Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-01-11

and II every body would do the same thing.
my notion is we would bring things out
fall trouble and get every thing TO work
smooth & right, and we should hear no more
oftbose dreadful things that some folks are
talking about that are to bring ruin on the
country" But, says |, here is trouble now
in Congress aboutlhis plagy abolition ques-
--one set bring in bushels OF petitions,
and another set say they hadn't ought to be
recely'd at all-how is that to be managed
says "Well'' says he "Major I'll tell
you, would take EN- all in. bu, without
stopping other business 10 read em Just vet,
Tor suppose they are pritty much all alike,
and then would say that as soon as Hey
are done coming, so as TO give all fair
chance-Pd appoint n committee who should
agree to read EN- all over carefully and see
| il there is any thing in EN- TO show thatanyparl
ofthe Constitution is violated by not granting
what the petitions ask for-DuT if on The con
Haryany one ofthem petitions asks Congress
10 do anything contrary to the clear meaning
! OF The Constitution, as ii was under stood when
it was made and agreed to--then would call
that member of Congress, who offered such
petition right up and give him copy Of
the Constitution aud tell him to git that by
heart, and the next time he attempted anoth-
er isuchj uniamfui act I'd send him home"
Well says |, that is a nep notion. mo it
amt SAYS he, Its as old as truth and jus
lice and the Constitution iiself-and they
come OF age pretty much all al once,-This
is the nub Of the matter Major-the people
have "a Constitution" all laws and
regulations must agree with it OF they amt
good for nothing,-the people send their
agents TO Congress not to make or alter the
| Coasiitution-and any man in or out Of
Congress who brings in a petition asking
The peoples agents to grant things contrary
to the Consultation are doing an uniawfni
acl. and il they are ignorant I'd teach EN-
what the law is, and If srter the first offence
they repeated il, I'd make em feel it, If
something Of this kind amt done-Congress
will have nothing else TO do but cackle over
all the whims that old grannys all about
the country will be sending ina man
South has jist as good RICH, to petition
Congress TO pass Laws to Stop his raising
Pumpkins as have 10 stop my raising Cot
lon-and on the score OF oppression and
sidrerH and all that nonsense-theIe is
nothing in tive are all slaves, 10 the nee
essity Of earning an honest living and all
necessity 10 ,oork is an era but il is an evil
like boards and toe mails, we are born to-
some have 10 work at one calling and some
al ano,her-and some work is harder than
cumbersome 90 down under the ailth
and dig coal and iron and copper and lead
and gold and silver-and some on the face
of the arth dig. plough and hoe, and chop
woodland that last kind of work is plagy
tuf in winier away off in the woods, with
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froze as hard as brick bat. land some go
on the great deep in storms and tempest and
don't know what it is 10 have dry jacket on
for weeks togelher-and no wife and chill
dren TO sit round ere every evening-and
some pick cotton and have this advantage
over all the rest, and that is when they get
sick and old they are taken care of without
going a begging or be thrust into poor
house OF prison-Some folks are by natur
Dependent, on others and lean on EN- like
been vines TO polls Now suppose some old
women should get notion TO petition Con-
gress against letting folks dig away down
in the ainh artef Coal and Iron. and so forth,
and say that a man wasn't born like rood
chuck TO live in the airth,--and then again
to stop folks from risking their precious lives
at sea, as though they were born with fins
like fish, how then, and what would be the
end on'i2 Can any man tell what would
be the stale Of Things if any OF these whims
was TO be acted on only for one year just
for the trial on'l-And then agin, has any
one turned overt the matter 10 see what would
be the condition of things if abolition"
should take root-kiek upa bobery down
South. and let only one crop of cotton go I'M
pick d-folks abroad don't think much OF
this matter, but look at i, pretty much rs we
do at the Chinese, and carelessly talk OF
abolition as matter OF moon shiDe.-Eng-
land sends her aboliiionists here 10 keep
em Isuppose from devillry at home-poss,
IDLY that iftheir mad schemes were only for
one season TO prosper here. storm would
how over England worse than universal
cholera morbus. Cut OF off one ourcrops OF
r cotton only-and then LEI the Queen or her
Ministers attempt 10 tell the thousands OF
spinners and weayers Of England, that they
+ and their families must submit to 90 hungry
and unimploy'd, on account of the great and
glorious Cause of a5Oiiiion--and If they re.
main content and hungry, why then no harm
will come from that poinl-bul if on the con,
trary they don't understand the doctrine
I land some folks do say that some of John
Bull sfamily get cross and uglywhenhungry)
why then there will be trouble. and such a
trouble, as ant cooled by srge or cainip tea,
land for one wash my hands on't-and
say ''let well alone"
"Illtcl what it is, Major" says the Deacon,