The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-09-06
To AbOlitiOnists.

The Loco Foco papers, in different Dart;
of the State, are denouncing JOHN MAT.
TOCKS, with great bitterness and foroci;v,
because he is an abolitionist. II is true tba:
Gen. M. is an aboIiiionisi of the most iuieI.
IDLE and uncompromising character charac.
ter. He never has concealed his sentiments
on the subject Of tho accurscd system Of
slavery. He has always proclaimed his ab.
florence of il on every suitable OCCASION
He closed letter 10 his constituents, las,
winter, declining a denomination. as Can.
didate for Congress, with the following bnlI
and manly sentiment.
FINALLY, may the alI.wiso being, who
controls the destiny of nations, protect and
perpeluaie our free institutions and nav
the God of Heaven hasten the time when
slavery shall exist only in the Internal n.
gions, where II originated, and where it is
Inflicted for crime ard not for color"
JOHN MATTOCKS.
This language is certainly explicit eiougi
10 justify the Loco Focos in charging Gen.
raj Mattocks with being an aboItionisi.-
But IS this sufficient reason why he should
no, be ,lecte! Governor of Vermontl viii
The honest and consistent friends of the Id.
cry party 81, quietly by and see the Loco
Fucos ride rough shod over Gen. NJ be.
cause he has always been an abolilonisl =
Ii so we have greatly mistaken their tenn
per and spirit. The Spiri, of the Age say,
Mr.. Kellogg, the Loco candidate for Coz.
ernor, desires no AbolitIonist 10 vo'e fJr
him. We presume not. as il is generally
known that Kellogg is oppose, to abolition
rot and branch. He would not be likely
ereiore lie expect Abolilionists to support
him for Governor. We shall see, boweyer,
whether Gen. Mattocks IS to be put doTa
IN Vermont, because, in he language oflfe
Loco Focos, he is an "ullra Aboliiionis,'
Mr.. Marsh has also been denounced mosi
fiercely on account of his "a5oLiioa semi.
lrenis." And here again we are obligtdio
admit the justice of this Loco Foco charge
Indeed Mr.. Slado urges Mr.. Marsh's elect.
on mainly on the ground tina, he is an "un.
abolitionist-thai he is
nan who will "acl' as well rs spcnk"
'gainst the accused system" If this be
IN objection 10 Mr.. M. therefore we feel
bound, as faithful conductor of public
ournal, TO admit it, in all It's force. His
.bolitlonism is one of the main causes OF
Loco Foco ostility 10 him, and as Mr..
Smith, his competitor, passed over the sub
ect IN coniempiuous silence when he vas
nominated, (thoUgh he found time to speak
bout almost every thing else,) We vii
Pread before our readers, IN his own lGn-
,uage, Mr.. Marsh's sentiments on this
'oini. The following is an extract from
rs speech at The time of his nomiaa-
ion.
Another topic, Intimately connected
nth the subject Of protection is that of The re-
atoms between the free, and the slave-hold'
'g states, and the influence, which the sys-
I'm OF domestic slavery already exerts up.
n the political rights and geseral Interests
{ the Norlh, and which the continuance
nd extension o. that system connot fail
realty TO increase. Until quite recently,
lie wisest statesmen of the South deplorei
le existence of slavery as an unmingled
'li and an ndefensible wrong, and they
'nsoled themselves only with the hone, that
c evil was one o. temporary character,
I'd that measure would speedily be adopt
by oil lie states for its rapid acd complies
IL was with this hope. and up
such encouragement, that the Northern
legntes in the Convention yielded to the
aims OF the South, and accorded to them
highly disproporiionate representation
the popular branch OF Congress. The
growth and extension Of The pros
riiy, wealth. and population Of the free
ates has entitled them TO corresponding
light in the councils Of the nation, and tho
ople of The South now see. that they CAP
nintain political preponderance only BY
rendering perpetual that inequality Of
1resentalion,wblch was originally claimed
d yielded as an advantage that would be,
most, of brief continuance. But the
ound is now for the firs, time assumed.iha
s most unfair advantage has become sPcf