Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1851-04-10
BEDLAMrTrsH PATRIOTISM.

rs, before the birth Of the new test D. $. Dick
inson was the occupant of the Senatorial seat
now assigned to Hamilton Fish Of New York -
the same Dickinson who was SO thoroughly slav.
ocratic, that among the locofocos of New York
Legislature there were none so poor as TO do
him reverence"
The Hon. Daniel Jenifer and Chancellor John
son responded to sentiments complimentary to
them. Both Of these gentlemen spoke IN the
highest terms Of commentator Of the course of
the Hon. d. $. Dickinson in the Senate and
they both declared that had they been members
of the New York Legislature they would have
voted for Mr.. ID. as L $. Senator in preference
to any Wing of whose Union principles there
was the slightest suspicion. ll4ong and tremen-
dous applause,
"Of whose Union principles there was the
slightest suspicionl" What has it come to this,
that every man who dares to exercise his inal-
ienablc and constitutional rights Of private judg
ment and free discussion upon Legitimate politi-
cal questions; who ventures to doubt the infalli-
bty Of the Compromise measures who asks
FOR notifications to protect the personal liberty
of freemen who refuses to be bound to go for
the extension of the accused system Of slavery
into territory now free and who seeks Only for
! legitimate, constitutional, lawful, peaceful means
TO carry out his convictions of duty has il come
to this point, that the integrity of such men TO
I the Union must be suspected" f-and must
Bhigs, too, who thus nobly illustrate the very
principles which have characterized true Wings
in every age and in every land that ever bore
Whig-bc prescribed for neutrality-suspicious. and
integrity? Nay. is this surrender Of popular
rights, this intolerance, so great virtue as to
absove locoiocos from all their political SINS
and give them a pre-eminent claim to the sup
port of Uhigs We know little Of "the Hon. Dan
iel Jenfer and Chancellor Johnson; but we
think we can pick ont better Wings. and bet
ter friends Of the Union, than either of them.
They may be Patriots postprondio Poiriots,-
intoxicated at least, with the idea that the people
Of America have run stark mad with Treason
and Hey-happy souls in Imagination already
canonized-are most idubi,ably firo of the "ten
righteous mem on whom the salvation of the I'm
ion depends. fthe Union has really come to so
desperate pass, it is time for all christian men
to cry out from the depths" Lord have mercy
on us !"
We have little respect for men who magnify
their own patriotism by dccrying the patriotism
of every body else; little faith that they will con-
yortthe North by accusing it of inGdolity, or quiet
The South by confirming and cmbi,terng its ieal-
ousy Of thc North. Yes this is unwisc patriot
ism; md these men so disirustful of the patriot
ism Of the people, are not the proper guardians off
the Union but filter candidates for the sccluson
Of private life the fender persuasions of gentle
nurses or the wholesome restraint Of snug fitinr
streight jackets This idea has often occurred
when we have been reading the datribes of new
born "Union men," and we now find it happily /
let of by q sharp-shootcr Of the tribe Of Nmrod. /
and aimed both at the Quixotic disunonisis ifI
such there arc, and those more Quixotc patriots |
Of the dining-room, who are bent upon sqring the |
Union by running i down at both ends We cut
the following neat paragraph from late speech
of Senator Seward of New-York, whom though
no particular fnyorite Of ours we regard as keen
observer and quick dscerner of "the pulse Of the |
people, When Mr.. Seward yentured TO name
Bloomingdale Asylum in this connection, he well /
knew that his intelligent and patriotic audience
(the Legislators Of NewNork,) would respond in
" cheers"
SIT is not New York alone that supports and
sustans this great city, and this great State 1t is
the entire nation, stretching from the river St |
Lawrence along the Atlantic Coast and the Mex /
lean Gulf and then across the Mountains and a.
long the Pacific Coast away mp 10 Nootka Sound 4
Our Star is indeed brilliant, and distinguishable
IN the constellation but let IL shoot from It's
sphere and it would pale It's fires and be lost in /
the Heavens. Cheers. Gentlemen, no man in |
New York can be disunionist Cheers.l know
none indeed Cheers will say only one thing
further on this subject of the Union. / ana "A be-
lever in the Christian Religion IS hen IL hap
pens in my way TO fall in with IA scepuc, | endea-
vor to remove hls doubts, and | persevere conf
dinghy but when he ayows himself an Atheist.
| think that he is 10 bee turned over 10 my friend
DIR. Benedict of the Insane Hospital at Utica -
So II | should hear New York man syow him
self Disunonist, | should think the Blooming
dale Asylum the hitost place for his correction.
[theers Sir, what is Just and wise must be
defended and maintained but he who cannot de-
tend and maintain them in this Union and under
this Constitution, is capable of doing no good
and 10 my poor Judgment incapable Of doing
more harm. Cheers. May Heaven take care
OF the New York man, if there be one, who is a
Dlsnnorist, and Heaven save the wits OF him
who sincerely suspects others of heing so -
General Uoors remedy for Dispnion.- General
Wool attended the annual Legislative Dinner Mt
Troy, on the 22d ut and made a strong Union
speech in response to the sth regular toast
lie said that there was but one subject which
engrossed public attention at this time and
that, he was sorry 10 say, black one
Sensation He was a Union man-he had
fought thirteen pitched battles since his military
career had commenced and every one of them
had been for the Union. Sensation. Gen
Wool n reply.l What would YOU have me say
If | speak the truth ! shall say, the people are
not agtated-itis the politicians. They are ag-
tated and agitatlng from one extreme of the I'm
ion TO the other. lfyou were to believe the pol.
ticians at the South, there is at this moment an
Alta, at the head of a host Of Cloths and Van
dals. who Is marching from the North to lay
waste and destroy the South. If YOU were to
believe the Northern politicians the consequen-
ces of agitation are 10 be equally fearful and dire
| am sorry 10 see this, for | am Union man.
didn't come prepared 10 make a speech, but |
can say that yOn oani dissolre The Union If
Won want la mt dawn imitation, NAT damn, h