The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-08-29
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Salem Register.
MIR. ADAMS GRAFTON AT NEWBURY

PORT-JULY A, 1887.


This pamphlet which contains GA pages be-
sides an appendix, we think will be one of the
most interesting and valuable works of the kind
ever offered to the American public. There
have been no exaggeratons in the numerous
notices of this mastery performance which have
appeared in the papers, Its pages are replete
with thoughts that breathe and words that
burn" 1t discusses topics of the most important
nature with the eloquence, pungency and vigor
peculiar to Hhe distinguished author, and in his
very best style. We extract the following pas
sage from the pages before us as n sample Of the
performance, and as furnishing specimen ofrich
and glowing eloquence seldom equalled:
We have consulted the records of the past,
and have appealed to your consciousness of the
present and what is the sound, which they send
forth to all the echoes of futurty, but Union;-
Uniou, as one Peoples Union, so as TO be dIU1ded
by act ichateuer. We have sound of Mod.
ern days--coud it have come from AmCri-
voice? that the value of the Union is to be
calculated! Calculated? By what system OF
Arithmetic? BY what rule of proportion !? Cal
cuate the value OF maternal tenderness and filial
affection; calculate the value of nuptial vows
of compassion to human suffering, of sympathy
with atf1icton, of piety to God, and of charity to
man; calculate the value of all that is precious
and then you will have the elements with which
to calculate the value of the Union. But if cot
ton or tobocco, rocks or ice, metallic money or
mimic paper, are to furnish the measures the
stamp act was the invention Of calculating
statesman.
Great fnancier! stupendous calcalator'
And what the result of his system of computa-
ton to the treasury of Great Britain, that
will be the final settlement of every member of
this community, who calculates, with the prlma-
ny numbers ofStatc sovereignty and notification,
the value of the Union.
Our government is q complicated machine.
We hold for an inviolabe first principle, that tbs
People are the source of all lawful authority upon
earth. But we have one People to be governed
by legislative representation of fifteen millions
of souls, and twenty -six Peoples, of numbers va
rying from less than one hundred thousand to
more than two millions, governed for their inter-
nal police by Legislative and executive magistrates
of their own choice, and by laws oftheir own
enacting; and all forming in the aggregate the
one People, rs which they are known to the 9TH
or nations of the civilized world. We have
.twenty-six States, with governments admins
tered by these separate Legislatures and Execu-
tive Chiefs, and represented by equal numbers
i'll the general Senate of the natioh. This or
glnazation is an anomaly in the history of the
world. 1t is that, which distinguishes US from
all other nations, ancient and modern; from the
simple monarchies and republics of Europe and
from all the confederacies which have figured
an any age upon the face of the globe. The seeds
of this complicated machine, were all sown in
the Declaration of Independence; and their roots
can never be eradicated but by the dissolution
of the Union The calculators Of the value of
the Union, who would palm upon you, III the
place OF this sublime invention, a mere cluster
of severe gn confederated States do but sow the
wind to reap the whrlwind. One lamentable
evidence Of deep degeneracy from the spirit of
the Declaration Independence, is the counte-
which has hepn occasionally inI
various parts Of the Union, to this doctrine; but
1t is consolatory to know that, whenever it has
been distinctly disclosed to the people, it has
been rejected by them with pointed reprobaton
1t has, indeed, presented itself in its most ma
lignant form in that portion Of the Union, the |
civil institutions of which are most infected with
the gangrene of slavery. The inconsistency of
the institution of domestic slavery with the princi
pies of the Declaration of Independence, was
seen and lamented by all the southern patriots
more unalterable conviction, than by the author
OF the Declaration himself. No charge of incon-
slsency or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their
charge. Never from their lips was beard one
syllable of attempt to justify the institution of
slavery. They universally considered it a re-
proach fastened upon them by the unnatural
step-mother country, and they saw that before |
the principles of the Declaration of Indepen-
oence, slavery in common with every other
mode OF oppression, was destined sooner or later
10 ne Danlshed form the earth. Such was the |
nndoulting conviction of Jefferson to his diving
day In the Memoir Of his life, written at the
age OF seventy seven, he gave to his countrymen
me soiemn and emphatic warming that the day
was not distant when they mast mar and adopt
the general emancipation OF their slaves "Notb.
lngs more certainly written, said he,sin the book
o, iate' 'lan mat these people are to be free.n
MY countrymen! it is written in a better volume
than the book of fate; it is written in the laws Of
Nature and of Natures God. " W. "
We are now told, indeed, by the learned doc
tors of the notification school,that color operates
as forfeiture of the rights of human nature:
that dark skin turns man into chaltel; thai
crpsy hair transforms man into four footed
beast. The master priest informs you that slave
ry Is consecrated and sancified by the Holy
scriptures of the Old and New Testament; that
nam was the father of Canaan, and that all his