Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-12-29


The aspect of the Anti-SIavery move
meIt is most formidable and the South
erners in spite of themselves, manifest un-
usual alarm at it, but in an unusual way.
They see that this ':attem7t TO dam up
the waters Of the Nile with burushes,"
has only aggravated and extended the
movement, given i: depth, energy and
hold on hesymrathies of Northern free
men, that it would have been slow to ac-
qure without. The little rivulet- that
might have trickled unheard and unnotie-
ed through its low and unrestricted chan
mel, has, by damming uf, accumulated a
deiuge, whose rapid risings are now fast
snbmtrging the valleys and the hills, and
setting back upon The recesses of The
Moth, to break loose inevitably, sooa or
| late, and the sooner the better, because
the lighter, upon all below, with force
that may oversweep The continent, that
will shake the Southern moonluins TO their
base aud shaueI the pillars OF their pride
The Antl-SlaEery cause, BY this lho't-
less obstruction, has aIready become the
| cause of free discussion, freedom of speech,
| Northern rights and Northern honor You
may s5e this by noticing the lema kabIe
fact that these new. petitions are sigued
not by old women aud children, and ne
groes, as was sand in times past, but bv
legal voters" every one Of them being
so headed and certified and these legal
voters" too, in hundreds, in places where
the ridiculous "abolnlon." ticket does not
| poll its tens The lumber OF several
thousand of these for.aitaJie petitioners
have been filed yesterday. ana today,
before the astoaished gaze Of the South
erners, who know as well as you do that
! this class Of met la such numbers, must
! have influence Oh a contested eeci0n,
enough to determine the course Of the
Wing aui Loco Fo3o Representatives
who present their pe:>ions. MhSsacLu-
sets. Vermont, New-YOrk, Pennsy tvania,
Oaio and Michigan, have poured thin IN
to-day, and the style in which not only
{voWed aboitioniS :, but moderate Wings,
and even Loco Focos like FIoyd and
| Brewster, presented these po,ers, showed
that it was no joke.
Howard, of AiIcbjg n, representing in
t his single person an uncquaIIed constitu-
enev Of 100000 had his desk piled with
these petitions Of legal voters;;'' and on
the Southern ground Of obedience to
! Instructions" these must be expected to
have a practical effect on him, aud their
largely increased representation in the
next Congress.
Messrs Cost Johnson and Wise took
appeals to-day from the decision of the
Speaker, on two classes Of these petitions,
1 which will be debated Tomorrow or soon
after. Mr.~Underwood, also gave notice
that he should take that occasion TO cad
dress the House and the country On that
subject"
AS TO Mr.. Cost Johnson's contrivance
of smuggling the twentv-frst raIe upon
the House by postponing the debate OF
the rules last Friday, much as he pridcs
himself on such a pretty piece Of fnesse, i
is only laughed at by those who under
stand the machiruery of the rules
Though YOU supposed, and most people
T supposed, the original question of the
rules was nailed to the table unless talk
en- from it by vote of two,thtrds, which
cannot be had.'' yet the rules can b.
r amended at any time, by days notice
aud they aoW be SO amend ID directly
The petitions for repe~l Of the 2lst rule
are aIread Y referred TO a special COMMIT
tee of niue, Of which Mr. AID ANS will be
The chairman, with u4aj ority friendly te
= the measure; and they will promptly re
e port resolution for lis repeal, which vii
-lpass by handsome majority.
Y There are discreet aud bod, Southern
e Wings who will vote for it aud Their,
: are Northern Locofocos who know tia
: their own partiz IN ma oriti.'s will fail then
= at home, if they dare outrage them by
repetition of their st1ye votes I lik,
Y your notion of printing the yeas and nay
h on these questions. Do it; and take no
e tce. too. OF the votes, not onIV Of Parmen
e ter, the only Northern L0cof0co VIII,
e ever before sustained the right Of petition,
e bot fsach men as Dwell and L!tie6eId
5. Of blaine, Floyd aad Brewster, of tn
g double dIstrlc. Of Onti Ia aud OsNego il
& our State, and so on, among the most mis-
n cradle Locofocos of New York, Pennsy
o, vania, and OHIO: These men have ha
l. trouble in their districts abont their forme
e woes. Particularly the One;dl tner
= That county swarms with sturdy LocoG0
le co Aboli!ioniSts. who have not been qu1t
ttFable 10 reconcile party exPedieocy wi
lie sonle oftheir radical principles So else
a. where.
b. The T'riG question will turn ont ,
le have sone queer sympathirs wih the AT
u "!nlon question. AMI viii flourish in hi
o. connection. 1t will be IHtle unforuna,
"a for 1.-The peculiar ins,itutionS,'' if at h
r. same time thu they exact these grieRou
TO sacrifices from our sef.respect aud Iibe
oy tv, the prodactS of.slaye labor are thru
e. forward as the suAiact-o f .x.t,,~;,,, #lac;