Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1837-05-19
VOL, X.-No. SIT

to the work an American citizen was seiz:
ed and scourgcG by the scorpion tongue oil
Tom Benton, IN public, for daring to ex.
press his Indignation at ruthless violation
of the constitution, committed in his pres.
encc, by slaves calling themselves Senators
and guardians Of public liberty, to crafty
the pleasure Of a tyrant--No, am too
fast; it is not known aud never has been
inquired into to this day, whether the man
was guilty Of that high crime in this Tree
country. The body in whose presence he
was, was not the Senate, it was miserable
cabal of n iyrnnts tools sitting upon no
matter on which the Senate Of the United
States could act. AS soon as the excite.
tncnl created by the arrest Of Lloyd ceased,
Benton inquired if the work was donc--"it
IS donc,' replied the clerk He asked
again, and the chair replied, it is dome
very good, very good" said Benton, IN
mpious imitation Of the Deity himself
He was the Flend. god of the work, and all
obcyed him of his party. The Senate ad.
'journed, | went TO the clerks table and
viewed the journal, mu,ilated as 1t was, az
| would have looked upon The dead body
Of fellow being murdered in my presence.
Benton came up to see with his own eyes
that the work was we'll donc--He showed
! abou. as much Revision Of mind "a he
would if he had been the murderer of fel
low being over whose dead body he was
standing and wiping bis weapon. He ask:
! ed for the pen, and bore off the accused
instrument as a trophy for king Andrew,
for whose sake the Journal had been e@.
plunged, the constitution had been broken,
and the Senate BUNDLED and disgrnccd -
| n T., Ct 7 4 ell o,I
suffered more on ha: occasion than shall
ever endcre again, hope for the sake of a
| devoted country and It's institutions.
What was most wounding was TO know
that Virginia was there present and conSen-
Ting to he death. saw Massachusetts,
old Massachusetts,, the elder sister of Vir-
GINA, there -Massa chuset,s who, whatever
may have been her ocal politics, whether
democrat or fedcral no matter how she
has Uttered with Virginia about mere ques-
tons between the plough and the loom,
about tariff or a bill Of internal improve
mcnt- Massachusetts who has ever been
side by side with Virginia in defence of the
old common stock principles, the funda"
mental principles of free government-Mas-
sachusets who stood up in the North,
whilst Virginia stood up in the South, du.
ring the night Of the Revolution. their
trcsses streaming in the bowling tempest OF
the war against civil liberty and the rights
of man, which swept across the Ocean,
encouraging each other to endure TO the
enL--hodlng the lights high up
, ~o-rnnfias - !lo"rys ""d Hc"rys 10 Ham
cocks-'he House Of Burgesses to Faneui
Hall and Faoeull Hall to the House Of
Durgesaes w hen saw old Massachusetts
again, when we were thrown back on those
same fundamental, dear and sacred princi-
plies on which Massachusetts and Virginia
and all, have ever heretofore been united.
reaching out her arms and appealing, call
ing again a.fectlona'eIy and touchlngy,
Virginia. Virginia! VlrginIa!- wept.--
OG Trginia ,cas not there; there toas no
response-I Is the elder sister Of .hassaChu.
sets dead no more 2--Oh God! is Virgin.
III no more FL can't believe i'll am not
willing to believe it,. She shall rise yet
from her le'hargy, she shall redeem her.
self. She shall be herself again !!