Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-03-31

preston and vice. The compromise act {
1888 was nothing more nor less than til
mandate of southern statesmen, by whic
they directed that our harbor and river I'M
provements should cease that the sale {
Ohio wheat, flour, pork and beef, in Ne,
England, should stop; aud tia, farmer
should be deprived of a home market 70
their produce; that the manufacturers @
New England should be ruined; that hun
dreds of thousands of laborers should b
turned out of employ; that the revenue
of Government should be struck down; tina
a national debt should be incurred, publ,
credit impaired, aud private credit ruined
for the purpose of sustaining and encour
aging the interests of the slave States. Tn,
mandate was obeycd, and the people of tn,
free States have quietly, and almost silently
submitted to the loss of untold millions, fo
the benefit of the slave States The write
would not be understood as saying thes,
were violations of the Constitution but tha
they were as clearly Uioiations Of the rght
of The free States as were the appropriation.
of money for the express purpose of cap
turing fugitive slaves. 1t is thus that on
commerce with Hayti has been cut off, ant
our domestic labor has been left to compete
with the pauper labor of Europe, in ordel
that the interests Of the slave States NIGH
be protected, sustained, aud upheld at tho
expense of northern (reemen.
Under the law distributing the proceeds o.
the public lands among the several States, a
fund was provided, by which all our north.
ern States would have extricaied themselves
from their present embarrassments, and
would have been enabled to complete their
internal Improvements already commenced
Our canals and railroads would have given
increased facilities to our internal com.
merce; stimulated our agricultural and me.
chanlcal laborers to greater effort by offering
greater encouragement They would have
aided and increased our manufacturers
They would, in great degree, have annihi-
lated the space which now divides the peo-
pie of New England from those of the wes-
tern States our associations would have in
creased; refinement and taste would have
been encouraged; intelligence more rapidly
disseminated; aud learning aud science pro-
NOTED. These advantages, though highly
desirable TO free people, are dangerous to
the interests Of slavery, which must ever de-
pend upon the ignorance and stupidity of
the slave population in regard to their
rights, and the means of regaining them
Al! these results were clearly seen by that
influence which is ever jealous of the prog
ress OF knowledge, which teaches man TO
know the rights which God has given him
Their sacrifice was deemed necessary to
the interest of slavery. A slaveholding
President became the willing instrument by
which the object was effected. Consistency,
seli-respect, reason, and the rights Of the
northern States, presented but slight obsta-
cles TO the attainment ofhis purpose These
advantages to the free States, increasing
and expanding as we look forward to com
ing tune, were sacrificed BY the Federal Gov
eminent Tor the purpose of preserving the
slavcholding influence from all hazard.-
am aware that portion Of our people con-
slder these subjects ofbut little importance.
They urge that all entertainments upon our
rights in favor Of the saveholding interests
are to be resisted, but deny that a protect
I've tariff, the distribution ofthe public lands.
the Improvement Of our harbors, our river
navigation, or of the Cumberland road. are
OF such Importance as to require their aid
and support.
IL these important interests be Abandoned
by those who make the Support of north
ern rights" their motto, how can they ex-
pect the friends of internal improvements
and of the tariff, to unite with them in mat
tiers which they deem of far less pecuniary
Importance. lf one class of our northern
men will tamely surrender our pccuniary in
terests, may we not expect that another por-
ton will be as willing to yield up our honor
to the demands of the southern States! Is
there an individual who is not perfectly con-
scious that such divisions must prove de-
slructive to all our sectional rights? Ifthose
whose minds dwell mostly on the moral in
lluences of slavery, and who feel most deep
ly Interested in removing the moral desc
lation it occasions, abandon all support of
our pecuniary interests, separate from their
political friends, and refuse to cooperate
with them; can they expect, by such sepa-
ration, to facilitate the accomplishment of
their own purposes! Can any man Of re-
lection suppose that we can cxtricate our
selves from the morni influence of slavery.
while IT continues to control our pecuniary
The safety of the free States depends up
on preserving the Constitution in its purity.
and IN the firm aud temperate support of all
orr rights, If one of our important rights
suffer, all must he affected. They will eli
ther stand or fall together. Division of our
friends is itself sacrifice of our rights