The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-05-28

mendcd in the Senate will not be pressed
Such are present indications. 1t can do no
good it will be only "as the chaff of the
mountain, and as a rolling thing before 8
whirlwind" IL additional security is asked
for the execution of that clause, we must in
sst on security for the execution of one 9th
or, that 1.-THE citizens of each State shall be
entitled TO all the privileges and immunities
of the several States" Cart. 4, sec. 2.)
When you haul up old Ironsides and careen
her for corking, you must not apply all the
labor on one side OF her keel.
cannot see why there should he such
perpetual threats Of dissolution over that
subject. nor over any subject. ! have no
power in my commission for any such work.
presume il is so with others. Congress
was in session when the Constitution and
Union were formed, but the people did not
trust Congress with that work, they selected
another body of men for the business IL
the people wish this Government dissolved,
they will elect their own agents to execute
their purpose. If we DO not redeem our
character, doubt whether we shall have the
appointment. Those threats of dissolution
have lost their moral power by incessant rep-
etlion for thirty years. They have not beeh
reserved for great occasions, but have been
brought into service in every little sectional
skirni>h.
rejoice that the free States have never
made such threats. They have had provo
cation through the action of the Govern
ment against their own wishes They had
it in the incessant and wasting changes of
the tariff laws. They had it in the embar-
90 which proved a paralysis of their whole
,i,l e Al
disastrous measure are floating over New
England, settling down in paupcr houses. or
their way 10 pauper graves. The changes
against the wishes Of the North have sunk
well-nigh enough money to buy all the ne
grocs south Of the line. We have perpeiu-
ally Yielded, and still hear the incessant cry
of dissolution. The tune may come when
outworn patience will say, We have heard
that long enough, Here are two brothers
the Sidmese twins--hcld together by bond
of flesh. No human sagarity can foretcll
the result Of separation. 1t may be pros
perity, or it may be instant death. The on
y security is in maintaining the union which
Providence has ordained. In order to do
this, there must be brothcrly Kindness and
charity but the one is perpctually threaten
ing to sunder the bond if his own b"hcsts
are not obeycd. The time may come when
sclf-respect will compel the tainted brother
10 say, | have never threatened you. wish
to live in union and harmony. have never
given you just provocation, and have no dc
sign to do it. If you are determined on dis
solution, take the responsibility and bide
your time. Take the responsibility of the
act and the consequences of that act, and do
it when you will, tomorrow or to>day, for if
this is bravado, have had enough if threat.
ening, have had too much.
| have heard, with regret, the waIlike
language introduced into these debates.
With entire respect TO others, must say,
that whether coming from the North or
South, this seems out Of place, and out of
taste, for the free discussions of free and
peaceful Republic
If the General Government shall make
demands uron my people for any cons:iiu-
rional purpose, those drafts will be promptly
honorcd. cut as a State, Vermont makes
no preparation for war. Swords are beaten
into plough-sharts. Agricultural fairs have
taken the place Of military musters. She
has disbanded even her militia. When one
of her members WAS placed on that commit
tee, 1t iaised broad laugh all over the State
whether al the expense Of the member or
of our excellent Speaker, have not been
able exactly to determine. During this ex-
citing session leading minds there have been
holding peace convention. This is in strong
contrast (and | am not ashamed of I'D with
another State, (South Carolina where it is
proposed to raise fifty thousand dollars TO
purchase arms and ammunition or still an
other, (Mississippi,) where two hundred
thousand dollars were TO be set apart TO meet
a coming emergency. If the lightning should
announce TO the Legislature of Vermont that
the Union was dissolved, what would they
do :? Would they resolve themselves into
military community and cxpend their money
for arms and ammunition ? No; not one
dollar. They would not buy muslSft, or
flint, or percussion cap. They do not talk
or think of fighting and for the plain rea-
son, that if they must fight, " Green Noun
tain Boys can do that eXtcmpore, as they
did at Ticondcroga, and Bennington, and
Saratoga, and PIaisburgh.
In the present Congress, Vermont has
been told TO keep her petitions at home,
ms she did her soldiers in the war of 1912"
u it had been quite as convenient to raise a
fact instead Of II sheer, it might have been
stated that, according to population, YER
mont had more men engaged in that war
than any other State in the Union. 1t was
in my own district that volunteer. were sud-
denly summoned 10 the defence of their
country. When Provost, with fourteen thou
sand men, came down upon a little band of
fourteen hundred. it was his supposed design
to pass into Vermont. At the close of dav,
conriers rode out to rouse the people along
the western declivity OF the mountains and
they shouted as they rode, The enemy are
crossing the lake. The echo of that rally
ing-cry had hardly died on the hills before
iAthers and sons, risen and robed for war,
came out of their dwellings, and through the
darkness of the night threaded their way to
the scene Of conflict. | need not recount
the hurried flight of that British army be-
fore the impetuous, though undisciplincd, va
lor OF freemen. From whatever quarter our
invaders may come. ! trust the history of the
past is a mirror OF the future.
II has been also asserted in this Congress,
and New England parer has been
quoted TO prove it, that we did not dul, hon.
or the fallen hero of Chepultepec; but what
are the facts ? When the remains of Ran
som were brought home, the adjutant gem
eral and one Of her ablest clcrgymen were
called 10 pronounce sermon and eulogy o.
vel Lis remains. An immense concourse of
people laid him in the grave with fitting
honors. The Legislature recorded their high
sehse of his worth, they procured an elegant
sword, aud in joint Assembly presented it 10
his young son in the name of his State. Bear
in mind, this was done by the sane Legisia-
lure which declared the Mexican war begun
and carried on without constitutional author
ity-a war needless, lAwless, and graceless
"a scheme born in fraud and baptized in
blood"
] wish ] could indulge in the confident