The true Democrat., 1857-01-27
From the Texas State Gazette. A Base Born Snuthprner

We think that Mir. Etheridge, a Know Noth- ing member from Tennessee is entitled and will receive an infamous renown for pandernr to the vltlated appetites of the free solier, aSalnst southern insttutons. No one has read Ills resolution without indignation and scorn. It will be recoilected that Cullum--anothor Know Nothing from that State-enjoys the inglorious position of clerk ot the free soil House of Re- presentatives. Something, it seems, had to be dope to preserve the friendship of the black re- publlcans, and MT. Etheridge, with a baseness that would have mortified udas Iscariot. offer cred resolution carrying olium with it to his southern countrymen, totally repudiated by the northern vote. It is as follows:
 Resolved, That the House of Representatives regards all suggestions and propositions of every klnd, by whomsoever made, for revival of the African slave trade, as shocking to the moral sentiments of the enlightened portion of man. kind, and that any action on the part of Con- gress conniving at or legaliziDg that horrid and lnhuman traffic would justly subject the go vernment and citizens of the United States to the reproach and execration of all civilized Christian people throughout the world
 When this question was introduced into the House 1t was proposed by southern members to acqulesce III the expediency of refusing to re-
 peal the laws against the slave trade, but to give no expression of opinion in regard to the trade i'seli. The north desired however, to adopt resolution offensive to the south, that they ihiSht go before the people, to declare by this 'oCe' that the south looked forward to the re- opening oi the slave trade, and thus add to the e3cHeneht ,,, or the black republican agitation. Il his end was efiectually defeated and their tool MT. Etherdge, fairly unhorsed by the adontion afterwards a
 introduced by Mr. Orr of South Carolina and which was adopted by an almost unanimous vote; those declining to vote wisely diffaring in portion of the resolution. We have noticed the preternatural anxiety of the north to make capitaf out Of the suggestion to the executive or southern State, in his message to the legis ture. But for this morbid anxiety, the advice of Gov. Adams might never have gained any ex tended notice. The people of the south have no disposition to force practicable issues upon Congress, as has been fully evinced in the whole course ol thelr representatives in Congress as body We repudlate, however, all offensive language, such as IS contained in Mr. Etheridoe's resolution. The south sustains tho slave trade among her States, and had she the power to permit the owners of slaves in Cuba Brazil or OaHre Tn Africa to bring them to our markets. It would be matter entirely of policy and not of morals, whether or not she would do so.-- The high price of lands throw them into the hands of capitasts--it is the same in regard to negroes, and the right to homestead exemp- ton Is now being asserted in slaves in order to retain them in the hands of the masses. If the south had the power and the masses re- solved to have cheap negroes as we'll as lands, in order to be able to hold both, DO moral ob- jeetion could or would be urged.
 The south however, has not the power to act, and it is therefore the supremest folly to urge M forward the re-opening of this trade.-l we are glad that it has got its quietus Yet %e ask II the nuilifcation resolutions of Massa. cnuSet.s' vermont, and other free States re- ul 1usihs to obey the constitution of the United plaees Tn securing the property of the south. had been under discussion, how much more obnoxious could the policy of the north have