Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1850-01-25

mall contlne themselves to the hog and NOM
ny" Of domestic product. She fears very nat
irally, that ajolitioniSm is churned up in our
butter, pressed into our cheese, sailed with our
pork, and "boiled down" into our maple sugar
Therefore, she very wisely and prudently inter
lcts the whole There is no safety in letting
in anything from Free State. Who knows,
says "Od Virginny," that we may not import
a platoon of Abolitionists in cheese, as the
rrojans came near importing an army of Greeks
in the insidious wooden horse
Tmeo DanaoS Ell dona ferenteS,'
says the as,ute Governor of Virginia Look
out for the pumpkins, cheeses, and butter irkins
of Vermont! Don't trust her" Wrapping cakes
OF maple sugar-keep clear of the ominous
thickness of her Pork There is no telling what
deep schemes she may lay to interfere where
she says she does not ,oiSh to interfere!
- Seriously, however, "Old Virginny"
can't have our maple sugar, mo how !" We
make laundering lot" of it every year, but
want it for our pancakes. 1t obvates the ne
cessty, to a great extent, of our living on
sugar made by "Yirginny Niggers." 1t is
purely :" moral sweetenin' There is no " slave
labor" about it, and therefore think il is de-
cidedIv sweeter and better! We Yankees like
get Slave sugar for six AS MIR. Webster
would say, there is an "oIor of State Rights in
TIA certain smack of INDEPENDENCE that is
mighty agreeable to us poor Vermonters We
~ n : ~ lpr a n r.
of State courtesy Governor COOLIDGE might
be authorized to send Governor Floyd few
pounds, but we should expect the freedom of at
least fifty Slaves as an appropriate reciprocation
of the act !
but the butter, cheese and pork In re.
spect OF these = Old Virginny "must look out for
herself How is she going to tell whether or
not her supplies of these important nccessaries
come from Vermont? She must establish a
new corps of Custom House Inspectors. She
must appoint Smeller General, with the me-
cessary keen. scented subordnatcs,t to occupy her
State lines, and smell out the Green Mountain
Butter and Cheese and Pork that may ask for
admission! We can tell Old Vrginny that
it will not be safe to feed her citizens on abo
liton pork, nor to grease their bowels with abo-
| liton butter. The chances are dreadlully
against any mans retaining his love for slavery
who eats anything that grows in Vermont -
The danger, too, is imminent. 1t will not do To
postpone the Introduction of Vermont products a
moment longer! 1t has been ascertaned by
actual experiment. that 33l per cent. of all the
butter and cheese that is exported from this
State is made from abolition cows, and that lit
tie children in the slave States who eat Yer
mont butter and cheese grow up Gerry dubious Oh
the subject of Slavery. And so with our pork
1t has been calculated that one Vermont hog
imported by slave State, is equal to any nine
Shareholders that can be found in it mot thai
this proves that Il Shareholder is only the Natl
part of a hog, but that Vermont pork is very
s!rengtiean. Our Southern brethren who ca
it are very apt to have bristles. The Smele
General of Virginia, therefore, must have spe
cial instructions in regard to Vermont pork
When he applies his nose to the bung-hole of
barrel of this contraband article, the odor O
freedom will probably knock him into the mid
die Of next week. and thereby supply a stron
presumption that he is right in excluding
from circulation in "Old Virginny,'-if it ha
neutral sort of smell, however, he will
at liberty to conclude that it comes from Me-
Hampshire.
oh the whole, we think the good oil
{ State of Virginia is in great danger. III
+ Railroads that have just been completed furni:
II Vermont with facilities that she never befo
II possessed, for sending her butter and chees
> her pork and prnc pies, into other States. "
hope the authorities of the Old Dominion W
a look out for snakes!" We know they "u
u, derstand their constitutional rights becau
= they say they do; but they may not sufficient
!. appreciate the insdious character of pork tn
IS, has been latted in direct contravention of t
NJ Resolutions of '9s,' nor the irrepressible 10
OF Of freedom that animates the shippers of o
u Schooners and cheeses. We hon estly des
to to put them on their guard. They have got
great deal To do TO take care that the Repub
= receives no delriment from the Agrlcullu
81 productions Of Vermont Her resolutions, bel
OF " the work of mems hands," they can get alo
A with but her natural productions, being I
II gift Of God, they must look on, for They
IT, bound TO look out for them. Butter is a IN
CHI slippery medium of Anti-Savery opnlo
e We advise Governor Floyd to employ Sena
e Foote Of Mississippi, to make this matter clt
IT in The U. =. Senate. 1t will be great po
re. gained. Once establish the inevitable conn
n ton between grease and aggression of ST
Rights, and Congress will cooperate with V
in ginia in excluding unctuous commodities FRI
r. .oreign commerce! No man is better qualif
he to do this than Senator Foote. lie has rece
nat Iy demolished Senators SEWARD and BENT
IT, and may be fairly supposed to be, like OH
. Twist, &" asking for more" We trust the G.
Nv ernor Of Virginia will throw this stub" to
not Mississippi " whale"
iL We cannot conclude this grave, and nome
he tous article without expressing The hope /
lar Governor COOLIDGE will try to receive Cover
nj FLoYD's letter wih christian humbiliiy."