Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-07-31
MR. BUCHANAN ON SLAVERY.

Extracts from speech of JAMES BUCHANAN
in the Senate of the United States
IN 1914, on the Texas annexation treaty. SCI
Cong. Globe, part 2, vol. H..
HEBFEELs "REPUGNANcE" TO EXTEND
fiNG SLAVERY OVER NEW TERRITORY.
sin arriving at the conclusion 10 support
this treaty, had TO encounter but one Seri
Gus obstacle, AND THAT WAS THE QUESTION
OF SLAVERY. Whilst ever have maintain.
ed, and ever shall maintain, in their full force
and vigor the constitutional rights of the
Southern States, over their slave property
I YET felt strong repugnance by any act o.
mne 10 ertend the limbs ofMe Union orer
new slaveholding territory. After mature re.
Election, however, overcame these scruples
and now believe that the acquisition of Tex.
as will be the means of LIMITING, moi
ENHANCING the dominion of SLAVE.
RY."
NE HOPES BY ANNEXING TEXAS TO GET
CLEAR OF SLAVERY.
''In the government of the world Provi.
dence generally produces great changes by
gradual means. There is nothing rash in
the counsels of the Almighty. May not
then, the acquisition of Texas be the means
of gradually drawing the slaves far to the
South to a climate more congenial to their
nature; and may they not finally pass off into
Mexico, and THERE MINGLE WITH RACE
WHERE no PREJUDICE EXISTS AGAINST
THEIR COLOR? The Mexican nation is CON-
posed Of Spaniards, Indians and negroes,
blended together in every variety, who
would receive our slaves on terms of perfect
social equality. To this condition they new
er can be admitted in the United States.
he THINKS IT WILL MAKE MISSOURI, AMI
OTHER SLAVE STATES FREE.
"That the acquisition of Texas would
ere long, CONVEX Maryland, Virginia, Ken
lucky, Missouri, and probably others OF the
more Northern slave States into free States,
! entertain not doubt"
he THINKS If TEXAS is ANNEXED, SLAVERY
WILL PASS THE DEL NoRTE AND BE LOST.
"Bet should Terds be annered 10 the Un-
len, causes wiH be brought into operation which
must taeritd5ly remore SLAVERY from what
may be called heJarming States. From the
best information, it is no longer profitable
to raise wheat, rye, and corn, by slave labor
Where these articles are the only staples OF
agriculture, in the pointed language Of Mr..
Randolph, il the slave does not run away
from his master, his master must run away
from The slave. The slave will naturally
be removed from such country, where his
labor is scarcely adequate to his own sup
port, to a region where he can not only
maintain himself, but yield large profits Il
his master. Texas will open an outlet: and
slavery itself thus finally pass the Del Norte
and be lost in Mexico.
FINALLY HE GOES FOR ANNEXATION, BE-
CAUSE he GETS MORE FREE THAN SLAVE
STATES.
"One thing is certain: the present number
of slaves cannot be increased by the annex
alton of Texas. l have never apprehended
the preponderance Of the slave States in the
councils of the nation, Such fear has al
ways appeared to me visionary. But those
who entertain such apprehensions need not
be alarmed by the acquisition of Texas
More than one half Of its territory is wholly
unfit for slave labor, and, therefore, in the
nature Of things, must be free"