Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-08-09

south, has boldly marched up to the line
on the question in the South. No conduc-
tor of the public press can be ignorant Of
how the question stands both North and
South. Read the following, from the Bull
letin:
"The people Of the South are ignorant
of the progress and extent of free soil prin-
cples. Many Of them have been deluded
aud cajoled by party hacks, into the belief
that free sellers and Wings are correative
terms, and that the great democratic party
are IN no wise tainted with the virus. The
tfnth has been nefariously concealed from
them Tor the purpose of advancing the in-
terests OF party; and the sectional differ
ences OF sentiment upon the predominant
question of slavery, with an infamous and
shameless degree of double-dealing, are
pressed into the cause. At the North, free
soil is the rallying cry. The heretofore d-
vlded Democratic party are reciprocally
mailing each other with the Macedonian
cry, "Come over and help us - and in a
iraternal spirit of concord, they rush into
each others embrace, ccmentng the union
by vocilerous denunciations of the Wings,
as the ninions and allies of Southern slave
ry. At the South, the recruiting service
is conducted on the same principle of false
hood and intrigue; and the unwary and
credulous are made to believe that the
Wings are indissolubly allied to abolition
ism. These are the tricks of party-in-
strumens to put down the present Admin
stration, and secure the ascendancy of Lo-
cofoco dynasty. Means so utterly unwor-
thy, and at variance with all that is truthful
aud honorable, cannot be attended with sue
cess"
No one can deny that there is much truth
in the above. Viewing the question from
so remote a position, and surrounded by
Southern influences, the editor has descri-
bed very correctly the case as it exists in
the North; and with unerring accuracy has
he stated the case as it is in the South
The time has come when the question must
be stated as il really is. The real friends
of freedom have nothing to apprehend from
a calm and dispassionate consideration
They have everything to gain. 1t is from
the demagogues who desire their own ele-
yaton to office, and who seize hold of this
subject and warp it to their own individual
gain, that the danger lies. Let us give one
more extract from the article above referred
to.
In view of the future progress Of this
country in population and territorial expan-
sion, the Bulletin thus speaks:
Let US look for moment at the extent
of this territory, now free, and the relative
strength of the free and slave-holding States
as well present as prospectively. The I'm
ion is now composed of thirty States, of
which fifteen are free and fifteen slave
States. We have two organized territories
Oregon and Minnesota; these are now
free, and will continue free when organized
with Stale Governments. New Mexico and
California will be admitted as States before
the adjournment of the next Congress, and
they will most assuredlv be free States
The contemplated territory of Nebraska,
which lies three and half degrees North
of the Missouri Compromise line, will at no
distant day be free State. The Mormons
like locusts, are overrunning the country
lying between Bear river and the great Salt
Lake, and are now petitioning for terrific
rial government, soon to be converted into
a State Government. Here then, are six
States in embryo, which, added to the fifteen,
will make twenty.one free States. On the
other hand, as an offset, the slave States
can only look for the following accession of
strength, to preserve the balance Of power.
Texas may, according to the terms of the
compact of annexation, be subdivided into
four States, when the population will au-
thorize such division but it will be
long time before any such partition is effec-
ted, and when it does occur, the relative
strength Of the slave to the free States, will
be as nineteen to twenty-one, with popu-
lation in the latter increasing in a rapid ac-
celebrating ratio.
We should, therefore, look at this matter
as it actually is, and not as it is represented
10y designing demagogues, with the paltry
object of advancing the interests of party"
Let our readers bear in mind that these
are the sentiments of leading and inhuen-
tial Wing paper in the city of New Orleans,
and we ask them whether they are not of
more worth, and calculated to do thous-
and times more substantial good, than all
the excited harangues of Joshua II. Gid
dings or of John G. Calhoun! The art-
Gle in the Bulletin is endorsed by the Balt-
more American, another influential South
crn Wing paper. The Bulletin believes
that both New Mexico aud California will
be free States, and has the manliness to say
so. Such is evidently the belief, and we
may add, the hope, of the Baltimore Amer
lcan
We herald these signs from the South as
The harbingers of better day, when reason
shall resume her sway in the minds of men,
aud passions and prejudices shall have be-
come subdued, if net wholly obliterated.-
This question Of Slavery is, without doubt.
the most important and the most difficult
one that mingles with our deliberations
1t is the one that requires the greatest cool
ness, Judgment, forethought, and ability
and yet Of all our public questions, not one
is treated with so much unfairness, heat,
passion, and folly. An orator of Carolina
will berate the North and jabber treason,
because of the "encroachments jbf the alb
olitionists," and similar character on the
Reserve, or at Buffalo, will lash himself in
to foam of sweat about "the encroach-
ments of the Slave power" and both will
think they have done great things, aud have
secured seat in Congress. Thank heav-
en-, the great mass of the people are unai-
lected by either Treason or rant. They are
true TO the Union, true to Freedom, and
true TO the dictates of Common Sense, ana