Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1850-02-15

do TO pass sedtiun laws. That experiment hn
been once tried. 1t ia not likely to be repeated
soon. What then, can you do with them p
! WAY, sir, let them philosophers let them shct
the light OF their peculiar philosophy the worlc
over, and let the world, in It's good sense, judge
OF y, and dispose otit We cannot stop it, Mr.
President it woUld be idle for us to attempt tc
suppress all the nonsense we have at home, aud
it would be equally idle to attemnt 10 suppress
Il great deal the nonsense that we find abroad
L'gislale to cure their wretched theories-lep
sIaie to give men brains enough to understand
the folly of i'll Why, sir, it ia not in the power
Of human legislation to cure this folly. Moth.
ing short OF creative power can relieve them
from the extraordinary mental obliquity by
which they ar, affected.
S,r, am not dsp' sed to Justify this kind ol
, ioy but what | would say is that the rentle.
men from the South should not condemn Us ali.
! They should not enalhemaliza the whole North
bccauso We happen to have some inqnisitive re.
| muses., Whn, tor the want Of better employment
are disposed to scrulnjZa the institutions of tho
South. Il is beyond the reach Of Legislation; it
/ Is beyond the reach of political power. 1t is to
be net by reason and good sense comjlitcd in
its own element.
With respect 10 the sentiment, however, the
deep, abiding. perm :cnt sentiment Of the North.
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territories, ia is very different thing; it is a
more enduring principle Sir on tilt subject
our opinions have been expressed --.irmly, calm.
~, anI boldly expressed, without cquivocation:
and all that we propose is to carry out our own
opinions, "a tar as we have the power by rer-
nIlr, ordinary, con,'tutional action. Ii turns
ont that we have no constitutional power over
the matter we must yield but, if we have a
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