Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-12-03
VERMONT.

VERMONT. = g.. .s...r
Well, the General Assembly of Vermont has met
and adjourned. and predicted, the law of that
State nulfyng the fugi.ivs-slave law has not been
repealed. A Telegraphlc despatch to the New York
Tribune, dated Montpelier, November le, and hea.
ded Cotton dull in Vermont" says: Sc The bill
repeating Aa6 corpus act of last session, has
just been rejected in the House-ope hundred and
thirty-two to fty-6ve-in spite of lamentations here
and elsewhere.''
Vermont is about the only State the Union where
the Wings have foil and undisputed sway. They
have Wing Governor, Whig Executive Council.
Whig Senate, Whig House, and Whig majority
in the Congressional Delegation. Gov. Williams,
who signed this nuliyng law year ago. has recent
ly been reelected by increased majority; and, in
in his last annual Message, extracts from which we
have already laid before readers he took ground
for the higher law and against the Union of the
States as established by our fathers. And yet the
reelection Of this man, because he is Whig. was re-
with notes of rejoicing; and to this day, no Wing
paper in this State has come forward to expose this
man Williams and those who sustain him, in their
true colors to slaveho!ding 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 Whig party of the free
States Lives, moves and has its being only in an
atmosphere of sec,ionaism the anti.Slavery agita-
ton is its peculiar food, and if that should be with
drawn it would at once dissolve. This fact is shown
in all its primary meetings and Conventions, and in
T hod; in 90 a hoe rho
following extract from the Washington Union con-
tans matter for the consideration of Southern Wings
$50 the Wings of the Vermont legislature stand
abont three to one in favor of nulyng 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 whig
party of tie North in regardto this matter still
more imposing. In that body the northern wings
stood about thirty to against the passage of that
same law-not one northern whig senator and just
three northern Whg representatives, having voted in
its favor |! very fine showing all round for par
ty which pretends to challenge southern support and
confidence. and a very fine basis for a whg admins
tra,ion stand upon and claim to be able 10 maintain
the Compromise! AS the whig party has just been
over.hrown in New York-,he Empire State of the
North-it is profitable to remember that in the last
Congress the Wings had thiry-two out of the thirty
four Congressman from that State, and that not
Of them all recorded his vote 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 S compro-
mise lis he! Ii SO, how does it happen that his
Vermont friends stand three to one against him! Is
his influence very feebIe Notwithstanding the high
post he occupies, that he cannot muster more than
City friends of hundred and thirty the side
Of tie Constitu:ion and common justice
1t is becoming more and more apparent that the
Wing party of the country is totally unable to
cute the " compromise, or to arrest the antslavery
agitation. The country will have to look now, in
times past, to the Democracy for'the performance of
this work. Whigism is powerless for good. Ithas
but three or four Governors out of the thtyone, but
lean minority in the two Houses of Congress, while
in Vermont the only State in which its sway is clear
and undsputed, it is riding roughshod over the Con-
stitution and waving above its Abolition hosts the
" higher law" banner of Seward and Greely Such
is modern Whigism. Look it, Southern men. and
then say whether you willing to trust the Consti-
tuition and the Union Of the States to its control and
guardianship.
Vermont, be it remembered, is " the Wing star
that never sets. " She is just where she was three
years since, when the National Intelgencer declar-
ed that the Wings of Vermont could have no occas-
ion 10 90 over to the eesoil Buffalo platform, for the
simple reason that they had been all along on the
real free,ol platform, erected by the Wings of the
New-England States.
WAKE FOREST COLLEGE.
We have received Catalogue Of Wake Forest
College, printed at the Biblical Recorder Office. The
style of the printing reflects credit on that Office.
The Faculty of this College is as follows Rev.