Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-14
VOLUME VII. NO. II.

S0"uSuIVh PIdHleIS WHO DUy DuL tDlS tTad0
which is so detestabe, and these cortcges which
are so horrible on a very little scale, are now to
assume national Importance, protected and
sanctioned by the government of the whole re-
public.
Such, sir, ls the magnanimous compromise
which so many of our whig and democratic poli-
tcians, now that the elections are over and the
solemn pledges made In favor Of the Wilmot
proviso supposed to have been forgotten, are
willing to accept as a mighty boon to human
lights, and a mighty barrier against the further
encroachments of the slave power. In my ears
the only language addressed by these eight res
oations, to the North, is the cry of the horse
leech-Give, give. No test can detect in them,
no microscope can make visible the most minute
concession to human liberty. Not one single
inch of territory tloes the proposed compromise
secure from sIavery, that fs not already rescued
from It's power. Not one human being will it
save from bondage
The extension of the Missouri line to The Pa
cifc would at least have rendered all on the
north Of It free soil but, says Mr.. Clay, most
truly though with frankness almost insulting to
the North, " say, sir, in my place here, that it
is much better for the South that the whole sub
ject should be open on both sides of an irnagi.
nary line of 36 81, than that slavery should be
interdlcted positively north Of 36 80, wi h tree
dom to admit or exclude it south Of SO 80, at the
will Of the people,"
But Mr.. Clay exclaimed, No earthly power
could induce me to vote for the positive intro
ductlon of slavery south or north of that line"
and at this heroic avowal the galleries applaud.
ed. But the galleries are not deeply versed in
southern tactics.
MIR. Clay need apprehend no coercion to ex-
tort his reluctant vote for a purpose no one de-
sires or demands. The south have, with one
voice, ever denied the power of Congress either
to prohibit or establish slavery in the territories.
Said Mr., King of Alabama in reply, ave ask
no act ofCongress to carry slavery any where.
| believe we have just as much right to prohibit
slavery in the territories as to carry it there
We have no right to do one or the other" 9th
er southern senators avowed their concurrence
inth doctrine advanced by Mr. King. Hence
Mr.. Clay's defiance Of any power on earth to
at least rhetorical flourish.
But if this pretended compromise is, as con.
tend, an unqualified surrender of all the demands
of the north, why did certain ultra Senators OBJ
l..
been deemed polite, as tending to make North
ern men suppose that here must be something
granted to them, although they could not tell
what 1t may aisG suit the party purposes Of
some to prolong the present agitation, that they
may manufacture some more patriotism tor the
southern market and lastly, If any really wish
~ ess'sss's' ,a..s, ,sll
havo moro power than they nov, enjoy tI,y, win
of COURSE reject all concessions, however great
But it is incredible that the mere Shareholders.
the men who are only anxious to open new
markets for the sale of their stock, and to ac.
qure more votes in Congress, should be ayerse
to proposition that offers them all they have
ever asked, and all that Congress Gun give them,
with the exception Of the suppression of the
right of petition and the censorship of the Post
Office, and these are not now in issue.
But we are told that unless we yield TO the de-
mands OF the Shareholders, they will dissolve the
Union And what are these demands, which
Mr.. Clay admits we have full right to refuse |?
Why, that small body of men, not probably
exceeding 100000 shall be at liberty, for their
own aggrandizement, to blight with the curse
of slavery our vast possessions south of SO de-
grees 30 minutes, and whatever portion of Mex
leo it shnll hereafter be found convenient to
seize.
Thus at time when cruelty and oppression
are elsewhere giving way before the increasing
intelligence and morality of the age, we, the
Model Republic, are to be the instruments of
extending over illimitable regions now free, a
despotism more accursed than any other known
throughout the civilized world despotism
that not only ensaves the body, but crushes the
intellect by which man is enabled to distinguish
good from eyil-a despotism that annihllates all
rights, sets at naught all the affections of the
, heart, and converts being made in the image
Of God, into Il souIless machine Tell mo not
of exceptions of some lucky chattcl, like Mr.
a Clay's negro, referred to in his speech, who in
his masters well stored kitchen, hugs his chain
laughs and grows fat.
He is but vendible commodity, and to-mor-
n rows sun may behold him toiling under the lash
l. given to another, and his children with pigs and
; mules sold at auction to the highest BIDDER
. Tell me not Of exceptionally the kind owner'
8 may at any monentbe exchanged by death
OF debts for the hardened, remorseless task mas
:. ter, and the law sanctions every atrocity perpe-
rated upon the save.t No, my dear sir, l cam
i. not give my consent and hope it will not be
given for me BY my representative, to curse a
q vast empire with such an institution and to
9 doom unborn millions to its unuuerable abomi-
nations, even to save our southern brethren from
the sin and folly of founding new republic up
on the denial of human rights, and of rendering
"A late in Kentucky reveals the fact, that the
Shareholders in that average % slaves =
should this average be applied to the whole slave region
the number of masters ccordng to the of 1910
: cam exceed l7,OOO
Our doughhces always complaining that their emf
/, plOyers sandered the North. Let their employ
! speak for themselves In Dew Reports, North Caro-
lna p 263, ls29 find the of The State Mann
The defendant attempted to fog slave whom he
had hired she retreaed he ordered her to him
but she continuing retreat, he seized his gum fired
. and wounded her. For this he was indicted The Cour
held that he who hires slave is, for the time being
vested with all the powers Of the mselfto enforce
obedience and that the indictment eJdn b. sustained
Said Judge Ruin, The uwer Of the master must be ah
- sOute to render the submission of the slave perfect
" most sincerely confess my Of the harscss OF Til
" pr position. feel it as deeply any man cnn and a