New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-12-17
slavery and the Us,ss -rhrsa" OF Di-so
iotion.

A. far az aoy portion OF said People nS az U sx
ercise that Right with any sort OF relation 10
sl.yery. ny tho Influence Of Slavery, acting
through ito own Representatives, and upon tue
hopes AID fears Of others this serious sbrlt se
laent Of a fundamental X GIT wa. effected. The
Free States reucostrs,ed, expos,1lsted, and IN :
legal, peaceful msnDer rs.s,ed, bot they never
threaten ned T. Dissolve the UaiOn. 4, 10 time
were those VINO threatened or contemplated dis
solution twentis tn part o. TIE voters Of the Free
States.
A early as s34-5. intrisass looking 70 the A 10
Be1stion oil Texas ~ the sisvssJldigg end oi the
Union were commenced, aud thence oht'dugy
pursued unit. c'oxDed with compete s9cce's %
Is44-5. By TINS condemnation slavery ootslne'
an accession al territory exceeding the eh'he
area Of the Revolutionary states now Free sn1
containing seven Millions Of People. Slavery 90
,.inad by this accession two Senators and too
Representatives. in Congress. with the raw mate
rial for half dozen future States And It was
distinctly svowed by her champion Calhoun then
holding the Commanding position Of U 3 oecre
tuy OF STATE that our Government embarked i'
this Anne xation crusade for the purpose OF lorty
Ing, securing and perpetusting Human Slavery
That Whatever Of moral sense and enlightened
conscience there was in the Free states should
resist this peryersion Of our common Government
n sectional and revolving ends wss Inevitable
Before the elfstyled Democracy bad been
formally involved IN it by lts Baltimore Conven-
ton of I-li. its journals and other authentic Ut
tsranoes were vehement IN deuouncing the pro
iec, IL was characterized as black - INK aud
bitter as he'll by Leading journal OF New HsmP'
shire which w,s IN foil cry for 'PoIk, Dshss anh
Texas few months siterwsrd, and ttus Isl lar
sample Of the spirit ia which the plot ~1s re-
ssrded by the Northern democracy. The Loco
Foco Members of the Massachusetts Legislature
untei in resolutions denoUDcing tns Annexation
prciect in the most unqualified terms. In our
State, the opposition Of Van Buren,. Wright Bry-
ant Bsfher and the greater portion OF the leaders
OF tho Democracy WAS equally determined and
definite Yet they bou ed IN the Baltimore hat,
And. keeping ss still a. possible about Texas and
slavery. carried the State Tor Polk and Dallas
BY Polks influence and patronage, Annexation
was driven through Congress, receiving bare
msjprity Of votes In the Senate.
The Free spirit of the North ". shocked, It
was outraged bot how many OF Us tslked OF dis
solving tho Uuion' What one State, among al
which had resisted Annexation 10 the lnt sAsr,
now turned to Disanion a. the remedy
Next came War with Mexoo--ihe natural fruit
a Annexation. Itwss foreseen. foretold, deemed
inevitable. Annexation Aod War with Mexico
arc identical" WI. the warning sessonahly utter
cd by Mr.. Clay. Mr. Van Buren, said substantial
ly the same so did many others Not. indeed
that War might not have been avoided after Az
nexailon, but that IL could not. The Ptrtt that
impelled TO the frat wrong would be certain mott
stop at that The appetite tor acquisition would
J.. .hnpened, not stated, by lis frat qualification
30 It proved
Nothing could have tiled the fidelity Of Northern
men Of conscience TO the Union more severely than
this War Having observed and resisted oil the
s,eps by which it had been reached, they felt Il
convection Of it's a,rccity and inexcassbe peridy
whish language can bot family express They
re,isted IL, OF course but only by endeavorins to
drive in authors from power they resisted So
loyal freemcn, net ~ disorgsnizsrs or isctonis'
They interposed no obstacle TO- the consn'uuonsi
action Of the Government they paid their taxes
" ithOut resistance or soraple; no considerable
scarcely an kudibie fraction OF them talked OF ds-
solving the Union. Perplexed, distracted, revolt
ing at the daily spectacle OF their blood And tres
sare lavished In the prosecution Of VA they
Knew to be unias, aud detestahle, they still cling
with uuab&ted tenscty to the ARR Of Nationality
wherein their fathers had found peace and sc
oafity.
The scene changes. New aud spacious con-
ouests from oar feeble and disastrous foe become
inevitable. The Representatives, OF the Free
sts,es m the House-some moved by principle,
others by shame, snd many by fear OF Their con
s,ituents--unite in & declaration that no Free
Territcry acquired by u shall m our hands eecome
Slave Territory. The proPriety OF this Was az
geGt, yet the notification vi" sesscnsose. u the
South did not cheese 10 prosecute the WN los ih@
sake OF Free Soil che had, through the Presldsl''
the sfectusl control OF the Government, Sad might
stop Il at any time Indeed her Presiden, need
ba, recall our troops within cur own boundaries,
and II would be stopped 81 once. The South
chose to have the War 80 on.
The Nation had in former years acquired Louis
lana, Forids, TeX"-sn uphoIdins Slavery We
heard nothing about dividing iksss aothios bat
Double snd.twsted cheat In the pretended CON
pSom'se " tn rcgsrd to slavery ia Texas The
South had uniformly assumed that Territory uhsre
OF Slavery wss the az when acquired must re
main slsvshosdiOs aheS It's scQaistion-no, a part
Of Il bat tho whole. Ii poor rule tina, does not
wosk al less, - vel kr Freedom a. for Slavery
When they we're asksd to divide Texas in ls4s
they secuted the proposition. With VIA, face
then, DO they ASK u - divide New Mexico AMI
California
Bai, srgsmen, fsiias, and strength proving 10.
adequate, we are now % be overcome by threats
The Dissolution Of the Uaion Is oPsa.y, hourly
threatened in Congress il the Wilnaot Proviso BE-
sspied 10 the New Territories Threatened BY
men who are eager for fight 1t any one calls tbs n
psunionis.s Their lonaness Tor the thlrs seems
to run pssxrel It'll their hatred Of the name
What 70 this exScrsied Wilmos Prosiso !
Simply a prOvAsion that Slavery shsu nc, % IL
tended TO and estaeished in territory where 1, hss
now legal existsnee- 1t does no; touch Ga
very where /. nov Is, or has any right &c De. II
.,aply provides that u shall aot difass Itself else
vnere-shsll net sabjeet aeS realms 70 It's sway.
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