Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1850-07-12


version of the recent brief but brilliant R,pub-
lie of Italy; we shall have emulated the Stuart
VINO selzcd the charters of the free corpora tons
OF England and thereby lost throne aud shall
nave surpassed the Guelph who intcrpolated
taxation without representation into the consi-
tuition OF Britain, and Thereby lost the empire
which we enjoy Sir, it would be an ACT so
unjust, and $" tyranca that it would, upon the
principle Of oup separation from Great Britain
work a forfeiture Of our title altogether Hear
what the good Las Casas said to the Enneror
Charles With, concerning these very possession
Notwithstanding your grant of a this country
from the Pore, and your title by conquest, Won
have yet no right over them, unless Won do, in
the first place, as the principal end, regard their
good The reason Is that regard is to be had to
The principal end and cause, for which supc.
nor, or All universal Lord is set over them
winch is their good aud profit, and not that i.
should turn t. their destruction and ruin for if
that should be, there is no doubt but that from
hencciorward that power would be iyranical and
unjust, as tending more to the interest aud beu-
elit OF that Lord, than 10 the public glod and
profit Of the subjects, which, according to natu-
raj reason, and to the laws of God and man, is
a5horred, and deserves TO be ablurred.'
Sir, beg those citizens Of the mctropolis in
ted me to vote for this bi l. to consider it in these
aspects, and then to- examine me and say how
louk that should seem TO be in lacking ins
tice and humanity SO much as this fact comes
to-
But it is said that the ordinance OF 81 is I'M.
necessary in New Mexico, and therefore is an
abstraction, and that it gives offence. cannot
yield implicit hih to those who assure me that
the pcculiarilies of soil and climate in New
Mexico exclude Slavery. They are combined
with other Statesmen who deny that point, and
this bill comedies the point itself. It expressly
covenants to admit New Mexico as a Slave State,
il we shall come in that character. cannot
surrender Just AM benevolent purpose TO ar.
guments which knit contradictions as closely
rs words can tic together. know that there
are Slaves at this moment in Utah ;and know
moreover. that The discovery of lew fakes Of
gold, or OF Il few grdines Of silver, or even of II
few clumps of coal in the unex plnred rccessrS
Of New Mexico, would be followed BY new
revelation o the will Of the Almighty IN r. trd
10 it.
Sir, perhaps those who excus, hi. m,a.nr,.c,n
point me toatyrant Who eyerd deprived his subj CT,
OF whatever lie deemed necessary Tor them Ne
no thought one neck would be more than enouL i
for the Roman people when he wished that they
ilc at a blow. Perhaps they can point the T.,
any act comforting or declaring human right
hat was not an abstraction 1t was obser, ed
by one OF the founders Of the commonwealth OF
England, that the prJmulsatUn of those rights
mad always been in terms not concrete, It alb
strac'. Oar own cXpe'ien is the same
There is the Declaration Of Independence, with.
lis solemn recital OF the natural equality Of mel
aud OF the lnaliCnabil'y of their essential tights.
lherc Is TIE constitution Of the United States.
beainnlng with sublime summary # tie CD
Jects and ending with it, jealous bill Of pers MA
rights. What were these but distractions?
There is the same bill Of Rights IN every con-
stltuton, aud even the constitutions ot many of
the slave States hopefully assert distractions Of
equality, which for want of only a complete de
Ielopemcnt OF political justice. are not yet re
dnced 10 the concete by established laws.
Perhaps, moreover, the apoogiss can show
Inc some act declaratory of human rights lia
did not give otf;'ncc. The tyraut OF France took
unbragc at The noble motto which Algernou
Sidney inscribed in the album of the King o
Denmark, May; A'gernun Sidney cxpiited
with his lie the offence Of pnh'shing as mere
distractions, the fundamental principles IF ou'
own Constitution, and among them was the
Wllmot proyiso thus expressed hy the immor
tai patriot - The liberty Of one man cannot
be limited or diminished by one or BY any num-
her of men, and none can give away the rights
Of another Equal justice always excite fear.
AMI therefore always gives offence otherwise
lis way would be smooth, and It's sway unver-
sal. The abstraction Of Human Rigl's are the
only permanent foundations Of society. 1t is b.
referring 10 them tina, men determine what i,
established, because It is RIGHT in order to up
hold il t0rerer, and what is right, only because
1t Is eStat hShed, 10 order that they may lawfully
Change it in accordance with the increase OF
knowledge and the progress OF reason.
The abstraction now in question is the right
Of all the members Of a state to equal pulilict
freedom, That is the Wmot proviso; tina; is
tho Provso Of freedom. Cal it by wIiatsoave,
name you will. II It ever was right al any
time, III any place. under any cIrcum,t ,nces, n
is right always, in all places, aud under al cir
cumstancrs. 1t can be rcnounced safely no
where. Certainly New Mexico is not the re-
gcn, nor is hers tie soil nor hers the cline
where it should be denonced. New Mexico is
the field Of the very conrest.
II we surrender here where we have all the
vantage ground, where else shall we find
ground on which to make resistance?
We have taken a breathing spell from an.
neXaton Of territory, to divide the gains. Til,
division once made, no matter how, the natural
instnct--an instinct fostered by democratic
sentiments and sympathie%, and nvigorafed b,
martial ambition, will hurry us on in career
that presents scarce formidable Instructions
Whatever seemed attractive to The Slave State,
in Louisiana, in Florida, in Texas in New
Mexico or in California, is surpas scd in thu,
Valley of Mexico, in Yucptan, in Cuba, in Nj
caragua, in Guatemala and in other States OF
Central America. These are fields native To-
the tobacco plant, to the rice plant, to the cot
ton plant and to tie sugar cane, and Il G tropi
cal fruit aud there are even mines of silver
and Of gold, There the climate dsposcs to in
docnce, Incidence TO luxury and luxury t.
savery.-There those who can read the VII
moi Proviso only in the riGurS If perpetual win
ter, or in arid sands will fail to discern its inhi
hitIon- Our pioneers are already abroad in
those inviting regions our capital is making
passages through them from ocean 10 ocean
and within ten years these passages will be en-
vToned 10y American communities, surprising
in power aud wealth, il not in numbers, the M
settled and unenerprizing States now existing
there. You will say that national moderation