North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-11-29
VERMONT


| Well, the General Assembly of Vermont has met
and adjourned, and as we predicted the law of tina,
State multiplying the fugitive-slave law has not been
repealed. A Telegraphic despatch to the New York
Tribune, dated Montpelier, November Is, and hea
ded IS Cotton dull in Vermont, - says: The bill
repeating hab corpus act of last session, has
just been rejected in the House-oue hundred and
thiry-two to ffty-fve-in spite of lamentations here
and elsewhere -
Vermont is about the only State In the Union where
the Wings have full and undisputed sway. They
have Wing Governor, Wing Executive Council,
a Wing Senate, Wing House, and Wing majority
in the Congressional Delegation. Gov. Williams
who signed this multiplying law year ago. has recent
ly been reelected by increased majority; and in
In his last annual Message, extracts from W hch we
have already laid before readers, he took ground
for the higher law and against the Un ion of the
States as established by our fathers. And yet the
reelection of this man, because he is Ohig was re-
ceived by some Of the Wing papers of this State
with notes of rejoicing; and to this day, no Wing
paper in this State has forward to expose this
man Williams and those who sustain him, in their
true colors to slavehoding people!
Give the Wing party full sway in all the free
States, and you would soon see the same action now
witnessed in Vermont The Wing party of the free
States " lives, moves, and has its being " only in an
atmosphere of sectionalism the anti-Savery agita-
ton is It's peculiar food, and if that should be with
drawn it would at dissolve. This fact is shown
IN all its primary meetings and Conventions and in
all Legislative bodies in which it has CONTROL The
following extract from the Washington Union con-
talns matter for the consideration of Southern Whirs
$50 the Wings of the Vermont legislature stand
abont three to one In favor of multiplying the fugitive
law by unconstitutional State legislation In Ohio
the party its recorded Legislative vote stands
only four to in favor of the immediate repeal of
the fugitive law. But in the last Congress- includ-
ing House and Senate, the unanimity of the wbip
party OF tie North in regard to this matter was still
more imposing. In that body the northern who's
stood about thirty one against the of that
same laW-not one northern whig senator and lust
three northern Wing representatives, having voted in
It's favor A very fine showing all round for par
ty which pretends to challenge southern support and
confidence, and very fine basis for whig admins
traon to stand upon and claim be able 10 maintain
the Compromise! AS the whig party has just been
overthrown in New York-the Empire State of the
North-it is profitable to remember that in the last
Congress the Wings had thirty-two out of the thirty
four congressman from that State and that not one
OF them all recorded his in favor of the passage
OF the fugitive law, and the main bulk of them op-
posed 1t in all it's stages -
Mr.. Fillmore is the champion of the compro-
mise us he? If so, how does it happen that his
Stduu HLTee 10 one against MIN Is
his influence very feeble, Notwithstanding the high
post he occupies. that he cannot muster more than
fifty friends out Of hundred and thirty on the side
OF the Constitution and common justice ? !
1t is becoming more and more apparent that the
Wing party of the country is totally unable to exc
cute the compromise, arrest the ant-slavery
agitation. The country will have to look now, as in
times past, to the Democracy for the performance of
this work. Whigism is powerIess for good. It has
but three or four Governors of the thirty-one but
a lean minority in the two Houses of Congress, while
in Vermont the only State in which its sway is clear
and undsputed, is riding roughshod over the Con-
stitution and waving above its Abolition hosts the
i higher law" banner of Seward and Greedy Such |
is modern Whigism. Look at it, Southern men, and
then say whether you willing trust the Consti-
luton and the Union of the States to its control and
guardianship.
Vermont, be it remembered, is IS the Wing star
that never sets. " She is just where she was three
years since, when the National Inteligencer declar
ID that the Wings of Vermont could have no occas-
ION to go over to the feesoil Buffalo platform for the
simple reason that they had been all along on the
cal freesoil platform, erected by the Wings of the
New-England States.