The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1847-03-20
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The Three Million Bill.

snake, to exoncrate the locos from blame in
their vote ON this Bill, The editor figures in
every way which can throw dust in the eyes
of the people, and does not dare to come out
and tell them the plain truth.
The facts are these. The Three Million
Bill, AS is we'll understood by all parties, is de-
signed to place that amount Of money at the
disposal of the President, with the aid of which
he may in some way secure portion of the
Mexican territory, but in 'chat wny,he chooses
to keep in his own BOSOM The whole of the
northern Wings, and portion of the northern
locos, will consent to such an appropriation
only on condition that the territory acquired
shall be exempt from slavery. But in the
Senate, five of the northern locos vote with
the slave holders against this provso, and the
Patriot says if they had voted in favor Of the
provso there would have been tie that it
was not in their power 70 have saved the pro-
viso But the editor of the Patriot very well
knows two things, first, that if these five north
ern dough.tnccs had voted for the proviso and
thus tied the Senate the Vice President who is
Il northern man, would have had casl;nr
vote and could thus have saved the proviso;
&sccond he knows that he was imposing de-
ljbrrate deception on his readers when he made
the statement he did The truth is the locos at
the north are determined To Join hand in hand
with the slave holders in every measure which
can in any event secure and extend In" in
stitution Of slavery. The prime and moving
object of the war with Mexico was and is to
acquire more slave territory, and with a very
few exceptions the whole northern loco repre-
scntation in Congress have acted heart and
hand with the slave holders in the prosrcu.
ton ofthis war. The indisputable object OF
the Three Million Bill is also to acquire terri.
tory for slavery, and the northern locos would
not suffer proviso 10 that Bill, excluding
slavery from the territory which the Govern.
mcmt is determined by fair means or foul to
wrench from Mexico, 1t is true, the provso
was offered by northern loco, and his move
mcnt was received with loud applause by all
parties at the north, but the locos were soon
whipped into submission to the slavery dicta.
ton, and the high minded Wilmot was desert.
ed by his party.
But the Patriot says:
ave do not see how patriotic members could
have done otherwise than vote for the bill as
it came from the Scnatc"--without the provi.
so. We would with all due respect enquire
then, why our able and independent representa-
tive from this district lodged the question -
Does the Patriot mean to institute that he was
not ''p atriotic member
The Patriot warns its readers to expect ga
good deal of froth and fury about these days. 3"
They will probably witness some of the same
feeling as was exhibited by the people when
Benedict Arnold attempted TO sell his country
\ feeling of grief and indignation then pcrva-
dcd the community, and something of the
same feeling now prevails in the northern
states towards those who have BETRAYED the
cause of freedom, and used their influence to
bring the whole country ut the feet of Slavery.
p. 5. As a general thing, the meaning of
the editorials in the Patriot will be better UNI
derstood by substituting the word .Sarery in
cases where the word tie or oar 'scouniry' is
used. The Lions skin must come off.
GENERAL ORDERS FROM THE WAR DEPART
MENT in relation to the new regiment, author
lied by the act of the 1lth ult, are given in
Wednesday, nights Union. They direct the
raising of the regiments in the different States
without delay, the established recruiting reg
ulatons to be adhered to- SC. The following
is the sixth order:
The officers appointed, and the ten compa-
MES to be recruited in the States of Maine, az:
New Hampshire (2): Vermont O; Rhode l.
sland ~; and Connecticut (2), will constitute
"The Ninth Regiment of Infantry" to be COM
handed by Colonel
Head Quarters established for the present at
Boston. Fort Constitution and Fort Adams,
X. l., will be used as receiving depots for the
| regiment, and the concentration of companies,
preparatory to their immediate embarkation
for the seat of war.
u The Belknap Gazette, published at Mcr-
edith Bridge, IN H., has passed from the
hands of Col LANE, a well known federalst
and n radical locofoco, into the ha nds of D. B
ALLISON, Esq, and the paper has changed its
politics from radical Polkism to Independent
democracy.
NJ The President has just made an ddtion-
al batch of military appointments, amounting
to 1S4 officers. OF these, 100 are from the
slave States! A greater disparity even than
there was in the first list, made out pl eviuus to
the rejection Oft Wilmot Proviso. Well, if
those who reap the spoils of Office must be the