Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1850-12-27
BURLINGTON, VT

IL On looking over our exchanges, after
ten days absence from our post, we find that
the staunch and steady old Green Mountain
State has become the object of rcproachful at
tuck from Il variety of quarters. From the ".
70 4 Heydid, land we can start from no lortr
Pc MY up to the National Mteltigencer, land we
ctn end ut no h,ghcr,) objurgations have been
showcrcd upon our State, its Legislature and
It's Governor, with freedom that usually pro-
cocds from consciousness of rectitudel by
the " Arlington Re ubiic and Union, " Y
Commerce i.hrcrser, the g wicr and Tran Ter
Of osto the Albany Register, and the south,
orn pro-slavery papers generally, besides
misccllnnyof country papers which appear to
have the safety AMI welfare of the Union espc-
cia " at hcar,-al on account of Il law PASSED
at the recent session of our Legislature, 'rela>
ting to the writ of Ilabcus Corpus and the right
of Trial by jury" he papers named and re-
ferrcd to have gone into paroxysms of lamenta-
ton and regret, that Perm nt-the" most re-
spectacle and heretofore always " hg State of
tcouSly snys-should have rc>atfirmed the Co ;
srITuTIo Al right of all her " inhabitants" to
the writ of llabcus Corpus, and Trial by Jury .
1t appears to us that the outcry is I'M
callcd>tor y G think that Vermont has, as
yet, done nothing that, n Sovereign State in
this Confcdcracy, it was not her right and her
DUTY to do. We have read the structures OF
tho papers which we have mentioned, and.
while VIC admit tn 1t those structures cvincc the
highest order of patriotism ana love for tn.
Union, Ia patriotism and love which we hope to
initiate, at a humble distance, by our co DUO :, y
we arc wholly unable to perceive their applica>
ii in to the legislative action of Vermont.
Vermont ranks herself among the most laws
loving and law-abiding States i'll the Union
She never voted for 'ckson, nor Van Buren,, nor
Polk. nor Cass She has ALWAYS, untlincIGng
and uncrrificd," placed herself beside Ken
lucky AMI North Carolina in her devotion to
the Mario Al " mG CANDIpArF, whether he
might be from the North or the South. She
his never dcnlndcl th1t a President f the
United States should be Northern or a South
crn, but NArIo AL W hig. She revcres the
memory of President Taylor. She adopted his
platform ami asked no better. She has never
sought. land we appeal to her action at the
polls and in the legislature to sustain the as
scrton)--shc has NEVER sought to interfere
with the constitutional rights of Slavery, NEW
Err! She has n'vcr asked, nor led
that Slavery shall be deprived of any privilege
or right that the Constitution of this glorious
rcnublic secures to it; and she never will
- But she has recently passed a law It
grant more certain protection to HER OWN citl
zens and inhabitants against UNLAWFUL ex
tradition. Sine has passed law that leans, i
you please, towards the Cause of Freedom
law whose only possible terror" is that it "lean
TO virtues side" 1t is CONSTITUTIONAL Law
IN VERMONT at least. 1t simply intends to en-
force the plain guaranty Of her Constitution an
that of The Union, in favor of Freedom tina
is all. II her law is unconstitutional, the SU
IRENE Court OF TIE UNITED STATES, on
proper issue presented, will so decide; and wit
this Vermont will be content. In the mea
time, Vermont does not mean that her citizen
or inhabitants shall be delivered up
Slavery,-uness they are Slaves When he
laws shall be pronounced unconstitutional
the Supreme Court (not by the Washingto
Republic nor by any other newspaper she wi
cheerfuly and unhesitalingly submit. 81
proposes neither disunion, rebellion, treaso
nor notification. She leaves that kind Of "d
monstration" to South Csrolina. She has" ca
her lot =" with the Union, and will abide by
But she will, by every means not prohibited
the Constitution, PROTECT HER own CITIZEN
We shall refer to this topic again. "
maintain that the recent Law Of our Sta
which is so extensively denounced, is cons
,u,iona and proper,-a thousand times mo
SO than the Fugitive Slave Law of Congre
which deprives " human beings of the rig
OF llabeas Corpus and Trial by Jury. Win
the contest comes winch is to settle the lin
less application Of THESE rights, We trust
COP that we shall be found on the side
Freedom -