Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-08-27

No cure no pay" as the patent medicines
say. The North and the West are just at this
time boiling over with indignation at the under
handed trickery of the South. We have been
cajoled, bamboozed and put upon, say they,
and true enough they have. But what is the
use of crying 1t is just like tall, gawking
greenhorn, bubbering for being whipped by a
boy hall his inches. We do not belong to the
bhbbering party. So long as we can out-vote
the South t,oo to one in Congress, and foe to
one on a President, if with these advantages we
cannot beat half the time, let us brave our de-
feats like men, and acknowledge in no whining
phrase the superior generalship of our foes.
Southerners are not so much to blame for 60
ing IN for the South. Every man for his coun-
try. A Representative must look to the inter-
ests of his constituents whatever those interests
may be. Let the North and West do this faith
fully as do the South, and this performance of
the slave policy would be at an end If the
South, feeling their weakness, have to combine
in order to carry their slave measures, let the
North and West combine against them, not for
the purpose of oppression but to prevent unjust
legislation. Against such combination the South
dare not complain, as by their example they
compel us to this alternative.
A letter written from Washington on the day
of the veto of the Harbor bill, says;
"The Presidents Veto Message, to-day, fair
Iy reused up the Indignation of the Western
Members. They have been most elegantly cir
cumvented in this business The bill was kept
back until the Tariff was safe Now had our
Western friends insisted upon the return Of the
River and Harbor Bill with the Presidents sig
nature, as the only condition of their voting for
the Tariff, the probability is that the Bill of In
terna improvements would at least have been
suffered to slip quietly into law, by the expira-
ton of ten days limitation The Western
Democrats were in a sad humor-the Southern
ones never more delighted. 1t was an adroit
turning of the high cards"
"1'he Southern Democrats are in the ascen-
dant-the Northern fraternity are in the voca-
tive The management of Secretary Walker is
equal to any emergency AS political tacti-
tian he is unsurpassed. He makes every edge
cut in every direction"
True had our Northern and Western Mem.
bers " combined" during the present session Of
Congress, as have our Southern friends, some
thing like fair and just Legislation for the whole
people might have been had The folly is oul
own.
But greater advantage than combination
have our Southern friends just now. They have
entire control of the Executive power, an inhu
ence second TO none in the Government. Thi!
they obtained by de xterous manoeuvre at thu
Baltimore Convention. They have got South
ern President with Southern principles, and thro
him the North and the West have been mad
) subservient to Southern policy. Now, if tn,
people of the Free States, with their eyes opel
to all this, allow the same to be repeated in IS4e
the fault will be their own. The next Presiden
tial election will settle the question forever,
as long as the Union stands, whether the slav
policy shall have the predominance in this coun
try or not. Another four years will add slav
territory enough to the South to forever over
: balance the free representation of the North, an
! he must be blinded partisan indeed, who can
not see it,
Freemen Of the North beware The tim
for cancellation and action has come. Conn