Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-01-25
The Union not yet Dissolved.

From the latest intelligence we have obtained
from Mr.. Calhoun, Foote & Co., in their secret
conclave, there is some difficulty in bringing all
the Soutl into their reasonable measures a.
gainstthe Government, and is likely to end in
ridicult,s mus, got up for no other purpose than
that Of frightening the soft heads Of the North.
The history Of the past furnishes lis but one in
stance of similar transaction, as has been wit
messed at Washington, during the present cess
ion. And how docs itloek, for Southern mem
bers Of the Union, to occupy the Senate Cham
ber night after night, with closed doors, no
northern man, nor even such men from the
South as are known to be opposed to their ultra
notions to gain admittance, while they are de.
visilg measures for the dissolution Of the
Union, and the establishment of southern con-
federacy? AID all for what? One would sup.
posethat there had been some indignity offered
the South, that was beyond forgiveness! that
their sacred rights had been denied them that
their liberty and interests were in jeopardy =
When it was known that the Bey of Tunls had
forbidden the traffic in slayes-and the Grand
Turk had prohibited slave marts in ConstaRt:no
ple-ald the Shah, of Persia, under the hu-
name spirit of Mahommadanism had interdicted
the slave traffic in his dominons, and when these
same southern gentlemen, but short time
since passed resolutions congratulating France
In her successful effort to establish Freedom and
abolish slavery in her provinces, when the whole
civilized, not to say heather world, were flowing
to get rid of slavery one would have supposed
that an effort to put a-stop to the sale of slaves
in the Capitol of this Nadel Re,'s'Ii;~ tho ~"'r
renowned christian nation of modern times,
would have been received without opposition.
No. no! The blood of these Shareholders that
have so long rioted in the sufterlngs OF the poor
slave was up. MIR. Calhoun, who Is the enbod-
iment of the slavocracy Of the South, .oonVenes
a. secret caucus for the purpose of forming
southern confedeNcy, or in other words, OF bull
lying the North from their position. We Tecol-
lect, indistnctly, a body of men that assembled
at Hartford, Connecticut, for similar purposes.
And we recollect distinctly that those men have
been erecrated to this day, as traitors deserving
the same punishment that would have been in.
ficted upon Benedict Arnold if he had been
taken. The SoSth have accomplished their pur-
poses more directly. They have saved ahemsel-
yes the trouble and risk of dissoIving the Union.
Present appearances indicate that Mr.. Calhoun's
address, so laboriou'ly drawn up will not be
presented in its present form, if at ALL For our
part, we see no necessity for it, so long as such
men as Caleb and Truman Smith, Vinton and
Grinnell Of the House, and Douglass and Breese
of the Senate, and other northern men Join
hands with the slave holders, to foil every at
TEMPT to get rid of the fouIest reproach that ever
disgraced the nation. But let be remembered
that these men will damn themselves politically
beyond the reach Of resurrection. And this
Calhoun caucus will live as a momeuto of dis
grace to all those men who have been connect
ed with it. Hartford Convention Federalism, and
Calhoun caucuses will be synonymous terms.