Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-07-31

fury OF the elements, resorts to no untred exper-
iments,-he views anxiOusly the compass, which
has guided him safely in previous dangers-he
consults carefully the CHARTS which experience
ed navigators have laid down for his guide
where dangers are indicated he makes every ef-
fort to avoid them and regains, if he can, the
path which others have pursued in safety, be-
fore him: So the faithful citizen when the ship
OF State is tossed by the no less furious polti-
cal elements, takes that " old Compass" whose
polarity is Jtee9om-he takes the charts of the
former patriots, who built the ship and knew its
capacity, with which they have navgated that
glorious old vessel amid "all the storms of state"
safely into harbor. The mariner, who, in such
peril, would throw overheard his compass and
lock up his chart, and without effort on his part
trust his ship to the laws of the elements" must
expect to be iOrecked, and whoever would sit
idle and trust the territories to the no less haz-
ardous chance, of the laws of population" has
no reason to expect better fate. Man, indeed
may expect much, but not without effort
" SummG ope nit deceit" "Duty demands the
utmost EFFORT" We know that Mr.. Webster has
told Us that he would net "re-enact the laws of
God-that by the laws of nature the territories
are unsuited to slavery" but can it be said that
God ever designed one foot of this earth for
Sta0eIy as mart, wherein man should traffic
in his brother? And do we not know that
slavery HAS existed in every state In Europe;-
and almost every state in this Union, and noD
exists, in most odioas cruelty under the very
icebergs of Russia? God has made all things
tOcH, but men have perverted them horribly. He
made man upright, but he has sought out many
Inventions" " Mem iaterUentioa, and Nom
action" are the inventions and perversions of
man. The enemy sowed the tares" while the
husbandman was asleep. And shall we be lull-
ed into security-to sleep, when the enemy only
ask time, "and the laws of population" that he
may SOW the tares?"
Ifslavery can never, under any circumstances
or by any effort, obtain foothold in the terrific
ry, its inhibition by La,O can do no hurt. AS q
mere " confession of faith it is valuable but il
it can, and should obtain foothold, then have We
permitted an injury to be "infcted" upon our
selves and our posterity, which can never be re-
paired. If we maintain Truth, we are safe; i
we yield to error, we are in danger.
We do not deny that NEW article of faith il
accordance with truth and justice, and the en-
lightened sentiment of the age, may, rightful
ly by common consent, be engrafted upon thu
Democratic Faith" But the politician who
goes back to the records of the African slave
trade for information, and shall attempt by the
fiat of his own will, to engraft upon the faith o
a political party principle abhorent to God
and Nature, treads, in this age, very dangerou.
ground.
The Constitut ion needs no physc. Let it
functions have full play, and its action is heal
thy. There are too many political nostrums.-
The sOorld is doctOred too much There are to-
many political gamblers.
The people are honest and right; let them as
sert their supremacy, and there will be less tall
of treason and aiSun,on. We want more mer
and fewer " chattels" in the council of State
Let the people rise up and discharge theil
duty; aud, if need be, hurl quack demagoguef
from the stable. We shall maintain the demo.
cratic faith. "The Union must be preserved
The Constitution must not be shackled, FREE.
DOM MUST BE NATIoNALIzED. SLAVERY MUST
BE LOCALIZED" We stake no step backwards
The times demand men for official station mag
netzed with the spirit of Constitutional freedom
and true as the needle. And who, by no stress
of " circumstances" can be unmqgnetized.
This shall be our course. Others may de-
sert us, but we shall not desert our principles