Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-08-17

that we !. 49,. = sec slavery abolished there as
elsewhere, and we should rejoice if the re-
cognition of that country by the Mexican
Government should be accompanied by an
engagement on tue part of Texas to abolish
slavery eventually and under proper condi-
tioas throughout the Republic" At the
worlds convention, held in London previous
to this, Mr.. Lewis Tappan, of New York,
said: "In conversation had with the Hon.
J. @. Adams, on that subject, (the annexa-
ton of Texas he (Mr. Adams) said, l deem
it the duty of Great Britain, as a Christian
nation to tell the Texans that slavery must
be abolished, that it shall not be planted there
after all the efforts and sacrifices that have
been made to abolish it all over the world.
The annexation of Texas will be q leading
topic next Congress, but 1 will oppose it with
all the vigor and talent that God has given
me. If slavery is abolished in Texas, it must
speedily fall throughout America; and when
it falls in America, it will expire throughout
christendom."
1t will be remembered that Mr.. Adams
was the first member of Congress, in 1886,
who commenced this great slavery agitation,
on the shallow pretext as to the abstract
right of petition, used only by him as the
means of agitation and exciting low preju-
dices. When he was in Mr.. Munroe's Cabinet
and a candidate for the Presidency, he courted
the South, and in that Cabinet is represented
as being the only member who opposed de-
claring the slave trade piracy, and is said also
to have been opposed to that clause in our
treaty with Great Britain, by which our Gov
caament became bound to keep up a joint
iitct on the coast of Africa to suppress the
slave trade. 1t is also said that he was the
only member of the same Cabinet who op-
posed the adoption of the Missouri restrc-
ton line as to slavery. It is said that Mr..
Munroe required the opinion of each member
of his Cabinet in writing as to the policy Of
supporting the restriction Of slavery below
the line of 3G0 30<, commonly known as the
Missouri Compromise, and that each member
gave his opinion in writing in favor of the re-
striction, except Hon. j. @. Adams. And
yet, after the South had unanimously repudi-
ated him and voted for General jackson, in
1928, at the close Of a bitter canvass, he
then seems to have changed his policy, and
become the bitter and angry assailant of the
South, soon after he took his seat as a mem
Der of Congress.
twill be remembered, too, that it was
said he was the man who made that secret
communication in relation to the treason of
the Federalists and all connected with the
Hartford Convention, although his own illus
trlouS and noble father had been head of the
Federal party. Soon afterwards, he was ap-
pointed to St. Petersburg, and regularly en-
rolled in the Republican party Of that day,
and became one of its leaders, securing the
Presidential purple, in 1924, by an election
before the House of Representatives. men
ton these things to show that, by bis foreign
reputation and high position at home, he be-
came eminently suited for great agitation,
and to be used by those who had overthrown
slavery in the West India Islands, through
agitation in the British Parliament to affect
the same purposes in American, and thus re-
duce the principal commercial and manufac-
turing rival Of Great Britain to tho same level
with herself in the future race for power and
rccendancy.
Sir Robert Peel, Immediately after this de-
claration of Mr.. Tappan, at tho worlds fair,
carried the discriminating duty on sugar the
effect of which was to make all slave grown
sugar pay high tax over free labor sugar,
and he put it upon the ground. using his own
words, "That it would enable him to force
treaty with Brazil for the abolition Of
sIavery-make the attempt, try to get con-
cessons from those from whom you get your
supplies. You may depend upon it, there is a
growing conviction among the people of these
countries that slavery is not unaccompanied
by great danger. In Cuba, in the United
States, in the Brazils, there is ferment on the
subject of slavery, which is spreading and
will spread. Some from humane and benevo.