________ terms ofthe watchman i two doll irs i;i a iv nice and two dollars and fifty cent ___ ihe end t the j ear mo subscription received for a le_3 time than one year _,___,. s m i ml i:i i ivann , no subscription discontinued :'• ut at the option m we j i'._r mini a'.i t.-:ir.-ii a p paid one dollar per square 1 , and twenty if jus t'nr i'n li •■ irinuance ' . i r ..-.,- u ; be charged ~;> per court notice an i court orders **«< - . erit higher than the above rates a deduction of 33 1-3 per cent mu be made to those who adverti ly th var -,.,., , a.h advertisements will be continued until forbid and harmed i-r :■■ ' ■ ■-'■'■•■>'■ unless ordered for a certain m xr ol times 1 tn i addrcs i to the editors must come post t aiil lo ensure attention • a large goard yin following note came to us two or thr months ago and laving got mis placed was not published it is not out uf date however until the subject of it j im aivn : and we have our doubts whe t.i i iiiiil can be done !.//..*.•.? brunei <_}'• james . i i:\u — i send you a few seed ta i , j rj out of a goard which mrs a grew j in her garden and which holds 43 quarts i and half pint who can beat the scotch lris.li settlement in a goard respectfully e d austin he follow ing is from an old newspaper published in 1837 and first appeared in tin mobile advertiser of that same year till at his dirty work if there j b tn change in him at all he is now se . * i > times more the child of the devil than before lie is the principal writer li ill the vile slanders now published and p published and circulated in every nntrhhorhood in the whole country lo i.ifooo leaders strikers and candidates in vrn state of the union and every coun ! tv it each state by the agency of a cor rupt press arc put in possession of the ; impious writings of this " demon in hu jnan shape ;" and they gladly lend their aid lit send the black stream through every vrdlc m the country , ( r 1 hen i biographical sketch — we find i tiie following biographical sketch of amos ] kendall in the mobile advertiser ■ amos was born in dunstable a little * village in massachusetts opposite a town i in the same in new hampshire divided : in the river merrimack he there learn i id the bakers trade but being averse to . ill work but head work he pretended i to be pious and wns taken to he charita ililt institution at andover mass to be educated for the ministry and then sent i i abroad as a missionary to convert the 1 heathen 1 ie bow ever managed to leave andover and get into hanover college i in new ilainphshire next he studied i lev with mr i.ichardson now chief jus lice of the supreme court of new i lamp i shire the judge always shakes bis head when asked if he ever knew anything commendable in amos after completing his law studies amos i went to kentucky as a school teacher / he was penny less and in a distant kind he was prostrate on the bed of sickness < the wile of henry clay while her bus < bandwasal client had kendall brought 1 to her hospitable mansion — had him cured rave bim employment — and when clay re turned he took kendall under his protec tion and built up for him a name and a standing among men in kentucky ken 1 dull was the editor of the first paper in '• tbe state j ic supported mr clay in ev erything advised him to vote for mr < adaius — and after the election applied to ] mr clay for an otiice which he could not j give him without turning a faithful man j i "''!• not getting the oflice which he eov < rted,he turned viper-like against his great i ' i-ltron and has since ceased not to vilify im — and for doing which he has his re gard . from the madsonian of 1837 eighteen reasons gainst the proposition to divorce the gt u ' eral government from all banking insti tutions and substituting sub-treasuries ' j 1 it will be trying an unnecessary ex '< < periraent 2 it gives one currency to the govern ment and another to the people and re j fleets discredit on the latter 3 it levies a tax of ten to 20 per cent j n the public debtors and therefore on the i consumers who are the people b 1 yields up the proposed reform ol the banking system which was the favor te policy of the whole of general jack soi''s administrations and one of the lead n principles involved in mr van bu na's election •;• it is hostile to the state institutions . ««■ rhose institutions are so thoroughly tocorporated with every interest in the country that it would be difficult to get rid « tfaenj for many years » '• i he public money mould be unsafe 8 it virtually surrenders the purse 10 the executive a it will enlarge the patronage of the federal government 10 it will increase the difficulty chaise 1 expense of transporting the public '■ ■ ■' is l ' k h will subject the public debtors to ■ ani2 pem temptation to speculation jw embezzlement and is therefore of a i tendency w h t'hi put off indefinitely and per 1 ps jender impossible the resumption of j ! payment by the state institutions j por ' wl[1 pesult in the issuing of pa 1 it to u'-y ■ the government and render i intents and purposes a bank will derange exchanges confuse i the