Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-02-15

Among them all are only two who profess to
act with the Wing party the rest nre locofocos
AS to the Address: the immediate object OF
il appears 10 be to unite the South, and those
patriotic locofocos Of the North who vote with
them, into great Slavocra'ic party. Slavery
is paramount to all other political considerations
--old parties, therefore, must give way 10 the
new Slavocracy. This sentiment will be found
in the Address-the sentiment, not the words.
BY such union, they hope to crush all measures
adverse 10 slavery; but failing in that, disunion
or treason is the remedy inferible from the Ad-
dress.
The effect of the Address upon the South does
not yet appear to be very startling. At the out
set it was resisted by nearly all the Wing mem
bers of Congress from the South. They will
find support from their constituents There are
patriotic men among them who love The Union
better than Slavery. Its effect upon the North
will be to encourage and strengthen the hands
of the an,i-sluvery men. Why should it not p
The Address distinctly and repeatedly declares
that the Anli-slavery movements are rapidly
fastening the period of emancipation. What
stronger motive for perseverance could be pre-
scented to anli-slavery men? Annexed are the
comments of the Boston Atlas:
We publish to day to the exclusion Of much
other better matter, the Address Of the Southern
Locuiocos TO their constituents, in reat IN To
freedom versus slavery. The address 10 Labor
ed attempt to make ont case which will justify
u dissolution of the Union. This is the end
sought after, insinuated and hoped for. The ia
Bile of grievances, which is paraded, contains
nothing new, and nothing that has not been time
and again retu,ed, so fer as fact can refute as
Sumption, or argument answer insolent dictation
and arrogance. What are the points made in
this document, which unless redressed call for
resort TO physical force, and dissolution of the
Union? They are:
l. The North has violated that part Of the
Constitution winch gives the shareholders the
right Ia retake their runaway slaves.
2. A desire 10 escape from the compact enter
ell into in 1920, called the Missouri Compton,.
Use.
3. A determination on the part Of the Free
States to extend the principles o. the ordinance
OF 1877, over the conquered provinces OF Next
co.
a. The recent propositions made in Congress
to abolish slavery in the District Of Columbia.
These are all if there be any others we have
not been able TO discover them. Impressed with
conviction of tho weakness of his case, which
plain history, assisted by q heated Imagination
} resents the great nulllher launches forth into
gloomy anllclpatlons of the future and tries to
strengthen the weakness Of his present position
by drawing upon the imaginatlons or fears OF
his readers; thus admitting that the "aggres.
sions Of the North" are in the main yet to be
made, and showing also that the "peculiar nsti
tution," instead Of being the " corner stone of A.
merlcan liberty" is but mere cobweb, so frai
hal IN 10 ice
siton.
No ono can deprecate more than we do the
fanatacism which, TO some extent, exists on both
sides OF Mason and Dixon's Line, which lives
and revels amid excitement, examinations and
folly, and yet even ianataclsm has its shades o
comparison, lis good and its bad, its right and its
wrong. Whatever may be said of the disunlon
lists OF the North, and they are but small nun.
Der OF our people, and are daily growing less
they have grand idea lying at the base Of thei
operations freedom Of man--which com
mends itself to the reason and intelligence of all
WINE, on the other hand, the disunionists o
the SOUTH who continually cry about "North
erh aggression, who see signs Of storms wher
the skies are bright and clear, and who are
troubled WIN q sort OF hypochondria, which
warps their reason and diverls their vision; AM
because all creation will not bow down ant
allow these men TO have their own way, and de
clare that human slavery is great blessing the,
immediately babble about Northern agure;
SON. and rave for a dissolution Of the Union.
We think the address will strike every reade
as weak and poin,less publication. We hav
certainly seen the Southern side Of The case pu
much stronger aud more polntedly III speeehe
made by members OF Congress. But tn
southern Locuiocos are willing 10 adopt II as Ia
pest thty Gould have, we are satisfied with leI
selection. We would always speak III seriou
terms upon questions involving the stability all
iDegrly OF The union OF The States; but we be
leve that the present nie, p, 10 array The Nurl
a~aiist The South, ar tue South spall,,t tii
N'i'i, has lis nigin ana derives ~ha,evet q
sIaint II possesses, iron u base ana sesuual,,,
ntt mt vi certain Locolocu p.Iniclais ~ IN
SouuI VIM, ahasrlned, mo'lf AID d,sappo,,
lod that HE administration Of tbs Generui %.
I.nAent, lvr tour years Ut least, has passed irol