The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-10-10

Fe, there are trains continually plying between
independence and Fort Laramie and the Salt
Lake, which do heavy business. Hugh N.
Smith left independence, in company with his
brother on last Thursday, for Santa Fe. | see
by papers received in Independence, by last
nights mail, that the Texas bill has passed both
Houses of Congress, and that the Texan Sena-
tors and Representatives, with unparalleled mag
nanimity, have given their assent to it suppose
the Fugitive bill will pass next and If under the
soothing effects of so many unctuous applications,
the inflammation is not drawn out of Southern
chivalry, it must have been alarmingly mortified.
The Squire of Hudibras, though amazingly tame,
had nevertheless at least one point at which his
honor could be touched as we learn from the fol-
lowing lines:
:" But Hudibras gave him witch
As quick as lightning, in the breech,
Just in the place where honors lodg'd
~, 81, ,As,wis philos2phsrs haye judgd;
Because kick In that place more
Hurts honor than deep wounds before"
But the Issacharine progeny of Asrthern
doughfaces are unique. There is no point at
which their honor can be touched. Kick them
where you will, provided you are slaveholder)
spur them as you may, they have but one remon-
STRANGE: cam | not thine ass, upon which thou
hast ridden ever since was thine unto this day."
For the sake of her own honor, for humanity's
sake, if the Northern People have any thistle
patches, let them call home their donkeys.
1t is wonderful how untring the slavery -propa-
gandists are in devisng means land executing
them) for extending the area of slavery, and per-
petuatng their power. Their eternal vigilance in
this respect has scarcely any parallel, except in
Northern apathy and servility While the Will
mot Proviso is denounced by Northern politicians
of the Hunker school, as a chimera that has been
superseded by the laws of physical geography, the
slavery propsgandists insdiously extending
their area, regardless of all such imaginary lines.
On the one hand, plying the timid with the lash,
and the mercensry with Texas scrip, they dis
member New Mexico of millions of acres, in de-
rogation of all right, hand it over to maraudug
Texas to be converted into slave territory, and
patrotcally pay her bonus of ten millions to
take it, lest she should whip the General Govern
ment On the other hand, they are insidiousy
peopling this whole territory, known few years
since as the Territory of Nebrasks) and stocking
it with slaves. There is not, perhaps, more de-
lightful country from the Atlantic to the Pacific
than this same Territory. 1t is fast filling up
with whites, and, from what have SEEN should
judge that majority of them have slaves ] have
not yet been in white family save one, or passed
house occupied by such, where they did not
have their domestics. The people are already be-
ginning to talk about the probabilities OF n trans
fer Of the land from the Indians to the Govern
ment and my own opinion is, that such trans
fer is inevitable, and that before many years But,
before il is transferred slavery will have liked its
relentless grasp upon it, and will claim it by right
of pre-occupation and then there will be another
compromise, in which Slavery will get all she
asks
have said that believe transfer of this Ter
ritory to the Government inevitable. From what
] have been able TO learn from intercourse with
the missionaries here, as well az with the people,
| am convinced that the whole policy Of the Gov
eminent with regard to the Indians must be
changed before they can be ever ciolized, much
less christianized One Of the barriers to their
elevation u.s. that they haze 100 much ldnd If Gov
ernment would take an enumeration of all the In
dams and spporton to each family, or to each in
jividual, as much land as would, by proper cul-
tivation, yield a competency make each individ-
ual's possession inalienabe; confne them to their
own possessions and make them feel that they
were to depend upon that resource for subsist-
ence and then extend over them wholesome
governmental would accomplish more for their
civilization and christianizaton in ten years than
than it has ever yet done in the whole history of
our Indian treaties and Indian missions.
| hope the brief limit have given of the insid-
ious introduction Of slavery into this Territory
will serve to awaken further inquiry believe
it was Daniel Webster who once said Eternal
vigilance is the price of Liberty" Pity that
Argus should have fallen to sleep
Yours, truly, w. G. X.