.o. Let do our duty to ourselves
and his life for il, not ripple would appear on the
surface of the civilized world In consequence
France or England would never interfere. They IN
derstood the law OF nations too wei. ihey were
too wise to place themselves 10 The wrong by an
armed interiersnce WIZ US on such ground: MT
b. did not profess 10 BE- we'll acquainted with the
present state OF foreign relations yet he et very
confident there was no danger OF war but II there
we're, in Just cause be would not dread IT, 49,,
now come (said Mr.. b. to the last topic The
only objection 10 the admission OF Texas deserving
rlous is that IL will extend the area
Of slavery lift not for this consideration 'ho
country would be as unanimous on this subject Us
ever had been on any great question. The aooii-
toniss and the warm advocates Of Leyro emancipa-
ton oppose the admission Of Texas ior this and ior
no other reason. But there not considerations
which entirely nulhfy this objection, and cast the
weight OF the argument on the other side IL may
spread slavery ever large surface, but VIII II IN
crease the number Of slavesl No man ~ his senses
believes that Texas, independent VIII abolish slave
ry England has strained every nerve 10 induce her
10 adopt this measure but all IN vain. England mas
offered TO guarantee her independence, TO obtain me
recognition of her independence by Mexico on TINS
condition but all her efforts have proved unavaillng
Then slavery is destined 10 exist in Texas, whether
we admit her into our Union or not.
The admission Of Texas will forever prevent the
foreign slave trade from reaching her shores After
by England, and the immense loss OF human lie
which she has incurred In the suppression OF this IN
famous trade il appears TO be still nearly as flourish
ing as ever indeed, its horrors have been Increased
by the attempts concealment This is the language
Of recent Brush publications.
Now, sir, even the keen-eyed sbolitionists have
never TO my knowledge charged that the South
ern planters had encouraged the traffic by purchasing
African slaves. This trade has been the scouige OF
Africa and the disgrace Of the civilized world but
ourSouthern friends stand guitless Of participating 10
its enormtes None OF the people Of Texas belonging
TO have ever participated or trust ever viii
participate it, But let Texas be independenaDd adj
venturers from all nations will rush into its fruitful
territory and what cupidity has done in one portion
Of the world il will do in another BY the admission
Of Texas you forever remove this danger
So far from the admission OF Texas being favora-
BILE TO slavery, It not probable that this may
eventually prove the means, under an alwse Provi.
dence of removing il altogether from our borders
Its effects will soon be felt upon the Northern slave
States Before the fatal agitation Of abolition arose,
this happy event. regard to several OF these States
was approaching its consummatloD. The current Of
public opinion running strongly in this direction.
Ia the House of Delegates IN Virginia, the grandson
of MIR. jefferson mad introduced proposition having
In view gradual emancipation, which, If my memory
serves me, was lost but by single vote. he abol-
ton excitement at once put an end to these bright
prospects.
ration which must produce the same result. Slave
labor like every other commodity, will seek the most
profitable market. Will my friend from Virginia
mr. Archer) say that slave labor is profitable in
cultiyating ths exhausted soil Of his State, and in
raising wheat and proyisionsI Certainly not. The
time has nearly arrived in that State, foretod by
Mr.. Randolph, when, il the slave did not run away
from his MASTER the master must run away from the
slave. The admission Of Texas will produce grad
ual drain Of slaves from the more northern slave
States They will go to country more congenial to
their constitution and where they will probably be
better led and clothed because their labor will be
productive and their masters afford to grant
them more of the comforts Of life.
In reviewing the humble part which have taken
in public affairs, during period not now Short there
is nothing which can review with more pleasure
than the course which have pursued on the subject
Of slavery, When l first came into the Senate,
found the abolition excitement much more violent
and active than II is at present. The mails were
then loaded with pictorial representations calcu-
lated to the passions of the slave and excite
him to vengeance The danger of servile insur-
rection was then imminent. Those engaged in the
agitation believed that they doing Gods service.
Honest fanatcism, in the history Of our race, has
done much evil and shed much human blood as
any other The agitation threatened the exis
tence of the Union II could not be supposed that
fathers and mothers whs went to bed trembling at
night lest their mansions might be involved in flames
before the morning, and all the horrors Of servie in
surrection might be their fate would long cling to
union with people which encouraged such enormi-
ties Sefpreservation is the first law of nature and
above all other laws
Surrounded by these circumstances, / took my
stand this question, from which have never since
departed. Under the Constitution the Southern
States have rights guaranteed to them, and these
rights / determined to maintain, come veal, come
wo. determined that would never risk the bless
Dgs of this glorious Conederacy, with all the bene-
fits which it holds out not only TO ourselves but to
the whole human race, for the sake of an unavang
philanthropy The constitutional rights of the South
under our constitutional compact, much emit
tied to protection as those of any other portion Of the
Union ......
stand by the Constitution as it is and so far as
know, large majority ofmy constituents have approx
ed my course. need not say that never owned
slave, and know that shall never own one. / am
not friendly to slavery in the abstract and look TO
Texas as the probable means of relieving the Union
from slavery at some distant day.
The counsels of The Almighty are never RASH A
thousand years are to him but as day. The past
rheipresenr, and the future are all befoe him He
operates great changes in the moral world by gradual
means. May not the admission Of Texas gradually
draw slave population from the centre t., the south
ern extremity ofour Union, and eventually may they
not pass the Del Nor,e and be incorporated with a
race where the dislnc ions of color are unknown and
where they may enjoy their freedom without that faint
of degradation which they must ever experience
among the Anglo American race
adhere to the Constitution it is. May il be per-
petual
HoRRIbLE SuIcIDE.-At New York. on Monday
morning, about quarter before O'Clock, q young
man, whose name we unds rstand saws the Commer