carolina wathcm an ! • brunei & james > ■ t > " keep a check upon all your editors 4 proprietors i is safe ( new series rulers do this ax liberty < gen i harrison { number 13 of volume i salisbury n c july 27 1844 j business and cause a universal blight and paralysis 1 g it will contravene the approved doc trinc oi general jackson : that in the reg ulations which congress may prescribe respecting the custody of 1 lie public money it is desirable that as little discretion as may be deemed consistent with their safe keeping should be given to agents 17 the amount of specie equal to the public revenue will be almost wholly lost to the use and profits of the counlry 18 it will result in an increased demand for a national rank and secure its estab lishment locofoco principles exemplified we hear much from those who would transfer lhe people ofthe country to polk and dallas about their love of principle let us see how these very " democratic principles look in juxtaposition : mr van buren received a large majo rity of all the votes given in convention on tin first ballot yet martin van buren was thrown aside lo give place to ano ther the convention was held professedly to embody and carry out the wishes ofthe parly the delegates were instructed in favor of \ . in buren johnson cass stew j art and calhoun but none of them in fa vor of polk ; yet polk was nominated over lhe heads of all others ! mr van buren wrote a letter against annexation the party presses of the north and west lauded it as just the thing as wholly entirely and purely democra tic mr polk wrote two letters in favor of j immediate and unconditional annexation i ind the party presses pronounce his lhe : true democratic position and mr polk i he very pink of democrats ! the convention nominated polk and ! dallas for president and vice president ', while one was contending and voting in | ne branch of congress against a united states bank against a protective tariff and against distribution ; the other in the j tlier branch was advocating a bank a ' protective tariff and distribution this illustrates locofoco consistency as well as locofoco " democracy !" the baltimore convention adopted a j resolution declaring a bank unconstitu lional and inexpedient mr dallas as late as july 1836 con \ tended that a bank was both constitution j a and expedient the convention adopted a resolution | declaring the assumption of state debts unconstitutional the same convention resolved in fa ; vor of the annexation of texas thus sane j doning the assumption oi'thc ten ortweu < ij million debt of that country ! we might extend this exemplification i ff the beauties of the " democratic priu ijde.s to almost any length this will suf see for the present — ohio state journal ', ezek1el polk again the last standard has the following i paragraph on the subject of col polk's ' incestry : the mecklenburg jeffersonian print , d on the birth-spot of american hide ; pendence states that he has at hand the ' lirst copy of the mecklenburg declara \ ion ever put in print and that the name f ezekiel polk is signed to it what will the whig venders of falsehood do now !" y e pronounce on the very best authority ; any copy of the mecklenburg declaration ; containing ezekiel polk's name a vile forgery ! we do not deny that the jeffersonian may have a printed copy of thai declaration with ezekiel polk's name attached to it for we learn from a member of the family that when james k polk was a candidate for governor in tennessee some of his friends to rebut the charge of toryism against his grand tat hei had a spurious edition ofthe meck lenburg declaration published and inter polated his name ! we have this state ment on authority which cannot be gain saved besides we have turned to the publication made by our legislature in 1831 on the subject of the mecklenburg declaration and the name of ezekiel polk is not to be found in the list of dele gates present on the 20th of may 1775 the chairman of the committee of our legislature to whom the subject was re ferred was thomas g polk esq of rowan a highminded and honorable man as lives ezekiel polk was his great un cle and he would scarcely have permitted the resolutions of the patriots of meck lenburg to appear without his kinsman's name if it had been legitimately entitled to a place there — raleigh register unfortunate occurrence — we learn from a friend that an unfortunate occur rence took place on wednesday last at franklinton in this state which resulted in the death of mr samuel joyner by a wound inflicted on his head by mr sam uel thomas we make no statement of the pttrticulars as the matter will be ju dicially investigated on the same day as will be seen under our obituary head a brother of mr joyner also died — ral standard " john the oak it is said will live fifteen hun dred years " so will yew replied john i u s frigate potomaf flag ship home squadron pensacola 6th july 1844 dear sir we have just returned to this port | from a cruise in the gull of mexico ; having ; sailed hence the 5th ultimo accompanied by the ' u s steamer " union — she bound to tex as we down the gulf encountering light i winds and calms we did not reach vera cruz i until the 16th about twenty merchant ves > sels of all classes were tying in the inner har bor some half dozen of which were american besides these the spanish frigate isabel 2d ; : the french corvette brilliant and brig mercu ric ; the english man of war barque rose ; an the u s revenue cutter woodbury ; were at sacrificios and at green island the anchor age usually assigned to foreign vessels of war yellow fever .