New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-03-13
Texas and Slavery.

Texas and slavery.
There never wasa clearer case oil snirenue' anu
BETRAYAL of vital interests by those expressly CHOSEN
~ gusrd them, than in the deiinitlve Shaping and
massage of the Annexation Resolutions "he'
the famous Missouri Compromise was settled III
1870. the boundaries of the Union, so lar as 'iey
woud be affected by this question, were detn'-
lively known Texas was no longer even pre-
tended TO be portion of this Country 1t was
with great difficulty that the South secured pousht
we believe is John Randoph's blunt eXrreslon)
votes enough 10 decide that thenceiorf each STATE
formed South OF the parallel OF 3Go 30 North latl-
tude should be admitted with Slavery II she decided
TO suffer IT, while North of that line Slavery was
not TO be tolerated at all This Compromise,
though carried against the wishes and votes OF IA
great majority in the Free States, has ever since
been implicitly respected by them. State after
State has been admitted untilall the Territory con-
ccded to Slavery has been organized and brought
into the Union Up to this moment, eight Slave
States beside Texas and but seen Free States have
been added TO the Union since the Revolution,
although the increase Of the Slave region in Popu
lstion, Strength or Productive Power has by no
means equeled that OF the Free. Under these cir
cumstances, Humanity, Policy and the simples,
territory of the Union, so unnatural and revolving
an excrescence as Slavery should not be suffered to
polIute more than half of il at the worst.
Accordingly, it is but last year that the Loco
Focos fthe Northern States proiessed to be watch
full that Slavery should gain no undue advantage
from the Annexation Of Texas. On this ground
the rejection of MIR. Tyler's Treaty, which did not
spulae for more than single Slave State, was
defended and arplauded MIR. Silas Wrgn, espe-
cially took credit to himself this ground for his
opposition to the Treaty and in his Speech at
SlSaneatcles last summer, doubtless in his
Speeches elsewhere, declared that he could never
consent 10 any plan of Annexation which should
appear calculated to strengthen Slavery This
sentiment was reaffirmed in the Resolutions of the
Polk mass Convention at Herkmcr and in other
imposing gatherings OF the Party
Thus was the Election carried but what have
we seen since The very men who bu, recently
were so resclua against giving undue advantage to
Slavery nave falslted all their pledges and given il
every thing BY the terms of the AnneXing Reso-
lutions the Free States have not merely surren-
dered at dlscretion they have expressly stipulated
aud bound themselves to pass under the yoke. The
question of Slavery in the newly acquired territory
Is not merely left open as II was in Tylcrs Treaty
itis closed-pu, at res,-and expressly in favor of
Slavery to the uttermost 1t is there definltivey
specified that all the States into which Texas may
be divided shall Slave States if,hey choose The
condition is broad farce Slavery will be planted in
the soil ofeach while Territory or aportion OF the
parent State Of Texas-in either case recognized
and protected by law, 1t will form the ruling in
terest aud control the public opinion OF the com.
kac
State, it will be Slave State, and nothing else
Thus Texas South Of $50 SO'-that is, the whole of
it, for there is no part of Texas North of that par
allel-willoTm in time five Slave States. helping TO
swell the Postagetax and other burthens OF the
Free States, and bear us down on every question
between Slavery and Freedom And this evil.
with all i's consequent inhumanity has been
wrought by the conuivance of Silas Wright and the
direct action OF the Loco.Foco Representatives of
the North, including our thirteen. who but recently
were so yalorous to resist il, The fp-fiapo Pres
ton King s Co. is only rescued from ilamortsl
contempt by the later and still more sharing exhih,.
ton of Bagby
What remains TO be done We say, Resist the
consummation of the Annexation scheme 70 III.
last. Let Connecticut, Rhode Island and other
Free States. do their duty in their Congressional
Elections, and the mischief mag be arrested in IN.
next Congress; but II not, We sh2,l not vet give it
up We shall try, on orr nand, TO induce Texas
to abolish Slavery or.,h,.,,x, e No, ;n,,aa;a,aIr.
and il Frea, y Srauua'y ao' H''!"edia'eiy'
Aom is allowed 10 discuss the matter,
:" snail have great hopes of early success Fail
ing or pending this, If any person IN a Free State
shall be claimed as fugitive Slave from Texas,
let his SEIZURE be legally resisted and the
ned up to the U. 5. Supreme Court. Let Us see
whether bare majority of the Senate has power
TO bind our people TO any other people they may
fancy, and thus make us part and parcel Of aaoher
Union than that to which the presen, States have
in any way assented. Whether this shall succeed
or not, let us raise the question of Admission with
Slavery on every new State from Teyan Territory
which may present itself. The STIMULATION oS inn.
puniry for Slavery South Of $50 co. is ", con,.,n
mise-it is no settlement, Of the Ques,ion-bnt
simple betrayal OF trust the pati of the Norhsr,
Annexationists, We have no respec, for ;,--,,s
will not be governed by ii-ithas no moral ant; cor.
tainy no legal force. II there be bu, p,ncir)e and
firmness in the Free States, we shall soon MAKE
the Texan consp;rators sick of their triumph.
= CO The Wings of the SECOND and TIuRrsExrn
Wards have brought out their tickets-strons and
good ones. CALEB s. WoopHuLL, the able and
excellent Alderman OF the Second for several years,
has consented to stand again and is TO be elected,
of course. Wings of the Second. You made the
best hsh; of any of US in the disastrous battle of
iast Spring; You will make still better now
sriends OF The Thirteenth. you did poorly las;
spring; you will do better now, Work for IL,
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