Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-12-06
THE BETRAYED NORTH.

1t is mournful to reflect on the aspect which the
North presents in the late contest. Ohio has in-
deed covered herself with glory But New York
and Pennsylvania have proved false to their trusts
as the leading free States of the Union. Michigan
is indeed subiectto the same condemnation, but she
is small in NUMBERS and like all new settled re-
gions ALMOST necessarily Of uncertain and unsound
politics.
The leading Wing issues in the late canvass Of
right demanded the support of the free States. The
Tariff protected and encouraged free labor espe-
cially Texas, which we opposed is also designed
to give preponderance to the slavt States over
the free States, in the councils of the Union. And
yet we find the great States of the North elevating
to the Presidency the advocate Of Texas and the
enemy of the Tariff 1t is enough to cover North
ern faces with shame and humiliation. For our
selves born in the North bred under her social in
huences loving her free institutions, chershing her
glorious history, and bound to her fortunes for veal
or for woe, cannot but feel humbled in the dust.
Nor can we look with composure on any Northern
man, of whatever party, who has contributed to this
dishonorable and Illuminating result We feel as if
each and all of them had proved traitors to the
land which gave them birth, or which affords them
shelter and protection--as if, in word, they had
basely sold their JithrigM for mess of pottage.
1t is true that the entire Wing party, comprising
large majority of those who have stake in
Northern welbeing, and casting nearly one half
of the Northern vote even at this election, have
stood firmly and faithfully by the rights of the
North. 1t is true that the Northern Loco Foco
leaders and ofice-seekers have always been dough-
faces. Mr.. Polk himself, styled them the "natur-
al allies of the Southland nothing was to be ex-
pected from them. 1t is true that the adopted citi-
zens, who voted almost in body against US, being
comparatively recent immigrants, naturally felt less
interest In the peculiar principles of the North, as
contradistinguished from thogS of the South. All
this can be understood and&Spreciated.
But there is one class Of Northern Citizens
the Liberty party-for whom no such excuse can
be framed 1t is true that their leaders, Southern,
man, alien by birth and education to Northern prn-
cipes and sympathies, but he had professed to be-
come a convert to them, and had chosen his resi-
dence among us. Both he and his party were We
hement in their expressions of hostility to South
ern institutions and Southern policy. They out
Heroded Herod. Wings, even, did not go far
enough for them. And yet when the time for ac-
ton arrived and the question was to be decided at
the polls, they were found ON the side of the South
They conducted the throughout for its ben
eft. They assaied the Northern cause and candi-
date from the stump, and through the press, with
unceasing viruence. They voted SO as to defeat
the Wing electoral ticket wherever they could, and
7 especially in the great State of New York. They
elected James X. Polk They betrayed the North
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