The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-22
NUMBER 30.

burst out In thankful asDirstions 10 Almighty
God That such . scheme Of bsnevoIsnce a. thai
mac even been thought Oft think the Secr,-
tary says well in saying that thew could NOS
LOOK on in silence
The Secretary further says Such an NJ
tempt upon any nsighbOring country would ns-
csssarily be viewed BY this Governments win
very deep concern"
Certainly they should have Looked an ,xith
deep eoncern,-as deep As that with which AZ
fecfion watches by the side Of diving love. nor.
gathering hope from the symptoms that a..
smiles Of health viii again smOOiha the cheek AT
love, and then trembling lest the pail Of DESPAIR
should settle on its hopes.
Again he avs alt cannot Be permitted a
succeed without the most strenuous efforts an
our part 10 arrest a calamity 80 ssrious 10 sverv
part Of our country" A calamity so serious 10
every part Of our country, so serious to New
Hampshire, to Massachusetts,, and The other New
England States, And, SIR, this bill which /,
now before you is one Of the measures which
are to be adopted TO redeem the pledge thus made.
In the same letter il il said
/" The establishment, in the very midst Of our
Slaveholding States, Of an Independent Govern
ment forbidding the existence Of Saver. and
oy people born for the most par. among IA.
reared up in our habits, and speaking eur Ian
gaage, could not fail 10 produce the most nm
happy effects upon both parties"
When ! sav Il formally announced BY The
Goverament that il could not produce any but
unhappy ehscts," fthosgAt that I vss N stsk-
en- In the rs.siss; thoaEkt il mnas BE- 4 n;.-
take Of the printer but found that il was no
mistake, that the announcement was really
made. What mistake, then, cid the Pilgrim
fathers make. in coming to found Colony in
the New World, where they might avoid the
consequences Of Slavery! Had they not slave
~ enough at home7 Did they bid farewell
TO everything that bound their hearts To IN.
land Of their birth, the lSnd where the bones Of
their fathers repose. and came over 10 found the
institution Of American Slavery Was il for
this that the May-hOwer sailed from the coast
where slavery prevailed Was il for this that
those patriots wandered from England 10 Hol-
land, and from Holland here In Heavens
name was not England oppressive enough
Again:
Sew ealamities could bsfal this country mora
10 be deplored than the establishment Of a pre-
dominant British influence and the abolition Of
domestic slavery in Texas"
Few calamities could befal the country Ike
thisF had understood, up 10 the tine when
read this declaration, that the institution Of
slavery. for good or bad. was a State institutiOn
! thought IL was one which the General Gov
srnment had no right to touch Everything
that ! had ever heard upon the subject bad
tended TO take that Institution from the eogai-
rance Of the General Government, and make Il
a subject Of State policy, bus here
bad It bsPtized, and made one Of tas Gods BE-
fore which the whole people are TO BOW down
and worship.
Mr.. Calhoun, in a letter to Mr.. Green, dated
Department Of State, Washington, April 10,
lo44, says " The step Conservation Of Texas)
was forced on the Government Of the United
States in Consequence Of the policy Of Great
Britain in reference 10 the abolition Of slavery in
TexAs-" In the same letter he says the Gov
eminent has taken this step 3" in full view Of al
possible consequences" Can this language Be
Was not war one Of the pos
sibls consequences in fall view Of which this
measure was adopted Butt f0rbear; the whole
Is full Of the most irrefrsgabls
proof Of my position, and IS familiar to the Sen
ate and the country From this cause, whittier
remode or immediate, this var proceeded. Can
any man deny this We may have our doubts
whether, If there had been more caution and
prudence, this war would have been preeipitAtsd
upon rs at so early period. But Is il not evil
dent that the whole matter springs from this
Vas not annexation itself an act Of war; War
was existing between Mexico and Texas at the
time But the very fact Of anEexing to our
selves one Of the belligerent nations We incurred
the responsibility Of fighting her battles; al
though, even after that, subsequent history has
demonstrated that, owing TO the feeble and dis
tracted state Of Mexico, the most ordinary Pru-
denee on the part Of the Executive might ana
probably would have avoided Aagrant war.
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