Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-06-28

KEN and the plot evaporated without haru,
j Duff Green had been paid a thousand dol
lars by the Tyler Administrations, out of tn
United States treasury, for bringing tina
plot from London; but it was money lost
Then came the Worlds Convention plot
also located in London, for the abolition O
slavery throughout the world--the Unite,
States inclusyely; but it came up ieebly
and had no run. Then came the incendi
airy transportation mail matter plot; anC
that, for while, threatened to break up the
transportation of mails, and to leave the two
halves Of the Union in state of non-nter
course. 1t ripened into bill for searching
the mails, and then expired Then came
the incendiary petitions plot. That occu.
pied the time Of Congress for several years
and considerably alarmed the country, unit
every body saw that it was game per-
formed by two sets of players, playing into
each others hands for their own benefit al
home, and getting up an agitation, of which
the public peace and the public business
was the victim. 1t then died out. Thus
all the abolition plots, pretexts for second
notification, failed. They were what the
New York law by statute, abolishing Lat.
IN, lnterprets the writ of ne Great TO be no
go.
In the meantime there was an episode
which will require full history some day,
but which can only be hinted at now, 10
complete the picture. 1t happened that al-
ter Mr.. Van Buren's election, Mr.. Calhoun
became sort of supporter to his admins
tratlon; and, upon the principle that one
good turn deserves another, expected his
support for the succession. That involved
a scheme for Northern votes. There was
slave subject which prevented 1.-THE iber-
alton OF American slaves by the British au-
thoritles in the Bahama Islands, who had
revolted against their owners, committed
murder and piracy, and carried their mas
tiers vessels into British ports. When these
enormitles occurred, Mr.. Calhoun took up
the cause of the South with Justice and We
hemence, and stood by him When he
took 1t into his head to become Van Buren's
successor, he abandoned the South, and left
me and few others alone, by the side of
the Inflated owners of the Comet, Encomi-
um, Creole, Enterprise, and others. In his
new born zeal, then, to please the north, he
shot ahead--he must always be ahead
beating Woodbury., Buchanan, and other
es on the Northern side of the question.
Some view of this may be seen in my
speech on the Ashburton treaty but the
subject requires separate examination, and
shall receive it, but not now. 1t will be
curious episode, and will place Mr.. Calhoun
second time where he was in ISI9-20-
on the northern side of the slavery question
but only for brief space. Mr.. Van Buren,
preferred to try to be his own successor
and the Texas treaty having gone over with
out making its author President, and the
Mexican war promising large crop of pop
uIar Presidential candidates, new political
test became necessary and, the tariff ques-
ton being settled by the act of lS46, Il re-
course to slavery and abolition became in
dlspensabe Hence the fire brand resolu-
tons of lS47-a fire brand which has had
the singular fate Of dying out where it was
put, and of raising connagration thou
sand miles off
The design of these resolutions, then,
points directly to the subyersion of the Tn
ion. 1t is their language. And for what
cause? Fer cause SO absurd and unioun-
ded, so contradlcted by his own conduct,
aud by the whole action of the government,
from It's foundation TO The present day, that,
being confronted with his own conduct, he
has never dared to ask vote upon his reso-
lutions.
The object of these resolutions, Col. Ben
ton, says was TO get up an issue in favor of
slavery, on which no Northern man could
stand, and 60 to secure Mr.. Calhoun's cleo
ton. Col. Benton SO told the people of
|, Oregon at the time, and he now says that
Cass and Butler were defeated on issues
growing out OF these resolutions the object
OF these resolutions, however, was to secure
Mr.. Calhoun's nomination, and falling in
that, he got up the meeting of Southern
members of Congress "a meeting with
closed doors-every citizen, not an actual
member from slaveholding State, was ex-
cuded-even Mr.. Bib, of Kentucky, a
former Senator, and who was turned out
under the special decision of Mr. Calhoun
himself. Members came upon invitation.
was not invited, and would not have gone
II had been. Gen. Houston was not lnvi-
ted, but went without invitation, and moved
the opening of the doors to the public, which
was voted down. | have been told that dis
union was expressly discussed; and that
would seem to flow, as a regul n conse-
qnence, from the fundamental proposition
OF the original address, drawn up by Mr..
Calhoun, and assmilating itsaimportance to
the declaration Of wrong which separated
the American colonies from Great Britain,
and giving higher importance to the pres
ent crisis, as going beyond the former, and
involving not merely rights, but life and
Properiy--every thlng-the safety of the
South, and ALL
Col Benton goes on TO analyze the pro-
ceedngs OF that convention, and to show,
by passages in the address as originally re-
ported by Mr.. Calhoun, that he aimed d.
rectly at disunion that he sought TO bring
about Convention of Southern States. He
had sought such a Convention at the rejec-
ton OF the Texas treaty in 1874, and he
tried It again at the passage of the Oregon
bill, but IN both cases was foiled The
Southern Congressional Caucus, however,
was failure. The Wings hauled off from
1t; only part of the Democracy remained,
and many of them for innocent and auda-
BILE purposes. Nothing came from this Con-
gress Convention but an emasculated adj
dress, deprived of the venom in his head
and of the sting in its tail, and proposing
nOfhinU The contriVanca for tho