The Spartan, 1844-08-14

vv? ?.W?J HUIVU ?u? mull tn included in the Union, and not to future acquisi- p< ;ion* by purchase or conquest. In ease of such a to livision, shall we liave gained anything by having ci iori-slaveholdin"g States of the Union on our south- ar vestern border instead of a foreign non-slavehold- fr ng State. I decidedly prefer the latter , for it is w iot to be denied that our Northern brethren, hi re bis respect at least, "a little more than kin, and a co ittle less than kind," often commit outrages upon is ?ur rights, which would not he submitted to from dc l foreign power; and, besides, if non-slavehold- re ng States of the Union were established there, ve should have the dangerous element of politi- it -al and party feeling, which would not exist in the :ase of a foreign nou-slavcholding State. h? But the real question is not between Texas, a Pi oreign non-slave holding State, and Texas, divid- in fd into an equal number of slaveholding and non- ge ilsvenolding States of the Union; but it is between ox Texas thus divided if admitted into the Union, and al Texas, if not annexed, an undivided slaveliolding at sountry. My life upon it,'Texas will not consent; ei Ive per cent, of her population can never be sii >rought to consent to the abolition of slavery. C \nd we should thus have aslaveholding Republic ei >n our l>order, with similar institutions and inter- is ets, and which must, from necessity, bo our friend 01 tnd ally, and which would serve as a breakwater fo letween us and our non-slaveholding- neighbor, w ind would guard our frontier ; to use a familiar th Uustration, enjoying all the advantage which I do tr vith my neighbor whose farm joins mine, while U le has to keep up the fence, which nevertheless tli protects my crop as much as it does his own. tli But if it is really intended that all the States to to th treated out of Texas are to bo admitted as slave- si lolding States, why was it not so stipulated in the im reaty?why was it not thfis "nominated in the at j^ndt" Was it intended to steal a march on the to ion-siaveholdirig States?to be silent now upon hat point, and hereafter insist upon it 1 If so, it ai ihouJd have been remembered, that in the body in -

and ol course represented in the Sinate, and thus f< give to the South a conservative, a checking, pow- c cr. If I believed that the non-slavcholding States p would concede us this, I would disregard all mi- ^ nor objections and go for the measure. But does & any sane man really believe It! Will the non- tl slaveliolding States, having the majority, in the ^ Senate, a? a legislative body, surrender that ma- ? jority, and also the majority in the House, as an t, alternative electoral body of President! Will they divide Texas in four States, and give to those ^ four States toual^power in the election of Presi- b dent wit^ Kev f York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and I ti Would we, under like circum- ai MN^eonsent to the annexation of Canada, and c uivide it into four or five States I Would we do o this too at tho risk of a foreign war ; and the more b especially if otfr Northern brethren, with a most a remarkable frankness, wore to announce to us that ?] their great motive in desiring it was to take the fi political power out of our hands and place it in j their own! And are they less sagacious in per perceiving - ceiving perceiving their interests, lose prompt to pursuothem, f j oggfr lfdiwiliiij 'is wmi uW fciwwtl WBWWB W WWl'f? charactor. A striking fact in this matter is, that at v the very threshold of this question, it has been n proposed by two Senators from slaveholding ]< States (Mr. Benton and Mr. Henderson) to divide h Texas into an equal number of slaveholding and jt non-slaveholding States. What, then, will we rr have gained in political strength ! If Southern s< Senators begin by making this concession, there p must be some show of reason on that side. And \\ is it to be supposed that the members from non- tli ilaveholding States will yield the point! As to p the Missouri compromise, the obvious reply which a{ will be made will be, that that compromise was w madn ivith rfif?w>i>/>? tn '.'l"-1- *-*? .1-? *

