The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-12-27


hardihood displayed throughout the speech above
referred to; in which, among other equally modest
charges, the constituted authorities of the two coun-
tries are distinctly arraigned before the world es
being engaged in ''conspiracy"--as ''ploiimg"
to wrest Texas from Mexico! MIR. Ward then
takes occasion to observe that il will be for Eng
land so consider The policy d aiio,ring The United
States thus 10 eriend Itself" very serious consider
alton, doubtless, with England, (herSelf the most
rnpacious Of modern governments , and which
must also prove a very formidable one to the poor
and helpless States of the American Union, who shall
not, in future, acquire, either by purchase or ex-
change, any further extension Of territory Ia truly
melancholy state of things which they ought abCnd
antly TO deplo, and the more so from the fact, that
but Tor this extent oferrtory, the aln,shouscs as
and prison ships OF England herself-that hoasted
and Boosting smother OF freedom" who thus threat
ems the United States will the displeastire OF the
god Terminus, to whom she continues to make
such abundant sacrifices! would at this moment
have been burdened with surplus, "refuse"
population, whom she might have found it not so
easy matter to dispose of-supposing her wonted
taste for the application of the "rope" and "drop'
to have been somewhat palled by the illustrations
so abundantly made to it Although these calum-
MES of the British press and Parliament, sprung
from England's dread of the acquisition OF Texas
by the American government, the citizens of the
new State have yet the consolation of knowing, that
they, too, would assuredy have come in Gas, indeed
they have already done) for full share of the same
abuse; and were heirs to the same enmity of Britain
from the fact that the same Puritan blood courses
in veins which prompted their progenitors to
sling themselves away from their king, 10 use the
elegant and expressive language of an English
writer;) and which, it was apprehended, would at
distant day impe them to that "furher extension
Of territory" which, told, Great Britain will
no longer permit to these United States 1t is for
this reason that Texas thus libelled in advance;
and this it was that accounted for the exceedingly
courteous reception said to have been given a few
years since, to the Texan agent, Mr. Henderson
reception and treatment throughout, if we were
not misnformed, that should have caused that gen.
tleman to turn his back upon the office in Downing
streeteven if his doing had forever lost his gov
eminent those commercial advantages" which
were afterward said to be secured to her PROF.
ince Of Merico. The next topic Of abuse had re-
course to by the London reviewer, is that of "sla-
very" in this country and the alleged "cxtension"
of the system in Texas. We have always been i'm
pressed with the belief, that the real source and
secret Of the agitation of this subject by citizens and
societies of the North, might be traced to the infu-
ence of British counsels, British agents, and last,
not least, British gold --employed for the purpose
of buying up the patriotism Of certain phiianthropsts
in this country, whose horror of southern slavery
arises not so much from sympathy with the negro,
from hatred Of his masier-of him. in relation to
whom they are, doubtless, often tempted to ex-
claim: ''He tolls not neither does he spin" fact
which in their eyes presents insuerabe contrast to
the Stree labor' Of the North. Rather than endure
this, they are prepared to bring about result,
which, though it involve dissolution of that
"Union' to which, nevertheless, we find them sing
ing hourly hosannas would yet do away with
that odious distinction in the social relations of
the two sections of country, which they affect
to regard as dwelling them to the condition
of the very race in whose behalf their sympathies
are thus excited. We thus discover two very oppo-
site motives conspring to bring about the same
sua dissolution Of The .4me,tcan Unionj the motive
the part of the North being jealousy of slave la
Dor, and the part of Great Britain, hatred of the
republican institutions of the United States The
great mass of the people north of us may possibly
not be aware of the real motive which prompts
England in thus seconding them in their attempts to
undermine the institutions of the South though il is
to be apprehended such is their ignorant horror of
southern slavery, that than fail in achieving
its abolition they would avail themselves of the aid
of England in pulling down those "mighty Carl
aldes" that uphold the American Union, though, in
its fall, the great fabric should crush themselves.
In this crusade against republican institutions on
the part Of Great Britain, we in this country have
not sufficiently appreciated the motive, of two fold
character, by which her conduct has been shaped
When, prior TO the American revolution, it suited
her interest to encourage the save-trade, we find
her resisting every attempts on the part of the colo
MES, to effect its abolition; far at least, related
to themselves. 1t was England, then, who set the
example Of encouraging traffic now 80 abominabe
in her eyes When, however, in the course of time,
her West India colonies had become source rather
of expense than profit to her, she then nlagnani.
mously resolved upon the abolition OF slavery in
quarter in which she had ceased 10 feel that SORT of
Interest which is the law OF her national life. Hav
ing effected this object within her own dominions
she then proceeds to place It's further prosecution,
in connection with other countries, upon the hollow
and hypocritical ground Of a comprehensive phian-
thropy-of sympathy with the blacks-of reli-
oor horr ofa layeryt Accordingly with harn
customed and unprncipled disregard for the rights
of those whom she thus invades, she sends her Sc
cret agents and emissarles among us to preach up,
in the midst of an already disaffected portion of the
people of the North her doctrine of universal
freedom, secure of its acceptance in quarter ripe
for resistance to slavery, though, as have said,
from motive, perhaps, of very different kind.
Having achieved her purpose Zone of mingled thrift
and political hostility thus far, we now find her
her great work-her labor of love for
the whole human famy-by converting into slaves
for agricultural purposes the Goodies" of India,
with view to the ultimate establishment in that
peninsular of great coton-grooing interest of her
otcn-which, by misunderstanding her of her present
dependence upon the United States for supply of
that important staple Gone of the chief elements other
commercial prosperity shall enable her at to
strike blow the more effectually at the institutions
OF this country, and secure to her, in the end,
monopoly of the raw material in question. Should
her present dsintersied zeal in the cause of negro
emancipation eventuate In the attainment of its real
object, to this complexion, we may rest assured, it
will come at last. We are thus, without any exag-
geration Of the facts, enabled TO appreciate those eff
forts the part Of Great Britain, TO effect the abo
liton of slavery throughout the world,' in which,
we are sorry to say (sorry, for we prone to
sympathize even with the errors ofa man Of &c
nius) she enlisted the cooperation, among others,
of the late DR.. Charming, of Boston, who, in his
"letter' to Mr.. Clay, deliberately libelled these
States the of morals, and the nature of their
political ENTHUSIASTICALLY avowing his belief
that with view to arrest certain great and growing
evils among us, (meaning thereby the alleged "evis
of slavery,) "sironger government was required!
thus Ginning in with those identical views of
+" high.church and tory' Englishman, levced
Gas in the London periodical now before us) at those
republican institutions which are the reproach of
the Old World, and the appropriate glory Of the
New Upon those in our own country few in number,
let us hope, at least among the educated classes)
entertaining sentiments like these, argument would
be thrown away, would be contemplate. The
South knows her rights undcr the consttution) WELL
then are the Union to her; and when she shall be