Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-09-09

In auutiOH 10 tese pain ueClarhtlon5 lToin
an official quarter, we give the following article
from Folks organ, and remarks theteupon by the
New York Evening Post twill be observed
that the administration goes essentially FOR
SLAVERY. Whether the locofocos of the
North will resist this time, like men of mettie. or
succumb according to the rule Of progression
downwards remains to be seen. We suspect
they will grumbe at first, like the Evening Post,
and finally yield: but wait and see.
From the Washington Union,
We hold, therefore, that in the annexation of
new territory TO the Union, tho benefit should
not be confined to one section OF the United
States. The constitution itself declares that the
citizens of each state shall be entitled to all priv
ieges and immunites of citizens in the several
States.' This which applies to states, applies
with equal force to sections of the confederacy.
What though the non-slaveho!ding states may
have majority and a greater weight in Con-
gress than the representatives OF the slavehold |
ing states does it therefore follow that these last
are 10 be denied fair participation in the terri
tory thus acquired? What if the balance had
turned the other way, and the non-5la1eholding
states been thrown into the minority: would it
have been right for the other states TO abuse
this accidental power, and appropriate the whole
territory to their own population? The spirit of
compromise in which the constitution was formed
the community OF interests, Of benefits as well
as burdcns-woud have equally forbidden it in
that case as in the present. 1t is violation of
this principle which engenders heartburning and
strife. and strikes at the Union ITSELF
All these propositions appear very plain to us
and also that there is no other way, in case Of
collision, to settle the difficulty to remove the
danger, 10 bind tins inestimable Union together
H.. g. H,,t, a.
ciliatory temper, the same compromising spirit,
which originally formed the constitution, and has
kept the Union together. From the moment,
therefore, that the issue was presented during
the last session Of Congress, We have repadiated
the Wilmot proviso as dangerous to The union
and peace of our country We frankly tell our
friends in all quarters Of The country, that
not less enthusiastically devoted to the Union
than any of them; but that its benefits should be
shared alike by alias the dews of Heaven
which fall upon all that the South cannot be
expected to acquiesce in any other arrangement;
and that there appears TO be no other method OF
removing the difficulty than, in place of the Will
mot proviso, to substitute the spirit OF compro-
mise which has been twice acted on upon two
other memorable occasions. This opinion we
have previously repeatedly expressed, and we
repeat it now, with deeper conviction than ever
OF its truth. Let us not deceive ourselves. 10 re-
IuSe u.l acquisition OI teTllOIy HOtH mcalCO, us
the means off indemnity for the past and securl-
ty for the FUTURE would be worse than folly. 1t
would be confession of the weakness of our
political institutions. 1t would both be treach-
erous sacrifice to the spirit Of abolionsm, and
would manifest cowardly fear of the strength of
our government.
From the New York Evening Post.
AT length the thousands and millions of Dem
ocratic citizens of the free and the slave states
have presented to them the painful spectacle of
print established at the seat of government,
and claiming the honorable position of being the
organ of communication between the govern
ment and the public, so far forgettul of its duty
to maintain only those great and glorious inter
ests in which the very existence of liberty is
staked, as to advocate the views of peculiar
section, and these, too, of wrong and oppression.
We say the views Of section, and we might
have added quite small section Of the nation.
The cause espoused by the Washington Union,
is hostile to the interests of every freeman in the
Northern states-it is hostile tothe views of the
citizens of Delaware, and probably Of Western
Virginia, of Kentucky. Missouri, portion OF
| Tennessee and North Carolina, and to the unbi
ased sentiments of thousands of voters in the
slaveholding states, who have no interest in that
peculiar kind OF property.
1t is painful to witness this advocacy of mere
local institution, in which not more than mil
cunary interest," at the expense OF the welfare
and prosperity of n ncteen millions who have no
such interest; but vastly more painful is it to
witness print which holds the leadership of a
party, the most glorious distinction Of which is
that it defends The rights of man. and pledges to
their development and security its very existence
advocate the extension of human oppression and
the sacrifice of human rights Loyalty to the
principles which are SO dear to every democratic
wh nd
years of conflict with injustice, have as yet ac
| CURED only limited influence in the world
should burn with the purest fame in every dem
| ocratIc bosom.
And what is the ground upon which this ex
| tension of slavery is urged? ave hold, there
| iore,o says the Union, "that in the annexation o.
| new territory to the Union, the benefit SHOULD
| not be confined to one section Of the United
| States" So the extension of the territory will b.
| of no +" benefit" to our southern brethren Unless
| they can establish slavery in it. Is this III,
meaning of the Union? Does It intend to tell u,
that our southern citizens will take no pleasur,
| or derive no "beneht" from the spread of on
! glorious institutions unless they can thcreb,
! perpetuate oppression and injustice? Has thu
! addition of Iowa and Wisconsin, Of Michigan
and illinois. been of no benefit to the southern
portion of the Union, but the annexation OF Tex
as become the climax of their prosperity?
"Tbe Constitution itself declares that tn
citizens of each State shall be entitled to all tn
privileges and immunitIes OF citizens in the sev
eral ,slates.' The principle which applies t
states applies with equal force to sections of III
contedeiacy." Does the Union intend to sa
that it is II privilege" under the constitution G
the United Ststes to withhold human rights;
"privilege7 to extend injustice privilege un
der our constitution, to perpetuate the slavery an
degradation of the African race? Does it inca
to stamp such stigma on this most glorious in
strument OF human liberty? Perhaps the inten
ton was to say that it is an immunity" 10 whic
the citizens under this constitution are entitled
Does the UniGn mean to imply by this that slave
ry is an outrage which our constitution suffers il
citizens to commit; and does it at the same tim
asvocate the spread and diffusion of this outrage
1t can then be neither privilege nor an ain
munity" under this charter of our liberties,
Cypress or withhold civil and political rights fror
any human being, whether an American, Eu
ropean, African or Asatc!
And what are the grounds upon which we
the free states arc urged to act IN deadly hostil
~ TO our own nteTerts TO assent TO the extende
perversion of our institutions by lramplng on III
rights of man, and to shock the seb timents of lib
erly which are implanted in every breast. Be
cause forsooth, our brethren at the South, an
mated with the same spirit of liberty, and sens
hIA