Kuisms oi tne X>ortn ot Jtiurepe; and in a contest zitTi them, a.contest between unlimited monarchy nd the representative principle, she looks to us s allies, not as enemies. That England desires tie independence and prosperity of Texas, we do ot doubt. Do we differ with her in this, or shall rc quarrel with her on this account 1 It is perjctly natural, too, that England and all other' ommercial nations prefer to see Texas 'an indeendent power, with her markets open to all the rorld, than to have her annexed to our Union, nd fenced in with our prohibitory tariff. And is te South disposed to enter upon this crusade of nnexingall ''contiguous territories" for the sake of jcuring their markets for the Northern manufacires t 1 think it extremely improbable that England rill put in jeopardy tno large capital employed y her subjects in Mexico, her profitable commerce lere, and the fifteen millions of specie which she nnually derives from that commerce, by any foriblc iuterposition in favor of Texas. The whole f the English West India and American estalishments are paid with the specie thus derived ; nd I do not see, if this supply is cut off, how the leflciency can be supplied. That the abolition of lavery will be made the condition of such interposition, 1 unhesitatingly say is not true ; and if it *5 were, I as confidently assert that Texas will re rem - m rem fryin nn nnv well ff rm*. T>r > * * nJependonce upon the condition of abolishing m'ery there, no one can believe who knows the "* fian. He is the very last mail iu the world to be ;d off by such a sickly, caotigig philanthropy. I avc strong reasons for saying that he has no prcidices against African slavery ; and, like a wise tan as no is, would have no great objection to se i* introduced into Mexico. I will not be reannsible that the characteristic sensibility to insult 1*11 a ^

.... vsiiumuon out mat it aff>rd?d him the means - of inereuing his utility. He poseed. eix months 1 in Georgia without possessing a single shilling; and it has been surmised from his own account when a young man at Oxford his income was 30 ' pounds per annum, he gave ttro away. Next year ' receiving sixty, he still liveifijftR twenty-eight and gave awav thirty-two ; the Sttrd year he received 1 ninety and gave away sixty-two; the fourth year he received a hundred and twenty ; still he lived '' <Mn OS before, on twcnty-ei|Pp?* and gave away ' ninety-two. In tho plentitudo of his power, the commissioners of the excise, supposing that he had plate, which, in order to avoid the duty, he had not returned, wrote to him on the subject. Wealey replied*^! h avo two silver spoons in London, and I one in Hipul this is all the plate that I have at present, and I shall not buy&any more while so many around me want brcailjft Dr. Parr was celebrated for the nnspnring severity with which ho could deal out hi? dutnbfoundcrs, when the occasion justified their infliction. A flippant chatterer, after having spoken slightingly ot the miracles, exclaimed, V Well but, Doctor, what think you of the mark of the cross upon the ass's hack, which they say indicates the precise spot where the animal wus smitten by Balaam 1" "Why, sir," replied the doctor, "I say thnt if you had a little more of the cross, and a good deal less of the ass, it woutfjtemuch batter for you." Upon another ocfejuwHUllmllow smatterer, taunting Pj etlld not write a book:?"Sir, j' I know a method by which I might soon write a I A h, doctor! how so t" "Why, 19 r ^ S**10*! 'n ^at * ^now?ant*l^at y?u 1 ffi'T the Echo.?"Patrick where have | youl Bns hour or more' vnn m.i.i

