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Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
existing at the time I might be called upon to act. Above all, I should be governed by the paramount duty of preserving the Union entire, and in harmony, regarding it, as I do, as the great guaranty of every political and public blessing, under Providence, which, as a free people, we are permitted to enjoy. This letter was at once seized upon by Mr. Clay's adversaries, whether Democrats or Abolitionists, as evincing a complete change of base on his part. It placed the Northern advocates of down to a recent period, but to no purpose. Great Britain stubbornly refused either to unite with us in a reciprocal surrender of fugitive slaves to their masters, or in paying for such as, by their own efforts, or through the interposition of Providence, might emerge from American bondage into British liberty. Our repeated invasions of Florida, while a Spanish colony, our purchase of that colony from Spain, and our unjust, costly, and discreditable wars upon her Aboriginal tribes, were all
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
ver, to win the favor of Mr. Calhoun, and so had no considerable support in South Carolina; which State gave its vote, without opposition, to Mr. Van Buren, though ity, 1833) in opposition to the passage of Gen. Jackson's Force bill, against South Carolina's Nullification. He supported Mr Clay's Compromise Tariff. Being reflecte for Vice-President, and received the electoral votes of Maryland, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee. In 1838, he was elected as a Whig to the Legislature of Vilk was supported by Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Misions. It will give a Gibraltar to the South, said Gen. James Hamilton, jr., of S. C., an eminent disciple of Calhoun, who had migrated from South Carolina to Texas,South Carolina to Texas, and taken a leading part in her affairs, in furtherance of the project. Such was the drift of Southern inculcation on this subject; and the colonizing, the revoluti
Herkimer, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
e United States Senate, and had refused to run for Vice-President with Polk, was made the Democratic candidate for Governor of New York, which State could not otherwise have been carried for Polk. In a canvassing speech at Skaneateles, Mr. Wright referred to his opposition as unabated, and declared that he could never consent to Annexation on any terms which would give Slavery an advantage over Freedom. This sentiment was reiterated, and emphasized in a great Democratic convention held at Herkimer in the autumn of that year. The canvass of 1844 was opened with signal animation, earnestness, and confidence on the part of the Whigs, who felt that they should not, and believed that they could not, be beaten on the issue made up for them by their adversaries. So late as the 4th of July, their prospect of carrying New York and Pennsylvania, and thus overwhelmingly electing their candidates, was very flattering. On the 16th of August, however, The North Alabamian published a letter fr
East India (search for this): chapter 12
usual with fanaticism ; and that she was now employing all her diplomacy and influence to drag down, first Texas, then the residue of this continent, to her own degraded level. Says Mr. Calhoun: In order to regain her superiority, she not only seeks to revive and increase her own capacity to produce tropical productions, but to diminish and destroy the capacity of those who have so far outstripped her in consequence of her error. In pursuit of the former, she has cast her eyes to her East India possessions — to central and eastern Africa--with the view of establishing colonies there, and even to restore, substantially, the Slave-Trade itself, under the specious name of transporting free laborers from Africa to her West India possessions, in order, if possible, to compete successfully with those who have refused to follow her suicidal policy. But these all afford but uncertain and distant hopes of recovering her lost superiority. Her main reliance is on the other alternative — t
West Indies (search for this): chapter 12
is continent. Mr. Calhoun assumed that Great Britain was intent on Abolition generally; that she had destroyed her own West India Colonies in a futile attempt to combine philanthropy with profit and power, as is not unusual with fanaticism ; and thaestore, substantially, the Slave-Trade itself, under the specious name of transporting free laborers from Africa to her West India possessions, in order, if possible, to compete successfully with those who have refused to follow her suicidal policy. e idea may be formed from the immense diminution of productions, as has been shown, which has followed abolition in her West India possessions. But, as great as that has been, it is nothing compared with what would be the effect, if she should succeented to pay for the cargoes of the Comet and Encomium, expressly on the grounds that Slavery still existed in the British West Indies at the time their slaves were liberated; but refused to pay for those of the Enterprise, or any other slaver that
France (France) (search for this): chapter 12
