Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-06-12

Massachusetts as a partisan OF greater iree-
dom of trade, and by the adherents of the
government as an opponent OF the Fugitive
Slave act. Yet such was the strength OF
feeling in Massachusetts on that point
alone that the Free Soil party have succeed
ed in sending TO the Senate the most active
and able representative Of their cause, and
Mr.. Sumner enters upon his ostenslble po-
litical career under these remarkable and
hattering circumstances
Wherever slavery exists, but especially
where it exists in close connection with the
laws and institutions of a free people, the
necessity of defending that violation of all
human rights by extraordinary provisions,
gives rise to strange contradictions and
anomalies. Thus, in the United States
there is a large class of the population to
whom all instruction is forbidden, and the
very laws of God and nature are unknown.
There are harbors in which free men of
color, on board vessels from those lands
where slavery is abolished, may be torn
from their flag and incarcerated by the
myrmidons of a slave police. There are
man-hunters, authorised by law to pursue
their human game through the wide terri
tories of the Union, so that the British
frontier alone can save the runaway from
the bIoodhounds of his owner.
Ono doubt it may be said, with truth,
that these outrages on rights and feelings
of mankind are necessary consequences of
the state of things in which they originate /;
and hence, while the Northern American
states have been endeavoring to remove
this stigma from the nation, their Southern
confederates have construed this opposition
into a direct attempt to abolish Slavery
In this there is some exaggeratlon. The
northern states have unquestionably no right
to interfere with the peculiar institutions of
the south but neither have the southern
states any right, except by express agree
ment, to lntrude upon the liberties of other
communities. In the territorial arrange
ments which were made last year, and es-
peclally by the admission Of such states as
California to the Union, on the basis of the
exclusion of slave labor, the sIayeholdinp
interest received a severe blow but, in
exchange, ii obtained fugitive slave act.
The government; has remained honorabIy
faithful TO that act, however repugnant it
must be to the personal feelings of many
American statesmen, because the measure
was regarded as one part of a mutual con-
c%esslon, and served, therefore, to lull the
rising anlmosity and separation ofthe south.
But this consideration does not render it
less repugnant to the fundamental princi-
plies of liberty and state sovereignty in the
United States; and the election of Mr.. Sum-
ner to the Senate is everywhere regarded
as an emphatic declaration on the part of
his W state that the law is at least not to
remain IN its present form unassailed, The
south responds to such an election by loud
er declarations of its resistance to all infrac-
tons on It's local institutions, even at the
Sacrihce OF the integrity of the Union -
and though we utterly discredit the an
proach OF that dissolution of the confede-
ration, which is the habitual bucbear Of
American politicians, it is evident that the
contest on these vital questions will be car
RED on with undiminished yehemence."
A SCENE IN THE FRENoH ASSEMBLY.
In the course Of the debates on the Odd.
w. MORN moved THAI the members be at
liberty to renew motions for the revision Of
the constitution monthly, without waiting
the delay of SIX months required by the
rules of the House.
M: Laclaudure opposed the proposition
as violating the constitution. Now. he
would tell the different parties who advoca-
ted the revision, that it was not in the in
terests OF the Legitimists, the Orleanists.
or the Socialist party, the Government was
actively laboring-it was in the interest
of M. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, who
wished to perpetuate his authority. All
the public tunctlonaries had, he said, re-
ceIved instructions to that effect, and they
had actually taken the field with an ardor
and a boldness hitherto unexampled. The
conspiracy commenced on the 10th of De.
cember, l84S. "There were 5000, 900
consPirators," cried a member on the right.
p" NO." replied M. Laclaudure. There
were 6,OOO,OOO of citizens more or less
deluded." M. LacIaudure insisted that
such instructions had been issued by the
Ministry, and that the intrigue he denoun.
ced positively existed. If the Assembly
doubted it, it had only to order an inquiry.
C"Oh! oh" on the right M. Laclaudure
then continued his speech in the midst of
a terrible habbub, and in conclusion en-
treated the Assembly to restore universal
suffrage, and respect the IlIth Article of
the Constitution.
NJ. NORM stated that he should reply in
a few words. The question at issue was
not between monarchy and the republic,
1t was between the republic possible and
the republic impossible. He was in favor
oil the first, and M. Laroch for the latter.
M. Emile de Girardin thought the prop
osition concealed a battery. If it was not
in M. Morln's power to hang those two
MEMBERSHIPS and 562 his proposition
was superfiuous, except in one case-that IS.
If it was intended to exercise a pressure on
the Assembly, like those of the 18th of
May and 18th of June
We never descended into the streets"
cried a voice on the right.
mo, not even when it was your duty tn
10 SO, to defend your c%olors; and if Won
''!ack the constitution, you may be GER
am to lind US in the streets again" IRE
iendouS ana long continued applause ON
he lett. Cries of order on the rightly
The President" Your words Contain
'royocatlon. call you to order"
NJ; GIrardin submitted to the severity Of
ne PRESIDENT, although he did not deserve
T. his reply having been drawn by an in
eruption.
APPREHENSION ABOUT ITALY.-Tbe
conservative French papers are again pub-
'0n.ug Tue most alarming :umors about a
contemplated rising of the Italians. The
Constitutional, which is one of the weak.
ISL ana meanest of the Partisan pagers
has tne following from Rome, dated The