New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-01-11
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,,o., N the leading journals, we meet little men
49,, a the Great Question which at length lowers
,.loably and ominously on our National horizon.-
Unless Mr. Preston Kings demonstration Is mere
feint--s patry juggle TO subserve some sordid or
s.,,;oo. purpose-we approach practical and final
solution of the problem. Shall Slavery or Freedom
y. the poles,sr of our National existence 7 I'm.
ls.. ur King and those for whom he speaks desert
the position they have taken, this very Session
ronst but the Federal Government on a tack d.
rsotly opposite to that which it has for years
been steering. Mr. Kings proposition, it will be
remembered contemplates appropriations oil $50,
900 for Negotiations and s2,OOo,oo TO be spent IN
concluding peace with Mexico, between which
two provisions, appears the following
SEC O. Aad be farther etac,ed Ths, taeye sh0u Be
-,,b,r ,iapeyy nor Involuntary sUude m any tTuory
nAA shaH hvaft1 be acquired ~ or be amend 70 me
Upued States otherwise than In the punishment o. er.ns
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted
Provd.d aays That any person escaping into me same
from whom labor service IL lawfully Claimed III rny
one Of the United states such fugitive may be lawfully
reclaimed and conveyed out OF said territory 10 ine per
son claiming his OF hen labor or service.
Mr. Kings Speech in behalf Of this Provlso bears
all the marks Of a carefully prepared, thoroughly
considered Manifesto, and speaks as for the sell.
.tyled Democracy Of the North. Nowhere has It
an iptimation that what the speaker says may not
Re concurred in by bis Political brethren All IS
,alm. grave. methodical determined. We think
we know Mr. King well enough to be assured tha'
he did not make this Speech with any expectation
Of being induced TO desert its main positions OF OF
being left 10 stand alone upon and fall In defence OIL
them. Everything conspires to assure us that
VIA, he sets forth had been thougbtiully matured
in Albany before it was propounded IN "as"'uB
,on We believe moreover, that there Is spice
IF Conscience In it, and that the leaders oil the late
Van Buren,, now Wright wing OF the Locof oco
marty have resolved unless dazzlingly tempted to
sent the battles of aggressive Slavery no longer
IN this belief we, rejoice unspeakably at the att
tuds they have assumed and see IN 1t the dawn o.
a new and brighter era for our Country ana Tor
Mankind
And vet how can we suppress the truth that TINS
new attitude is an emphatic and whitening con
demnaton OF all Messrs Van Buren,, Wright King
A Co. have been doing for years past Just look
at Mr.. Kings proviso, and see how thoroughly
condemns the Annexation Of Slaveholding Texas
ss well a, the planting Of Slavery beyond Texas
There shall be no Slavery in any territory h'nce
forth annexed to our Union matter whether there
WINS or was not previously Annexation 10 the
Union, whether Of Tamaulipas' New N eS'oo OF
Cuba works perpetual inhibition oil slavery IN
the region so annexed, though Slavery were us
vital element before And this Is no longer eoe
rslWhig Abolition, but genuine Van bureh-
Wright Democracy Mr.. King in the last Con
rress must have voted directly Ia the teeth OF ,hs
proposition. and would have been denounced ano
tanned over TO the Wings like John T. Hale had ne
done otherwise Now he speaks, and his WORD IA
the law of Northern Loco Focoism Thus out upon
deem darkness breaks the light OF brighter dSy
Le, us ncvermore despair OF the Republic
Thu, the mi.leaders Of the New York sham De
mocracy convict themselves OF gross recreancy IN
the past by taking Mr.. Kings position Tor the Ia
sure, it seems TO no candid man can deny. We
know il may be said that their dread OF the election
ofMr. CLAY. Of National b ank high Tariff, &c. DC
constrained them 10 choke down their original hos
tility to the Texas lniquty' to swallow the gross
insult and wrong put upon them ia the defeat o
Van Buren, at Baltimore, and to support win at
their energies the election of Polk. Admit all this
and how does il justify their conduct cfter fo'f
was elected Then they chose two u ; Sena
tors who held the fate Of Texas in their hands
rararrspb in Wrights FIRST Message embodyint
the sentiment above expressedby Mr. King woui'
have defeated Annexation or driven Slavery iron
Texas. But not q whisper Of IL was there ia
! Samuel Young and Theodore Sedewick or any tw
Statesmen Of like convictions, been elected sens
= tor the triumph Of Slavery would have been blast
ed But no such men were sent Instead oil then
two were chosen of whom one was morally certai
to do any dirty work which Slavery and its ffes
Dental implement might command and the o'he
speedily disappointed the faint hopes entertsine'
that the servility engendered by life OF twisting
and crinsing for Office might be overbslsnced b.
On. united influences of naturally clear, stron'
intellect and a lofty independent station ny tn
votes Of these two was Texas ioisted into the Va
ion. with all her sins upon her head all the perm
Of gigantic wrong upon ours, and without
shadow OF stipulation against the spread OF Slave
~ over nine tcnthx Of her claimed area. includin,
far more than all over which her flag had ever float
ed or her authority been practically asserted b,
any act whatever
--.Ahl but says one, Slavery already existe
in Texas Grant it, and the case is not altered
Mr. Kings resolution see ~ says Slavery sha
,,ase upon Annexation even though 1t had bee
srmlv established there for centuries 1t is Nj
King that measures and pronOances the condemns
,ioa Of tho Northern rccresnss to Liberty IN tn
matter Of Texas we oaly rstiiy his Judgment
In, In fact Slavery did rot exist aerer had eSiste
pr;cr to Annexation in oaethird OF the ferri'o'
claimed BY Texas That territory lay av'rsih
a.,n... or was inhabited cnly by mdepender
,nv;ns bands of Indians &c say that slavery !
.lh existed in Texas. beyond narrow strip oil
Nortb.sss,ern coast is to libel Him who create
the earth. ba, who never made a slave Ana
G. Messrs Wright and King had chosen only 10
Arm the doctrine OF this prcviso in lsit-S Slave
IN Texas would have been confined TO nsrFo
atm Of coast or Texas would have staid OUT Of
Union.
~ The .Noalsomers ?haSer. at Fort f'Al
Ny has an excellent losder "a .sscr OF aeolshins
Death Penalty. The Editor ,sasc 5. Bsekus woo
horn deaf ara sszA has overcome his immense na'u
enshle him print cNcelit