roved as futile as La Salle's. The cession of Louisiana by France to Spain in 1763, of course foreclosed all possibility of on; and when Louisiana, having been retroceded by Spain to France, was sold to the United States, we took our grand purchaseof Louisiana arose. Louisiana was obtained by treaty with France, who had already obtained it from Spain ; but the object oatter at the Rio Grande, agreeably to the understanding of France; that he had written home to our Government for powers to stonishment. The right of the territory was obtained from France; Spain stood ready to acknowledge it to the Rio Grande; an it. We can no more do that than Spain can resume Florida, France Louisiana, or Great Britain the thirteen colonies now comp Union as so important. Such were the grounds on which France was asked to give her sympathy and moral support to the Anples throughout the world. The dispatch of Mr. Calhoun to France, with one or two others of like purport, aimed more direct
Rockbridge (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
he Rio Grande. Mr. Poinsett did not make the offer, perceiving that it would only irritate and alienate the Mexicans to no good purpose. In 1829, Mr. Van Buren, as Gen. Jackson's Secretary of State, instructed our Minister at Mexico to make a similar offer of four or five millions for Texas, including no part of the valley of the Rio Grande, nor of that of the Nueces, this side of it, and, of course, no part of New Mexico. Still, Mexico would not sell. Sam Houston, born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, in 1793, had early migrated to Tennessee, settling very near the reserved lands of the Cherokee Indians, to whom he speedily absconded, living three years among them. More than twenty years later — having, meantime, been a gallant soldier in the War of 1812, an Indian agent, a lawyer, district attorney, major-general of militia, member of Congress, and Governor of Tennessee--he abruptly separated from his newly-married wife, and repaired again to the Cherokees, now settled west
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
nt in '32, and as President in '36. Virginia, Alabama, and Missouri also supported Mr. Van Buren. Gblication of this letter, the Legislatures of Alabama, of Mississippi, and probably of other Southwamian published a letter from Mr. Clay to two Alabama friends, who had urged him to make a further es, and I have since addressed two letters to Alabama upon the same subject. Most unwarranted alleither of the two letters which I addressed to Alabama, to express any contrary opinion. Representansylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Indiana, Illinois, M Up to the appearance of Mr. Clay's luckless Alabama letter, he seemed quite likely to carry every-Milton Brown, of Tennessee; James Dellet, of Alabama; Duncan L. Clinch and Alexander Stephens, of ertain. Mr. Bagby, a Democratic Senator from Alabama, positively declared from his seat that he woy of the slaveholders of southern Georgia and Alabama, whose chattels would persist in following ea[1 more...]
Gulf of Mexico (search for this): chapter 12
she possessed Louisiana, had held the mouths of the great rivers which rise in the Western States, and flow into the Gulf of Mexico. She had disputed our use of these rivers already; and, with a powerful nation in possession of these outlets to thelative rights and obligations. * * * Having acquired Louisiana and Florida, we have an interest and a frontier on the Gulf of Mexico, and along our interior to the Pacific, which will not permit us to close our eyes or fold our arms with indifferencern frontier from Canada, which, in cooperation with the army from Texas, spreads ruin and havoc from the Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Who can estimate the national loss we may sustain, before such a movement could be repelled with such forces as wadmitted into the Union, the said territory of Texas shall be divided as follows, to wit: beginning at a point on the Gulf of Mexico midway between the Northern and Southern boundaries thereof on the coast; and thence by a line running in a northwest
Little Rock (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 12
e Cherokees, now settled west of the Mississippi, by whom he was welcomed and made a chief. After living with them three years longer as a savage, lie suddenly left them again, returned to civilization — of the Arkansas pattern — set out from Little Rock, with a few companions of like spirit, for the new country to which adventurers and lawless characters throughout the Southwest were silently tending. A Little Rock journal, noticing his departure for Texas, significantly said: We shall doubtLittle Rock journal, noticing his departure for Texas, significantly said: We shall doubtless hear of his raising his flag there shortly. The guess was a perfectly safe one. For the Slave Power had already perceived its opportunity, and resolved to profit by it. Houston and other restless spirits of his sort were pushed into Texas expressly to seize upon the first opportunity to foment a revolution, In the Winter of 1830, the first year of Jackson rule at Washington, Houston came to that city from the wilds of the far West, in company with a band of Indians, who professed to
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