Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-08-09

States, but, in fact as far as community of
intercourse and association are concerned, ,
weknow no state lines. Our country is boun- I
ded as one, has been fought for as one, and is
talked of and glored in as one. We have !
not learned to speculate, for we have not ;
permitted ourselves seriously TO think what
we should do IN the event OF dismcmber-
mcnt. II has been deemed sacrlege to talk
Of such calamity. We have hitherto felt
that our gorles past and prospective were
bouomed on our glorious Union, and there
was a day when he who was suspected of
unfai,.lfulness to il, was tried as traitor, and
that too after having held the second Office
in the Government.
But that day has gone by. We are re-
moved more than half a century from the
common trials Of the revolution, and the
spirit of selfshness, overcoming the attach
ment to the Union, has dared to talk with
brazcn efl'rontery of dissolving the Union &C.
mented by revolutionary blood, 10 escape
from alleged grievances on the part of the
government elected by all, on the terms of
the original compact. Once this spirit has
risen so high as to require show of force to
drive it back, but now at last, after having
smothcred for twelve years its rage at the ig-
nominy of its former defeat, il has again as
sumed its Gendish shape, and without dis
guse procams its determination to reduce
to unds'inguishable chaos, the fair proper
tons of our!goodly heritage, unless its de-
mands, the demands of a weak and insoent
minority, be instantly complied witt,
The cause of this unreasonable require
mcnt is at hand. 1t is slavery. The curse
which our fathers with sorrow and miseiving
felt compelled to wink at Cor the sake of
peace in forming the Constitution, has chung
to us " like a worm i the buds from tina,
day to this, staining will, its hateful hue the
whole track Of our pathway, and throwing
its moral blight over our policy, at the same
dered tyrants at home by the possession of
unlimited power, and who are too prone to
carry the insolcncc thus engendered into their
intercourse with their equals and SuperiOrS,
In the region where such men live has love
for the Union grown weaker and weaker I'M
til it has turned to hatred, and openly threat
ems dissolution. If proof Of the debasing
and demoralizing influence of slavery were
needed, here it is, written in darkness on the
light of Heaven. Chagrined, disappointed
and enragcd, because by retaining an insti-
tuition at war with the law of God, and the
conscience of man, they are compelled TO see
:, their northern brethren outstrip them in in
= dustry, population, wcall, and consequent
weight in the federal balance, they turn
round, instead of going to work TO overtakc
= them in honorable competition, and fierceIy
demand the consummaIon of measure ia
. tai, disgraceful, unjust and 'niquilous, for the
y restoration of their own power, or denounce,
: in the event Of refusal, dissolution of the
Union of these States! Where but among
Shareholders could impudencc mount up tc
such pitch of absolute sublmity! Why
these children of bowie. knife chivalry talk
as if this great Union, this gigantic system
thus interviewer with the welfare and desti.
f MES of twenty millions of people, was mere
football for southern slave drivers to play will
, after dinner They fancy that the northern
states are peopled with low minded, con
l. lractcd, pnslanimous "dough- faces" win
-. are Just fit to be tools and serfs to sontherl
T. gentlemen Yet they are weak minority
and unassisted, would be but a mouihfu t,
,s the united power of the Norhmen."-
n They cannot be such fools as to make al
# these threats relying only or their own weak
&c ness to make them good. Who then wi
:. help them! To the doings at Baltimore OF
rs the 29,h of May. we must look for an an
-, swer. Who went there bearing the claim
IS of one of their number, backed by the voic
ii of two thirds of his party? Who had ther
m the pleasure of seeing their man quetl
r.. kicked out of the convention in the face {
he majority pretendedly favorable to h
ed claims, and of being forced by contempt
no BILE minority to take up with contemptib
AT tool of that minority, never before thought o
- Who was it that endorsed the doings of the
~ misrcpresentaIives, by yelling long and lou
al hosannas to this newly canonized saint 2
Co Who are now urging his election with q
E, their might, that the demands Of their sout
,le ern masters, may be satisfied that the Uni'
may be preserved by concession ?
,
Ike Answer: The Democracy "Of Il
IN. North. They it is, who instead of repelli'
BILE with scorn and defiance the multiplying ms
lev lence that dares TO threaten dissolution
,rk Texas be not annexed, are preaching a
all ncxaton. and the extension and perretuai
in of slavery, and that to northern freemen !
Nh. Will northern freemen bear to be told tt
md they must do this act of enormous inJusti
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