Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-07-29

over again.
In the endorsements of the Compromises
fugitive bill and ALL think the managers OF
the party were guilty of poor generalship'
think the party was placed entirely at the mercy
of the Wings and if they did not profit by 1t,
it argues folly on their part, rather than lis
absence on yours. Had they refused to en-
dorse those measures, scarcely believe there Is
a single Northern State they could not have
carried. And the South should remember that
The North can elect President without their
help. Whether such result is especially deslr-
able is for the South to say.
How far have you succeeded IN rendering
safe your peculiar institution You have rendered
to the country sectional issue. Was this wise
| think it poor policy to make such an issue IN
the present state of the country. We have
thirteen and a half millions of free whites.
You have about six millions, and not all OF those,
nor, indeed, halt of them, indirectly Interested
in your system. If you insist on sectional
fight, the result must be " that the weakest will
90 to the wall"
You will lead to the formation, not perhaps
of party, but of league against you, that Will
defeat all your policy. Men opposed to the
extension of slavery, and to its varied preten-
slons, will unite to defeat any candidate that
faVors your views, Just as you now defeat
any candidate that does not sustain them. Men
will not leave their respective parties, perhaps,
but they will act in and through their parties,
and secure their results as you have done. AND
even now the material for such a league Is at
hand. Two hundred and ninety five thousand
in l848 vote against the doctrine OF the Nlchol-
son letter and that number of persons, and
many more, are now ready to vote against any
candidates that sacrifice the Interests OF free
dom to the demands of the slave power. They
may not leave their parties they will not hoe
nounce your candidates ; but you need not be
surprised if your expectations in future are often
dlSap pointed.
Your allies are forcing yon into extreme and
dangerous measures to serve themselves they
demand the endorsement Of the Compromises
as a protection against the lndlgnltlon OF their
own constituents But where will this course
lead? 1t will only hasten on the lnal issue
which you alone have to dread.
Do you except to catch your runaways any
better? Thousands Of genuine Democrats all
over the country will sill believe the Fugitive
Slave Law to be unconstitutional. Your mlser-
able platform will NOT change their opinion nor
their course of acton. Tney will treat it as
Jefferson and NJ Olson treated the alien and
sedltion law, "as absolutely null and vold. i"
Do You say this is breach of flrh plighted in
the national compact? answer, no, Ohio
passed Just such law as her sister State Ken
lucky asked for, but it was set aside by de-
cison oil the Supreme Court, and afterwards re-
pealed. The law was passed in accordance
with the requirments of the constitutional com
pact, as then understood hut this is in plain VI.
o'alon of out State rights, and will not be re
garded, In some remarks fornely made by me
to this House, the gentleman from Maryland
Mr. WALSH says | perverted the resolutions
Of '98 to serve the cause OF felons and thieves.
qlOted those resolutions to establish the doc
rne that powers not distinctly granted to the
Fedora Government were not possessed by 1t,
bnt renamed with the States, or with the people.
quoted them to establish the doctrines that
Congress was only authorized to punish a spcl
fed number of cranes, none of which are among
those for which fines and penalties are inflicted
by the Fugitive Slave Law; and, also, to esab-
ISh the doctrine that no mere executive or MN
isterial officer could COnstltutlonally seize and
hurry off prisoner without jury, or trial, OF
witnesses, or process, &c. shall not answer
the charge of aiding the cause OF tuIons and
thieves by employing such words in return; but
| will submit 10 the arbitration Of an enlightened
world who best deserves those epithetS Do
my constituents who will give their bread 10 a
hungry man, be he white or back-who, if a
man inquiries which ls North, will point out the
pole star-or if he says he Is struggling tor
liberty, which they believe 10 be every man S
hirthright, will give aid and comfort 2" Or
that class of men in this country who will take
some of those who are declared by our Decla-
ration of Independence TO be born free and
equal, deprive them Of liberty, and of the free
pursuit of happiness--take their labor without
wages, giving them nothing excepting such
nece5sares as prudent men give the brutes they
own-takc wives from husbands and sell them,
or husbands from wives-take children from
parents and sell them, and parents from children,
for the same purpose We can afford to al.
low the gentleman to use such eplthets as ne
pleases but an enlightened world, and his own
conscience, if he have one, are against hun.
| am ready to submit TO any impartial tribunal,
to decide who are the feIons and thieves
And further You are deprvng The country
of the services of some Ut her abest men
Craftsmanship is a profession, like all other pro-
fessions, requiring knowledge and experience,
Men can no more be Statesmen without study
and proper training, then they could be lawyers,
or doctors without iproper study and practice
Men may be intelligent on many subjects, and
yet not statesmen Skill IN this department
does not come by accident or intuition Our
country has many men emnently qualified to
render good service to the States and the Dom
ocratc party has men Of whom the nation may
justly be proud. There is the distinguished
Senator General CAss, man of most unblem.
shed personal reputation, OF fine natural talents
and most extensive requirements almost
hall centurys experience IN the service of his
country, at home and abroad. In nv judgement,
the Democratic party or the country has 10 man
better qualified than he to guide the helm of
affairs. And why was not he selected? | think
simply because in an evil hour he listened and
leaned TO the South, doing violence to the sen
tlments cherished in his own section of the
county. Whatever his motive he unfortunate
! ly weakened himself at the North, ia proportion
as he served the South. And what is the result !?
The South of course is highly gratlied, but she
finds there may be demands that General CAss
could not comply with. He has served her in
the past, but she doubts his ability, lame as he
is from wounds received in fighting her battles.
to do her seryice in tie future. A base ingtai
tHde dictates her course, and the Senator from
Michigan is deserted, and left to say, almost in
the language of Woosey
Had bnt served my God with half the zaal
That have SLAVERY SERVED, he would not IN mine age
! Have lett me naked to mine enemies"
How is it with the Senator from Texas.
| General IIoUsToN?] He had done more than
any Other man 10 extend the Republic in the
direction where slavery wanted to be strengthen
He had won Texas for the South. This should
have secured for him everlasting gratitude Of
that section In many Northern Safes he was
fayoritc with the people they looked with
admiration upon his eyenttuI history, and on his
many noble traits of character, and he would
probably hive been the most popular candidates
that could haze been named, Unfortunately for
bis prospects. be wrote a letter. which like those