Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1850-10-31
Wing
State Committee
For the Enquirer.
POLITICAL DUTIES.
No. w.


POLITICAL DUTIES.
IT, No. w.
Mr.. EDITOR: Permit me through the
ENQUIRER. to shake hands with your
correspondent en-" of Marion, Ala, and
say, in plain New nglandism, t. l shall
be happy to make your acquaintance,
sir" and hope he will not fail to accom-
pany me in my peregrinations after truth,
promising to give most respectful attcn-
ton to everything he may choose to say
on the way, just as soon as arrive at
some stopping place in my present jour-
ney. en-" says he is seeking for
light" and I cannot but feel, that the
condition Of any of our 6enighted telloao>
men who are SO unfortunate as to be To-
cate 4 south Of the line of dense fogs, and
cheerless night, is sad indeed but when
the cry comes up from that land of mil
des0 and darkness for eight" 1 feel
that there is yet hope, and that even
those &c dry bones" may yet "live." II
l can do anything to aid you and others,
to penetrate that darkness, with even a
single ray of'light, l shall have accom-
plished one Of the objects for which l
desire to live. But enough of this for
the present; I hope e'er long to give our
friend N" some little laid and COM
fort in his struggles after eight " and
liberty. en-" viii please to bear in
mind, that the particular object of this
series of communications, is TO show that
the wing party Of the north, are, as par
ty, opposed to slavery; and that the
democratic party of the north, are, as a
party, the allies Of the south in all her at
tempts and efforts to extend and strength
en- slavery. ..a.
When shall have finished this series
of articles, shall be most happy to an>
swer our friends inquiries, and also any
others he may choose to propose touch>
ing the question of slavery in the abstract
or in the concrete. But to return to the
Investigations which have occupied my
former communications The next step
in southern progress, in efforts to extend
and establish slavery, was the acquisition
of Mexican territory, never dreaming but
that every foot of soil south of $500,
was by that "higher law" as vel! as by
the laws of Nature, consecrated to the
objects of oppression.
Texas was annexed to the United States
in the face of a threat by Mexico, that
such an act would be regarded by Mexi.
CO as declaration of war This was the
very thing desired by the slavery propa.
gandists, for they must first enrage the
Mexicans, before they could have pre-.
text even, for striking blow. Having
created an apparent necessity, by the
annexation of Texas, for war-like force
on the southern borders of that State,
Gen. Taylor was ordered to occupy the
southern borders of Texas; but finding
that such occupation, though in the sight
of the Mexicans, was regarded by them,
as it deserved to be, as mere brayado,
and that it would never accomplish the
object, President Polk, contrary to Gen.
Tay.or's better judgment, and his convic-
tons Of right, ordered him to go over up
on Mexican soil, reasonably anticipating
that such step would provoke them to
blows blood was shed and then who
ever heard such outbursts of patriotism
and devotion to country and to country s
glory? Whoever saw such readiness
to go thousands Of miles to a foreign coun-
try, to defend our wives, and our chill
dren, our iresides and our homes?
Ministers Of the gospel preached about
it; orators spent their breath and ex-
hausted their brains, in declamations in
favor Of the glorious enterprise; and
what was the result t? During all this
struggle for Mexican territory, the DEM
ocratic party of the north, as party,
sustained the south in all her demands
for men and money; while the wing
party of the north, as party, were OPP
posed to this whole scheme, from the be-
| ginning TO the end, and mainly on the
ground Of its injustice to Mexico, and
slavery advancement underlying the en-
tire plot. These facts are TOO well au-
thenticated by Congressional records, and
public journals, to need one item of tes-
limony here. Having acquired by con-
quest and BY purchase, immense terrific
~ from Mexico, it then became serious
question. how and by whom shall it be
governed ?" The spirit Of individual en-
teEprise, the laws Of trade. and the prov
ideDce Of God, waited not for the move
ments Of States, or the action of Con-
gress scores Of thousands from all sec
tons Of the country. and the world Ii