Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-04
From the augusta ConstitutjOnalist,
TInekling 10 AhOIitiOniSm.

1t is startling position for any southern paper
published in save-hoding State, to assume that this
country should yield up to the enemy her territorial
conqucsts, because the nonsave holding States may
dissolve the Union, rather than submit to a further
tension of slave territory. That such is the position
taken by the Chronicle Seminal, have asserted,
and we have styled it Trucking to Aboitionism Lest
readers should suppose that we have done injustice
by that assertion, publish entire, the remarks of the
Chronicle on that subject Our readers can thus beti
ter Judge of the proprley of the terms by which
have characterized that position. Such entire sur
render at discretion of Southern rights to the fell spir-
| it of Abolitionism we believe is unparalleled If the
term, Antslavery prejudces, be more agreeable, We
substitute it, and insist that the Southern States will
never submit thus tamey to be controlled and dictated
to by those States, which certainly have only an equal
right with them in government its present proper
! ty and its future acquisitions. The free states bully
u.s. and threaten to dssoye the Union any more slave
territory be added to the Union In other words if all
future acquisition of territory whether by conquest or
purchase, be not surrendered up to the free aboers of
the North and West thus excluding the Southern
Suites from all participation in it. then the North and
West will dissolve the Unon-yea, in the panic strick-
en- language of the Chronicle "will rend it into flag
ments" For one, free to admit that the Union
is valuable is very valuable, and should be cherished
by the South She has paid enough for it in all con-
science, both in blood and treasure, to place a high
price upon it, The battle fields Of the revolution, eve
ry spot by land and by sea haOwed by recolections
of American valor will attest the blood it has cost the
South. The heavy tariffs which have been imposed
upou people, to feter the commerce of the South
with Foreign countries, and build up Northern cities
ut the expense Of Southern labor, will furnish data to
estimate the amount of money the South has paid to
enjoy the privileges and blessings of the UnioL. She
has paid her quota in blood and treasure for an equal
share in the common property and acquisitions well
as common fame and go"y of tina. Union, She will
not abandon for Uht CauSe Rut while she
g it will not be on suferance-by the gracious permis-
sion OF her assocaes-as an integral, but inferior por
q ton OF the Union On this question the South will
be united and act State If the free States are
opposed to the institution of slavery and regret its
= recognition by the Constitution, be it so. They are
. entitled to their opinion. But if they assume para
mount rghtto prescribe to it bounds within hetcrrito
tora limits of the Union and to say shall extend
into certain territory which is common property both
of the free and of the slave States the South will sub
nit 10 such dctaton 1t will allow no such usurp-
i alton and appropriation Of Joint domain to the sole
use of the free States 1.-THE free Sates threaten to
dissolve the Union, because not above to dictate
terms, let them do Let them goou Of the copart-
+ nership and welcome. But in going, they will
i then have to submit to an equitable division Of the
public domain In either event. whether they stay in
l. or go out the south will give up her fair share of
Il 1.-The spoils of the vanqusled" New Mexico and
e California now by the fortunes of war; American
uO1ldD. Iney are, OF are 10 pe permanent GCqulSl-
tons No body can seriously believe that the Anglo
lie Saxon which has planted its foot there viii
abandon tHem The Southern States have contributed
e their proportion at teGSt to obtain them. Their popu-
aton will insist upon the right fsengthem, IN COM
mon with their ellowcltlzens of other States, and will
} carry their institutions along with them. The Mexi-
II cans never drive them out, if inclined so to
c do They will not allow their countrymaa to do
y It, who go there with no greater right than themselves
1t may IN time become matter Of compromise as TO a
. fair division of the territory between the slave holding
and non-save holding States. But the South will not
d be buled into abandonment of the country by the
threats of the free States
The South yielded more than she should have done
d in the Missouri Compromise. She then went TO the
d very extremity of concession 1t was grave conces-
sion that slavery should not under any circumstance
extend north of prescribed line instead of that be.
ting left as it should have been to be governed by the
option of the citizens of the soil.
The opinion of the Chronicle in favor of ubandon-
ing our newly acquired territories is harmless only, so
far as such opinion conduce to that result But it
is pernclous coming as it does from Southern print
on account of the assigned. The reason is,
that the Southern States will insist upon the right of
occupying portions of those countries with their slaves
and that the Northern States threaten a dissolution
of the Union, if not uowad to exclude Southern in
sttutions and hem the South in by a Gordon of new
: non-slavehoding States We hope no other Southern
!, print will shrink from the maintenance of Southern
:, rights on this question: cover beneath the gascona-
ding threats OF the Anti Slavery men and the Adolf
tionists whether they be Wings or Democrats
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A NUTsHELL-3,000 slav $ in the country
We have been nation 70 venrs 1'ho Gosnc1 10 ho,n