* we soon learned that this epidemic was raging in vera cruz one of the lieutenants of the french corvette had died of it just before our arrival ; and others of their officers and men were laboring under its at tacks so severely had these frenchmen suf fered from sickness that they put to sea a day or two after our arrival with the hope of restor ing the health of their crews in a more salubri ous temperature in order to prevent the contagion from being communicated to our ships commodore connor restricted our intercourse with the shore to matters of business only capt newell and several of the other ollicers however visited the city from time to time during our stay iu the port as the business of our respective depart ments required ; and we ascertained that the fever did not rage as virulently as had at first been represented to us indeed the natives and old acclimated residents assured us that there was no mere sickness in vera cruz than usually occurred at this season ofthe year but having during the visits i made to the city heard a rather unusual tolling of bells even for a span ish town i had the curiosity to inquire the cause lrom unsophisticated people in the streets ; who uniformly told me that it was " para las obse quias de los muertos del vomito negro — for the funerals of those who died ofthe black vom it !) so it would seem that the truth lay between the exagerations of timid foreigners and the ex tenuations of interested residents c the black vomit did undoubtedly prevail to a consid erable extent in the city the u s revenue cutter woodbury has come to vera cruz under orders from the trea sury department to convey to the united states an instalment uf about 125,000 of the indem nity secured to our citizens by the treaty with mexico and which was due on the 1st june but is withheld by president santa anna until he shall in advised of the fate of the annexation treaty before our senate in the event ot ac tual annexation — or as some well informed people believe during the pendency of efforts on the part of our government to effect it — the mexican president is determined to pay no more instalments of the indemnity he is said to base his refusal on the plea that as the occur rence ol war between two nations abrogates all treaty stipulation thut may have previously been binding on either ; and the mexican gov ernment having solemnly proclaimed to the world that she will consider the act of annexa tion as a virtual declaration of war against her by the united states ; and as she views the ef forts of our government whether by negotiation or otherwise to bring about annexation as as suming a belligerant attitude towards her — she therefore deems herself fully justified in suspen ding the fulfilment of her treaty obligations to us until we cease using those efforts and put an end to the quasi war which she alleges our government is waging against her ! notwithstanding santa anna's lofty tone in this respect however i should marvel if taking counsel from the " better part of valor he were to pay the present instalment without any fur ther mouthing of the matter provided always that he can raise the wind to meet the payment president santa anna and his government responded to of course by the newspapers in the interest oi the executive which constitute nine-tenths ofthe periodical presses in the re public have assumed a very warlike tone and indulged in great asperity ol language towards the united states on the question of annexa tion the president demanded from congress a grant of four millions of dollars and thirty thousand troops to enable him to " recover tex as that body however conceiving that one million of money would suffice to begin the cam paign decreed a " forced loan " to that amount but reminding the executive that according to ! a report from his own war minister it appeared : there were already 36,000 troops dispersed throughout the republic ; they did not there fore deem it expedient to authorize ihe enlist ment of more men but advised the concentra : tion on the borders of texas of a portion ofthe army already on foot gen canalizo has been appointed general isimo of the army destined for the recovery of the department of texas gen woll who has so long commanded in that region will not it is thought take his supersedas very kindly and as gen vrrea is said already to be in revolt in the state ofsonora ; and canalcs more than disaffected ; santa anna may find work enough on his hands to employ all the time and resources at his command nearer home than texas but he dare not relax his