Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-10-17
PROSPECTS OF A FREE STATE IN TEXAS

1t is not altogether g new thing to our readers
that, while portion Of the Southern people have
been making strenuous efforts to introduce Kansas
into the Union as Slave stete, the rapidlygrowing
Slavery influenced none Of the Southern States
has been almost entirely overlooked. We allude
to Texas, the western portion Of which is rapidly
filling up with emigrants from Germany and 9th.
er parts of Europe. 10 know that this class of en-
igrants is populating Western Texas almost exclu
sively is sufficient satisfy any well informed and
uupreiudiced mind that there exists in that section
an Anti-Slavery sentiment. That these emigrants
are opposed to the institution Of Slavery is no Sc
cret; they publicly proclaim their opp, siton to
thai institution. But because they do not ngitate
the question Of abolition, the party with which
these foreigners act effect to believe that harm
can come of their simple feeling Of dislike for the
institution of Slavery.
This t0yeig, uote is already sufficiently large Il
control The election in Teras; for, besides the Euro
peans settled in the western part Of that State
there is quite q large Mexican population, The
facts, that the immense German population Of
! Western Texas radically opposed to the insti
sttution of Slavery, and that the Democratic party
its to their votes and takes them to its
BOSOM are patent to every intelligent resident o
that State 1t is not so much those facts to which
we wish direct public attention rs to the dupiicitN
or criminal blindness of that party in urging thest
foreigners, as they arrive by hundreds and thous
ands, into organized political prominence, for thC
q
less of whatever consequences may ensue.
The leaders of the Democratic party in Texa:
not only know that a pol0ertih Anti-!SIGUery SeaH
aent ecists in tie pesterR part Of that State Lut tia
IL is rapidly increasing, so rapidly that V meet
aCh no interuptioR fge gears WU not erpiTe before
ID 1cW wietd a controlling political influence, if no
strong enough to effect division of the State and
declare the Western portion free.--And these
same leaders know that the last legislature estab
1 lished new county, most of the soil within the
limits of which belonged to few Germans who
intended bringing over and settling upon it col
ony of four hundred Of their countrymen. Wheth
er this has been done, we are not advised, bu
that such was the intention Of tho owners of the
soil we are credibly informed by one who is quite
familiar with the affairs of Western Texas. Had
this colony been brought over, the National De
mocracy could have greatly strengthened its for
ces by the adoption of squatter sovereignty,
j In addition to this foreign Ant-Slayery elemen
in Western Texas, there are many natives wht
will unite with the foreigners in crusade against
Slavery soon as they sufficiently strong t(
promise success. Many of those now occupying
prominent positions in the ranks of tho Natona
Democracy will be found among the leaders when
\ ever an AntSlavery movement is made. They
are men who are not actuated by principle, but by
love for the spoils. and to these they are
content to act with Gny party that promises sue
cess.
This state of things exists in @ Southern Stat'
and notice is taken of it, while effort nor ex
pense has been spared to extend Slavery into kan
sas. This is giving up the substance tor the shad
OWN o. Crescent.