New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-03-17

that il may yet be averted by earnest eorts, and
that, if not ayered, It's hard terms may be mltiga-
ted We insist that, if the natural sentiment of the
Free States is allowed fair play this subject we
can yet secure the exclusion OF Slavery from one
half the area of Texas. Mr. Clay assumes, In ms
Raleigh letter, that not more than t'ro OF 'he ii'e
States into which it viii probably be disldeo arc
calculated for Slave Culture. Then we say ihelo
| Is no plausible reason under Heaven why oia,eiy
should not now be excluded for ever nom inc D"'
ance ef the territory. If we wait I'LL II IS pan'ee
there we sba he unable to eradicate 1t; as we
now see that In MARYLAND, Virginia, kentucky anu
M;ssory; where Slavery Is no longer prohtaDe JOE
ito I.hor II is kept alive by the lucre OF Save
hr.ad;,s foy more gurry and fertile regions linus
,noe, Texas. if we suffer Slavery TO take ROOT there
md, the fostering care of our arms and our laws
,,,iI become vas, breeding ground to replace the
,v.se Of Slave life in the rice-swarnps and cotton
fields of the pestilential low country Christian
E,eemen of the North you are to direct and guar
autee this horrible auangement-you are to guard
and uphold this state of things by your Courts your
fleets, your bayones-you are 10 catch and return
Slaves when they run away from their breeders or
their drivers-your treasure and blood Will soon be
required to slaughter and drive oil the warike and
formidable Camanches as you have exlled or butch
cred the Creeks, the Cherokees and the Semnoles.
Slavery will not bear contact with Indian tribe
the moment it reaches the neghborhood, the Slaves
begin to escape and enjoy the wild freedom OF the
Savage, and the latter must be hunted away from
the graves of his fathers. How many more shame
full and crying aggressions and buchenes shall tins
cancer push us into, and yet ste our every remon-
STRANGE with the barefaced falsehcod that we have
nothing TO do with tit
The Courier admits that Annexation, as pro-
posed by the Joint Resolutions is unconstitutional,
and vet intimates that there is alternative but
submission We deny it. We MAINTAIN that all the
resorts proposed by are Constitutional Ii Slave
escapes hither from Texas lat resist his torclbe
return by legal appeal TO the Supreme Court, and
thus test the Consttutionality of Annexation. We
know the Court is packed against us, "a majority of
the Judges being Shareholders, and nearly all Loco
Focos) but we have no right TO presume that 1t will
disregard the plainest limitations OF Constitutional
power We shall also urge upon Texas, II she Will
hear US, the guilt, the ruin, the rsadness OF crp'
pling and cursng herself and her offspring with
Slavery in the outset of her career. We will i'm
plore her to choose the fortune and fate OF Ohio
rather than Virginia-to be Indiana rather than Ar
kansas If her People will only open their eyes
and look they mast refuse 10 desolate their far
fields and embitter their whole existence with oia-
very. But should they hug their chains, we DO
believe it the solemn duty OF the lovers OF Freedom
and of Man to raise the question on the application
of each State which may hereafter be formed from
Texas for admission into the Union. Let US say
now to Texas frankly thatwe have been OVERCOME
in the recent Congresses by surprise and deceit and
tina, we cannot be concluded by the snap.judgment
which our adversaries have obtained. We cannot
consent that future Congress, perhaps for half
century, are precluded from exercising their calm
Judgment on the terms Of admission of future States
by such fraud as has been perpetrated by Polk,
Merrick, Benton, Bagby, Niles, Tappan IL Co. in
the passage of the jumbled Resolutions If the ad-
| versares Of the extension of Slavery but declare
this from the outset, who can justly complain
He who cannot see the difference between refu-
sing our assent to the extension OF Slavery under
the guardianship of the American Eagle, and inter-
| meddng with it in the States where 1t now exists
by Constitutional compact, is fool; he who sees 1t
and yet confounds the two, is knave. We do not
know one Wing who considers IL constitutional or
right for the General Government to interpose It's
authority to terminate Slavery in any State IN the
Union. But when new States are to be added TO
the Unon from territory hitherto Foreign, the case
is entirely different; and 1t becomes the solemn
duty of those who believe Freedom right and
Slavery wrong to show their faith by their works
Texas is region from which Slavery was legally
banished many years ago. The curse has been re-
planted on very small part of ii by fraud, con-
spracy, awless violence, and base, ungrateful re-
bellion. But no Slavery now exists on seveneishths
of the territory claimed as belonging to Texas, and
it can only be securely established there by the
mighty arm Of the American Union. But for that,
Mexico, the Cemanches, the Creeks and the Chero-
KEGS, will hem Slavery in Texas within narrow
limits. And why should not those, whether of the
the North OF the South, who believe Slavery wrong,
unite in setting bounds TO its desoa,ng sway? Why
should the plague which has visibly wasted Mary
land, Virginia and the Carolinas, which has sapped
the vigor of kentucky, retarded the growth Of
Missouri and the civilization Of Arkansas, be en-
couraged, empowered, 10 scourge for unknown
years a new empire! Can any good reason be
| assigned why single opponent OF universal and
eternal Slavery should rot plant firmly the standard
of resistance here Z
But the Courier mus, drag Mr.. Clay into this
controversy, and accuse those Wings who oppose
the extension of Slavery with combining TO defeat
has Election To all of this trash that is personal
we have very lttle TO say. The public know
whether our exertions Throughout. the late Presi-
dental struggle were calculated 20 aid or 10 defeat
Mr. Clay's election. From the day of the nomina-
ton of Mr. Clay at Baltimore 10 the close of the
contest, we gave scarcely wakeful hour or
thought TO any thing else than the canvass That
we failed 10 promote the Wing cause may be but
that we did not try 10 aid it, he must be foolish
liar who would assert. That our efforts were less
propiuous to MIR Clay's success than Col. Webbs
absence from the Country, we do not deny; but
when each did his best, why should either find fault
The Courier sees fl to reitetate the Bmey mis-
representations of Mr.. Clay's position with regard
to Texas in the late canvass. Il says:
Mr.. CLAY, as the whole country well knows lost the
State OF New York in November last and consequently
nct aote President OF he U SAFES because he placed