zeal a gainst texas for its recovery has become the hobby of the political aspirants of the nation and if santa anna were to evince the slightest lukcwarmness in this matter that day might be the last of his power for a dozen chieftains at least have their eyes and their hearts intently fixed upon the post he occupies and only want a favorable moment to oust him from it on the 21st june the u s brig somers and : next dav the u s ship vinccnncs arrived at : vera cruz from galveston whence they sailed ! on the 9th on the 25th the vincennes left vera cruz again as did also the somers on the j 27th on their return to pensacola the latter via i texas on the same day the spanish frigate isabel 2d also took her departure from vera ; cruz under the command of a lieutenant the j captain having died a short time previously i the hazards to life from the insalubrity of these i climates are really believed to be greater than | from the casualties ot war ordinarily by reason of the sanitary precautions of the j commodore however and the vigilant care of j our executive and medical officers no case of i epidemic has occurred among the officers and j crew of this ship one of two distressed amer i icans taken on board as passengers to the uni j ted slates has been down with a fever con tracted at vera cruz ; but is now well again \ i otherwise the ship has enjoyed a remarkable ; j exemption from sickness frequently exhibiting i j a binacle list with only one or two names on it j j out of four or five hundred souls on board having supplied the cutter woodbury with ! such provisions as she required for present use i i we took our departure from vera cruz on the j , morning ofthe 28th and stood to the northward and eastward ; and in five days we made the i light at the southwest pass at new orleans p w xr gen crabbe of alabama over i whose renunciation of whig principles for the purpose of supplying their place ] with the abtrucities of the locofocoj con spiracy disunion included the locofoco , editors are crowing so loudly was in con 1 gress when polk was speaker and was ! j one of the fifty-seven who voted against | the usual resolution of thanks because he i ! deemed him unworthy of it now how ' ! ever without any change of conduct or i : principles on polk's part this same gen crabbe thinks him a very proper man for the presidency ! we think the whigs ! are well rid of such an inconsistent and ; unprincipled associate ; and that a man of such eccentric movements as this crabbe is about at home in the jacobin ranks a terrapin story dr withers the whig candidate for the sen ate in stokes county is one of that favored few who are blessed by nature with the graceful im pudence which enables him to say a good thing i i any where to any body without a tinge upon j his cheek or a twinkle of his eye the dr | was present at the speaking at saunders mill j j the other day col hoke in illustration of his i j grand democratic argument against a united i states bank that it would have nothing to con i trol or regulate it told the story of the learned | philosopher who objected to the system of co pernicus in regard the rotundity and motion of ] ■ the earth said philesopher having asserted | that it stood to reason the world could not stand j up without a foundation was asked what then ; it rested upon ? after due consideration he re j i plied that it was placed upon the back of a mon j strous big terrapin but what it was immc i diately asked does the terrapin stand on ! j i this question said col h was too hard for : ! the philosopher dr withers said from the j j midst of the crowd i think col hoke that j | the last legislature could have relieved this ! | same philosopher from his difficulty : the local i i ity of the big terrapin was there ascertained i i to he in pamlico sound !" this hit caused an uproarious laugh from the ; crowd and the cob acknowledged that he was '; j indebted to the dr for one — greens pa cutting down liberty poles — on the ] i 25th of june the whigs of lawrenceburg j j indiana erected a liberty pole upwards of j one hundred feet high on friday night j i the locofocos cut it down on saturday i j the whole whig population turned out ! i and as the mail boat passed they were j erecting a second standard much loftier | ! than the first there was a most unpar { ] alleled excitement throughout the town j j and locofocoism cowered before it this cutting down of liberty poles to ' ■ which the locofocos are so addicted is a j poor business what is the use of their j | cutting our inanimate standards when ' j they cannot cut down the glorious spirit j ' that set those standards in the sky ? louisville journal keeping fruit — at a recent meeting of the horticultural society in london i a paper was read entitled ' an account | : of the different modes of keeping fruit ; : which have been tried at the socitiey's i i garden for the season of 1831 the state i ment was drawn up at the garden and : ; enumerated eight different modes ; the three best and most practicable of which were the covering of the fruit in pure and perfectly dry sand dry fern or in a deal ; box buried in the earth by any of these | modes it was preserved free from shriv elling and any disagreeable flavor ; in all ■ it must be deposited in a cold situation i by the other live modes although the fruit ; ; was preserved in a pretty sound state : ! a musty flavor was found to be communi cated ; this was especially the case where oat-chaff was the medium a new idem — a lecturer lately observed in j the course of his remarks upon some kindred subject only think of it ladies and gentlemen ■ — an old bachelor ! why he's a living libel on his father and mother state ot.