Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-07-04
GREEN MOUNTAIN FREEMAN, MONTPELIER VERMONT, $780,


in forming state organization of their own
Now ifsuch an order was ever issued at all for
guide for the military authorities of New Mex
leo. it must have been eountermanded, or soon
superseded by other instructions for the part
taken by Col. Monroe, when the Texan com
missioner arrived there, sufficiently shows that
he was guided by no such orders as those al
lodged to have been delivered to Mccall, but
rather by those of an opposite character. This
is evident, and we think it is equally evident
that Munroe has now received now still other
and fresher Instructions entirely the reverse of
those under which he had been acting, and even
more pointed than the pretended order of last
November; for on no other suppositlon can we
account for this sudden alteration of his whole
conduct.
But what should have altered General Fay
lor's mind so greatlyias to turn him within few
weeks from his avowed non intervention policy |
to one of such marked Intervention in the affairs
of New Mexico ? Several things may have con-
spired for such result In the first place, ne
probably saw what he might not have tofeseen
at the outset, that Texas was taking advantage
of his non intervention policy, by an outrage on
a free people, which would bring an odium on
his administration that his partisan supporters
could not withstand. In the second place, he
had, in his California message, put forth plan
of getting along with the slavery question, by
which the South, had they fallen in with it,
might, and would, probably within few years.
have extended their slave power over all but
California. 1t was a quiet, feasible, and cum
ming plan, well calculated to give the South all
they wanted, if they would be patient aud less
liable than any other to alarm the North. But
in their madness and folly they ungratefully
spurned his plan, and thus deeply piqued the
the man who was trying to do them favor, and
who, though he does not love slavery less loves
his own will more
And lastly, 1--WE don't know but we should
have said firstly he has been publicly insulted
in the Senate by Dictator Clay, and his whole
administration set at naught; while no one
among in that body from whom he had right |
to look for support dared firmly raise voice in
his defense.
And what can be more natural and probable
than that such man as Gen. Taylor should be
reused by all this to set up for himself-to alter
his mind and do what he well knew was right in
the first place-help New Mexico to resist the
overweening slave power of the South, and be-
come a free state, not because he first intended,
or really wished it, but because it would punish
the Southern leaders who had sighted him, and
head, and break down his great maigner, Henry
Clay and all his omnibus schemers at blow ?
If this be Soft Gen. Taylor has really resolved
on this course, the same trait of character which
carried him through the scenes of Palo Alto and
Blena Vista, will carry him through this Also
and forty Henry Clays will not drive him from
his purpose, and what is more, he will be sustain
ed it by the great majority of the people.
But whatever may have been the motives and
cause which have led to this unexpected move
ment, it is not for us to complain of the result
The slave power has received blow--Free-
dom has gained an important point New Mex
leo is now a free state standing beside her
stronger sister, California, to be placed in the
same category and abide the same issue; and
the longer the sighted twain are kept out of the
Union, the stronger will grow the argument and
the louder the cry for their admission.
The appearance now is that the slavery ex-
tensonists are banked and beaten and what
makes their defeat, just at this time, the more
Notifying. is the adoption by Southern votes of
Soule's amendment leaving New Mexico and
Utah at liberty to form constitutions with or
without slavery ineldictions at their option
having been got up as a sort of lubricant to
make the omnibus go Gown with Northern
members, the projectors little thinking but that
matters would soon be so fixed that such a thing
could injuro none of their plans of operations.
Thus the South appear to be fciled by their
own man, and caught in their own trap. And
what goes to show that the appearance is not
wholly delusive, is the fact, that their chief or
gans are down upon the President tn denun-
Citations which have been rarely equaled for
wrath and ferceness for his alledged treachery
to their cause. The slave power indeed is roar
ing Justify enough to show that she is hurt
and we free sellers, are at least warranted in
gathering from the circumstance the same favor
able omen which the eccentric Revival preacher
Burchard, used to gather from the noise of dis
orderly opposers congregaling round the outside
Of the meeting house" Brethren" he was wont
to say on such occasions. "Brethren, do you
hear that well, cheer up then; for when you
hear the devil roar in that style, you may de-
pend upon it something good is coming"