The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-03-21
THE GALAXY.
MIDDLEBURY,VT
Tuesday, EIaroh q, 1913.
THE WILBIOT PROYISO.

THE WILMOT PROYISO.
at is no recommendation, as a friend OF
The Administrations says the Union, the
Administrations Organ. GO be n friend of
The WiImol Proviso." Father Richie has
come ont in the strongest terms OF denuncia-
lien against David WiImot, whom lie ac-
cuses of throwing this apple Of Discord into
The midst ofrhe Lncoloco ranks, for Il trea-
sonable purpose. The P-oviso may indeed
be considered as virtually abandoned by the
party now in power, and anxious, of course,
10 remain in power, at whatever sacrifice of
consistency. The course Of Gen. Cass in
relation 10 this question has been absolutely
weak and contemplate. One year ago, so
violent a Proviso man that even the strong
resolutions proposed in the Legislature of
Michigan must not be passed without the bra
cling interlineations o. his own day
he finds the Pr6yisU not only impoliIic but
unconstitutional Why this sudden change?
The breeze o Unpopular favor has shifted lis di-
%recIion. SIraws move wit h the wind-and
Gen. Cass is only a ''man Of straw We
are glad, for some reasons. that such Il man
exists. We are glad that his party have
placed him in so conspicuous a situation thai
all men can see him. While he lives, we
can always inlaIlibly tell which way the
wind blows.-And the weaihercOck now ia.
dicates most Enthusiastically that The Proviso
is 10 be totally abandoned by the Locotoco
party.
A recent vote on this question, in the
House, shows what progress Northern Loco
iocoism has already made towards This final
result. The question being the exclusion of
Slavery rom any Free Territory acquired
by The Treaty. with Mexico, (ihe mildest
form, too, in which the great principle could
he BROUGHT 10 the test J the motion WAS lost,
% TO 1O5. The resolution was killed by Lo-
coloco votes. The Wings of the Free
States, in a solid phaldnx, sustained Tie
ProviSo-casting 20 tores in its favor. To
hose were added 81 tout Cf48) Loco votes
and that of one Wing from a slave State
Nlousion of Delaware.) TwENTY.sEyEN
roies 10 TwEyrY-oyE, against the Proriso.
rere cast 6y LocoFoco members from the
Fee States. Remember this. ye abettors Of
Locoloco ism-whiIome The jealous cham
pions Of Birncy! And remember, too, thai
there was NOT 4 WIG VOTE from The Free
States bit ,ras cast against The erteaSieR Of
SIqrery!s
Do You care anything for the principles
about which you cldmor ST. loudly-you. we
mean, that have fucccedsdin your Infamous
purI ose Of defcaling the election Ct Eeury
LAY. and thereby ilunging orr nation into
a miserable and iGnomiuious war, waged for
no other purpose than the e.rtension and
p~erpeinaiioR IF SLAVERY? The Liberty
men OF the Norlh-(we sometimes call them
Il party by courtesy though they are indeed
but a handful OF disconlenied pOIifi-
rians bocnd together by no common prin-
ciples, and organized on no common basis,
but only 'Aocking together by a common I'M
pulse of uned SineSs. the cause of which they
do moi themselves understand we say, The
Liberty" men of the North have never vet
performed a higher office than to work as the
servile tools of Pro-Slavery Locniocoism.
All their influence has been against iree>
dom. And there is not n candid person a.
mong them who, on looking back with an
impartial eye upon The political transactions
of The last four or five years, can avoid see
ing that he has d)ne all IN his power 10 dc.
feat the very purpose for which lie processes
10 be Iaboring. We doubt not that there
are those who. lost in a solitary idea, and
bewiIdered and led as,ray by designing men.
nave Iabored honestly in The ranks Of Third
pariyism-buI we believe the number is
small, anSdaiy diminishing.