Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1851-04-10
PRESCRIPTION & THE NEW TEST,
Defended by the reputed organ of
the Administration.

The Washington Republic, of April LIST, con
tanned the following article:
SuIorDA1. We find the following paragraph
in a recent article in the Boston Atlas
What, for instance, could have been more
suicidal than to take the publication of the laws
from such papers the Portland Advertiser,
! New-lIampshre Statesman, Keene Sentinel,
Vermont Waterman, Albany Evening Journal,
] and others that might name, and transfer
them in several instances to religious journals"
Now, we understand these papers to be. like
the Atlas, one and ALL against the Compromise
measures of the last Congress. The Portland
Advertiser is decidedly so, as we understand it ;
/ the New Hampshire Statesman is unquostiona-
bly, the most fonl abolition paper in the State
II is worse than the Independent. The keene
! Sentinel has long been most respectable paper
While under the management Of the elder Prem
tiss II was a small sheet most admirably conduct
ed, We would not now put II on a level with
the Statesman and the Boston Atlas Still it
has not come up to the support of the principles
of the adjustment.
We have only one word to say, by way Of al
laying the fears of the Atlas, and that is, on in
quiry, we learn that in all these cases no change
has been made hut in conformity with the rec
concentrations Of the Wings Of the State
SO far as the Yermoni Watclnan is concerned,
we state upon the highest authority,-lst, That
the reasons for the change were asked in Janu-
airy last at the State Department, by Wing
member of the L. S. Senate, and could net be
haf 3D. That subsequently,, on or about the 9Th
Of February last he "learned, from information to
be relied upon that the files Of the State De
pariment shoc no recommendation Of The Union
Hhig as a proper newspaper ia 'cAich 10 publish
he iairs," Sc. We take issue, then, with the Re
public, and deny that "He Wings" or any con-
siderable number Of Wings of Vermont, have
ever asked this change Fetch on your proof
Mr.. Republic We rather think the public
would like to know ,cho the men are that assume
to be s. the Wings Of Vermont and pledge the
Wing party Of Vermont to approve the Compro-
mise and the prescription OF W igs for opinions
sake We suppose the Wing party Of Vermont
does not care a straw whether one Wing paper or
another has the patronage Of the Government
but put 10 them the question, Shall the Compro
mise be The Test of the Wing paryi and you
shall hear an indignant NO from the Wings Of
Vermont sufficiently unanimous for all practical
purposes We are ready TO submit TINT question:
i'm any mode that the Secretary of State or b
orgln chooses, ard there shall be no lack or our
patt IN securing n fun and fair trial Fetch ON
your "Whes," if you please. If YOU have 90,
any body's papers that could not be found ON the
sth Of Feb. .the deed had then been dona,l OF i'll
you haye raked in any body since ont with their
names and letters 10 the public. W. wish 70 give
Mr. Webster all the advantage to be derived from
their ustious Mines Hide not their light in
sealed piqeon-holcs. Let EN- shine provided,
of course, they are net afraid of daylight.
As to the reason olledgod for the proscrptiyo
course of the Secretary ofState 1t is substan-
taly the same that we have charged. It is avow-
ed by the reputcd organ of the administration
just the Wotchman charged two months ago
1t justiics, fully and completely, the view the /
Watchman has taken of the matter, and at one
fell swoop" brushes away the twattle and quib-
bling Of the htte organs in Vermont They it /
seems, are either not in the confidence of Secre- I
tary Webster or have not the courage to tell .
the truth to "the Wings of Vermont"
One remark more. The Republic admits that
The Secretary Of State regards the compromise as
sine ql'a mona New Test-whch must be
subscribed to by every Wing, and particularly
every Wing newspaper, on penalty Of utter ex-
pulson from the favor of the administration and
the fellowship Of the Wing party But this adj
mission extends only to Mr.. Webster. Is this .
also the doctrine Of the administration? How
long can the President and the rest of the cab- .
net escape responsibility in this business; But
nous rerons. The Republic gives every Wing
editor fine chance to show whether he dare say
HE soul is his own. re have answered that
question, aud have nothing to reuact.
The Boston Atlas replies to the Republic as
follows:
The plain English Of the above is, that the |
Wing papers that have not thought fi 10 relin-
quish their long cherished principles at the mere
mandate of a Democratic Congress, and follow
the lend Of Senator Foote, of Mississippi, and
Mr. Cass of Michigan, who are the ostcnsble
authors of tie compromise" measures, are % /
be no longer considered as Wing papers, but as
aboitonlsisn
II is very well known that none Of the papers
named above have had much 10 say about the
compromise measures, so called, since their pas
sage. They have objected in firm and respect
fol language, to the Fugitive Slave Lava law
which, to use the language of the newly elected /
Senator from Ohio, is covered all over with
pains and penalties, like the quilts on the back
OF a porcupne."
They have taken exceptions TO a law which /
deprNes men and women of their personal liber- /
ty, without even the right to jury trial. luthis
particular, they stand precisely ON the same /
ground with Alr. Webster, Mr. Ashmun. Mr.. /
DAVIS, Mr.. Ninton, and every other Wing mem /
Der of Congress from the Free States with three .
exceptions The bill which Mr. Webster draft 1
cd, and which he read IN the Senate as the bin
which he would prefer to have passed, granted
trial by Jury and to that bill we declared we
were not opposed and regret that II did not
become a law, instead of the one which is now
regarded with SO much sancty that il is deemed
by the Administration, If the Republic speaks
for it, an insupemble barrier to admntance into
the Wing church, unless you give ityour unqual-
flied approval
As regards the removals spoken of above, we
never have referred to them for the purpose of
iactious complaint. We deemed ii lmpohuc, TO
say the least, for Wing Administration to pro-
scribe number of the most Influential and re-
spectacle Wing papers in England and New
York, for no other reason than that they enter
tanned am honest opposition to particularly Of
fensiye law of Congress law which the mass
es abhor and abominate and which, If made
distinct and solitary issue, would be condemned
as unnecessarily harsh and anti-republcan by
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