Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-08-11

great decrease of foreign importations /;
mere nave been largely increased exporta-
J tons oil domestic manufactures and produce.
giving Increased activity to agricultural and
mechanical labor, to manufactures, and to
our immense inland and foreign. commerce !;
l-all resulting in two important things-an
immense reduction Of our foreign debt. and
an immense influx Of gold and silver.
Such have been the effects of a Tariff
whose power for good was diminished by
those imperfections, which actual expert
ence alone can fully develope, and future
Legislation may correct; but vastly dinin-
Ished by the ruthless cry Of "Repeal Re-
peaIP with which its passage was instanta
neously greeted by a powerful and hostile
party. The strength of this party, by the
next Congress, threatens TO be too great to
permit the friends of Protection safely TO
count upon the permanency Of the Protect
i've System. The mischievous effects Of
wan, OF conidency cannot be overrated-
lis powerful aud pernicious tendency was
not too wildly described, in recent speech
of Daniel Webster, when he said
Depend upon il, il is change, and the
apprehension of change. that unnerves every
working mans arm in the country. Chan
ges felt, and changes feared, are the bane
of our industry and the prostraiion of our
powers
That there is now any amelioraiion in
The condition of the country, is due to
the Tariff; that there is no more, is owing
10 The fact that all the other primary prin-
ciples of the Republicans of old, aud of the
Wings of the present day, have been treach-
erousy defeated. Our present condition
then, is to be added to past history--al
proclaiming the correctness and infinite val
ne of Wing principles.
The narrow limits permitted US, admit
only of brief notices of the most important
topics. Any view however, of the political
history Of the last fourteen years, must be
| glaringly incomplete, If it does not embrace
prime element in all our woes. 1t is
AMERICAN SLAVERY As politicians, we
possess and claim no right to break in upon
the State institutions, behind which the slave
system is entrencbed. The States alone
possess the power to proclaim liberty to all
within their jurisdiction for the dishonor
and the guilt of violating the laws of God
and trampling upon the rights Of Humanity,
they are pre-eminenily responsible. As
States, they are sovereign; we cannot use
the power OF State within their jurisdiction
But as individuals, the citizens OF the slave
holding States are our neighbors aud broth
ers; and as individuals, IRE are bound. in
consideration of their welfare, and of the
rights Of the slave, by all moral influences
to persuade them TO righteous aud immede-
diate action. II is when Slavery leaves her
/ au fra urh r,at,to
own ground when she casts off her State
armor, enters the wide field Of national pol
tics, and acts within the cognizance of our
government, as well as theirs,-ihat we
claim the right 10 confront and resist her. by
all the means the state can use, by all which.
the constitution warrants, and by all which
by amendment that instrument NAV be made
to recognize In this character. Slavery
has long presented herself; in this charac-
ter she now stands, nor is the mode of her
assaults so well concealed as TO escape us
II was long since proclaimed by the repre-
sentative of a slaveholding state, and has
too long been openly and shamelessly prac-
tised.
Said John Randolph in the debate on the
| admission Of Missouri-"We do not govern
them (the people ofihe norih,) by our black
siaves, but by their O,cn ,chitc SHARES. We
kaoD what zoe arc doing. We Of the South
are always united, from the Ohio to Florida
and we can always unite but you ofthe
North are beginning TO divide. We hare
conquered you once, and zoe can, and ,ce piH.
conquer yOu again. Aye, sir, are ,oU d,ice
you to the pdh, and when we have you there
once more, we mean to keep you there, and
nail you dorm like base money!
Aye, fellow cilizensl they have had us
ito the wall once more ;" il was in 30; and
the twelve succeeding years of tyranny
were but the fuhllment of the remainder
Of the prophecy. Slavery, aided by its
northern minions, seized the control of the
government and wreaked upon us its ven
geance, in the Tariff of '2S destroyed-the
doctrine Of Protection expunged-the cur
rency proslrated-the right of petition de-
nied-Liberty ofspeech and of the press re-
stralned-and in the proligacy and disgrace
of the Florida war. The same unhoiy
league of the slave power with the recreant
sons Of Northern lreemen, is still main
tanned aud il aims again to force upon us
the same evils, and to perpetuate It's tyran-
ny, by the annexation of Texas TO the u |
MON. The alternative threatens TO be Re.
sistance or disunion and we cannot there
fore complete our rapid view of the princ-
piles and the policy ofthe Democratic Wings
of Vermont, without uttering the sentiment
that Resistance to the Stare po'oer, by all
right means, is an Imperative duty.
Wings of Vermont! by the enviable con
dition ofthe country, down to the first fruits
of nisrule in 1888; by the curses which
blasted the land from 80 to 40; by the
overwhelming verdict of the American peo-
pie, in two remarkable eras of our history
md hu tta racuItS .oh h.. e. 4 ~ II