^ovtlt carolina surry county john w taylor s co 1 rs > attachment levied on land j c w buckley s in this case it appearing to the satisfaction ofthe court j that the defendant is not an inhabitant of this state ' it is ordered by the court that publication be made for six weeks in the carolina watchman for the defendant to . be and appear before the judge of our superior court of law at the next court to be held for surry county at the courthouse in rockford on the h monday after the 4th monday of august next then and th.:re to plead answer or demur otherwise judgment will be taken a gainst him and the land levied on condemned to plain i tiff's use witness h c hampton clerk of our said < court at oflice the 5th mondav after the 4th monday of : february 1844 h c hampton c s c jime 22 — 8:6w7printers fee 5 50 i dr jos j summerell having settled permanently in salisbury offers his professional services to the citizens of the place and ■ adjoining country he may be found at john i shaver s ! hotel t calls from the roor attended to fre of charge 1 j»pv 23 18_4 3m4 gen w thompson of s con annexation from the nat intelligencer messrs gales & seato : in an address which i recently made to the whigs of albany i made some remarks in relation to the late trea ty for the annexation of texas to the u states a misrepresentation no doubt resulting from a i misunderstanding of those remarks makes it proper in my judgment that i should no longer withhold the public expression of my opinions ! upon that subject and it is due to myself that i ; should at the same time give the reasons for those opinions in the speech which i made at albany i expressed no opinion upon the question of ulti ; mate annexation not because i thought that my views on that subject would be disagreeable to the audience which i was addressing but for ! exactly the opposite reason i preferred to dis cuss this subject before a southern audience where different opinions were entertained and where it was possible that some good might be done no individual in the unitetl states has • more motives of a personal character than i have to advocate the immediate annexation of texas to this country i was the first man who on the floor of congress expressed his sympathy in the revolution of texas it was an amend ment offered by me to the appropriation bill in march 1s37 which secured the recognition of texas by our government — a measure at that time of vital importance to the young republic circumstances have since placed it in my pow er to give many other and substantial proofs of my friendly feelings both lo texas and the tex ians ; and i am proud to knowtthat no living man has a stronger hold upon the gratitude and affection ofthe people of texas than i have ; j and i will add that there are pecuniary consid \ erations to me unimportant which would make j the annexation of texas eminently desirable to i me ; yet with all these motives to a different j conclusion i have not been able to change my opinions upon the subject these opinions j have not been hastily formed but have ripened ; into fixed and settled convictions i am opposed to the annexation because in j the language of judge upshur it would in j jure the chief agricultural interest lhat of the ! south by raising up a powerful competitor and " it would cheapen the price of cotton the j principal raw material now these consider i ations may have great weight with the manu facturers ofthe north they have exactly the opposite effect with me as a southern man and a cotton planter will such be the effect ofthe measure ? that it will be no one can doubt who is acquainted with the unequalled advan tages of texas as a cotton growing country i | do not hesitate to say — and i do so on no light j authority — that if the most skilful cotton planter j were to ask of heaven a country for the grow j ing of that staple that he would ask no single ad j vantage which is not found in texas there are millions of acres there which will produce j from 2,500 to 4,000 pounds of cotton to the acre as a provision country it is at least equal to anv j portion of our western country and it is more i healthy than any other cotton growing region in the world it is true that there arc some por ! tions of the united states where in favorable years a hand can make as much cotton as he can gather but here presents itself an inappre ciable advantage which texas possesses which is this : from the month of february when the cotton is planted