The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-07-20
VOLUME VI,--NUMBER ii.

and left your debt 10 us with nothing to paw
it, That is what you did. And if the coun.
try is in debt under this new Administration,
whose fault is it The fault of those stewards
who were entrusted with the revenue hereto
FORE They speit all the reve nue., and six or
eight millions year besides.
The whole charge against US comes to this.
that finding a debt on hand, we have not
chosen to issue our notes for it, but prefer 10
give bond. What course can be more open
upright, honest--ifthe creditor is willing Bur
in the present case there is third party 10 be-
consulted, and that is the People of the United
States. We are doing what is right and JUST
and doing it in such way that all the People
can understand. Here is no fog No mysti--
fcation we speak plain English that all can
understand and the People will be able to-
Judge, at the end of TIE period for which the
bond has 10 run, which course is the most
manly and the wiscst.
Mr. s. asked whether it was not time for
Americans who loved this Union TO cling TO
the Union al d 10 each oiher? For, O, last, their
dependence for defence against the whole
world was upon each o;her. This Union had
been so consecrated in the affections Of our
People that il never could be touched without
incuring distress and suffering beyond descrip-
ton. We all had right to tie Union. 1t
never could be dissolved but by force and vio-
lence and when that point was reached. tho
battle would not be fought with words. The
man who rose TO use such weapons would find
the dagger at his throat. 1t would be contest
worse even than q serviie war. Indeed, he
did not know but the horrors of social might
be aggravated by those Of 4 servile war, aud
both endured at once. Tie masses might be-
come so excited and Infatuated against each
other, that they might be tempted TO seize upon
any ms trumeut that presented itself 10 their
ha nds. Let Southern gentlemen remember
what and who would be so presented 10 the
rage of civil strife. And what would il all be.
fol? To divide tie North from the Southf
Where was ''the South? Could any gentle
man tell him Where did il begin and where
did it end1 Did it include Delaware? Did il
take IN Maryiandl Did it cover Virginia, or
N. Carolina! Was il confined TO The cotton
region? There was no cotton in Delaware
none in Maryland, and very little in Virginia
or N. Carolina; and that little was going rap
idly into extinction. The same might be said
in reference to Tennessee The separating
line could not, then, be assumed 10 be the
boundary OF the cotton district. What would
gentlemen call the great valley of Virginia.
Was it the North or was it the South? Did it
belong to one side Of the line or TO tho otheri
In feeling, he believed it was much the same as
Pennsylvania. But supposing the separating
line could be accurately drawn to-day, where
would it be tomorrow Was not the extern, Of
the cotton product continually varvingl Where
then, he again asked, was the SOUTH What
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included! Hers was the Sugar region; sho
wanted her sugar protected; she was no adgo-
cate of free trade, and was not in the combiua.
ton winch would sustain Birmingham and
Manchester against the competition Of the u.
States. Where then, was the identity of the
South! Were there no conflicting interests,
no competition, no rivalrics!-were not AIaba.
ma, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina
producers of the same staples, and competitors
IN the same markets? He would not say that
this state of things naturally gingerbread cnni.
~, but that it produced conflict of interest.
The lime had been when South Carolina took
the lead in the Cotton trade. but he believed
that for the last year the product Of Georgia
had been greater than hers The investments
of Georgia in the Banks of the United States
proved that she had accumulated Il vast capital.
1t had been stated that Mississippi alone coultf
produce more Gotten than the united world
could require. Aud now look at other parts
ofIhe Union. Did gentlemen forget the heavy
imporiatinns ofcot,on into thee city of Bostoaf
The natural consequence of such commercial
intercourse was TO establish the relations Of
mutual friendship. The north became Tho
customer of the South, and one of her best
customers. But while The North and the
South were contending with each otacr, did
they forget that there was growing giant
who might one day volunteer 10 come in be-
tween them and TO put an end 10 their crn,ro-
versy 10 a way that would require all their ener.
gies 10 sustain their rights against the power
Of the medaaiors.
ANOTHER HEAD OFFl-This cry, with
GuIIlntinc'-slS cen the axe nnino % &. con