ure, in the pointed and expressive language
of Randolph, if the slave does not run away from his master,
the master must run away from the slave. The slave will
naturally be removed from such a country, where his labor is
scarcely adequate to his own support, to a region where he can
not only maintain himself, but yield large profits to his
master. Texas will open an outlet; and slavery itself may thus
finally pass the Del Norte, and be lost in Mexico. One thing is
certain, the present number of slaves cannot be increased by
the annexation of Texas.

"I have never apprehended the preponderance of the slave States
in the councils of the nation. Such a fear has always appeared
to me visionary. But those who entertain such apprehensions
need not be alarmed by the acquisition of Texas. More than
one-half of its territory is wholly unfit for the slave labor;
and, therefore, in the nature of things must be free. Mr. Clay,
in his letter of the 17th of April last, on the subject of
annexation, states that, according to his information--

"'The Territory of Texas is susceptible of a division into five
States of convenient size and form. Of these, two only would be
adapted to those peculiar institutions (slavery) to which I
have referred; and the other three, lying west and north of San
Antonio, being only adapted to farming and grazing purposes,
from the nature of their soil, climate, and productions, would
not admit of these institutions. In the end, therefore, there
would be two slave and three free States probably added to the
Union.'

"And here permit me to observe, that there is one defect in the
treaty which ought to be amended if we all did not know that it
is destined to be rejected. The treaty itself ought to
determine how many free and how many slave States should be
made out of this territory."

On the 11th of April, 1826, James Buchanan, who is now being supported
by _Southern slaveholders_, made a speech in Congress, _eleven years
after_ his Fourth of July oration, from which the following is taken:

"Permit me here, Mr. Chairman, for a moment, to speak upon a
subject to which I have never before adverted upon this floor,
and to which, I trust, I may never again have occasion to
advert. I mean the subject of slavery. I BELIEVE IT TO BE A