Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-08-07
THE POWER OF THE soTtTu

which have arrested our attention
"The annexation Of Texas, (says that manor, form,
in the history of otr country esnsc;ai
y the Southern portion of it. We have no oii-
sion here to the numerical strength, gained by the
South, in Congress. The North has the majority
and must have: her States are more populous, and
she has the Pacific for her boundary, which we will
aid her in maintaining, while the short-sghtedness
or fooshhess of our Representatives, has suffered
me indian tribes TO occupy The lands WeSt Of US
ne voice ol the South will have its due weight in
the Senate, by the new accessions but 1t is not of
this we speak IL IS He moral influence Of The South
ern Sfdtes as developed By The success of annexation
and lis cottdterdis that zoe feel proudest.
There was time when the South was humble
indeed. The new States of the West, rejoicing
like young giants in their growing strength, taught
us that the sceptre had departed from our Judah
Her oouUses were not heard in the land as before
Without unity of sentiment, and without concert
she saw doubtful powers, first exercised by ma
joety, as boon, then claimed audaciously as a
right The conservative virtues of the constitution
se0,+e9 wllerlng before avarice and power, like
Jonah's gosed underthe searching rays of an east
ern sun, and there was none to say to them, is
there no balm in Gilead, no physician there ?" Her
voice was negative sound in the tumult of an G.
lection Of a chief magistrate.
Look back to lS36-Georgia saw her voice i'm
potent, and threw away her suffrage hopeless
candidate, at the bidding Of those who we're Phar-
isees, but now idolaters. Tennessee and South
Carolina did SO too. In $780, nearly all the South
ern States voted for man who had removed to
Ohio to get clear of Virginia politics and Virgin.
ia niggers," and who ad uced the evidence of his
FRIEND Judge Catch, of Cia emont county, 10 prove
that he had been a consistent abolitonist And
what was the Standing of the Southern States in
| the Union, at the beginning of 1874? Huma-
ting indeed Mr. Clay proceeded in state, thro'-
out the South, to receive the featy of of the voting
population who had been transferred to him by his
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sers of an estate, which he had recently bought for
a consideration. He did not consider it necessary
even to respect their local prejudces and politics,
but trod them down as Juggernaut does its worship
ers. The idea of treating the annexation of Tex
as question Of moment, deemed useless,
because the South was the weaker power. Mr..
Van Buren, with characteristic astuteness saw, or
thought he saw, that the Southern States were too
powerless to waste time in counting, at the risk of
losing the huge votes of three great non-savehold
ing States whose prepossessons were most proba-
bly, against annexation. And he gave its friends
learned dsqusition de jure and de fdcto recogni-
tons with all the technical distinctions between
tweedle dun aud tweedle dee. He soothingy call
ed us "children Of the sum-" and left US to seek
friends of annexation elsewhere, while he went on
a similar errand for himself among those who
were stronger than we
But political sagacity was at fault and the lynx
eye Of politicians failed for once, penelr te the
, cOnllHpeUCleS OF future. He Ooutli,
aroused to sense of her situation by the singing
f irony Of candidate for her suffrages, and the
smooth indifference of the other, threw off the gos-
samer letters of prejudice and party, and taught
those who would spurn her, their lnsignifcance and
her strength. Who sent Mr.. Van Buren, to the re-
, trement of i.indenwod? Who could, but would
not, call Mr.. Clay from the shades of Ashland to
, the arena he loves well 1t was the Southern
/ States! Their indignant voice made involuntary
recluses Of the two sages, and called James X. Polk
from retirement to be the President of the United
States.
This event will sink deep into the mind of every
I rejecting Southern Vilified by foreigners,
traduced and paged by their own countrymen
will they not be true to themselves? Let them
learn concert from their success. Let them learn
it even from them who go with the unity of banditti,
before Congress- for leave to plumber the producers
of the country. But let them learn study the in
i teresls Of the South, and when the time calls for
action, to act with unity. The South yet possesses
v a moral force, that when called into action, may
stay farther incursons the Constitution and pre-
~ vent our Government from degenerating into ma
chine for extortng the labors of one class TO fatter
another. We have the staples which create the
trade of the country, foreign and domestic We
have every element of greatness and strength, anl
only need to know how and when to use them fo
l. our benefit"
l. We strove to abbreviate these remarks, but i
y seemed necessary to give them in full in order tc
Is shew t'e DHney'S" VI lhe trorh what ulelr prac
k teal allies think off South, and to point Out
> the onset which Southern anti tariff expect ts
II make on the tariff through the annexation of Tex
n as 1t was no, the South by the way that " called
er James X. Polk from retirement" but the Abolition
he lists 10 Western New York who did It, 10 then
IN be the honor due
TIE Macon Telegraph calculates that the anti
1 tariff strength of Texas will revolutionze the fl
is nancia legislation of the country. The write
IN mistakes. Texas sugar must make Texas taril
g. State and so add her votes TO- " The piunderers
e. the producers oil the country not subtract them:-
ID Meanwhile the real substantial interests OF virgin
q ia must compel her in few years to be tari
Stat in spite OF her nonsense OF w. and her ded
but ,,nburied politicians Again, the tariff is FORT
ne fled by "the democracy" OF Pennsylvania and
IL central New York. without whose votes there is nc
in ai,y democracy" A protecting tariff has cease