New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-18

as defy the known sentiments OF theH 0on-
st;tuents in so doing. It was urged as
mart Of the consideration when the North
came into the support Of Gen. Taylor for
President, that the Vice President on the
ssmeticketwas an unequivocal Northernman
and would give us the Senate on any ques-
ton which might arise between Southern in
terests and Northern convictions. Messrs.
Cas-, Dickinson, Sturgeon, Webster & Co.
have rendered this Of no avail. The North
is beaten on the Proviso-beaten by its own
chosen Representatives--and neither Gen.
Taylor, Mr.. Clay, Mr.. Benton, nor any
Southern man, is at all to blame for it. We
could not expect them to champion the Pro-
viso-had no right TO expect it. We had a
right to expect it Of Statesmen educated
amid the influences, nurtured in the tradi-
tions of Freedom. These have betrayed and
defeated us.
Now, then, what remains to be done?
Not, certainly, to sit sullenly down and re-
fuse to do any thing, because we cannot do
what we could wish. We have still Cum
try to serve-still rights to uphold and
wrongs to resist Nay; we have this same
wrong Of Slavery Extension to resist, al
though the most direct and effectual mode
of resistance is precluded by the detection
Of the Northern Senators aforesaid. So far
our correspondent and we DO not seem to be
| at variance. But we seem TO differ on this
Notwithstanding all things to stand as
they now do, would it or would it not be
better tha. the Compromise bill reported by
Mr.. Clay should become lawf
'Juyenal very we'll understands that we
don't want to pay Texas any Ten Millions,
nor One Million, for her trumpery claim on
! New-Mexico if We could upset it without
We are not sure that the Federal Govern
ment can Justly eyadc the payment Of her
Public Debt, or some good psrt Of it, on the
ground that the Union legally assumed the
debt BY absorbing the pledged Revenues Of
Texas, but we know very well that she has
no right Of dominion over New-Mcxico
| which is worth thousand cents, let alone
ten million dollars. But she has claim,
| and it is not new one, but twin brother
of her yillainOus pretense to the boundary
of the lower Rio Grandc, which involved us
in the late most atrocious War on NewMex-
leo. She now says, with much plausible
ity, "You went to war with New-Mexico
on the assumption that the Rio Grande
was our rightful boundary, and you made
her surrender all this side of that riv-
ser; and how can goa now dispute our
claim TO do it is to brand yourself with
the guilt of false pretense and bloody ra-
| 'pacity." We Wings can afford to own the
truth, and make answer, eyes, it 'caS false
'pretense and rapacity; now make the most
'of it." But the party that made and sus-
tanned the War cannot afford to say any
such thing, but can at best only bubble
about the upper and the lower Rio Grande,
to its own easy refutatiOn. The truth alb
solutely is that Texas did not possess one
foot of the Rio Grande valley, neither above
nor below Ell Paso, when she annexed her
self to this country, and never had possessed
any save as the British held Washington City
for a few days during the War Of 1Sl2.-
The difficulty, therefore, is not in the strength
of the Texas claim to New-MexicO, but in
the strength of the great party whereby that
claim is virtually if not openly supported
That party has now the ascendancy in either
branch of Congress, and no Act nor Joint
Resolution affirming the right Of New-Mex-
leo to q Government Independent Of Texas
can be passed. The noisiest declaimer for.
Free Soil on the Loco FocO side Of the House
says nothing in apprehension of this claim
of Texas. We, therefore, experimenting the
ABSORPTION Of New-Mexico by Texas, would
rather buy off the claim than see it enforced.
We would vote for the Ten Millions, under
existing circumstances, just as we might
give our pocket-book to the highwayman
who presented his pistol and said, Your
money or your life" Texas is the high
wayman and the LOco-Foco party her pistol.
We do not say-have never said-that
New-Mexico would be absorbed by Texas
merely because what is called the Pfesi-
dents PLAN with respect to the New Terri
tories should prevail; but we do say that, if
Texas is allowed to proceed unresisted in
the course she is now pursuing, New
Mexico mus. be subyerted and transformed
into Slave Territory. That we say, and
most undoubtingly believe. Texas is a
| State doubIy represented in either branch