Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-01-31

nfuse his generous feelings and his gallant spirit,
into the whole host of his fellow citizens of Ken
lucky; and induce that gallant State to take the
lead IN the march of freedom, and erase from her
escutcheon the only blot that now deiles 1.-THE
foul one of domestic Slavery.
! LEXINGTON, KY, Jan. 6, Is45.
To HE Editors of The Boston .atlas:
Gentlemen-l have been favored, by some un.
known friend, with pamphlet, entitled, AN ap.
| peal to the people of Massachusetts on the annex
alton Of Texas My long and uncompromising OPP
position to the annexation oe Texas to this Union
is based, principally, upon my utter hatred of Stare
'y There is therefore, something in this appeal
which moves me, as a common inheritor of Ameri-
can Liberty, to give it the poor appreciation of
single individual south of Mason and Dixon's line
| knew full WELL that the election of James X. Polk
would be claimed, by the party, as the verdict of
! the people in favor of Texas; and, by the slave
power, in favor of siapery The voluntary dlsa-
vowal by Mr. Clay, therefore, of my opinions set
forth in letter to Mr. Speed, of lthica New York,
could not compel me- through mortified pride at the
awkward position in which he placed me before the
American people, to desert the glorious standard Of
human liberty, and National honor, and good faith,
which all now plainly see is struck down, Temporal
! ry at least in his person. IL Is far from my feel
ings and purpose, now, TO reproach Mr.. Clay-to
whom am under many obligations, which can new
| er be cancelled, both as a man and Statesman
yet believe the great Wing party north of the
! line is prepared to admit that, in losing the
moral power of opposition to Texas, as n slavery
question we lost all For, iCiiist The South uiidtI
Democratic rie icos prepared 10 sacrifice ali things
10 StauerB The Wigs, Of necessity, trere doomed 10
lose many uoteS IN The North upon minor questions
thus enabling the consolidated uoies Of the South
aided By The office seekers Of the North, 10 carry The
day. Untd therefore, The spirit Of hbcrty IN The free
States shall become as strong anil coniroinq as The
oc all, IL l.,
Thus and thus only can the unhoiy and disastrous
alliance betWetn Slar0y, utter dcSpotism, and so call
ed democracy be broken up. A emporizing policy,
never again be renewed under as favorable cir
cGmstonces as have already witnessed our defeat.
Shall be pardoncd, then, in saying that, if there
is any thing in republicansm worth preserving, it
can be maintained only by an eternal and uncom-
promising against the criminal usurpations of
the Slave power This your ablest Statesman, John
Quincy Adams, has long since foreseen and pro-
claimed in voice we'll worthy of his name, of
glorious Revolutionary Inheritance. tell you the
lime has come, when the friends Of liberty and
the craven slaves of despotsm must stand apart.
Wide as the great Atlantic is the ground which,
henceiorth shall divide the advocates, and the OPP
ponens of Texas union. Whatever may have been
the diffcrance of opinion about the constutonality
of taking Texas, by the Treaty making power, no
honest man, in my opinion can be so blind To
see that, in the proposed scheme, by vote Of the
ly pa!paby violated, but utterly destroyed and the
Union dissolved As Kentuckian, avow before
all men, that own no allegiance 10 any such new
alliance as the Teran-mion When regard the
object of the sacrifice Of that Union which Wash
ington deemed tho palladium of liberty to us and
gu posterity,' feel that am shameless recreant
10 the blood which inherit from the heroes of &c,
and already base and degenerate rcpudiator of
the immortal Declaration OF Rights, if am not full
| ly prepared to 90 with Massachusetts or any other
portion of the old thirteen, in vndcaing H. If med
be, by The s,Uord. say them to the author of the
Appeal raise the standard of liberty and union
now and forever | shall 40 more undertake TO
speak for others but there shall follow its glorious
destiny, OF the descendants ofold Virginia who
will not in thot damn his own native State as to
believe that there will be but one.
| owe it to my humble name to saw, that
did not, whilst in the North, lose time to vndlcate
myself from the many misrepresentation and I'M
! Just imputatons which have not ceased to follow
me, even now. The Texas resolutions presented
| by me- in the Ky.Legslature, in 1885, so generally
published arc not at all contradictory of my suisse
quent opinions. | in favor of Texas union
then, because Of my love Of liberty the flag I'M
der which she fought; but when she trampled I'M
der foot her war-worn standard-an9, in the mo-
ment Of triumph, forgot mercy and deled the God
of battles, by establishing perpetual Slavery: then,
i the same impulse That before moved me to stand bv
her with money and SiUord, led me to denouco her
before the world. The idea that Texas could come
in as new State was just such as was to be ex-
pected from youth Of twenty FIVE; and | am not
of that class Of wise men, who boast that they have
lived long, ard learned nothing The other unjust
destinations against Inc such as hope canlive
down, and not worthy of intrusion upon the
public car. The kindness shown me--or rather the
cause Of my humble advocacy--by the people of
Massachusetts and of the whole North, for which
shall ever be greafu, makes me bold in the avowal
of my full confidence that they will noc be true TO
themsolges-to Liberty Ito Mankind--to God.
Yours truly,
G. NJ. CLAY.