Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-08-25

scheme OF political corruption, that ever disgrace
ed free people, was organized to sustain SOUTH ,
ern ascendency BY the annexation OF TcXas.-
And this has been patiently borne An unjust
and disgraccIul war has been waged with Il SIS
ter republic, a national debt incurred that Will
hang like a milestone upon the necks OF onr
children for half Il century, and thousands of
lives sacrificed by peslilence and the sword, 10
crafty the ambition Of Southern prize-fighters
and politicians. This. too, has been patiently |.
borne; and after all this, ask. is 1t fair to insist
that the paltry indemnity which we have re-
ceived for all this loss of treasure and blood and
honor shall enure to the exclusive benefit OF the
Sou'hl So far as Slavery already exists be-
meath the Ggis of your State constitutions, we
seek not to Interfere with it. We leave its abo-
lition, or its maintenance, to your own con-
sciences and the suggestions OF your enIiThteI-
ed sclfinterest; but we must not, and V not,
be asked to aid you in extending it in forcing
upon free soil curse, which you have often
complained that the cupidity the mother coun-
try. in your aye of colonial dependence. forced
upon YOU
Upon this point, the North is no longer to be
! reasoned with. It has to use a parliamentary
phrase, moved and sustained the previous qnes-
ton and its will can be defeated only by the
same means of congressional corruption, by
which the annexation Of Texas was Effected
The people of the North cannot again be hood
winked or cajoled, and, rs believe and trust,
they are prepared to do what they ought to
have done when that great outrage was perpetra-
ted-to resist namely, to every extremity, and
by all the lawful means, that God and nature
have put into their hands.
There is a class of Northern politicians who
seek every opportunity OF parading their obse
quous subserviency to the will of the South, and
their contempt for the sectional interests oftheir
own people; who prefer Presidential candidates
pledged to ultra Southern interests and policy,
and who, had the choice Of the late Baltimore
Convention fallen upon Slater and Williams,
would have hailed the nomination with ms un-
hesitaiing devotion as they have that of Cass
and Butler. Such men abound in every demo-
cratic State in frozen New England, in the
fertile West, throughout the middle States and
whenever the occasion of Southern gentlemen
gentlemen demand curb for Northern freedom
of action and speech, in the shape Of gag.rule,
or a motion fer the previous question, or to lay
upon the table. at an ungracious moment, they
have only to signify their pleasure to some son
of New Hampshire, who has studied political
ethics under Hubbard and Hill, or some Penn
sylvania broadhorn, who believes in Polk and
the tariff of AZ.
lfthcn, by any chance, there are democrats of
: this stamp in the present House of Representa-
tlres, it is probable enough. that, by the Of
familiar appliances, Congress may vet be Undue
ed to adopt the Compromise Bill or some other
equally insidious and mlschevous scheme; but
its passage will produce tornado of popular IN
dignation to which all former tenpests will be
, but zcphyrs. The entire Northern people will
; demand repeal, and not "A representative will he
returned 10 the next Congress from the free
States. who is not pledged to that mcasurc.--
There are abundant and unmistakable tokens Of
"A fixed in fIo \, rtl ia
consent TO no arrangement. by which one foot
OF American soil now legally or actually free
shall be contaminated by the spread of Slavery,
ana the movement which has now commenced
will 60 on gathering strength, until it shall have
accomplished its obJect--ihe legal restriction OF
Slavery. namely. to its present lm's-or have
: rent this Union into fragments. When speak
of uneGuivocal tokens, do not refer to late re-
! markable movements among the democratic
party.leaders in New York and elsewhere
These are important, not as expressions. but as
indications, of popular opinion. The insligators
OF these proceedings are very far from being tic
or'g'nators OF the feeling, which now controls
the masses OF the North, except in far the r
r own former outrageous treachery to Northern
rights and interests has contributed 10 provoke
1t. They are dextcrourlv Selling and convert
ing to their own corrupt and selfish purposes an
! honorable enthusiasm, which they derided as a
denied as an unjust and unchori,able hostility
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