Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-08-16
August Is, 1887.


fountains Of blood roll in our veins and
beet in our hearts2 And can political
subleties, however. skilfnlly spun, argue
dOpn the spontaneous bursts Of national
sympathy Reason may as soon talk
down fever; the provinces Of feeling and
argument are distinct in the human bo-
som. ATTACHMENT TO Texas, is JUST
A MATTER OF FEELING IN THIS SoUTH,
where feeling is generally thought to be
predominant; as abolition may be in the
North. The empire of feeling all over
the world, is paramount 10 all other infu-
ences over the human will. This master
spirit was only echoed BY the jealous
Walker, of Mississippi, and re-echoed by
the Congress and the President Of the
United States, in the recent recognitiop OF
Texan Independence. Does any sober
observer contend |? Can he in the face Of
facts, that Texas has substantially, accord
inc 10 the usages Of nations, accomplished
her Independence Was there 1--WE trust
it is the nroper tense) not an even echo, to
put the matter on the most favorable foot
ing, tina, the victory, Nelson would have
called it the conquest Of Jacinto, might,
this campaign be reversed but national
feeling has outstripped the prudence OF
our government, usually discreet and ju-
dicious; and social sympathy has done
what political precedent, and possibility,
expeliency might not have sanctioned.-
Tn, debate in the British Parliament
which we publish to-day, she VS. how well
state papers and officill ceremonies, may
delude or seem 10 delude, foreign govern
ments, while Lord Palnierston and O Con
mel were offending our government from
any improper haste in acknowledging the
Independence Of Texas-the deed is con-
slmmatcd. There are other views on
this subject which may be- presented"
Yes, fellow chizens, the issue is made
up-the question is before you-ShaH
Texas enLer lie Union! Is it not enough
that slavery, which, at the time ofthe reVo-
luton, was but slight excresence on the
bo1y polite, has grown to be a monstrous
and overshadowing deformity That the
SLAVE representation-the representation
of human chattels, has increased from
ten to twenty-five; that seven new slave
states, kentucky. Tennessee, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, and Ar
kansas, have been added TO the Union,
since the constitution of 1897 THAT
there is already slaveholding influence
in Congress sufficiently powerful to sup
press the freedom Of speech, and virtually
deny the right Of petition? Is not all this
enough, without the addition Of Texas,
with a territory large enough for FIVE or
six new states-a bastard republIc-con-
ccived in sin, and brought forth in iniqui-
ty-baptized in blood, and consec rated to
slavery from its birth hourl Are there
not elements enough Of crime and dIsor-
der in our land already, without adding
10 them this Botany Bay Of selfblnlshed
scoundrels, this moral lazar- house, reek-
ing with pollution--the elements oil IT'S
society. as foul and odious as the In5redI'
enls Of Macbeth's cauldron:
70 Eye Of newt, and toe Of frog,
Adder's fork, and blind worms sting,
II. LizauI's leg and owletls wiAg.">
Now is the time to answer these ques-
lions. The farmers and working mer, OF
New-England-- the middle States, and
the West, have it vet in their power 10
avert the danger. BY Immediate, prompt
and energetic action, they ca n save the
nation from this disastrous alliance
WILL THEY DO ITf -