Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-06-28


children Of Israel to exterminate the i,lola-
trous nations Of Canaan. All this, as Chan
cellor HARPEN candidly admits, is suffic.
ienily commonplace but, says he. we are
sometimes driven TO commonplace. Yes,
from the Declaration Of independence, you
cannot start one step without being driven TO
commonplace of immemorial tyranny; 10
the commonplace divine right Of kings; TO
the commonplace logic and morality of The
Jesuitsj TO the commonplace tbumb-scrcws
and faggotiircs OF The holy inquisilon TO
all this commonplace must be driven who
ever undertakes TO justify the Institution Of
slavery by decrying the principles OF the
Declaration of Independence
But how far has this counter revolutiona.
ry principle Of the South exiendcd-how
far is il extending2 My country-men -
| wish not to alarm your fears for the
continuance of the Union; but you must
look at things as they are have said that
Accommodation Of the principle Of the Dec
lafation OF Independence is virtual with.
drawal from the Union. There can at least
be no possible attachment TO the Union en-
tertaned by those who have renowned those
principles-no community Of feeling with
those who retain and adhere 10 them. The
two sets of principles separate the souls OF
men, wider than the distance OF the poles
from each other.
think there can be no question that the
serriie system Of principles (by which un-
derstand the doctrines urged by President
Dew and Chancellor HARPER, ia opposi-
ton TO the system Of principles proclaimed in
the Declaration Of independence pervades
the whole state Of South Carolina, and forms
the busis ofthe system OF policy pursued and
recommended by the leading men of that
state AT the head OF them is JoHN c. CAL
HoUN, with his sanguine temperament, his
dashing eloquence. bis never-doublinc con.
fidence in himself. his superficial acquaint
ance with human history with his never
heslitating versatility of conduct, and his lu-
dicrously sincere claims to consistency; with
the memory OF his premature advancement
in early youth-of his grasping ambition
! Of h:S busted hopes and his monifying dis
appointments. This is precisely the man
10 acquire, under the efiervescences Of
southern sun, that ascendency over the in
tellect Of his contemporaries which confers
a Pythagorean authority over his disciples,
and settles every question among them by
the Slilplt iOIliluld VI fiC SUtH ~. Anu
such an ascendancy he has acquired. with
the exception of a few intelligent men, una,
bic to keep pace with him in the suddennpss
and rapidly of his political pirouettes, but
who cannot sustain themselves long in oppo-
fsilion to any Of his circumvolutions.
| The resistance against the counier-reHolu-
lionary system is somewhat greater in Vii.
GINA Hsr-own College of William and
Mary may indeed claim the honor OF having
originated the theory; but she is not alto
| geiher pleased with the sound Of the bugle-
horn from South Carolina to give notice that
she has assumed the departed scepire Of Ju-
dah and that the lawgiver is coming from
between her feet A remnant OF reverence
for the name and opinions Of Thomas JET
rERsoN. With the proud recollection that he,
her own son, was the author Of that Decla-
ration, still stands in the way OF that recre-
ant spirit which disclaims as false, sophis-
licaI, or unmeaning" its glorious selfevideni
truths But these are only expansions oil
soul---sentimental marims and there stand
" The tendencies Of associated lctaifR'-
the twelve hundred millions of dollars in hui
man BONES and muscles, and sinews-lhe
three millions of immorta-souled chat.els
!
you. will kick the beam2
| would do no injuslise 10 the ancient and
honorable Commonwealth of Virginia.
know there are still within her noble spirits
firmly believing tina: slavery is an evil, and
hoping family hoping, that it will one day
be banished from within her borders. We
have seen in the conduct Of her representa-,
tive at the Court OF London that she feels il
as keen and bitter reproach to be told thai
she has sunk into breeder Of slaves for sale
that she gladly would il she could. deny il
10 be true. But from the expedienis 10 which
he resorted for the yindicalion of his own
honor and hers; from her terror at the very
sound Of the word abolition; from the tena
city with which she now clings to Southern
principles, though encountered with Nor
lhern man, there is too much reason TO APP
prehend that she too will ALLURE the self.eyi
dent truths Of the Declaration OF lndepend
ence, and cast of her allegiance 10 the nat
ural and inaliennble rights of man.
When this revolution OF sentiment shall
have been completed, when the whole South
shall have been weaned from the self-eyiden
truths Of the Declaration Of Independence
and recouverted 10 the faith that slavery il
not only conformable to, but sanctioned by
the laws OF Nature and OF Natures God
then will be The time for separation from lh,
fanatics of the North and for the organiza
ton OF the Southern Confederacy, founded
upon The principles Of perpetual and irreme
diable slavery, and for the annexation, o
Texas, and olas much as can be conquered
Of Mexico TO the same.