The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-06-17
THE TWO sYsTEMs-THR FUTURE.

A gentleman who has travelled extensively
in the Indian Territory called Neosho, states
that large numbers Of persons from Missouri
and Arkansas, with their slaves, had settled in
that Territory, with the connivance of the In.
dian agents; that strong desire prevails
among the Choctaws for admission into the
Union as q State and that the Cherokees are
inclined to the same measure, although not
unanimous. Both nations are deeply interested
in slaves. So reports letter writer for the
Chicago Tribune.
As the Committee on Indian Affairs in Con-
gress are controlled by shareholders, and q
STAKEHOLDER stands at the head of the Depart
ment of the Interior, which has the supervision
Of the Indian agencies, it is easy to see how COM
pletely the social and political institutions of
the Indian Territory are under Pro Slavery in.
fuence. b.. .I.i
Lately, letter.writers in Washington talk con.
6dently of overtures in regard to the purchase
of Sonora, chihuahua, and Lower California
Some say our Government has offered to buy
some, that the Mexican Government has offered
to sell. The men who are urging the organiza.
ton of Territorial Government in Arizona.
are anxious to obtain Sonora, so as to secure
Guyamas as port of entry, without which, they
say, the new Territory would possess little
value.
The Washington correspondent of the Rich.
mond IVA. South insists upon the continuance
of Mr.. Forsyth as our Minister to Mexico.
"He is a Southern man, and imbued with
Southern ideas. We need and ought to insist
upon the appointment of such men at Madrid.
Brazil, Mexico, and Central America. Our in.
terests demand the appointment of men who
will feel proper desire to promote Southern in
terests, and competent for this work. The South
is not represented in the State Department,
and the principles of Eli Thayer have been sub.
stituted for the Southern and Pro. Slavery re.
gime of Walker in Nicaragua"
Here, too, is signif cant paragraph from one
of our exchanges
Gen. Houston's Expedition TO Merico
General Houston, Immediately after the ad.
tournament of Congress, contemplates an expe-
dition into Mexico, with company of four or
five thousand men, who are anxious to follow
the hero of the Alamo to new conauests. Walk
er and Henningsen do not inspire the adven.
turous youth of the South with confidence. and
it has been signi6ed to Gen. Houston, that if
he would lead them, there were thousands ready
to follow him to any part of Mexico. The un-
is that they are to Texasze anoth.
er slice of Mexico, and bring it into the Union,
and, with it, Houston into the Senate"
1t would seem by late news from Mexico |
that our fiibusters are figuring in its troubles.
ho NJ III Al
telligence as follows:
From Gen. Garza's intercepted correspond. |
ence it seems that the Yankees are by no |
means uninterested spectators of the conflict. |
Sr. Ramon Lafon, writing from Matamoras to |
Gen. CARA, April %, states that four thousand
muskets scere under sooy from New York for !
Gen. Vidaurri In the same letter, the writer
Gen. Carvsjal, of Sierra Madre
notoriety, as competent military leader. The !
titibusters are mentioned in a letter Written by
iSr. Juan Prado, in anything out friendly
spirit. Mexicans, it seems, of whatever party, |
have dread Of americans, and like to do their |
fighting alone"
In connection with the movements alluded |
to in these extracts, the reader will please bear
in mind how Texas was appropriated by the |
Slave Power, then wrested from Mexico, finally |
annexed to the United States how the war
that grew out of that transaction was conducted |
with view to the appropriation of other Mex |
can territories to the uses Of Slavery, which, |
however, was compelled to yield the most i'm. |
portant of them to Freedom, while it has rat |
made sure of the others: how many millions |
we're given for the Gadsden purchase, to pro. |
vide the way for a Southern railroad to the |
Pacific: how 6libuster Walker undertook to |
subdue Central America, and re-establish Sls |
very: how many plots have been concocted for |
The seizure of Cuba, and how many hundred |
millions have been offered by Pro Slavery AID. |
to purchase it from Spain.
Keeping in view all these events, past and |
present, read the following editorial from the
Richmond (Va) Enquirer of May 9th:
g Free Labor and Slaue Labor. The bound.
less expsnse of unoccupied Western terrific.
y lies open to the march of free labor and
white population. There climate existe, by
The decree of Providence, which fordids the ap
proach of slave labor-there the persevering and
ndomitable energy that makes New England
The wonder and the admiration of the world,
inds Q theatre for further development. Amid
hat cold and ungenial climate, the negro droops
and dies. There q wise economy will never
,eek to carry slave labor. No action Of the
Federal Government will ever be sought or
desired, by any rational advocate Of Slavery, to
force the institution into q territory where the
climate forbids its profitable employment
aThe territory thus opened to free labor will
find no molestafion from the encroachments of
Slavery; for the same scise Providence opens to
NE further Development of Slavery a splendid
sxp6nse of country in Merico and Central
America. The West India Islands, at no dis.
tant day. regenerated and disenthral,ed from
The rude hand Of negro barbarities, may join
our glorious Onion, to s,oeH the area of the
.iuiiization of Slavery. There land and negroes
are to our hand, ,oithOut the 'slace trade We