until the middle of july when it is matured there are constant showers ; and from july until the middle of december in or dinary years there is no rain at all : thus aflb rd ing five months of uninterrupted good weather for gathering the crop the cotton is therefore ; unstained and its staple is also better than that of american cotton i am perfectly satisfied that a judicious investment in a cotton planta j tion in texas will yield besides all necessaries ' for family consumptian from eight to ten per cent per annum at the price of three cents per j pound for the cotton in confirmation of these views it is only ne cessary to say that even now with all the in security of property in texas many ofthe best planters in the southwest are removing their property there i know myself that two gentle men who own the very best plantations which i have seen in alabama and florida have aban doned in a great degree their estates and re moved their hands to texas a distinguished advocate ofthe measure estimates that iu a ve ry short time two hundred thousand negroes will be removed to texas the most of these will be taken from the exhausted lands of the old states where they do not produce 1,000 pounds of cotton to the hand and carried to tex as where they will average five thousand lbs to the hand to which may be added a larg number of slaves and white laborers now em ployed in other branches of agriculture which will still more increase the production of cot ton is it wise in us thus to stimulate the pro duction of our great staple now when the adjust ment ofthe demand and supply is trembling in the balance and when all the indications are that this adjustment will he most disastrous to the cotton planter and not to the cotton planter alone but to the value of slave labor and of ne cessary consequence to the existence of slavery ? i presume that no one will deny that cotton can not continue to be raised in the old states at three or four cent . the pound and i know ot no thing else that can be substituted for it slaves • will then become an incumbrance which we shall be glad to be rid of ; and i confess for my : self that it will afford me very little consolation , in riding over my fields grown up in broom i sedge and washed into gullies to be told that ' the institution of slavery exists and is prosper ous in texas i believe that slavery is in no sense an evil thut the african is not only more contented and happy enjoys more physical com | fort and is more moral religious and virtuou in the condition of domestic slavery than in any other but i do most confidently believe that the onlv alternative of that condition is iee idle nes's and debauchery ultimately leading to bar ' barism ; but i confess that my philanthropy is not so expansive as to sacrifice very thing to its perpetuation elsewhere even if such would be the effect which i do not believe my patriot ism is in some degree geographical and the first ; object of my solicitude love and devotion is the ' country in which i was born 1 it may be said that if all this is true texas -'- ■ ' ' i . _.. ,. . ' will supersede us in the production of cotton whether annexed or not and that we should a vail ourselves ofthe present and only opportu nity of acquiring it to which i reply that if texas is settled without any adventitious stim ulus being given to such settlement the increas ed demand lor cotton may keep pace with the increasing supply cotton in large quantities can only be made liy slave labor all experi ence proves this these slaves can only be carried to texas from the united states and as long as texas is a separate government al though individuals may remove there a feeling of pride in and affection lor his country in the heart of every american will prevent most of our people from yielding to the temptations which are held out to them to abandon their country but once make texas a portion of that country and extend our glorious hag over it and such a tide of emigration has never before been wit nessed as will set in that direction it seems to me therefore lhat to stimulate the production of cotton beyond the possibility of consumption because the supply may possibly without such stimulus exceed the demand would be as un wise as it would be to give half an ounce of arse nic to a friend because we supposed thut we had discovered the sign of incipient consumption i have never yet heard any satisfactory an swer to these views i have anxiously sought to have them answered ; for it is painful to me to find myself opposed to an almost universal popular opinion in the south upon this subject it is still more painful to me to oppose almost " solitary and alone the opinion of the patri otic and honored state to which it is my pride to belong nothing would have been more a greeable to me than to find myself once more agreeing in opinion upon great questions of pub lic policy with the majority of lhat state dur ing an angry and excited party conflict for tho last seven years i have been treated liy that majority with so much kindness that i would gladly have made any sacrifice