Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-12-05

representatives, with lneXpressIble pleas
ure | say, appear TO be equally dear TO all
my constituents of the 18th Congression-
al District. | hope and trust in God,
they will never give their confidence 10,
or trust as their representative, any man
prepared 10 surrender them to the Cypress
or's wrong, or to sink them in the polite
al kennel Of party discipline.
Against the injurious and most PERM
cious project Of annexing the new slave
ridden Republic of Texas to this Union,
the opinion and the feeling of the whole
people of the District appear equally u
unanimous. Nor are the instigalions TO q
war with Mexico more congenial to the
moral principle or the public policy O
any n Of my constituents. / congratu
late you and them thatthese dang.
ers have for the present passed away Am
icable negotiation with Mexico is resum
ed, and precisely at the same time thu
Texan proposal TO join our Union, Texa'
with her mountain load of constitute
slavery upon her back, is withdrlv
May we never hear of its renewal, Nt
er with Moloch, or Mammon in IS o
| regret that | AN not enallr 80"
duIge with equal confidence -,
the right of Petition, and n r."
Debate, smothered as they "'t o ~ "
nearly three years in tn ! - TN.
Of the Nation will be az hi"s1 iid.!s
p.enitude and all ne Nya 10 az 'helr
d,r N [rI VIII AK lrom The eye Of
JS,.,;an ;s ,Ln hryirncy 10 southern
att,a.l?n Is the (, paid BY a northern
nsn.i, e -, sonIneE support. The
p,9r,l VS. '.' ,orth sill support by their
Son,S5', hIcn, WAC have iruckled TO
,..' A,natioa and their renresen.
'h h,''I9 { not yet been shalned GU, OF
on, fticG between refusing to receive
=, <s,ng 10 read a petition. | believe
NsslJlc hat this total subversion of
s principle Of Liberty should be much
lger submitted 10 by the people Of the
&c states OF this Union. But their fate
q Ia their " hands. If they choose 10
be represented by slaves, they will find
aerviiIy enough to represent and bctray
,hcm. | have seen with pleasure that ey-
"a among the most devoted supporters of
he present administration, there have been
here md there one, who refused to sacri-
ice his " rights and those of his con-
siituents to the shrine OF party idolatry.
These however have been solitary excep-
lions. The spirit Of true freedom is not
yet sufficiently awake, and while she
sIumbers, all the vigils OF the Waterman
will be vain.
The suspension Of the right of petition,
the suppression of the freedom of debate,
the thirst for the annexation of Texas, the
war-whoop OF two successive Presidents
OF the United States against Mexico, are
all but varied symptoms of a deadly dis
ease, seated in the marrow Of our bones
and that deadly disease is slavery. The
Union will fall before it, or it will fall be.
fore the Union. The abolition of slave
ry in the District of Columbia, or in The
territory OF Florida, the prohibition of TIE
internal piracy between the states-the
refusal to admit another slave-contaminat.
ed state into the Union, are all partial in.
effective piaisters for the great elemental
evil.
They will but skin and film the ulcerous part.
lnfects unseen"
believe it important tina. the inhabi,.
ants of the Twelfth Congrc ssional D.s.
trlct OF Massachusetts should be fore warn.
ed that during the Goth Congress the
whole system of policy of the Executive
administrators Of the Government CT this
Union, and all its prominent measures.
foreign and domestic, will be. rs tbey
ave been and now are, u -sunnori
strengthen aHd perpc,uate THE pECUI,.
lar lNSTlTU fIONS OF TuE
SOUTH. The determination of the In
dian race the wasteful GiIapidation of the
public lands; the deadly hostility to inter-
nal Improvement; the insidious cripnlinc
OF domestic industry the ridiculous i'm.
posture OF an exclusive metallic currency
Tor the revenues and expenditures of The
nauoh the enormous inc Tease of a stand
ing army and the simultaneous SANDER
upon the Eavy AMI its gallant officers =.
Ahe sycoPaont courtship Of the Democra-
ey OF Numbers, and the rancorous instiua.
lion o. labor against capital to the su,nmo.
~ ldStlce of Iynching,-alI these wavs
ana means OF u northern administrator
TIth southern principles, have one and
The same origin, and are gathering to n
ISSUE The rlvetting in eternal BONDAGE the
chains OF your southern countrvmen Of
African descent.
Should the people Of the 18th Conrres.
SONAR District of Massachusetts again see
nj TO station ME as their sentinel on the
watch-towcr of the nation. thew will No.,
expect from me consen', acquiescence or
compromise with this system or with anv
oil Its parts. unyieldiug hostility against
1t Is interviewer with every puisation Of
my, heart. Rests nce against it. feeble
aud inefficient as the last accents of a fail.