Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-05-20
any superiority in the field, would insure
Such res,i, '5uIe

any superiority in the field, would ipsur,
such result.
( WV our government is government
u shareholders, and has been SO for o,r
lnan iorty years. Slavery has made wa,
ana peace for US, embargo aud non-i inter
course 1t has set up and pulled dowr
protective aud banking systems. II ha>
even attempted to cede to Great BRIAN
'he Very territory in Dispute, thus lendin Q
coiof 10 claim at first imaginary. And
I'D Ills Very last letter, in reply TO the no !.
perry communication of the British Minis.
'er Mr. Forsyth, Shareholder, intimatas
'ha' TINS government will Consent to /. !
new boundary if the State of Maine can
Dc Drought to acq1lesce. The consent If
massachusetts, Mho owns ta0o out of eye.
~ mree acres of the land is of no con.
sequence. This IS the respect of State
rights party Tor State rights
An agreement was actually concluded
signed and sealed, betwixt Gen. Jackson
ana the agents of Maine, Mr.. PrebIe and
one or two more that the territory Of
MaIne, claimed by Great Britain. should
DC surrendered, aud that Maine should re-
ceive an equivalent in the State Of nichi.
gan. MasSac husetts was not consulted
and never knew of it, until Mr.. Koot
came 70 be Governor of Maine, and found
ms nne arrangement in the executive
pigeon holes ! Now, Gen Jackson kueu
that the dlslnterested and unspoited major
l'y OF his own party in the State of Maine
"oold never consent 10 his, yet he resort
ed to it. Why? 10 gain time 10 slave
oil question: which, if brought 10 an is.
sue and trIal, would ruin his party at one
end of the Union or the other. The ad
IS now harder pressed by the
same question than ever, with less ability
OF every kind to meet it, and they are trv-
ing to hYmbug Great Britain bv holdino
out the same stale and false prelence thai
MaIhe mag consent to a new boundary |
F" h"t means that, but yielding the terrific |
ryE VIII Maine do that? Never-and |
he Presiden; kuoms it,
And with such prospects staring them |
~ The face, will our far-slghted southern
brethren, whose principal study it has
'een' ever since the foundation of the |
government, and now is, TO check the
srowtn OF the Moth, permit US 10 fieht2
5redat J@dGuS, non ego.
lhere IS but one chance of our having
} brush, and that is the chance that the
laVehaders may lose he loyal States of
Name and Nes0 Hampshire. No doubt
n re is great danger, that TO barter part
I the State OF Maine to purchase peace
nd safety for an institution, for which
there eau De no peace would appear to
ne honest majority Of The northern friends
I the administration "a leetie 100 much
he office-holders, aud Office seekers /
hose btle system of frauds and false
GODS serves SO we'll for ordinary coca
ions, would be totally Inadequate to an
Emergency like this. The filth of our
'feets1s sometimes swept into The dock
y a strcng northeastern
what, then, sill The administration
the norfh --rold the loss of black slares ;
11Ee Southwest or of the deceived nor
on OF 7cAttc sl0res in the Northeast o.
lie VIII continue to do as he and his nred- {
tessors have done--stave off the ones. {
on. lie will do like criminal, who is t
lre OF beng convicted, if he come to .ri- q
i-ST continuance. For what have t
icy done during the ten years of the adj
inlstration ct our step-lalher and his s
redecesSor---an administration which |
as 10 ask nothing but what was RIGHT. ,
od 10 submit TO nothing wrong? Thew +
ave been driving two-pennV claim, to n
e lndemnil,d for an act of God, by a
Inch two or three score of southern +
,ha!tels' were converted iuto men This b
a as oeens the great employment of years
the diplomacy of a southern Secretary a
Safe, and southern Plenpotentiarv +
81 James Meantime, this great ones. 9
on oil a disputed boundary between two :
oWertal nations has been open and e
awning 10 enguiph the whole frontiers, a
al to shake into ruins God only knows Il
ow much more HAMILToN.
PRoGREss OF TEMPERAScE.-AItho' t
e have 40 Father Matthew in England, y
ofklog miracles aud attracting thou t
nds to his temperate pledge the people e
rs are nevertheless, becoming less In P
mperale. In the Country particularly
e hear everywhere of teeto,alism, Of te
importance balls, and of total abstinence ii
edges. Ia the Liverpool collection G
5000 bushels of matt were used by c
.ewers in 1887, and 10000 in 1889 - c
! licensed victuallers, $4,000 bushels in S
s3z, aud 1850 10 1889 La the Hall F
X collection, the consumption of the IL
'nsed vittualers has fallen from 100000 [
lshels in 1887, to $4,000 in 1889; In f
e Sh field collection from 100000 to {
5000 bushels but in each of these
20 cases an increase has taken place 10
e quantry consumed by brewers, bat not a
any great extent; the increase in the