to the general opinion ofthe state which i could have done consistently with a sense of duty although i am not one of those " whose thoughts keep the roadway " only because it is the roadway i trust that i am just as lar above the paltry van ity of an ostentatious independence of the gen eral public opinion of those amongst whom my lot has been cast i have been told that all these views may be correct but that there are important political considerations which out weigh them when i have asked that these might be stated i have only been answered with such broad generalities cabalistic phrases and party catchwords as this : " that it is a question of security and existence to the south i was not converted to the defunct sub-treasury humbug by being told that it was a question of deliverance and liberty when i thought that i saw as all must now see that the ruin and desolation which it caused every where were greatest at the south every where else die agony is over at the south it is scarcely begun nor can i support another measure even more disastrous without more intelligible or more sufficient reasons 1 am firmly per suaded that the certain and inevitable tenden cies of the annexation of texas aio t promoto the abolition ol slavery ; more so indeed than any other measure which has heretofore been proposed nor a:n i without support in thi opinion from distinguished advocates ofthe mea sure here gen thompson strengthens his argu ment by quotations from letters written by mr wilkins the present secretary of war mr c j ingersoll and mr walker which our limits will not permit us to copy if i believed with mr walker that abolition either was or would become beneficial or ne cessary for the south i should certainly be in favor of annexation as both the most certain and best mode of accomplishing that object but i do not think so but believe on the contrary that it would be injurious and in the end do structive to the slaves themselves disastrous to the whole union and absolutely ruin us to the south holding these opinions my object is not to postpone this result for a short time but to prevent it forever will any one deny any of these propositions . 1 that the zzi c__ca cious measure iu favor of abolition would lie to destroy the value of slave labor ? "_. that the re duction of the price of cotton to three or four cents would destroy the value of slave labor in the old slave states ? 3 that any large in crease ofthe quantity of cotton produced would have the effect to reduce its price to that point or even lower ; say fi r example a sudden in crease of five hundred thousand bales . and 4 that the annexation ot texas would cause such an increased production ? much the lar ger portion ofthe produce id slave labor is cot ton it is the price of cotton which regulates exclusively the value of slaves as of almost ev ery other article let it be borne in mind too that texas is admirably adapted to the produc tion ol sugar long staple cotton and tobacco — the only articles with the exception of rice which are produced by slave labor but if the price of cotton is not thus ruinously reduced by over production it will not be denied that slave labor can be employed in texas with at lea-t twice the profit which it yields in the average of the slave states ofthe union oir slaves will then be carried to texas by the force of a law as fixed and certain as that by which water finds its level the laves will very soon dis appear from maryland virginia north caro lina tennessee and kentucky and in a period very short for such an operation those states will become non-slaveholding states and when ever that is the case they will not only no longer have a common interest with the remaining slaveholding states to defend tbe institution but will very soon partake ofthe fanatical spirit of a false philanthropy which is now pervading the whole world thus shall we lose tin most important of our allies ; most important in nu merical strength at the ballot box : still more important it we should be driven to the cartouch box as our last defence and what arc the ad vantages which we ar to gain by this measure i mean we o the slaveboldrag states are we more secure against foreign attack .' the ques tion i not whether louisiana will be more se cure witli texas than without it i think itea sv to demonstrate that such would not be the case but the real question is will texas then be more secure than louisiana now is for texas will then be a portion of our union and we shall be under the s un obligation to pro tect texas as we now are to protect louisiana with our railroads and rivers we can assemble thrr-e hundred thousand men in thirty days at new orleans or at anv other point in the slave holding states not so with texas there would bc no means of transporting troops to : texas but by the dangerous navigation ol the gull thus encountering all the inconveniences , in the defence which an invading enemy would have in the attack ; and with a superior hostile » naval force in command ofthe gulf of mexico ' which is to be anticipated iu the event of such