re converge en rne scenes of the evening She' ? astounded at what she saw?-hardly can she #di*c the fact. The cloak strikes one, yet he :omos not; no footstep disturbs the midnight's tillness, save the measured trend of tho watchnan. T wo, peals from the turret of St.'John's vhorch, nnd still be Ungors. Lucy frets for his ofety, and her eyes are red and swollaft .from veoping. At length a noiso is heard ut the street loor, as if somo one was trying to get * key in ke latch?tit falls; imprecations are herrd; all is |?wct ft)f some moments ;?some perse.is are con'ersing ;?it i#, Charles and tlio w.tchmnn; the ;uy is found ; the door opened ; the wntchmon revarded, and the door gently closed, bolted and ocked. Reeling through the hall, ho arrives at he foot of the stairs, takes a lamp which has >cen left lighted for him, and by the help of the >annistcrs manages to reach his chamber, much to ho gratification of Lucy, who follows him on tin oe, expecting every moment to see him foil back und kill himself. The poor girl having folly satisfied herself aq to ?use of Charles* absence from home every evellwy went to her bed almost distracted. In- j oxication's deep and damning enp was fast on-! gulphing another victim, and that victim her beloved brother. O, how she tossed on Iter sleepless bed, and invoked the Father of Mercy., turn her brother's heart from vico and shame to truth and virtue. One short month only had elapsed from the time we hare been writing, when in the front parlor old Mr. EmlcnYh^ja** > ??? ing around a middle aged gentlemanly personage, who had just descended from the upper part of the house; his mind appeared depressed, and his thoughtful Countenance licspoke something serious agitating within. His lips

Gulf of Mexico* which is to bo anticipated event of such an invasion, our troops could not be ; transported at all. In any ovent, it would be { transferring the conflict from the land, where we should be absolutely impregnable, to the water, where we might be the weaker power. Then, | ogatn, instead of die impassable swamps lying between the Mississippi and Toxas, a natural and , impregnable fortification, we should have an in- < creased marine frontier of several hundred miles j and a land frontier of two thousand miles, without i rivers, mountains, or swamps, or any the lightest i natural barrier, unless we could realize the very \ bright idea of General Cass of Annexing alt the < contiguous territory. To do which, we must round ^ off our boundaries by going to Cape Horn and the t Pacific. I know only one instance of an oqually I sagacious suggestion, as that of General Caas about i contiguous territory, and that was of the furtner \ who said that he discovered that the squirrels des- a troyed only the outside rows of his corn, and to r secure himself from future depredations by plant- c ing no outsid* rows. If I am descending from t the dignity of the subject, it is because ridicule is r the only proper reply to such an argument. It is f said that the annexation of Texas will increase the ), political power of tho slaveholding States, and p theit vote in Congress. Such cannot be the re- v suit in the Houso of Representatives; for the a slaves will only be diffused ; their number will not a be increased ; that is perfectly clear. But it has tl been said that Texas will be divided into four or n five States, all of which will be sl&veholdine States. I ?

r to % f*?WUh?r by Mil, ?t bb i?b. Postmasters sro allowed to frank letters (written bjr HppMtWs^ cmtniHtpg .Itewy fcc Newspaper subscript ion. Jk . |^y. L?tt?re addressed, to the Editors must be poet paid. THE JOBBER'S CLERK. BY JAMBS DIXON. I ' Charles Emlen WU clerk in a Dry Goods jobbI ing house in Cedar* street; young, ambitious, and of. a good family, his expectation* of outOrinz ear << ly into business on hie own account, were flattering, and not without the youthful hope of.beiug , * ' prosperous. " / ' ,v . . ? 4 . -V ;, I, ' Having recoived a liberal education, and the ; f v ?g| ground-Work of to mercantile career as thoroughly ti I engrafted into his mind as theory Would permit; 1 his father placed him in the store of an old aud n experienced merchant and ^valued friend. In the I course of two or thrco years, Charles became * 1 I ' useful member of the establishment. He wsb < I jiermitted to attend city customers, and occasion- 1 I ally accomjKiny an old drummer to the hotels, to t I bore the country merchants. In a short time, 1 I however, lie out off lus leading strings and fairly { H launched into the vortex of drummers, an accom- t I plidied borer, and a good statesman. Till he had passed his twentieth birth-day, bis 1 I j?arents hod watched with a jealous cure his mo- I I ral and religious conduct, and tho most fastidious I churchman could find no fault with him. His 1 friends pointed him out as a youth of greut pro- e jj& flk mi so, and more-than one motlicr had mi eya on t "Br <: him a? hor fVitura son-in-law, white many a father t babi W?s .v~