New-York daily tribune., 1845-05-01
t1oxv they talk In Te1as.

The Texas oraces In our City were some days
since favored with an extra from the Galveston
News. filled with the Address Of Memncan Hunt
and FIVE others, Committee appointed al an Annex
srion Meetog 10 Galveston 10 urge on the People
OF Texas the acceptance oi the terms OF union Of
fsnd by Our Government They all announced the
receipt OF this document, but were very chary Of
copying from il, or letting their readers no on hat
grounds it urged the instant contamination Of the
great Slave-breedlng Conspiracy. We have recently
obtained, through the kindness OF friend In the
South West. copy OF this precious document, from
which we extract enough 10 le; cur Birneyiies see
more clearly what they have made by throwing
away their l5,0c0 votes ard giving the victory to
the Texas party when they hrld IN their hands the
means OF preventing Il This address presents the
Slavery aspect Of Annexation as follows:
lie: carefully consider the influence Of this meas
in tendency deveope agricultural resources
and furnish market FOR our pTodIci Cotton sugar and
tobacco the three great staples that must long const
the principal riches Of his country, and be the grce
Of national revenue, and Individual prosperity Hitherto
they have been furnished market OF The world a.
most exclusively by labor. Tie only attempts
made produce ;hern b. free labor have been
attended with the disastrous Consequences involving
Immense losses and rendering the most prolific regions bar
and Improbable wastes The expert ent has cost the
British Government nearly two hundred millions OF dol
lars and is said TO eight millions annually and
tts result is al this time that her West India Planters
been nearly ruined and the exports amoA; destroyed
Il is then OF the utmost importance future p:Os-
pe-;ty that should offer eve-y possible security that
species OF property without which most productive
lajcs can never De cultivated DO the planters o' the
Southern any confidence the which
present Government offers for he protection q Stare Ia
Dor, and he pspytty of ins0tiOHsf On the hand.
t.y behold the powerful nation Of the earth pro-
claiming IL her settled policy overthrow the Institution
Of slavery wherever IL exists and the time pour
ns forth her myriads OF emsrants into corner Of the
world; and the other they bc0lt Government OF
ferng unlimited suffrage. and ali the rights u citizenship 10
every immigrant almost he treads upon soil
DO they no, know that the whole population Of our Gov
will scarcely equal the annual emigration OF Greet
Britain? And blind TO the fact. that even
fourth part of the annual emigration the city of New
York diverted 70 Shores would hold the balance
OF power IN their hands, and control the dsn.s oil thus
country? Can close the important Truth,
the Constitution Of the American rnion Is at this
the strongest buwar and almost the only protection
against the growing power, the anatcs, and reckless
violence OF Abolitionism In the face oi ministerial de
nunca,ions against institutions the full know
ledge that the two most powerful Governments OF Europe
are now operating conjunction accomplish the same
hostile poicy-with all those dscrganziug materials and
revolutionary elements In full operation before el
eau :he part prudence Of Independence
and exempt from all those and threat
enng influences II is this great uncertainty in
ditiol-,he thousand casualties with which we are sur
rourdedt Is this manifest exposure 10 all those agitaon
and conyusonS which are daily acquiring new ACTIVITY
and power under the imposing gsrb OF philanthropy and
reIgon-t those avowed designs foreign powers
su5ver Institutions and mould and fashion domes-
tic policy their peasureis for such these
that u, Sdre-hoiders Of he South hare ceased almost
tsiy 10 f0igrdts 10 countp. And yet Of all men,
present them the greatest Inducements to and
Tie from the character Of cline, soil and
It's peculiar products OF all men, they alone give
value ncxhausble bottom lands, aud render them
source Of wealth and revenue the country. Without
the labor and capital which they b-ng, country
will present little else than immense field for pasuragc
and stock-rai,ng like the Inmpas OF South necnn-
hGbcd under rule Of Mexico by herdsuen and shep
hcrds-osing all her cuural Importance, and furnish
ng great staples for the commerce OF the world. We
appeal the experience Of the pa,t In thus state OF indie
pendence which enjoy we not rapidly beccIn-
my European colony The great hody OF immigra
ton already from beyond the and is hourly in
creang; while that from the Southern portion Of the UR-
ion whose interests feelings and institutions Identical
with almost totally annihla,ed Can we doubt
the evidence Of Look COloni
zaon contracts and the crowds OF Europeans who
daily coming under ihem and settling IN dense
throughout the country whose language associations and
customs bind them together under their peculiar regula
Ions rendering il almost impossible TO mix and aInalga-
| mate with our our citizens.
The conclusion therefore, inevitable, that we must
either greater encouragement and perfect security
10 The Southern planter, else abandon forever the cutva
cn Of cotton, sugar tobacco rice snd indigo which have
always been and must long continue 10 be- dependent upon
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