Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-09-10

find even in satisfied conscience full conso- |
Iation for the very necessity of seeking
consolation there. And it is for this state
of things that we hold responsible that gra-
tuitous mismanagernent, - wholly apart
from the main substantial rights and merits
of the question, 10 which alone it is to be
ascribed; and which had its origin in its
earlier stages, before the accession of Mr..
Calhoun TO the department of State.
Nor is there any just foundation for the
charge that Annexation is a great pro-
Slavery Observation-Disclosures to increase
and perpetuate that institution. Slavery
had nothing TO do with it. Opinions were
and are greatly divided, both of the north
and south, as to the influence TO be exert
ed by it on slavery and the slave States.
That it will tend TO facilitate and hasten
the disappearance of slavery from all the
northern tier of the present slave States,
cannot surely admit of serious question.
The greater value in Texas of the slave
labor now employed in those States, must
soon produce the effect of draining off that
labor southwardly, by the same unvarying
law that bids water descend the slope that
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as will max e at least one free State from
among those in which that institution now
exists-to say nothing of those portions of
/ Texas on which slavery cannot spring
and grow-to say nothing of the far more
rapid growth of new States in the free West
and Northwest, as these fine regions are
overspread by the emigration fast flowing
ovei them from Europe, as we'll as from the
| Northern and Eastern States of the Union
as it exists. On the other hand, it is I'M
deniably much gained for the cause of the
eventual voluntary abolition of slavery,
that it should have been thus drained of
towards the only outlet which appeared
to furnish much probability of the ultimate
/ disappearance of the negro race from our
borders. The Spnnish-lndian.A American
populations of Mexico. Central America
and South America, afford the ONLY recep-
tacle capable of absorbing tina. 9a when
ever we shall be prepared 10 slough it off
TO emancipate it from slavery, and ISL
unanimously necessary TO remove it from
he midst of our own. Themselves alrea-
dy of mixed and confused blood, and free
! from I srnreindicesn which among us so
insuperabIy forbid the social amaIgarna-
ton which can alone elevate the Negro
race out of virtually servile degrade
ton, even though legally free, the regions
occupied by those populations must strong
ly attract the black race in that direction
4 and as soon as the destined hour of eman-
cipation shall arrive, will relieve the ques-
ton of one of lis worst difficulties, if not
absolutely the greatest.
No-Mr. Clay was right when he de-
cIared that Annexation was question
with which Slavery had nothing 10 do
The country which was the subject of An
: nexation in this case, from its geographi.
cal position and relations. happens to be-
or rather the portion of it now actually
) settled happens to be-a slave country
But a similar process might have taken
: place in proximity to different section oil
our Union; and indeed there is a great
deal of Annexation yet to take place with
in the life of the present generation along
J the whole line o. our northern border
! Texas has been absorbed into the Union
t in the inevitable fnIfIment of the general
law which is rolling our population west
: ward /; the connexon of which with thai
| ratio of growth in population which is des-
tined within a hundred years TO swell oul
numbers 10 the enormous population o.
tirO hundred and fifty millions (if moi
r more), IS too evident to leave US in doubt
of the manifest design of Providence in
7 regard to the occupation of this continent.
} 1t was dlsintegrated from Mexico in the
> natural course OF events, by process per.
, fectIvs Legitimate On its own part, blameless
! o. is; and in which all the censures
: due to wrong, perfdy and folly, rest or
Mexico alone. And possessed as it was
: by population which was in truth but q
0 colonial detachment from our own, anC
2 which was still bound by myriad ties O
t the very heart-strings to its old relations
t domestic and political, their incorporation
into the Union was not only inevitable
/ but the most natural, right and proper
!, thing in the world--and it is only aston
: ishing that there should be any among
} ourselves to say it nay.
n California will, probably, next fall ava,
D from the loose adhesion which, in such
country as Mexico, holds a remote pro
J vince in a slight equivocal kind of depend
: ance on the metropolis. Imbecile an
y distracted, Mexico nevercan exert any re
5 al governmental authority over such |
a country. The impotence of the one, an
!, the distance of the other, must make til
: relation one of virtual independence; IN
I, less, by stunning the province of all natu
i raj growth, and forbidding that immigra
ton which can alone develope IFS capabili
y ties, and fulfil the purposes of It's creation