New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-15
PROSPECTS, OF A FREE STATE IN
TEXAS.

II is not sltoge Their q new thirg to readers that
while a portion Of the Southern people have been
making Strenuous efforts to Introduce Kansas into tue
Unh az a Save State, the rapidly growing Anti
Slavery il fiuence in of the Southern Staes has
been almost entirely overlooked We alude TO Texas,
the W. stem portion of which is rapidly filing up with
emigrait r. from Germany and other psrs OF Europe.
To know that this class OF emgrant. Is popuiaung
Western Texas almost exclusively is sufficient to
safety any well informed and unprecedented nina that
there exists in that section AnuSlavery sentiment
That these tmgrapts are opposed to The INSTITUTION Oh
Slavery is TO secret they publicly proclaim ther op
aeate the ueston of Abolition the party with viii 81
these act affect to believe that no harm can
come of their simple feeling Of dislike for the insta
ton Of Slavery.
This foreign vote is already sufficiently large to con-
troll the election in Texas for beside the Europeans
settled in the western part OF that State there quite
q large Mexican population The facts that the I'M
mime German population Of Western Texas Is radi-
cally opposed to the Institution OF Slavery, and that
the Democratic party owes its success toheir votes
and takes them 10 Its bOson are patent to every intel
igept resident of that State Ii not much those
facts to which wish to direct public attention as to
the duplicity or criminal blindness OF that party in
urgrg these foreigners, as they arrive by hundreds
ard tbou ands into organized political prominence,
for he sake Of Temporarily prohtlng by their votes,
regardless Of whatever consequences may epsue
The leaders of the Democratic party In Texas NOT
only know that a powerful Art.Sl4very sentiment
exists in the Western part Of that State but that It Is
rapidly lncfedslnS-sO rdpluiyJ LndL
Interruption five gears viii rot expire b,fore il will
WELD controlling political influence, If not strong
enough to effect division of the State, aud declare
The Western portion free. And these same leaders
know that the last Legislature established new
county, mort OF the soil within the Ii nits Of which
belonged 10 a few Germans, who intended bringing
over ard ettrg upon il colocy Of four thousand OF
their counuymen. Whether this has been done we
al not advised but that such the int ntion Of The
owLers Of the soil, we crediby Informed by sne
who is quite familiar with the sffairs Of West IN
Tenss. Had this colony been brought over the No
tonsl De ooracy could have greatly strengthened s
forces by the adoption Of squatter sovereignty.
In addition to this foreign Anti slavery element IN
with The foreigners in crusade against Slavery, 80
coon they sufficiently It ong to pronlse
MANY of those now occupying prominent positions IN
the ranks Of the National Democracy will be found
amopg the leaders whenever an AntS'avery move,
mert Is made. They men wh) are not cctnated
by principle but by love for the spoils, and to se-
cure these they content TO act with any party that
promises success.
This state of things exist. in Southern State, and
no notice is taken Of it. while no effort nor expense has
been spared to extend Slavery into Kansas. Ihis is
giving up the substance for the shadow. No. Cres'