Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-01-16


power to silence their chattel or thing
constituency, when it asks or seeks to be- f
come mGn-cOnStituency, and also claim
the high prerogative Of silencing their as
sociate members of Congress, who would
seek to elevate the chattel constituency of
the twenty eight to the man basis. The
twenty eight claim that it is distinct por
ton of their official duty to counterVail
the sympathy and humanity of the age,
when it shall manifest desire to elevate
their constituents to the common right and
privileges of mankind. These twenty
eight men come to represent nothing but
the congregated absurdlties and all the
marked moral obliquities of this period of
the world. Let it not be supposed | am
stranger to the fact, that the twenty-eight |
assert that three ffths of their slaves are
added to the rest of the population, as a
constitutional rule, for the purpose of fix
| ing the basis of representation, the same
as women and children are counted at the
North, for the purpose of fixing the rate
These twenty-eight men come. as a sor;
of holy guard to lust, lazihess, unpaid wa
ges, ignorance, heathenism, the rights of
the lash, malgamation, prostitution, the
shooting down unpaid laborers, for leav-
ing their employments, divorcing hus-
bands and wives, separating parents and
children, the selling men, women and
children, by private contract, or by public
outcry; yea, the right of vending unborn
generations; yes, the exalted privilege,
; peculiar to the Shareholder, of selling his
!. own children, his own brothers and sis
tiers, cousins, nephews and neices, into the
; the right of duelling, chivalry assassina-
:, ton, murder and generally all and every
and each of the varied and multiplied
. rights embraced within the circle Of the
i most unbounded inhumanity.
: : These twenty eight congressman are
! the chosen gladiators, to dispute every
: inch of ground, which the humanity of
i Congress may desire to occupy These
. are the men, whose votes are employed to
$ gag the House of Representatives of the
; nation. These are the twenty eight men
: to lead the House on the forlorn hope oil
u SURPRISING debate, and take the liberties
IS of the nation by storm, and lead them into
II captivity without the hope of ransom
D. These are the men, to deny the right O
1t petition, when it affects their thing con
T. statuency. These are the men, elected
VI different from all the rest, not to favor bu
. to resist all measures offered by others, fo
" the benefit of their thing constituency -
these are the men, who, under the pre-
tence of presercing order and quiet, in tn
~ glory of representatives, produce vii
o. chaos and primeval night, amidst thei
81 maniac screams of Order! ORDER IL
'fe ORDER!!! These are the men, whc
'e- with horrid oaths at their private boart
no ing houses, on the 2lst December, 1887
P'- swore that "if any man from the Mort
~ las your able Slade had done should brin
WIS resolution, or law, to abolish SLAYER
in the District of Columbia again, the
'n- would pul him to death !!'
ISe Their notions of government may be il
ne ferred from their favorte maxim, TIL
a. "slavery is the cornerstone of our repu
IN lic." If slavery be "the cornerstone
ue it is not difficult to predict of what mat
ne rails the side, and end, walls of this ed
ns flee would be erected, If these twent,
10, eight gentlemen were allowed to remod
'o1 the fabric of American institutions The
Iess are six republics on this continent,
i"o North and South America, which a
&c" without these corner-stones,' so muc
: 81 - valued by these far-seeing politicians
vas Besides the peculiar duties which ha,
and been assigned to the twenty eight thin,
, to representatives, they are expected to do
can oei'"n a"iount VI ouiiylng' hectorin
no. gasconading, threatening, challengin
ter duelling, rife-trying, pistol practicing,
for as to compel from northern member
ne. their profound respect for the peculiar i
de. situations Of the South. They, the tive
or ty eight, are mechanically, as the clio,
! he strikes the hour, at least one hundr
ION times in session of Congress, to threat
yea to split the Union all to shivers; and
: in least on one hundred different question
and from the question whether dead hor
that killed in the late war. should be paid
, Is up to that of the abolition of slavery.
the They, the twenty-eight, are ex-ofit
rest. the wardens, and keepers of the wed
,ow and beetles, by which they will underta
9TH to split the Union, into pieces or parts
mo suit purchasers from a state down t.
this school district.
ives The great slave wedge, we are ass
now ed by these nations plitters. would cas-
IS in rive ana sunder the Union, from the cal
low OF tne delaware to the mandan towns
ltain II these men will sacrlhce the Union
,r a their love of slavery. we will sacrii
sons, slavery for our love of the Union.
rous hope by the goodness of an overrul
Con. Providence, that we shall be able to
ions, two and half millions of new votal
d by ana supporters ct republican form
the government, who, having tasted all
hris- ills which may be practced under it. n