New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-07-09

DEAR SIR: Permit one who has long known
and respected you personally to call your at
tenion to certain momentous facts and con
siderations which vitality affect our common
country The main truth l would impress
upon your mind and conscience is clearly indi'
Gated IN a few sentences OF the blessed Gospel,
namely:
certain man vent down from Jsru"eq 70 Jsheho. and
fell among thieves, tho sITippei him u ia slme1i ana
wounded him. and departed, lsaunE him hal deed.
Aud ~ chance thsrs o4ne DOVE ost,.ih ps" Va" Wy
and nisu.s- Lsvs -hsn be ~s. At 'hs P1.s e.H' sns
locked him ard r.s.sd By The o'AsI 'iss Ao. Ae
IL has pleased you, Rev. Sir. on several
recent occasions. 10 remark with significant
omyacency, that your P,opl' (thc Roman
Catholics) have had no part IN bringing on our
country the caamitcs II now suffers. Pardon
me, Sir. but think this remark very mis-.
taken one and one calculated 10 induce not
only self.rightoous conccit but a clous perse-
yerance in eyil-doing Let me briefly indicate
why aud wherein think IT mistaken:
|. When this country wa. summoned. 10
Isii, 10 choose between great aud good
man for President, and a ANAL. narrow. aud
weak one, the one question which oyershad.
owed oil others was the Annexation Of Texas
a question raised and thrust INTO the canvas.
wholly BY the Annex ationists, with n candidate
nominated solely because lie was devoted TO
their scheme. That scheme reversed our Nm.
tional pollcy-it necessarily involved us IN the
war then existing between Texas and Mexico
1t violated our existing relations Of amity with
the lattor-it convulsed our whole country
with what il very improperly termed sectional
srifc-it violated our National faith and tue
comfy ever due to Il friendly neghbor--it
opened the whole series OF events which is just
now reaching its elimination. And the one
chief controlling, absorbing motive for this
Annexation was It's inevitable tendency 10 eI-
tend, secure, and strengthen Human Slavery
in this Republic. cit will give u Gibraltar to
the South, said Gen. james Hamilton, jr., OF
5. c., one of its earliest and ablest advocates.
SEES Mr.. Calhouns dispatch - Secretary OF
State TO the Hon. VIM. X. King, our Emba..
sador at Paris, commencing and justilying An
nexation purely as Pro-Slayery measure.
See also the speeches Of Webster, Choate.
&c, &c, opposing it on that ground. Your
people, Rev. Sir IL mean the Roman Catholics
Of your diocese-defcatcd Henry Clay, elected
Polk, and thus carried Annexation. Had they
been equally divided, or stood nloof altogether,
Polk and Texas would have been beaten. But
nineteen.twenteths Of them voted on tho aide
Of Slavery Extension and secured it's triumph.
ii. In tho natural course of events We made
aggressive war on Mexico. on the monstrously
false and unjust pretenso TINT Texas on
the West extended to tho Rio Grando, so as
to include not only parts Of tho States Of
Tamaulipas, New.Leon, and Coahuila, where
the Texans had never been able to maintain
footing, but the greater part also of New.
Mexico, where they never had shown their
faces save to be speedily routed and captured.
Gen. Taylor was sent down by Polk to the
east bank Of the Rio Grande. peoplcd by
McXicans Of two centuries location, who
had never been nor pretended nor wished to
be Texans. OF course, there was a bloody
collision; consequently. wari consequently, fur
Their invasion; consequently (MeIico being by
far the weaker power), conquest on our part
and further loss Of territory on hers. We
wrested from her more than third Of her
area, in defiance of ample notice that We
should quarrel over the distribution Of /" tho
spolls." This was all discussed and considered
in ls44-it was as palpable in 1886 Is it is in
1863. Your people. Rev. Sir II mean q vast
majority of tho Roman Catholics Of your do
cese--sustained that war by their voices and
votes-such of them as fought, by their guns
aud swords also. And now we are deciding