Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1836-01-22

The Stare Question.-TbeG Cover,
Massachusetts Edward Everett TOUCHES
This question in his message to The Lessh1
Believing his views TO be correct we CON !
whole of his remarks upon the subject
"The country has been greatly agii,la
ing the past year in relation 10 slavery. ,,t
OF Illegal violence and outrage have rrcul
OF the excitement kindled on this sabls
different parts of the Union. which csna
too strongly deplored nor too severely "a
ed. In this State and several Of ou
States, slavery has long been held, in \
estimation, as an evil of the first magutlt
Ia was fully abolished in this CommorEaE
by the year 1888, by decisions of the cC f
justice, and by the Interpretation placsta
declaration OF equality in the bill Of M!
But II existed in several of the SlaaI
time of the adoption of the CONSTITUTED
a greater ratio 10 the free POPULATED
country than at the present day. ltwa
ever deemed point Of the highest pubR
cy, by the non-slaveholding States, III
standing the existence of slavery 10 thse
States, TO enter with them into The p
Union, on the basis Of the constiiuto,,
pact. That no Union could have been 4
on any other basis, is a fact of hisOna
nety. THIS compact expressly recoghn
existence oil slavery and comedies 10 Ties
where II prevails the most important MI
privileges connected with it. Every ths
tends TO disturb the relations created
compact is at war with its spirit; and
er, by direct and necessary operation 81
lated 10 excite an instruction among tRi
has been held, BY highly respectable tg
,horliy, an offence against the reace oits
monwealth, hich may be prosecutednl
demeanor at common law. AllhoughT
may dlher on this point, il would seen
Ter course, under the peculiar circumsn
the case, TO initiate the example Of QUIZ
The Adamses, the Hancocks, and Other
patriots of the revolution; who altboN.l
from the battles of liberty, and approari
question as essentially an open Cne G's
nevertheless eXpedient TO enter nIoi
with our brothers of the slayeholdlns
on the principle of forbearance and ias
on this subject. As the genus Of our
llons and the character of our PEOPLE
'rely rerugnant TO laws impairng The
OF speech and of the press, even for lD'
depressing lis abuses, the patriotism .
ses OF citizens must be invoked 10 absa'
discussion which. by eyasreTaliRg lf
ter, can have no other effect than
more oppressive the condition OF the sha
which, If not abandoned, there is grell
TO fear, will prove the rock on which Is
VIII split. Such a disastrous cOnsulI
IN addition TO all lis remedies polIH
Tor every state in the Union, could =
iali, sooner or later, TO bring on ware
mlnallon in the slaveholding States.
contrary, a conciliatory iorbearance WIN
To TINS subject in the non-slavehodlns
would strengthen the hands Of w
class OF citizens ut the South, who 40
removal of the evil whose voice %
been heard for its abolition in legs'
Semblies; but who are struck down ap
ced by the agitation of the question
and II would leave this whole painful
where the Constitution leaves iI-G
STATES where il exists, and in the haH@
ali-wise Providence, who, in his o'
lime, is able to cause ii to disapPeai
slavery of the ancient world, under lnt.
operation of the gentle spirit of Chns"'
VINO arants a rife ?-Read the "'
sent us by a correspondent:
There is young lady living in y
SION, VI; about nineteen years of age
wi'h'n the last three years read hun@
lines of bound books; great variety
izines, pamphlets and tracts, and the
'eading of five large newspapers %eh f