Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-01-21

for its own purDoses. We need scarcely al
that the first of these theories is that of our owl
n Declaration of Independence and that the sec
~, ond is that upon which stands that prcciou
~ league. the Holy Alliance. which, in its assumed
ny right to partition out the soil and set up pull
w down the Governments of European States tina
owed if no obcdirncc claimed no right which
our President does not equally assert for himself
: when he woulJ ovcrtbrnw the Government o
Neyico in ordnr ",o oivo her n more REPUBLICAN
ono or .trin hnr of nrar half her territories. il
orJlr ~ G,rra from her mdemnitics which h,
himself distinctly admits She had and has n,
means Of n,,;n;, n,hor,vse than bv n larr,
alienation and transG,r of bor neonlc and soil
To comnel This martial sale nj herself he now
uryos that We should continue the war. still
more uureleutinglv as TO her blood more rama.
ciouslv os to hcr tr ,Slras and strike at The
vital nars'' of n nation unable TO resis; us How
do those States of our own. owing a foreign debt
which thev foo are utterly unable TO nav. mites,
IN tLc xo,;, ,,,,ouo, like This amazing doctrine
Arc ,hcy ,lso nar,is,ns of This war and of lis
obirctsEsubicrt 10 be Justly called upon 10 seIl
mir joL0LjiIu,s ami Mcir SOIL in order to lioui.
date bonds which they can lust AS little meet in
any other wav2 Or sbould Holland and Eng
Land nssun,inp rs we do TO act for their wronged
capitalists. proceed. upon our example. to eXtort
nv war the only sort of pavment which the les
scr of those indebted States can tender. with
what possible countenance can the rest of this
Union yainsav the demand while bloodilv nros.
ccu,inT a nrcciselv like one ,uo;ns, NIoxjco,
Every writer who is of the Smallest ,utboritv
in that rreat system of reason and of riuht called
National Law-tbnt system Of humane and prac.
Teal truths tbo Gradual develonncn, and rccor-
milton oc which mako m evor,, ,b;nG which 2
from nation in nation wdrtbv ~ ho entitled ciy'
ilza,jon-everv such writcr Two saw holds that
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rirh,frv ALLEVIATE i,s ,,,,,onnicJ ,orr,or;ns ,o, +
csnnni iisnosn bn, by iLoir consont nr ~ In.
L,IitnJ onas and tbcy carrv liz .n i,r ~. f.
,n,i,,t,in that mn, avon dosno;s 20 comno,ont N
mako with any valiJi,, snch , ,r,nsfnr If ,hoir
suL;octs sn,L,, b., Ia ooso,,t ~ an r,s,,ao,
All, ,utLor, L;,,i', nm, L. ,,;.J ESQ.,,
rron or IN ,rhtrar, rnlors hv on,, snch cn,n,,ui.
snry means as thoso uhic5 tlo pros;don, "p pnJ
his abettorS propose to employ in Mexico.
Such being the principles which have come
TO be received even in the Old World, among
States whose institutions and PRACTICES as 10
public right. still retain, in many particulars,
rules originating in ancient and arbitrary ages,
how should zee pretend TO set them aside ?-we,
who boast ourselves the iavorite progeny Of
Justice and of Freedom, banished SO long, but
ROW once more descending to bless the earth ?
Is it the Model Republic" which is now to
! suDNeTt WHal Nillns themselves nave Dccn AT
last taught TO respect! Are We, the refuge and
the hope OF Humanity, the gaze and the guide
oi every thing Liberal, the morning star of Il
new day of Right and OF Peace, before whose
rising beam Tyranny was TO skulk away and
'the oppressed :ejoice-ae ace - ,stli oach the
Wrongiulness OF those iron times which seemed
departed forever! Are we, the emancipators, to
rent te cast-oif cha'ns OF tyrants ana conquer
or' ana rc-lnaiaclc each weaker natioh that we
can hlunap!
ms Flhc'p'e Oh Il nation lree'w'' -ns
W o"'! ~ rs owl ~,
nations-is the fundamental axiom upon which
stands our own existence as a society: for, in
our Declaration of Independence, the first prop
ositon as to individual man is that he is born
tree and equal " TO each other individual and
the FIRST proposition as to men associated in So
ciely is, that they have an inallcuabe right to
choose how and by whom they shall be gov
erncd. Has this principle, heretofore an eternal
and Il sell-evidcnt truth, become false ever
since the President in his Message proposed by
force OF arms to deprive all New Mexico and
California forever of any right not To BE- gorerneai
bm by their orn consent!
But the principle thus made the CAPITAL one of
our own great National Bill of Rights is not
found there only. 1t has IA still lottier source =;
bccausr tina, sonrco is one which ,hn do,enor',cv
and inlatua,ion of no one pconlc can tnrn from
yeneration into scorn. The doctrinc Itself ,vas