Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-12-31
Hear "IIonest John Davis ~

g" entirely aware Mr. President, tho time
would have been much If question had present
Congress- that might have received suitable degree
5ldelIon Bgt return to te3 inquiry rhy should tbs clause
insert IN tue O mat there be an accession OF territory in
voluntary tudc shall not exist within that territory Now
should like to hear if there be any why it should
exist. should like hear good and sufficient reason
such as would satisfy the country why this provision should
nent going 10 lend Wbat is 10 So ncS,.eS i WIZ
has been stated matter of public that
g1i 5S nS @ss h mat Ssog Country to be ssb1
S1.sTEs TO BE ~ C0.vSTHTUTED y"
Ahei much interruption from Mr. Lewis, Senator Davis pro
g" Is impossible, Mr. President, under the
which exist to discuss this question it is impossible to
protest. laad far as my rots . concerned shall not Pre-
bin quite satisfied with provision of the bill
stands and if it had been originally introduced here would
cesson or acquisition oftorrtory that prorisiom shomId
Be appended TO the biH, and made a part OF 81.
His friends from the South could certainly consider all
offensive towards them that he should be in favor of retaining it,
if he should them that they seemed to be little amb
ous in this The acquisition of territory Soutl
limits rdounded to their benefit altogether the newly
acquitted territory ranged itself their How many
there who their accession
of territory, made since the formation of the Unon' There
son of territory extensive enough to furnish ten more
consutod' If California be annexed, that region
pretending least of the Mexican Republic, with in
States Union, say seems be which
rel deserres ne attention OF the Free States,
be cODsfeIefy sHbperfed and made to incline in favor
of their Southern friends is pregnant with
quenes that highly alarming the country it is matter
that will aga,e the country from one end Q Il to The other
! The sum and substance of the whole is, that
nearly all the members from the free states Of both
parties voted for the amendment, and all the slave
members voted against it. What, then, do the
! facts show?
! F1rst-That The SLAVE STATES WILL PRoBA-
BLY, UNITE without respect to old party distinctions,
tn sustain the administration in its wicked policy
and
Second-That The North OUGHT TO UNITE TO
RESIST THAT ADMINISTRATIONS. This, Freemen
of the Fourth, is the very thing we urge you TO do
to do it in Seifdefence-to do it in behalf of the
cause of Freedom and Humanlty to do it nolr
before it is too late to do it, by defeating a friend
of this administration, Mr. PECK, ,0ho has mere,
deigned to pledge himself upon This question; and
finally to do it by voting for GEORGE b. CHAND-
LER. who HAS frankly and nobiy come up TO he
mark Of an honest lchole Soded Northern man,
and ptcdged himself AGAINST SLAVERY" and
AGAINST THE ADMISSION OF SLAVE STATES
INTO TIE UNION" This, too, we repeat Is the
high and noble ground taken by THE WING PAR
Try OF VERMONT IN OUR OWN LEGISLATURE.
And now what does tins Wilmot trick prove as
to the Locofoco party in Congress? Mark its date
AUGUST 8, 1876; mark its phraseology-
THAT express AMI fundamental condition to the ac-
QUESTION OF territory, &C. by virtue OF any treaty which
MAY BE NEGOTIATED" &c.
Itapplied, then, only TO territory thereafter to be
acquired! The