Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-05-23

State in our glorious Confederacy. They are
equi-distant betweenthe fanaticisn which would
destroy the Union to preserve Slavery, and that
which would destroy the Union to abolish Slave
ry,-between the ultrasm of the followers OF
Calhoun on one hand, and of the followers and
CO workers Of Eliaur Wright g. Co., OH the
other.
The Wings Of the North will certainly
never surrender their hostility to Slavery but
they will hold with equal firmness their attach
ment to the Union. They will not be fright
ened from asserting their constitutional right tc
oppose at all times the aggressions of Slavery
by the idle cry that the "Unon is in danger
The reasonable and seditious course OF South
Carolina may dissolve the Union the course
of the Wings of the North and West, never
Those that dissolve this Union must suffer the
consequences; they cannot attach them to the
skirts Of the Free States Who, we desire to
ask, has invaded or denied the constitutional
rights of South Carolina? Who has denied or
attempted TO wrest from her, her right to hold
Slaves .Nobo y, excepting faction Of fanat-
cal abolitionists of the Garrison and Wright
stamp, who have never had intrinsic strength
enough among the People in any State in this
Union to carry an election!
But the political abolitonsts, and the po-
lltlcal Secesslonists are, and have been, as we
began by saying, ,corking together. Both aim
at disunlon, both claim the right of any State
to secedc one for the sake of Freedom, the
other for the sake of Slavery We give them
JOY of the companionship
A few days ago. we laid before our read
ers the traitorous Resolutions adopted by the
Disunion Convention lately held in Charleston,
). Z. One Of them is as follows:-
Resolred, That we hold the right of secession to
be essential to the sovereignty and freedom of the
states OF this Coniederacy and that the denial OF
mat right, would furnish to an injured State the
strongest additional cause for its exercise"
Now then turn we to the abolition Conren-
tion," held week before last at Syracuse, n. Y.
One of the Resolutions adopted by that body Of
Disunionists is as follows. We invite the at
tention of the Wings of Vermont to the co-inci-
dence of sentiment and purpose it discloses =
"ReSOired That odious as are the governing prn-
",ciples of South Carolina, we cannot withhold
the praise Justly due to her consistent maintenance
OF the great cdrdiRdl dOctI me of the right of Sc
ceSSi0h dy SIn9ie Ndte-a doctrine vital to bcr-
y and the only safeguard OF the several sovereign
Ties from the tyranny OF gtaspng centrazation''
"Odious as are the governing principles" of
this squad Of South Carolina fanatics, an equal
squad of fanatics at the North are quite willing
to join hands with them, to pull down the fab
rlc OF the Union. And then the unparalleled
nonsense and twadde of these Syracuse patr-
OTIS about "the tyranny of u grasping cenrali-
zation,"i in a Republic like this, where the PEo-
PIE elect their own National Legislatures every
twenty-four months 1t has its only counter
part in South Carolina
Wines OF VERMONT you see daily cause
to rejoice in your adherence to your time>hon-
ored and patriotic Party; and daily reason to
stand firm by the banner under whose folds YOU
have so long conquered You have no occa-
sion to go to Charleston or to Syracuse fer gui-
dance or instruction. Stand by the good old
Wing PARTY, its Principles and its Men, and
you will find the fanaticism of the Seccders of
the South and the Gree Soers" of the North.
which Mr.. SUMNER eloquenty calls THE DE-
LUsIoNs OF THE HOUR" soon passing away
O. Without claiming that it is any of our
particular business, further than we think the
Uhig Party in Termom may be affected by 1t,
we cannot help suggesting to our friend of the
Montpelier Waterman, that his elaborate and
able vindcation of the truism that State has |
the Right and the Power to protect the liberty
of its inhabitants, is unnecessary, to say the |
least. The HABEAs CoRPUs ACT of our last
Legislature, whether it be pronounced uncon-
stltutlonal or mott may be better trusted to the
judgment of the World, when 'thc delusions of
the hour" shall have passed away, than 20 the
best defence Of its abest friends, during times
of angry excitement. When it was first at,
tackled abroad, by papers in other States which
to consider it an infringement upon
the rights Of Slavery, because it was found to
be an additional guaranty for the ri ghts of Free
dom, we were prompt, as our readers will bear
testimony, to undertake its defence and so
was the Uatchm n. We hope neither of us
will ever commit greater fault than to assume |
and argue that "A law, whose ony purpose is to
protect "inhabitants" of this State against being
uNLAwruLLY consigned to Slavery, is in pre-
else agreement with the letter and spirit of the |
Constitution Of the United States
But the temporary excitemcnt-the "dclu-
sion of the hour"-has long since passed away.
Vermont was never further from being NULL, |
flying Gree Soil" State than she is now her
intelligent Wings were never further from be
ing deluded by the hucksterng politicians with
in her borders who have long strven to weaken
their fidelity by stealing and mutilating their
principles, and attempting to make merchandise |
of them under the sign of "Dcmocracy." Our
friend Of the Hdichman, there ORE it seems to
us, sis carrying Goals to Newmarket"
But this is not all; the Uatchmnn has rot
itself into an improbable quarrel with two or
three of the fourteen or fifteen Wing papers in
Vermont, simpIy'by insisting upon what ninety
nine one bundredths of the Wbi1S of Vor,,o,,,