Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-05-30

| school, the immediate disciple of Jefferson
he drank deeply of his philosophy, from the
living lips of that "apostle of llberty"--lnstruct-
ed by the Legislature of his own state to wrest
from. the constitution its chief corner stone |"
pervert it from the high purposes for which 1t
was "ordained," and devote his energies to prop
agation of slavery; he hurls back the instruc-
tons into the face ofthe Legislature and appeals
to the people. Slave propagandists in his own
state assa him with fiendish malignily, and
Northern scrbers, in the interest of Cass--
| ".Neophytes," re- echo the abuse, with superadded
viruence. Still the old man stands up in the
American Senate, "a pillar of fire by night"
mistaken in his purposes, ready and able Tor the
combat if need be, with Devils, whose name
is legion" At one time, in majestic eloquence,
he reminds the Senate of the high duties that
rest upon them" that the free spirit that, two
hundred years ago, impelled the tempest tossed
freemen across the Atlantic to james town, and
the Rock of Plymouth, which feled forests and
overleaped mountain barriers, now animates their
descendants upon the shores of the Pacfc-that
there they stand with one hand extended to be-
nighted and slave trodden ASIA calling upon
them to cast down their idols, and shake off their
manacles and offer up their allegiance to reli-
gion, liberty and law; and with the other hand
extended to Us for admis sion into the Union, and
are we turning to the father of compromises)-
discharsing our high trust, by compromising
their right-consuming timc--and exciting the
nation in attempting to, tie the admission of a
free sovereign state to runaway negro? At
another time when asking the Senate to instruct
their committee to let California stand upon its
own merits untramelled by other measures, he
is lnsultingly told by Foote, that the commit
tee comprised the leading men of the Senate,
and need nc instructions" Fooled in this mo.
ton, he tells the committe to bring forth their
bantlng, and the cords that bind good to evil
shall be cut asunder, or they will have war"
We do not deny that a NEW article of faith in
in accordance with truth and justice, and the
cnlig. tened sentiment Of the age, may, rightful.
ly, by common consent, be engrafted upon the
Democratic Faih," But the politician who
goes back to the records of the African slave
trade for information and shall attempt by the
fiat of his own will, to cngraft upon the faith of
a political party principle "abhorent to God"
and Nature" treads in this age, dangerous
ground.
The Constitution needs no physic. Let its
functions have full play, and its action is heal.
thy. There are too many political nostrums.-
The tUorld as doctored too mach. There are too
many political gamblers.
The people are honest and right; let them as
sert their supremacy, and there will be less talk
of treason and diSuniOn We want more men
and fewer chaitclS" in the "council of State."-
Let the people rise up and discharge their
duty; and, if need be, hurl quack demagogues
"breeches or no brooches" from the stable We
shall maintain the democratic faith. "The
Union must be preserved" The Constitution
must not be shackeled "FREELoM MUST BE
NATIoNALI2ED. SLAVERY MUST BE LOCALLY
Ed" We stake no step backwards" The
times demand men for official station magnetic
ed with the spirit of Constitutional freedom, and
true as the needle. And who, by no stress Of
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This shall be our course. Others may dc.
sert us, but we shall not desert our principles.