North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1850-12-25
VERMONT AND Pennsylvania.

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The Pennsylvania. edited BY that sterling patrio
John w. Forney, denounces the recent multiplying
act of Vermont in relation fugitive slaves, in tn.
most unsparing terms. He shows that Vermont ha.
perpetrated towards the Union and that eve
ry member of her Legislature who voted for tina
law. perjured himself
1t is stated that this Vermont law was passed by
surprise, at the close of the session. when large
number of the members had left for their homes We
hope this will turn to be but the best evidences
of this fact will be the repeal of the law by the nex
Legislature In the meantime, however. most of the
Vermont papers are silent the subject, and nc
meetings Of the people have been called to dsapprove
the law. Under this law, if slave should escape
to Vermont, his master could not take The first step ever
10 recover him, though Congress has passed law in
accordance with the Constitution, intended express.
ly to aid him in retaining his property! If Teas
or South Carolina had nulIi6ed Federal troops would
have been marching this moment under orders from
President Fillmore, enforce the law but VernaoHt
utilities. and inaction and silence the words at
Washington. Does thus prOrc that this is Free
soil government?
If the people of Vermont desire 10 90 out of the
Union. would do nothing to keep them in. Yer
mont is sovereign, and has right to Withdraw
from the Union without molestation or hindrance
from the Federal arm but she has no right to null
lily law of Congress passed in pursuance of the
plain provisions of the Constitution, and to remain
at the same time in the Union enjoying its protection
and privileges.
Pennsylvania it will be remembered, passed law
in l647, at time when the Wings had control, de-
nying the of her prisons the Federal officers
gagged in enforcing the fugitive slave law of '9S.
This act was passed by Wing Legislature, and at
the last session bill repeating it passed through
one branch but failed in the other, owing the OPP
position of the Wing Governor Johnston, and certain
Wing Senators. Now says the Pennsylvania,
ian aroused and almost united public opinion de-
mands its unconditional repeal and we have doubt
it will be repealed, the session of the Legislature
commencing in January next" So much for Penn
syvania and Vermont-the former Democratic
State and the latter the Wing that SETS.
We quote the following from the Pennsy lvanian S
article this subject, for the especial benefit of the
Raleigh Register and certain " conservative" Wings,
who have been in the habit of denouncing Southern
rights ''agitators, 4" ultraists'' and s. dis
unionists.'' Mr.. Forney says
I'VE drew, at the beginning Of this Article, a
short portrait of the REGULAR characters of tho ianat
les of the North. Is il wonderful that with such ex
hibiiions this of Vermont, there should he violent
and ultra the South? Would it not be worse
than Injustice, if an attempt now made to as
simulate the extreme Southern men with the fanatics
Of the free States-the fanatics who glory in the in
fanny just enacted in the State alluded 10? Such
has been a fashionable course of proceeding the
part of certain tender-ooted politicians F0rrsfus-
iag to make this comparison We have been denounced
with vehement and protracted calunnies. But time
last makes all things and now there are few
who do not acknowledge the wide and wonderful di-
ftIence between the agitators and the fanatics of the
free States, and the ultra Southern men, Vermont
has given a evidence of the grievous wrong
which coward Eanacism has perperatrd upon the
patriotic South and we hope those who enacted the
wrong, will be held up 10 the scorr CT the whole
country, until they repent their war upon the Con-
stiuton they swore TO maintain and Defend"
Here is paper-a Democratic appropriated in
free State, doing that justice to Southern which
is denied them by The Raleigh Register, paper
printed in their midst