Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-07-21
JuIy 81, 1886.

,h;ch robs millions Of our fellow men OF
hat which the Union was designed TO Sc
rure to all, freedoms! Most generous peo-
Met TO grant US the continuance OF the
government on such terms! Who will
not saw that if the Union is to be preserv-
I'd on such conditions alone, it is not worth
preserving, and if the South choose to dis
solve it for such causes, let them dissolve
il and take the consequences. On this
point adopt the language Of an eloquent
writer ofthe day.t
"Ifthe Union can be preserved only
by the imposition Of chains on speech and
the press, by prohibition Of discussion
on a subject involving the most sacred
rights and dearest interests of humanity,
then Union would be bought at too dear
rate then it would be changed from vlr-
tuous bond into league Of crime and
shame. Language cannot easily do US
,ice to our attac hment to the Union. We
will yield every thing to it but truth, hon
or and liberty. These we can never
yield"
To the South it would be an appropri-
ate and sufficient answer to their arrogant
demands on this topic, to reply in the
words OF one Of her most renowned cham
pions on a certain occasoin,-"Liberty
first and Union afterSoards" But we a.
dept the language Of a lohier patriotism
and nobler eloquence, aud say-Liberty
and Union, now and forever, one and in
separable."
Let the discussion 60 on, then, in the
name Of freedom, humanity and justice.
Public opinion cannot be walled in
The people of the South cannot shut it
out from their borders. 1t knows no bar
riers-is not arrested by geographical
boundaries-is not hemmtd in by state
lines or imprisoned by state legislation. 1t
is moral atmosphere which spreads it
self noiselesSly throughout the domains OIL
intellect and intelligence Like electrici-
ty, it mingles itself with all the elements oil
the moral world. and imperceptibly be-
comes a part ofthe mental constitution
Neither its progress or its power can be
STAYED. Its course is onward and its con-
quests are unceasing. Il will infuse itself
into the bosoms Of our Southern brethren
and disturb the buried spirit Of liberty
there. II will awaken again in them
those generous sympathies, those noble
purposes ami those elevated sentiments
which they once so glorious!y exhibited
and which have no fellowship with slave
ry Their pulses will yet beat in unison
with those oftheir Northern brethren on
this subject, The plcndngs for the op
pressed which stir New-England hearts
will vet find a response in Carolinian DO.
SONS and the shout for emanci patton
which shall go up from BunkeIs Hill
will be echoed from the field Of Guilfort
and (he heights Of Yorktown.
The day that shall witness the triumph
Of public opinion over slavery is fast ap
preaching. From the eminence ON which
| now stan |, see in the far of distance
thu great prsJn-house Of death. IT,
gloomy walls, built up on human heart
AMI cemented by human tears and bIooc
tower I'D into the skies with a heaven-ir
suIting glory. Its impiouS spires and ur
halIowed doines, FURNISHED with the gol
wruug from the sweat and toll Of the de
irucsless, fash deEyingly in the sun.
seems to mock the power Of th1 earth
quake and the storm. But while gaze
see The heaying Of the ocean Of public
pipion beneath my feet. The great fonr
rlins Of its deep are breaking up. hrt
the moan Of the coming tempest as it mu
tiers its storms atar Of; aud the SKIS gatI
Or blackness above my head. The bl
bws 90 sweeping on in maj rSty al
might The surge beats upon the base
that proud .ediEce. The indignant ten
pest goes careering over the face Of d
moved waters. The roar Of the rouS
ocean comes laundering upon the ear
The waves, crested with fury, beat wi
resiStless energy upon its massive stru
lures. The Writer'S and the storm are
in their wrath and speak now with
earthquake voice" l see the BastlIe
human hearts tremble from its very ba
Its walls ore shaking in the elemen
war. Behold its towers and turrets n
andtopple to their fall Seel its foun
tons give way-it reels, it sinks, it plur
cs is gone, and the waters pass over
and hide il forever. The spirit Of pei
aud love brood over the tempest and !
hushed. The ocean sinks into unruf
calmness and the fury Of the storm is st
ed. And bark strains Of the sweet
harmony break upon the ear. A chO
Of millions Of voices comes swelling u
the calm, still air, hymning praises {
thanksgiyings. 1t is the music Of
deemed hearts and disenthralled spirits
Oil the sublimity Of that sorg Of the f
How its strains are caught from lip to
and from the valley to the hill top f
mountain 10 mountain, until the wi
land Is wrapt IN its melody, and the s
IeYnrhnrnia with The nanlinn anthem