The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-06-11


said, that he heard an Intelligent democrat remark
that he had no doubt but nine tenths of the demo
Gratis would now be open aboltonists, as they
were IN heart before. Let not the party deceive it.
SELF they cannot much longer keep their worthless
voaies, croucbing as vassals to the South for the
sake of votes when they can be allies and equals
in the liberty party which will soon have the North
and then it has the nation, Let the democrats
take hold here and ou,-strp the wings in favor OF
impartial liberty, feel encouraged to hope they
will and if they do, they need not fear that every
wing abolitionist will follow, for they would have
voted with us at the last election if there had been
prospect of success. Then again, thousands Of
republican wings that have been charmed by a
name, into an indirect support of Federalism, would
rally to our standard, and leave the federal Wings
few and far between. And if we havea union
ticket Of true republicans, what matter, if half
have been called wings aud half democrats Hall
loaf is better than no bread, Besides, you will
indirectly rescue the true principles GU profess to
love, ina way far more honorable than the federal
isttook when they changed their name. AS one
said to me, we could not do any thing, until we
gave up the name of fedcra'ist for wing and then
we began TO gain. Now We democrats keep your
republican principles, carr, them out towards all
the poor, whether black or white; identify YOUR
selves with the liberty party, and let the South
take care of themselves, and you need not fear;
and hereafter You will be called the deliyerers of
your country. The political earthquake seems
to have shook the scales from the eyes and
the Southern shackles from the feet; and the pro-
slavery glng from the tongue of Mr., Van Buren, I;
for in his last excellent Message he boldly denoun-
ces the slave factories in Africa as dcns Of iniqui,y
and advises the nation to have no trade with them,
but TO break them up, This is noble, but how
happened it tina, he did not see, or seeing did no,
denounce those dens of inquily in our capital, ex-
is,ng under the laws of congress and urg e their
destruction. When the session Of the district took
place, every slave law ceased therein, but Con-
gress made a law reducing those TO slavery who
would otherwise have been free, and where does
tina constitution give them this power No where
Then slavery in the District is unconstitutional
and the North is accountable, for we have ~ votes
more than the south and have the constitutional
power through Congress to save about 1000 from
the iron grasp of our own republican tyranny in
the d. c. and to make the needru laws for the
Territories, and thus increase the number to about
30, OOO and also to regulate trade between the sew
eral States so as to aboish* the Thurman trade in
human beings, and slave-consumng States rem
dering slavery so Improbable in the former they
would give it up and in the latter it would run
down for want of supplies. | should think also
we have the same right 10 stop the foreign slave
trade with Texas Does 1.-THE treaty with other
nations bind us to it AS the supreme law Of the land
Slavery then is our business, and the more so as
we are liable to be called on to quell insurrections
fighting for freedom, as as our fathers did. Let the
North through Congress do all they have right to
do, and the discussion would be official and the
whole south would read it, and even shareholders
now see it to I've for Their interes, 10 give up this
antdomeslic institution. We can prove, md
they might believe that III Antigua and Bermuda,
their plantations woald sell for three times as much
without slaves as they would in slavery, with the
slaves on them SO tina, they treble their propcri,
in three years by immediate emancipation. The
non-slaveholders would be majority, and being
convinced, would put it down by state legislation,
whether others would or not. Hence, the North,
by partly direct legislation in Congress, and partly
by indirect influence on the South, can overthrow
slavery; and are therefore mainly responsible for
its continuance Because we love the whole South,
we labor and suffer in this glorious cause, which
is only partial justice to the slave, and unbounded
mercy TO The STAKEHOLDER. My sheet is full, bu,
am not empty. So remain true democrat
b. SHAW.
'fnot, how could Congress abolish the foreign slave
trade, while regulating commerce.