The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1847-03-13
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SAT RDAY, MARCH 10, ls47.
The Betrayal--The North Sold
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Many people who understand the game
ind tricks of the Polk leaders will not be sur
prised to learn that the Wlmot Proviso i
lost at last. After little show in its favor BY
a portion of the northern locofocos it was cuff
cred by them to be stricken out--and, we be
licve, IN accordance ,cih a systematic and ,cei
arranged plan by tie party, entered into from
tie beginning. 1t was defeated, revived, ant
finally defeated, with as much apparent sys
TEN as an adept in gaming would play hi,
games at cards. He that reads can see.
The getters up of the war want territory
and nothing else; and they are going straight
forward to get it as they got Texas. The
pretended opposition ofcertain northern loco
iocos and the votes upon the Proviso, ARE mere
episodes, thrown in to blind the north-and
those northern locofocos who voted for it did
so because they dared not do otherwise; while
the South got many from the party as they
wanted, such as represented strong locofoco
dstricts-and enough of these came in like
movable puppets when the contingency ar
rived to save the South and Slavery. Glad are
we, that throughout the uholc, crery northern
Whig, on ercry rOtc, rOted against S'arCry.
The Boston Atlas has the following upon
the subject:
"Contrary to our hopes, but hardly contrary
both to our expectations and fears, the
House of Representatives. have receded from
their stand in favor of the Anti-savery Provi.
so, and passed the Three Million Bill without
it. Members from Northern Free States have
betrayed their constituents, ~ sold themselves
and their country to those who will pander
their power to the bascst purposes. President
Polk has now full authority to annex as many
more slave States as he can buy or steal from
Mexico. The blghting damning curse of
slavery may now be spread over the fairest
lands of America, and where now its pestilen-
tnl presence is thing unknown. If, in the
mercy of Divine Providence, anything may
now occur to prevent this stupcndous calami-
ty, we can have no reason to thank those re-
have basey surrendered the North, thus man.
aclcd, to the tender mercies of James X. Polk
This outrage, monstrous it is, is no more
than we have ourselves anticipated, and no
more than we have prepared our readers to an =
ticipatc. 1t is no more than our able and well
informed Washington Correspondent has
throughout predicted; and in fine, it is no
more than would have happened at the close
of the last session, had not the evil day been
ave ted, at least for the while, through the a.
gency of Senator Davis. Nothing proves
more conclusively the injustice of the COM
plants that have been so unwarrantably made
against that gentleman's course. The same
House of Representatives that has now shown
the white feather, and yielded to Southern
usurpntion, would have yielded then. Thanks
to Senator Davis, we have gained thus much
respite.
We trust that the names of the recreant and
faithess Representatives., who have thus tri-
fled with our rights,and betrayed our interests,
will be everywhere exposed to the indignant
knowledge of the people, that they may be
branded, for the rest of their lives, with n
mark as abiding and indellbe as that of Cain
Let the slow, unmoving finger of scorn,
throughout the Union, be every where point
ed at them, and let them be forever set aside
and rejected for every place of honor and
trust.
They have betrayed their constituents, on
question where their dearest rights and priv
ileges, and where the honor of the nation and
the cause ofsufferng humanity were alike
involved. They are doubly traitors-traitors
to their God and to their country Henceforth
let the scorn and Kissing of man be their rich
ly-merited portion. They have voted to give
millions of our money, for what? To BUY
SLAVE TERRIToRY!-To EXTEND SLAyERy,-
They have REFUSED to say SLAVERY SHALL
NOT be extended there, and their refusal be.
comes an equivalent to declaring that it SHALL.
But, under Providence, there Ia one hone left,
All is not lost. Polk may obtain territory
with the money these northern traitors have
placed in his hands-but the next Congress
viii have voice as to the uses to which it may
be put. The next House of RepFesen natives
will pc Wing House, and will have full
power, fit will but exercise it, to avert the
calamity Of the further spread of Slavery