Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1849-02-23
Mr. CaIhonn's Address.

There is one part of Mr. Calhoun's address
which places 10 bold rplief the motives that ami
mated him in the struggle for slavery in the ter
ritories, and which should iniuse into the enemies
Of slavery new resolution to resist its extension,
and new hopes in the results to flow from it.
Af,er enunciating the aedged design Of the
North Of abolisbing slavery in the District Of
Columbia and other lands Of the United States,
and prohibiting the internal commerce in slaves,
he adds:
"Bui if thesc conclusions should prove GRO
neous-if fanaticism and the love Of power
should, contrary TO their nature, for once respect
Constitutional barriers, or IL the calculations Of
policy should rciarl the adoption Of these meas
ures or even defeat them altogether, there would
be still len one certain way to accomplish their
object, It the determination asowed by the
North TO monopolizc al the territories, 10 the
exclusion Of the South should bo carried in.
TO effect. That Of itself would at no distant
day. add TO the North a sufficient number Of
States to give her thrcc-iourlhs Of the whole !;
when. under the color OF an amendment Of the
Constitution, she would cmancipaie our slaves,
however opposed il might be TO its true intent"
We DO not think Sir Calhoun is sincere in up.
pretending danger 10 the institution of slavery
from the alteration Of the Constitution. There
are now fifteen slave States, aud territory enough
included in Texas to creaie Eve more making
twenty slave States in ALL There must therefore
be fory.fre new free States admitted, making
the whole number OF States in the Union eighty,
before the free States will have the power to
amend the Constitution against the wishes of the
South. 1t is preposterous to suppose Mr. Cal
houn is in earnes, in apprehending danger from
this cause.
The truilais, that while Mr. Calhoun states
correctly bis apprehcnsions, he assigns an incor-
rect cause for them. The true cause is that
which be 50 frankly declared to be his reason for
forcing into the Union at all hazards the State
Of Texas, to wit, that slavery could not exist
long adjoining free STATE. This well founded
apprehension Of bis is fall Of encouragement and
hope to Us, and affords, il that was wanting, still
stronger motives to maintain freedom in the ter
rit0rics.
We arc rejoiced to find that Mr. Calhoun's
multiplying doctrines are not acknowledged at the
South as expressing their true sentiments. From
many parts of the South VIC end noble and Just
rcbukes OF his reasonable design, like the fol-
lowing from the New Orleans Bee of the 2d
instant:
before the disunionists can carry out their
incendiary schemes, they must overcome the
stern and maniul opposition Of the stern friends
Of the Uuion who abide among them. They
must beat down and destroy their own brethren,
Shareholders like themselves, loving the Sou.h
and her institutions with fliai regard but loving
and generating above ALL this glorious and uni.
ted Republic. Ii swords are 70 be drawn and
muskeis shouiercd for the purpose Of dissoving
our Union, there will he found in the South IL
self thousands of gallant souls prepared to resist
the aggre.sor and 10 defend our great political
compact, even unto death. We tell Mr. Calhoun
aud his associates that beyond the confines of
the State where his will is law, the public opin.
ion Of the South is against him, Legislative re.
solves and protests squirting ut dissolution to
the contrary Notwithstanding. The South has
no affection for the Wilmot Proyso. and views
the aggression OF the North with an unfriendy
eye, bu, the evils that may result from these
contemplated inroads upon our rights are n thou
sand fold more endurable than the woes unnum-
bcred which appall the imagination at the pros,
pect Of disunion. The South will have none Of
Mr. Calhouns desperate remedies With Dan
iel Webster she exclaims-'The Union-nOw
and forever--onc and inseparable.'"