The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-08-29

not buy a musket or flint, or percussion cap
They do not talk or think of fighting and for
the plain reason, that if they must fight, Green
Mountain Boys can do that extempore, as they
did at Ticonderoga, and Bennington, and Sara
tOga aud plattshurg
In the present Congress, Vermont has been told
TO keep her petitions at home as she did her
soldiers in the war of 1912" lfit had been quite
as convenient to fact instead Of a sneer, it |
might have been stated that according TO popula-
ton. Vermont had more men engaged in that war |
than any other State in the Union. IL was in my
own district that volunteers were suddenly sum
moned to the defence Of their country When
Provost with fourteen thousand men, came down
upon little band of fourteen hundred, it was his
supposed design to pass into Vermont. At the
close of day, courers rode out to rouse the people
along the western dechvity of the mountains, and
they shouted as they rode, The enemy are cross
ing the lake. The echo Of that rallyiug cry had
hardly died the hills, before fathers and sons,
risen aud robed for war, came out of their dwell
lings and though the darkness Of night threaded
their way to the scene Of conflict. ] need not re-
count the hurried fight Of that British army be-
fore the impetuous, though undisciplned, valor of
freemen From whatever quarter our invaders
may come, trust the history of the pastisa mir
ror Of the future
IL has been also asserted in this Congress and
New England paper has been quoted to prove it,
IhhJ We ala not Ouly nonOr the Iallen nero OF
Chapultepec; but what were the facts When
the remains Of Ransom we're brought home the
adJutsDt general and one Of her ablest clergymen
were called to pronounce a sermon and evl0gy
over his remains An immense cOncoursS IS ySeJ-
pie laid him iu the grave with fitting honOrs The
Legislature recorded their high sense of his
worth they procured elegant sword, and in
joint Assembly presented it TO his young son in
the name of his State Bear in mind this was
dnna nv the Len kJgIUre which a
Mexican war begun and carried on without con-
stitutional authority war needless, lawless and
graceless--a scheme " born in fraud aud baptized
in bloodD
wish could indulge in the confident hope Of
others, that, when pending questions are settled
sectional agitation will cease. There are indica-
tions Of different intention, it may be that of a
few. Cuban books literally laid upon our
tables, the printing Of Mexican maps, the aspira-
tions-hke those just uttered-for ocean bound
republic may be esteemed light things; but light
est things floating the wind wave are the
surest index of the course Of the current and
those things are signs to me significant of an
Interior design ! might have cherished hope
of quiet if the new State had been promptly adj
mtted, as she ought to have been; but where
shall | now found hope, that when Utah and
, ~ . Ns--,e,sS%Nl yssSsp. thenseyes With Con
stitutions of their own creation, they shall not
meet the same measure of actual and threatened
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A strange demand is Made that the North should
restrain the utterance of her peculiar sentiments
How does any propose that this shall be done
IL could not be done under the muzzed press and
the prying espionage and the cleaning bayonets
Of an European despotism. 1t could not be done
here in anything else. With the sudden transi-
ton Of men and transmission of intelligence try
to cOnfne the local doctrines to given locality !;
Ordain that the principles of the Novum Organum
or the Principal shall not pass or repass Mason
and Dixon's line that a knowledge of geology or
theology, of physics metaphysics, shall not leap
from bank TO bank of the Ohio that legal lore or
legal bubbles shall not swim the Mississippi ;
that sectional notions Of medical science or medi-
cal quackery shall instinotively stick on 800 30
could you execute such an ordinance? How,
then, do you expect to hem in by State lines the
heaving waves of popular opinion on human
rights and human freedom?
wish we might duly appreciate the position in
which we are placed. We are standing between
generations Of glory passed and ages of glory or
shame yet to come. From far distant points of
great Republic we have met to consult for her well
fare for the first time, the voices of the Atlantic
and Pacific have met and mingled in one national
counsel. Thus placed, we should trampe in the
dust as beneath our ain all efforts for party
or sectional triumph, and egisate for the extend
ed and enduring interests of great and free
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