Democratic banner., 1847-11-22
AcoUT.IT.oN OF TERRITORY.

oouent passage OF N'o"' n browns
message to the Tennessee Legislature,
wberein he maintains that the Union is in
m danger from the accession of more ter
t,torv. The spirit of our people, the elias.
t;city of our beautiful fderative system,
forbid so lamentable a result. Gov. B.
Too It will be seen, fully endorses the views
fMr. Buchanan in regard to the probable
conditiOa of any territory which we may
acquire from Mexico. There is a differ
ence of opinion on this point--but, whatev-
er will prove true, the South asks no more
than that Congress should not interfere
with its constitutional rights South of the
Missouri Compromise line:-(Spirit of JEFF
ferson.
"The pretex: tina: any new accession of
territory may enaanger the perpetuation of
our glorious Union, is only a shallow device
for alarming the timid and deceiving the ig-
norant.
"The same cry was raised when Louisi-
ana. extending from the Gulf to the North
ern Lakes, was acquired-the same when
Missouri was admitted-ween Florida was
purchased-when Texas neither conquered
nor purchased, walked into our Union by
compact and agreement. The Union dis
solved!! dissolved by the growth and en-
largement of our free and happy Republic!!
No. 1t grows stronger and stronger by it!
the very elements of its perpetuation begin
increased in the exact proportion ofits con-
templated magnitude. Tie spirit of mo-
dern a~bolitiopism, if it existed at all in the
early days of the Republic, stood rehuked
h. tho oapo = otnISae IF tI,a COnctffInp -
1t stood equally rebuked in the Missouri
compromise, which was but a virtual con-
tinuation of that Constitution. So il will
be in the extension of the same Inc 10 lati-
tude &c deg 80 m through the newly ac-
Guired territory of California. What a bea-
utiful harmony in our national action would
then be exhibited! Our Revolutionary Fa-
Tiers, in entristing tie proportion Of free
and slaveholding States, substantially fixed
it on latitude thirty-six degrees thirty min
utes. The next generation for IL" itcvo-
lutianary one had nearly diSappcarei } then
extended that line through the newly ac-
quired territory from France, and now it is
proposed and to this I give nv assent, and
earnestly recommend you 20 give yours 10
extend this same line still westward, through,
the territory which may be coded to us BY
Mexico, to the shores of the Pacific. This
being done, the great strife and contention,
about slavery, we may hope, will beScttled
AMI ended forever. Then no "Wilmot Pro-
riSo' vii; break up our IcpoSe, like a fire
bell at III: =. Tie l:nc Of separation will b.
fixed. Al. MN wonld understand it and
conform TO it, in ;"e formation of States
Nor need the conscientious and sincere
friend of the black race, for there are ma
ny SUCH be in the slightest degree appre-
hensive that slavery, though permitted to
exist south Of that line, would ever be in
fact established in any one State of Cali
forr:a. The character Of the country-tIe
nature Of its resources--the insecurity Of
such property on a variety of accounts
would deter any Shareholder from taking
that description of property with him. Tie
question about slavery, therefore, loses
much, if not all, lis practical Importance in
relation to the territory now to be acquired
from Mexico, as has been truly said, too, at
a most auspicious moment for the peace
and harmony of our country. The Union,
therefore, I hold to be in no danger from
any new accession of territory. | believe
lldl, uluST TIE TTONlucuCc Ol OUu, IL Is Is
tiaed to last and endure forever, stretching
like the beautiful rainbow of Hope and Pro-
mise, until it bespans this whole continent"
Capt. ToBIs, in a letter to the New Or
leans Delta says that the Mississippians are
a great people. The first regiment inven-
ted a V, and cought the ~lancers in it; but
the second have made a much more impor-
tant discovery, for which they mean to take
out a patent. It is no less than a plan to
save Uncle Sam the expense of forwarding
any more soldiers to Mexico.
A young gentleman from V~icksburgh
shipped as a soldier in the Second, and
Performed all his duties admirably. He
was a smart, dapper little fellow, without
a hair on his face, in the shape of a mus
tache or whisker. There was always d Joke
On his tongue and a smile on bis lip, and tn,
men usually relieved him from sucIr hand
work as choping wood, &c. His checks
were very smoOth-he was very handsomet
and his lame was Luke Surrey. Bar
fInp size. he was the very coupfar,,rt ,f