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now engaged m the same culture. VIII Unite
10 supporting the great principle OF eAierd
ing fuIl aud ID qnate prot ction 20 AMERICAN
products and industry. Su4al is crop
which must always look tn the home mar
ket for the sarest sale and most certain re
tu4n Ne shall thus eain in the Southwesl
a powerful accession of strength upon thai
great ques,ion which 80 deeply invoivps the
interest OF your district caudidly believe
that II vi ! b. long B. fore a majority OF the
people OF tbe South. WHEN their abor is thus
diverted into many different channels. will
become cunvIuc.d OF the sound policy Of pro-
tecring aud I SteTing American industry.
This will no' only be important and decis-
i've in favor of such policy. bu, will be emi-
nentlv calculate 90 baimopize aHd Perpet
uate our InStIjutiOns-a r. suit to be hailed
with gladnrss by every patriotic breast


Il am 10 advocate for slavery. Dor would
see il introduced into one region unless
were at the same time assurtd that il would
withd.aw il from anothrr, md hat without
increasing 1t in the aggregate. The annex
atom of Texa~ must soon be followed oy tht
voluntary aboliucn OF the irSlilu lion II STA
very IN cur neiehboring Sta'es, Virginia.
Maryland and Delaware; and also. inde d
In X, utucky and Missouri We can all



own immediate vicinity ] am satisfied that
the best Interests of that class of onr fellow
beings originally brought to and forced on
these States by Brnish rapaciiy and injus
ice, and who mus, always be- ma ked and
distinct race as long as they abide among
our own people, will b. best consulted by s.
curing the only outlet. :he only hope which
has ever press ntt ITSELF for their acquiring
an ind pendent home, or attaining position
elevated and opal TO the people amidsJ
whom they dwell. Snch a refuge is off,


ID b youd the Rio B uvo, among the MEX
can aud South American nations. who have
no pr, judice either 10 caste or color"


Mr. g ] ISGERsoLL. another leading
advocate OF the measure, thus speaks on this
branch OF ;he question:


Angry protests against Texas. elicited by
mIsgepr, utaIious issu,d al Washington,
ptedIrate slavery as the sbhorrent evil 10 b.
i ased by notwithstanding the e
gtrgtously false p1sition that more and ag
gravated slavery vs. 10 folluw that evrnr
But three .fou tbs of that fine region are up
land. with so and climate adapted to agr!
cultu and paS,urage. where cotton and su
gar viii not thrive. and slave labor cannot
b. employed ptofit.bly. Three States with
onl slave IS, and only one with them. can b
formed there and such your commlee uu-
deiStaud IS the wish of the present inhabit
ants of Texas Slavery. forbid bv nature.
may be interdicted by organic law there
and the annexation, instead OF increasing the
power OF representatives. of slavery IN the
Union, will, on :he contrary, certainly and
greatly diminish thrir relative weight The
States of Louisiana, Alabama, Carolina,
Mississippi, Arkansas. Missouri and Ten.
nessee may suffer by depreciation of their
lands and other property. Virginia. Mary
land Kentucky, the CarolinaS. and Tennes
see, if not all the siavehoidino States. viii
have their slaves drawn of to the fresher and
more fruitful plantations of Southern Texas
In a few years many of them must become
free States, and thus Texas prove the means
OF uniting large portion of The present
slaveholdng parts ofthe Union in interest,
sentiments action wnh the North and West.
where slavery is unknown and disliked


The most important ex portable product
of he United States, The regulator of their
exchanges aud b nd of Un:on-cotion-can
not be ploi;ahly cultivated without slaves;
nor can sugar or rice. Yet looking for
ward 20 The providential era when slavery
may exist 90 longer in parts of the United
states to th- diminulion OF is need, and ui
innate extinction Texas IS the on land OF
promise where phllan'hropisis. " ho are not
yea lots. can descry the theatre os consum
nation. Mexico has no slaves. because b..
population Of the bite. black and red Fa
ces is blended. In her neighbor hood. and
neat. IT not with her people, the colofed IN
habIiants OF this country may be united e
ventually IN national numbers. with tn.
character. aud :he institutions OF an indepen
dent people That national combination
NAV be accomplished aiihout revolution OF
commotIon. An African nation may lse
the descendants or Moorish. other African
and Indian progenitors. with the improve
ments OF free GoVernments engTaiitd IN their
sovereignty Instead Of eternlzlng slavery
calm consideration offs connection with
the United States encourages the hope that II
NAV end In Iexas-p peacefully and grateful
Iy disappear there. Liberia. Canada. Hav
ii, abolition of slavery in the siayeholdlug
Steies, ever gradual emancipation IN iht
free States. all schemes of either uniting
whites with blacks or separating them u,
the same communItles. without the degfada
ton of The blacks. ofen worse than their boz
dage have proved abortive. The vision OF
sIavrry's enthanasy by its ALLEGATION 10 the


