The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-11
Festival of the Victors.


Hampshire, who were successful in defeating
the Texas ~ Slavery advocates in the recent G.
lection celebrated their success at Manchester
on the Goth ult. by public supper. Several
speeches were made by Independent Demo
Gratis and Wings, and letters read from others
John G. Whittier, the poet, ofMass., wrote
letter which was read The following is n
passage from it;
"May you all in your proceedings manifest
a generous and magnanimous spirit. The
great body of the people of your State really
love liberty, and will not fail TO sustain its
friends so long as they pursue an open and
manly course, Tho hearts and consciences
of many who voted against you, are, after all,
on your side. Many voted wrong, because
they were deceived as to the real issues ofthe
contest. Abroad, in every section of the Free
States, thousands of honest Democrats are re-
ioicing over the returns of your election
When was at Washington during the past
winter, one of the leading members of the
| Democratic Delegation in Congress, said TO
me on the very day, when, under the party
drill, he gave his vote for Slavery and Texas,
Il
aud hope to God he vii! demonstrate by his
success that it is safe to be honest"
This Democratic member of Congress was
not, probably, the Hon. Paul Dillingham;
! Horace Greedy of the Tribune wrote as fol-
lows--(cXtract.)-
"Thc contest between Slavery and Freedom
respecting Texas, though the hollow-h hearted
and time-serving may proclaim il already over,
| it is in reality Just begun. We have lost a
great battle, it is sadly true; hut it is a Bunker
| Hill or at worst Borodino; it is NOT Jena or
n Waterloo. Your repeated indeeisive Skin.
mishcs and final triumph are an earnest that
my words are those of truth and soberness. !
know that the implied or privately stipulated
conditions of Annexation have not yet been
half fulfilled, and believe several of the mos:
odious 10 Northern sentiment, including the
assumption of the Debt of Texas by our Gov
ernment, have been purposely kept back until
after your election. | was recently in the
Senate when a most prcpostrrous claim on
our Government for $4,000, to be paid to
Texas as the value of certain goods inadyer-
family landed on tue Texas bank of the Rcd
! River by an American steamboat, seized by a
Texas collector as imported into Texas with
out entry at the Custom House, and reclaimed
for the owners by an Arkansas mob, was car
nestly debated for an hour or more and plump
| ly voted for by nineteen champions ofAnncN-
alton, though there was no evidence that the
goods were worth even $4,000, no foundation
for the claim in equity, and no support for it
confessedly in either precedent or lnterna-
tional Law. And though voted down by % TO
10 one of the Anncxationists who voted u
gainst it--himselfa Stakeholder though rep
resenting Free Statc-was induced to move
reconsideration, which prevailed, and the
bill now stands on the orders of the Senate,
ready to be pushed through whenever the time
shall seem propitious. / believe this is but an
entering wedge for other claims equally mon.
strous and far more formidable. We have al
ready seen Texns--in utter defiance of the
miserable prcteuce ola Compromise in the
Anne King Joint Resolution of our Congress,
which prcscribes that so much of her territory
as lies above 36 deg. 30 min. North shall be
Free Terrtory--form Constitution which
makes Slavery the fundamental law of the
trholc, as well above as below that line, and SO
rivets the links oforganized and lcgali2ed OPP.
preston that the consent of orery indiciduqi
Shareholder will be requisite to abolish Slavery
at any time hereafter. Such is the audacious
untiring conspiracy against the rights of man
which we of the Free Stntes are required by
every consideration of duty, honor, intcres,
and hereditary Feeling to resist to the utmost
And as New Hampshire enthralled has fol
many years abased herself most servilely al
} the feet of the Slave Power, may not trust
that New Hampshire regeneratcd will be mos
prominent and fearless in resisting it? In the
ardent hope that she may be, ask your con.
currence in this sentiment:
The Free Stdtes--Now but Thirteen to Fif
teen-us they just equal in number, let then
emulate in spirit the Old Thirteen and united
, ly resolve that not another inch of Slave-curs
ed soil shall be added to, not another Slave
State admitted into, our Federal Union"
THE EASTERN FREsuErs. The Mayor of
Bangor has issued proclamation respecting
the loss of property at that place by the recen
flood. The Objects to quiet the minds of per
sons abroad who may feel an interest in tn,
business part of the community at Bangor ,ant
the Mayor states that from the best informa
ton he can obtain, he is of opinion that tho
loss does not exceed 100000. GA large portion
of this sum falls on men who can bear the los.
without great Inconvenience, and the remain
der is divided among large portion of ou
men of usipess, but few ofwhom will feel tn,
loss severely"
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