Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-04-28
out the honor and independence Of the Sen


ate.
He was in the House when Il was sup
posed member had presented a petition
from slaves. Never should he forget That
scene, he rushed involuntarily and uncon
sciouslv into the midst of the crowd that the
pbrenzy of the moment had swept together,
he felt that the long dreaded crisis, had at
length burst upon them, that the Union was
dissolved, that the bright quiet of peace had
been suddenly put out in the blackness Of
fierce and deadly contention. Next morn
ing, that part of the House where the South
ern members sat was empty, not seat IN II
was occupied. The other side was iilled
with an amazed and anxious assembly
The motion of the South had come like
lthunder-strokc upon them, and they felt all
the depth Of the difficulty into which they
had plunged Then was to be seen, contln-
ned the orator, the fatal effects of Southern
divisions. Had the Southern members con-
tinued firm for two hours, the North would
herself have done us justice and given us
pledge Of lasting security; but they look
ed round upon each other, and gathering up
the scattered embers of domestic party, for
pot that they were Southern statesmen
| they dropped away by one and two into their
gTer-rs 4-A@ai~p where they.
found it.
This question Of Abolition, Mr. Preston
said, he regarded apart from and totally dis
connected with every other Here he felt
only that he was Southern man, and he
claimed the South as his parly.--WE
MUST UNITEl And we mistook the
Aboliiionsts If we expected to crush them
| by addressing to them motives OF fear. lie
had seen them in the furlherance Of their
object pour out money like wafer, and he
believed they were ready, if the occasion
called for it, to pour out blood like water
| Fanaticism knew no fear.
| He then proceeded to comment in a stain
OF inimitable wit upon the change of Ad-
mnistralion-the old lion, he sad had gone
of roaring. and his successor had come
creeping into his place. Would that you
had been there, fellow citizens, TO have
marked with what quaking awe the vermin
Of the palace peeped forth from their cor
ners to watch the departure Of the mighty
beast, dreadng each moment lest he should
turn and scorch them with his no, breath, or
sweep them off with blast of his throat :;
and when the last football OF the retiring
long BREATH rose on their hind feet, and
scampered away in hocks TO celebrate the
Saturnalia Of liberated slaves. You would
have seen, continued he, that the reign of
terror was at an end, and that the dynasty
of another, and far differen, animal, was 10
succeed-under the new state OF things the
South has far less to fear from the cour,
quarer-the Ex-president was man OF vi
client passion, of indomitable will. of hot re-
sentiments aud animosiiies When he took
his stand, he kept it, though the Constitution
and the Union should crumble into wreck
around him-he was ready for war 10 the
knife to GRITTY every caprice-what he d.
rected was done. the man whom he denounc-
ed was excommunicaied.f from the congrega-
ton Of the faithful-but the most striking
characteristic of his successor was timber
ness-he must go with the current--he could
not make it, some indeed who had seen
him come putting on the breeze had misak.
en- him for the demon Of the storm-he was
only the chaff before it--he was not the
man to make and 10 unmake--to sci up and
to pull down at his pleasure, 10 issue procla-
nations, TO browbeat Congress,-to send in.
sulting letters and smother unsavory laws
in his breeches pocket 1T would indeed be
the height of the ridiculous for MIR Van
Buren, to thrust his lamb-like carcase into
the skin of dead lion, and attempt to look
terrible. Why he would roar YOU like any
sucking dovel" He must be polite, eau
tious and conciliatng-he must obtain as
servant what his political father commanded
as a master-he knows fall well that the
union of the South would be fatal to him
hence his anxiety in his inaugural to set us
at rest on the only question that was certain
TO unite us-but he had promised to follow
the principles of his predecessor, and as the
great principle of the late Administration
was an utter contempt Of all pledges given
TO the country, we had right to expect that
the copy would IN this part bear the strong
est resemblance to the original What then
was the position Of South Carolina con-
tinued Mr. Preston The new Administra
ton had themselves decided it-they came
in as a Jackson Administration--the aloried
in being called by the name and wearing
the livery-it was but fresh patch of DO
lnicians struck out by the New York ma
chlnery like tenpenny nails Bot they
asked US to wait and try them; had we not
tryed them--for the last eight wears p
Should try them again? God forbid /
Let them buy and sell those who were in
the SHAMELESS South Carolina had no price.
Their aim was to prevent union here, to
keep awake sectional jealousies, to shower
gifts and honors-to make golden promises
TO all, to tickle the North with one side of
the shell and the South with the other while