New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-01-15

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upon any ne=hboqr county would eee,a sS n maze
,f nsten Y.hs4 territories join the .ayehoidIn; ate w
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c0Rstry. NJ
Nearly the whole of this long letter OF MIR.
Upshur is devoted 10 proving that ms county,
ought not 10 permit slavery TO be ao'Is,ioa ~
Texas. r. vii be seen that the proposed niee-
.nrs. the consumma.ion of which Mr.. upshuf
declared would be such calamity u the "hoie
cnrntrv rs 10 call for cur III s; strenuous efforts
70 preyent 1t, simply was, that the Texan gov
crnmspt. rpon receiving an indemnity thereof,
,heud abolish slavery within their own !iini's'
ar. Murphy 10 Mr.. Upshur, in g letter OF sep
tontey %. le43, says:
a = N get m! of the Constitution Of Texas,
because il secures the most nervous and ce:i 'Ge
rights master 90 the slave and It also pro ,
Ter iran The Ip;e States Now. al! the United states mas 10
,Pe Tons.i,Itn which, whilst sifectray secures the
r;. OF the master secures the people ths blessings OF CIVIL
nGtsa IAN @ a5 even our fasaics bre6ren 81 North let
the United states spouse the cause OF ciy'i' paGa!
- the st issue to 90 before world with On THIS isue we can
detg the world and TIE decision Of s Issue N or ar'
sG,ns oil ec rant 70 rGtE.
In another letter of the same gentleman 70 f'iT.
Upshur, dated September q, 1913, nc says
...to ,b os,iop on Tie SIDE of the Constitution and the
nys and the civil POLITICAL md religious l-eeS OF the PEG
le Of secured hereby SsGggs "'Ss eO'a' a0'0H'
THIS hapitious proposition of Mr.. Murphy 10
Mr.. Upshur 10 fight the battles of slavery under
the banner OF civil, political, and religious liberty,
was not at all consonant 10 the ingenious mind
Of Mr. Calhoun, when the department. OF State
was committed 20 his hands. lie coadcscends to
deal with no such subteriugc, resorts 20 no such
prcteaces He will not throw the maniieoi liberty,
civil, political, or religious, over the s1blect OF
slavery, 10 conceal lis detects or hide lta faults
Tor lo his mind it has neither; buthe openly pre-
.eots it in all is native lineaments TO tie country
an. to the world, claims for 1t the admiral ON due
To- wiye and humane institution, and dePrecates
lis overthrow as the greatest calamity 70 cur
whole country.
Snbioiued are few extracts from Mr.. Cal
houn's correspondence ca this subject. In & iet'
| ser Of Aoril 10, ls44, tn Mr.. B. E Green, then
our ;ha-ge vi Mexico, he says; ii WIS 'mpossl
HE fo- the United States 10 witness wlihlndincr-
cn.c the Efforts Of Great BroIn TO abolish slavery
there." IN ?exas) In .he same letter hc directs
Mr.. Green 20 iniorm the Mexican Government
,ha: the motives which impeiicd our Executive
| IN nero:ia,c The Treaty Of Annexation, was me
declaration of Lord ABERDEEN, watch hir Packcn-
h.r,. III, D7:ts', Minister, was instructed tn read
10 The Secretary ii STATE OF the Untfd States ;
which vas. su Essentially, that Great Britain &c
sired and Us constantly e1ertle herself to pio
care. the Abolition Of sogcry. no! only II iexas'
but throughout the world.
In his liter OF April Is, 1874, To AR. PacSen
ham announcing tue fact al the signing OF the
T-euty OF Anncxalo1, he says:
"h with , deeper the Prelea IfsGd, the tie
nvu,-a of Lord aberdeen 81 The desire "i Treat tth 10
siuv
trough her plornscy, accomplish IT, by making Inc ahpi
nckow!ccc ne. independence. 1t la, confirmed h previous
Impressions the policy q: Crest Enlan N rser'nce 10
teN ;fi mus II S duty examine with much cn.e nni
,oe what wuTd ha 10 effects In, prosperity M! sHi.ty
has resuel IN aui.vicon that would
be difficult Tor Texas her nctunl coudnnto I+sSi vi nv >n
Is 5,n WHICH ,zenel 6eyoi he lint, assigned b. Lord
Aberdeen and that; Texas could nor[es'st ne fpqs' n
tuu Of the object her desire, would ennnnIer bnl M st'r
md nrl.ty o! the Union Under tn, convection, Tel;
~ be The impenus ,uiy of the Fee Government, The COM
To- ao IN scIide-ce, the most e!iecns measures 10 de-
feat it,.
In the sarne letter, ,ir. Caihoun informs i!r.
| Pakenham, that the treaty of annexation has
been entered into is the mos, fiaclual, if not The
only, lie.ns 3f preventing the abolition OF slave
nv in tan country. Ha then goes 90 with q
stat slical ur-ulneut 10 show thut Tor the African
race Slavery is preferable 10 Freedoms th4t 1t
would be neither wise nor humane to ettect rs
overthrow in the United States but, on The
other hand il, in the counscla OF man Or the pur
poses Of Providence It should cease TO exist
arncng us, il would involve IN the greatest Ca
lsniy the whole country
This que tion MAY hsve national aspects in
which it may be presented to the pubic eye; but
if i. have, they have been most carefully Kept out
of sight by those VINO have thus far managed
this negotiation. Slavery, its defence, extension,
psreetuity and It's blessings, together with the
| inevitable caiamties which would follow It's final
extinction IN the country, constitute the alpha
and omega OF the diplomatic correspondence with
which our rulers have placed themselves and the
country before the world in justification Of this
measure OF annexation.
ifon. Mr.. Bclser, Of Alabama. in speech &C.
lveIea by him in the House Of Representatives
MAY 81, 1914, while the question OF the ratltca
ton OF the treaty of Annexation was pending
before the Senate, said Alter III, the great
question inyored IN the treaty no~ belpre lie
Senate for ratification is, Shall the sid1e iaSti-
tuiious Of the South be protected or not Z" In
the same speech, tho sa.g,e gentleman says: No
noa.sLapehoidiDg gorerament mill be permitted to
rear its head tn Teas until those l1h0 nor Edue
slarss are ext,rmiRated."
Hon. C. j. Ipeefsoll, Chairman Of the CON-
rttee On Foreign Affairs III speech delivered
by hun in the House of Representatives, January
8, 1915, sad +: {" 1t is underabe, however, that
Southern interests, Sulhcrn front ers, Southern
institutional mean slavery and all-aEe 10 be
primarily REGARDED III setting The restoration gl
| Texas"
Time would fail me, we're l to undettaketo lay
before you a 1.-THE OF the evidence Nth which the
public documents relating to this SUBJECT abound,
all going 70 show that the leading, engrossiog,
and aln.st on tir,. native prDL1ptng ths measure,
is The extension and perpsluity Of slavery.
That you may form some idea OF the proba-
bit; OF any free State beng formed out OF that
territory uniess it is proyioed for by positive law
ct the time OF its annexation, and made psrtand
parcel OF the conditions upon which i; is received
into ,he Union, herewith subioin g Article OF
tho general provisions OF the Constitution OF
| Texas"
IAN peszcns OF color VIII, slaves for life previous 10
their emigration Texas, and who now held 10 bondage,
shall the like state Of ervtude provided the SAID
shall be the bona.ide property Of the so holding
aforesaid. Congress shall pass laws Ia pro-
hb egrnnts from bringing their slaves into the rcpubI
with ihem and holding them by the same tenure by which
s,ave. hed the United States shall Congress
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