The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-08-16
ADDRESS.
TO THE PEOPLE OF VERMONT.

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Central Committee.
Such have been the effects OF Tariff,
whose power 70. good was diminished by
those imperfections, which actual expert
cnrc alone can fully dcvelope, and future
legislation may correct bu, vastly more
diminished by the ruthless cry of "Repeal
Rcpenll' with which its passagc was In
staneously assailed by a p 'werlul and hos
tile party The strength of this party, IN
the next Congress, threatens to be too great I
10 permit the friends of Protection safely
to count upon the permanency OF the rro-
tcctive system. The mischlevous efecs oil
this want of confidence cannot he overra-
ted. Its powerful and pernlclous tendency !
was not too wildly described, IN a recent
speech of Daniel Webster, when he said:-
"Depend upon it, it is change, and the
nDprehension of change, that unnerves ey-
ery workinr-man's arm in the country
Changes felt, aud changes feared, are the
bane of our industry and the prostraton OF
our power.
That there is now any ameloration IN
the condition of the country, is due to The
Tariff; that there is no more, owing to the
fact that all the other primary principles OF
the Repubicans of old, and of The Wings
of Tie present day, have heen most treach'
eronsly defeated. Our present condition,
then. is 10 be added to past history-all pro-
claiming the correctness and infinite value
Of 'vhig principles. e.
The narrow limits permitted us, admit
only of brief notices of the NEST important
1opics. ANY view, however, of the Polltl-
cal History q the last fourteen years, must
be elaringly incomplete, if it Goes not en-
brace n prime. element in all our woes. IL
IS AMERICAN SLAVERY. As politicians, we
possess and claim no right to break IN upon
The State Institutions, behind which the
slave system is entrenched. The States
alone possess the power TO proclaim liberty
TO all within their jurisdiction; Tor Inc dis.
honor and the guilt Of violating the laws OF
God and trampling upon the rights OF HUI
manity. thew are .eminently responsible.
As States. thew are sovereign; we cannot
use the mower of State within their JurlsdIc-
diction. But as individuals, the citizens OF
the slaveholding States are our neighnors
and brothers; and as individuals, we are
bound. in consideration Of their welfare,and
of the rights Of the slave, by all moral lniiu.
ence to persuade them TO righteousness anu
immediate action. Ii is when Slavery
leaves her entertainments, and assaults us
upon our own ground when she casts OFT
her State armor, enters the wide helu Oh
national politics, and nets within the cognl-
zance OF our government, as well as 'neirs,
that we claim the right TO confront and
resist her, by all The means the stale can
use, by all which the constitution warrants
and by all which. by amendment, that IN
strulnent NAV be made TO recognize. In
this character. Slavery has long presented
herself; in this character she now siandS'
nor is the mode Of her assaults SO well con
ceaIed as to escape us. 1t was long since
proclaimed BY the representative OF a slave
holding state, and has too long been openly
and shamelessly practised.
Said John Randolph in the debate on the
admission of Missouri--"We do not govern
them 1.-THE people of the North, by our black
shares b IT by their orn tchiie Slares. We
.kuor rhit rc are doing. We of the South
are always united, from the Ohio to florl-
.da-and we can always unite; but you oi
the North are beginning to divide we
hare conquered yoH once, dnd noe can, ana
are ,riH, conquer you again. Aye. sir, ~e
,cjH drire vnu 10 he ,rlH, and when we have
vou there once more. we mean to keep YOU
aacre. and nail you dolrn like base money.
Ave. fellow citizens they have had u
-.to The wall once more :" it was in %; ont
the Twelve succeeding years of tyranny
were but the fulhllmcnt OF the remainder
the prophecy. Slavery, aided by It's nor
thcrn m!nions, seized the control oil TIT
government and wreakcd upon US It's vengo
aocc. in the Tariff of % destroyed tin
doctrine If Protection expanged--t cur
rencv p.nsirated-;he righ. Of petition DC
nied-Lihcrty of speech and of the pres
Northumberland in the proflIgacy and dts
trace Of the Florida war. he same IN
holy league Of the slave power with Inc re
cleant sons of Northern fIeemcn, Is stI
mainlained and it aims again t. force upo
us the same evils, and TO 9crpetua;e lis "
ranny, b. this annexation OF Texas 10 IN
Union. The alternative threatens TO
Resistance OF Disunion; and we canno
therefore complete our rapid view OF tn
PRINCIPLES and the policy Of the pemocrail
wings oil hermoht' "it"ou'
sentiment that Resistance 10 the sLare poe
er, By all right means, is an Imperative duly
Wings ofVermont by the envlable con
dition o'the country, down 10 the flrst fruit
of misrnc in 1888; by the curses whc
blasted the land from '32 10 40; by the o
verwhleming verdict of the American pee
pie, IN two remarkable eras of our history
and by the results which have followed IN
last Presidential electioD--your principle
and your unbcnding course, through wea
md through woe, have been pronounce
RIGHT Let ;he righteousness of OIL
cause inspire you with holiness; let tn
dangers which surround u.s. inspire you vii
Il spirit of unanimIty and zeal. In thes,
We NAV again triumph, and renew our It'll
TO the high honors which have hitherto bee
accorded to Us, by the unanimous suiiras
of the Wings of tho Republic.