State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-08-30

tested against the admission being taken
as an implied sanction of the article in the
Constitution which prohibited the abolition
of slavery by it's Legislature.
1t was the same policy which dictated
the course of the whole of the Van Buren,
party in the House of Representatives in
supporting MIR Pinckney's Resolutions,
which aimed to give death blow to all
attempts to obtain the abolition of slavery
and the slave trade in the District of CO.
lumbia, and, the last of which declared
that all future petitions touching that sub
ject, should, "without either being printed
or referred, be laid upon the table, and no
further action be had thereon"--a resolu-
ton which the Emancipator" Justly de-
clared to he can act of high usur-
patton, daring infiaction Of the Consitu-
ticn, and a deliberate outrage upon the
rights of the people,"
To crown the whole, it was the same
, which induced Mr.. Van Buren, to give his
casting vote in favor of the 'incendiary' bill,
whereby the productions of the northern
press OH the subject of slavery, were to be
subjected, in their transmission through the
Post Office to the action Of stale LegiSid-
ton.
Buren,, and his party, when he began, n
year and halt ago, TO court the anti
slavery people ofthe north, on the ground
that he was the northern candidate, opposed
TO Judge White? Having got thousands
committed for him on that ground, he now
turns round, and with his friends in Con-
gress and leading presses, goes against
them evidently calculating that he shall
be able to hold the north by the force of
party machinery, while he is busily engag
ed in counting southern votes by gratifying
southern prejudices, and iavoring southern
interests.
The same policy induced his northern
friends in Congress-acting, MS all know,
with his concurrence TO vote, repeatedly,
near the close Of the late session, to admit
resolutions offered by some of his friends
from North Carolina, looking 10 a reduction
of the tariff, and the breaking up the system
of protection to our domestic industry :;
and this after great numbers had become
committed for him on the express ground
that he was the man and the only man, who
could save the tariff from the destruction
which would await it if Judge White
should be elected
Mr. Van Buren, has, in short, during the
whole of the last session of Congress,
proved the truth of Senator Benton's dec.
araton concerning him, that he was "a
northern man, ,cih southern feelings"
And now put it to the people Of this
State-I ask even the friends of Mr. Van
Buren,, what single interest of the north 49,
what interest dear to Vermont, will Mr.
Van Buren, sustain, if elected President /?
What friend of the Tariff, or of abolition
or of any other northern interest, will
henceforth trust man who has thus triflei
with all the assurances held out to the
north TO induce its support of him for the
purpose of securing the support of the OPP
posite section by encouraging the belief
that he will crafty its wishes and sustain
its interests?
l know some say that, though pledged
to the south, he will not redeem that
pledge, and therefore we may rely upon
him. So, then, we could be induced to 90
for Mr. Van Buren,, because we presume
he will violate the pledges he has made to
the south TO secure southern votes The
truth is, he may he expected to violate any,
or all of his pledges. as he may find II "on
venient to secure his end. Let those trust
him who can. / will not.
ANTl-SLAVERY.