Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1851-02-27
VERMONT POLITICS.

time ne Is therefore APT 10 say very ""'V""
things, for which great allowances will Of course
be made by those who know his failings we
are certainly disposed to be very charitable and
very lenent towards long article IN the last
Journal. touching ourselves in short, we mean
to make short work of it
The Journal man evidently feels badly nettled
bv sundry articles of ours, published fortnight
ago. We assure our afflicted friend, that it was
no part of our design to nettle him.
The Journal declares that the Wdichman is
leagued with the Vermont Patriot thaye mercy
on Us y to array the Wing party against the
Administration This is an entire misconcep-
ton of our purpose. We did but inquire, plain
IL yet respectfully, whether the administration
wishes to array ITSELF against the Wing party oil
Vermont. If any body can answer No" by
author.ty,"-the purpose, SO absurdly attributed
TO US by the Journal, will be completely ioled'
Can the Journal say-.N02
The Jou-n1l thinks our course tends to distract
the Wing party. Such IS not our purpose, nor
orr belief We think the surest way to prevent
distraction is to exclude promptly the nsi0 party
test. against which nine-tenths Of the rank aud
file would break out in open rebellion Keep
on, causes for distraction, dear Journal. Pre-
vention is the best medicine.
Finally: the journal lntmitos that we might
have imagined some cause, other than the one
assigned, for Mr. Webster's course. Dear man
let US most distinctly assure you, that we acted,
not upon imagination but Information.
IA. 81 that 10 "A
short, practicable, and very simple way foF that
paper to relieve itself, and ourself, the hg par
tv. Mr. Webster and the Administration, of all
possible difficulty in the matter, to wit: 1T 1t
Disave.y, "by authority" The causes assigned jor
Mr. w. bste,'s late appointments in Ie'mom NEG
Hampshire and Men York, and the differences
justified By .Mr Vebsiers Trryio,cn letter. If the
journal can DO this, we shall be both satisfied
and grathed for, most assuredly, we shall be
as much pleased to see the Administration and
the Wing plrty entirely harmonious, as we should
be mortified TO see so excellent a man as MIL
LAID FlllMoRu mlseraby msled by Mr. W eb-
ster or any body else. Ii the journal finds TINT
it cannot make such disclaimer, we commend
it to careful consideration of what is due TO til
honor and the success OF the Wing party IN
1852.
NIB When the journal again chooses to
base its attacks upon articles in the Waichman,
we should prefer to have it either cory the mti-
cles entire, or represent them tntly.
Be careful Of you~ promises. The Be'o'cs
Falls Gazette seems inclined to think that there
is now no issue, and likely to be none, in which
Slavery is concerned. except slavery IN The Suites
that the Wing party has always claimed to have
nothing to do with it there and therefore has
now nothing to do with it all. lfthese premises
were correct we should no, object TO the conclu-
sion. 1t is most certainly true that the Northern
States hive no jurisdiction within the Southern
STATES, and II .-anll therefore be absurd 10 mnn
Northern paries and elect Northern legislatures
on the supposition that they can affect the insti-
tutions Of other States. We are constrained to
think. however, that the Gasette may be greatly
mistaken in its premises Says the Gazette
The question (of Slavery fortunately for the
peace Of the country, is finally settled as FAR as
Congress can settle 1t. BY 1t the North has gam
ed The admission of California with her Free
Constitution, and the formation of Territorial
Governments for Now Mexico and Utah, with q
provision which prohibits the Territorial Legls-
iaiufe from dong anything either to allow or pre-
ven, tn, Introduction Of slavery. TINS with tho
NJ sxcan laws already in force will forever pre-
vent ia formation of slave territory, unless the
people who shall settle there shall desire It TO be
Incorporated INTO their State Constitution. That
there is any danger Of such nm event, the cours'
OF the emigrants TO California and the peculiar
condition Of the country, preclude the idea.
If il could be truly said, or said beyond a rea
sonable doubt, that Slavery is excluded from u
tab and New Mexico until the Constitutions o
those States are formed, it would be reasonubl.
safe in our Judgment, to conclude that It woul,
forever be excluded This cannot be truly said
Even those who entertaln no doubt that Slavery
would be excluded by the Mexican law, if no ter
ritorill governments had been inst tuted by Con
gress, are not SO clear on that question now, il
the face of the doctrine of the South that Tia
Mexican law is in fact abrogated, by taking th
territory into the Jurisdiction Of the Constitution
and OF Congress. Southern men there certainly
are, who claim that they have the right to emi
CRATE TO this territory with their slaves, and tn
Atii4l tlc fucSAioh u slavery hldf "
determined when the Constitution is iofmed,) is
guaranty of this right until that time--a guaran
" against territorial interference. Indeed, NOR
thln this if the newspapers inform us correctly
Shareholders have already introduced their slave
into Utah and New Mexico, and remain tier
unmoested 1t Is possible, then,--it Is not i'm
probable eyen-that slavery may be found ther
when the constitutions are formed, and be forev
ever perpetuated by those Instruments, a Ia Ter
as.
AS this is an important matter we invite thu
Ca-siis to consider the last proyiso to section is,
of the act to establish a territorial government
for New Mexico;
"And provided further, That when admitie
as a StIte, the said territory, or any portion
the sane, shall be received into the Union, vii
or without slavery, as their constitution may pre-
scribe at the tune of Their admission"
And to this part Of the first section of the &C
to establish territorial government for Utah;
'And when admitted a a State. the said ten
ritory or any portion Of the same, shall be rece
we'd into the Union, with or without slavery, a
iba al.