The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-01-19
From the Columbus tGso.) Inquirer.
TERRITORIAL ACQUISITION.

There are indications that the country Il
to be soon consuised by some question Of
territorial acquisition perhaps by a propo-
sition to "annex" Sonora or some other
portion Of Mexico. The proposition will no
doubt be an ailuring and tempting one, but
Jas deceptive and dangerous to the South as
any gil.led bait that could possibly be pre-
scented. Il is simply proposition to make
iher the cats-paw to rake chestnuts out of
the hfc for the Northern monkey, and M
thing more. So far as Sonora is concerned,
we are informed that Northern Emigration
Companies are already turning their atten-
ton towards it, and are prepared to oyerrun
and take !" squatter sovereignty possession
Of as soon as the Mexican authority is su-
persedel. We know how they got posses
sion OF California before the ink was dry on
the scroll upon which the treaty Of cession
was recorded. We know how they have ex-
Guided Southern men and their property from
Kansas, though that Territory lies immedi-
ately adjoining a slave State and on no side
touches free State. We know that Utah,
Oregon, Washington, Decotah. Arizona and
New Mexico are all to be theirs, simply be-
cause they have colonizing facilities far SUI
perior TO any that the South is permitted
even to hope for. We know, moreover, that
Sonora and every other part of Mexico have
already resident population opposed to
slavery, and that the local laws now govern.
ing them prohibit African slavery.
With these lights before US, and this being
the actual condition Of things. would it not
be folly in the extreme for the South 20 con-
sent to the annexation Of any more non slave.
holding territory, until her facilities for pos
sessing it with her own distinctive kind of
labor are largely increased? Would not her
present assent to the acquisition Of Sonora,
with organized Northern labor and socisl
ideas standing ready and anxious to rush in
and appropriate the prize, be as clearly an
act of suicide as that of the maniac who
draws a razor across his own thrpats Bet
Ter far, say we. that Sonora and all her re
ported stores Of mineral wealth be made, ike
an eagalfed city. desolate waste Of waters.
tlan thus TO be bailt up into powerful State
to make war sp0n the institutions OF tue
South; and rather wsnld we see Arizona
share the same fate than to see il appropria.
ted BY Ereesnllers 10 their system of ciyIli-
zation and to the aggrandizement Of their
political power.
II is manifest that ander the pracssse, in.
stituted half a century ago. and now at work.
the South must not only lo.e all ne,0 terrific
~ that does not tolerate slavery al the time
Of annexation. but is in great danger Of also
losing Missouri and Western Texas. Her
relative power in the Confederacy is steadil,
declining. NOT so much on account Of aboli-
ton agitation as simply because she has not
the material to compete with the unrestrict-
ed North in the colonization and possession
Of fields open TO struggle between the op.
posing systems Of the two sections. Until
this disadvantage is remoyed the South
is graciously allowed By the Federal Govern.
ment to resort, like the North. to redundant
foreign stores for the necessary increase OF
her /" material Of political dsmination," il i
folly for her iS aid in the acquisition Of ter.
ritory that will surely be appropriated. TO
her e'~n esei.siony by her rapaeiaus northern
partner.