Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-09-14

party protesting to be, beyond all other par.
ties of the country. friends Of liberty aud
enemies Of African slavery IN the Southern
States. Why, the very first thing that Mr.
Van Buren, did, after his election to the
! Presidency, was to declare that il Congress,
+ in any manner or degree, interfered with
. slavery in the District Of Columbia, he
: would veto their proceedings; the only in
stance in my knowledge in which Presi-
dent Of the United States undertook to veto
| acts of Congress in advance, and before
they we're passed Yet he did it..
&c must 90 into the Presidential chair"
5 said he, 4" the inflexible and uncompromsing
5 opponent of every attempt on the part of
Congress to abolish slavery in the District
, of Columbia, against the wishes Of the
slaveholding States and also with deter
mination equally decided to resist the slight
1 est interference with il in the States where
it exists and in his Inaugural, he adds,
: F" submitted also to my fellow citizens
9 with fullness and frankness, the reasons
: which led me TO this determination. The
e result authorizes me to believe that they
: have been approved aud are confded in by
: majority Of the people of the United
G States, including those whom they most inn
mediately affect. 1t now only remains to
Y add, that no bill conflicting with these views
can ever receive my constitutional sanction"
t In the next place we know, and remem-
a Der, that Mr.. Van Buren's casting vote was
!, given in the Senate for a law Of very doubt
fuI propriety, to say the least; that is, for
= authorizing the postmasters Of various
: States to open the mails. to see if there were
e any ncendiary publications in them. | do
d not say that there was not constitutional
y power in Congress to pass that law but
if say it was a very extraordinary law, and in
d dictates certainly a readiness to conform to
n whatever the gentlemen of the Southern
!. States suppose to be essential to the main
II tenance of their authority over their own
n population. So far, however, as respects
d that, so FAR as any thing occurs tina, endan-
It gers the lives and property of the South, by
e instigating 4 rebellion among the slaves so
e far agree that there may be great proprie-
l. ty in such regulations of Congress, in dis
= tricts where Congress has any authority
II which shall prevent such results.
i Bat, gentlemen, no man has exercised a
d more controlling influence over the slavery
r, question in this country than MIR Van Bu-
= ren. take it that the most important deed,
and one Of the most important events of our
J. time, tending to the extension of slavery
C aud its everlasting establishment on this
II continent was the annexation Of Texas in
:, 1874. Where was Mr.. Van Buren, then,
is let me ask Three or four years ago,
n where was he! lie had been at the head Of
lie what was called the Spoil patty; he is now
It ut the head If what IS c. He'd the Sol or the
/. Free Sill party Every friend of Mir. Van
Uurou IA, f'A1rpasp ftr I tnC.p
!, ported ilat measure. The two Senators
u. from New York supp arted it, Allow me to
ID >ayehat nobody resi.,ted it bat Wings; and
h. say in the fice Of the world, say it to all
r. men connected with the Bufilo Convention,
n. or expecting to derive benefit from it, say
H. to all them, that there has been no body
o. of men, and no party in this country, which
,e has firmly and sternly resisted the progress
of of the slave power but the Wings.
Why, look at this very question of the
r. annexation of Texas. We talk of the die.
er tation of the slave power at least then
e, do; do not do not allow that any bod,
nd dictates to me; we talk of the triumph o
r. the South over the North. There is not {
re word of truth or reason in the whole of it
IN ! am bound to say on my conscience, that
ne think that of all the evils inflicted upon u.
st by these acquisitions and accessions Of sav,
al territory, the North has borne its full part
IS, Northern votes i" full proportion have beer
j. given in both Houses Of Congress, for eve
RI ~ instance of acquisition of slave ,erriior,
MS and extension of slave territory or the inhu
IN ence of slavery III our councils. We tall
~ of the North there has been no North.
n. think the North star is at last discovered,
m think there will be North but up to tn,
I'M recent session, there has been no North il
lr. regard to political questions-in regard Il
nj firm adhesion to what might be CONSIDERS
cb the interest of the North and the interest q
al patriots. Pope says:
In scotland at the Orc drs aud there,
W. At Greenland, Zenhl, or tho Lord knows where"
CHI And if we mean when we speak of tn
a North, a portion Of the country united i
ID just sentiments, firm, strong in opinion am
re- action against the further extension of sla
or very, if there has ever been such NORTH
is if it has ever existed anywhere, it has exi.
ted, the Lord knows where, | do not.
nst Why, on this question of the annexaiio
ny Of Texas. the Norhet in Texas the friend
ic- of Mr.. Van Buren, let in Texas. All tn
ar Wings in the Senate, with one or two e,
la ceptions at most, South and North, resiste
Z" j tAdS. en- tohuIncTu SeHatpfS tTOHl slave
lis holding States, recorded their votes again'
ov- Texas t~o only, as remember, fo it,
iin But these Southern votes, these Souther
ar Wing votes, from slayeholdng States again'
icy Texas, were overpowered and overruled b
de- the Democratic votes of the free States, an
rse New England among the rest. Yes,
all there had not been votes for the admisslo
len of Texas from New England, Texas woul
Ter have been out at this day. II New Eng
of land had been as true against Texas as III
aid Wings Of the South were, Texas woul
t have remained Texas still. There wei
e four votes in the Senate from New Englan'
left Mr. Van Buren's friends. Democratic men
ave beIs; one from, Name, two from Ne
f Hampshire, one from Connecticut and on
id | think gentleman who had held high o
lch flee under Mr.. Van Buren,; all his irenc
the and supporters they voted for Texas, an
all they let in Texas against Southern Wing
of That is the truth, my friends.
md When Northern members of Congre
,rs, voted in 1918 for the Missouri compromi: