Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-02-23
ncnfIh OF AgilntiOn.


very Agitation is covert treason and agators are
sly traitors Ofcourse the South and its friends we're
determined to suppress agitation. The success has
been eminent. 1t has not only been put down. but
nut down a hundred times, and there is chance Tor
hundreds of times more.
In the South the methods Of suppressing agitation
were admirable The United States mails were put
at the discretion Of every post master to rid them OF
infammatory matter That produced great quiet
amonr apitaiors. Laws enforced for the inn
prisoement of free citizens of the North, If found In
Carolina with skin of the wrong color that man
to-day might vote in New York, for Pierce & King,
nav his taxes 20 to Charleston, and the hext week
be put into Jail and in short time be sold into sav-
cry 10 pay his Jail fees. Peace, like dew on roses,
Massachusetts sent venerable man, in an open and
honorable manner, TO test this matter in the courts Of
South Carolina Ever studious of peace, The citizens
Of Charleston assembled and drove him and his daugh
ter pteoip lately from the cry thereby giving aptia
ton a terrible downsot. For the same reasons men
were bandy ynched upon suspicion Of being aboli-
tionists native clergynen were expelled from the
for holding wrong views of duty. aud all for the
sake IF peace South Carolina has been Kissing hot
with rebellion any time through ten years she has
talked treason up and down every village street in her
border and, atlery neghboring states have gone in
chorus. defying the government threatening secession,
VilIifying the North calling the Yankees exceedingly
naughty names speaking proudly of our factory girls
and even finding fault with aboonisls The gen.
era tendency Of these things has been suppress ag
itaton of course. There has never been hearihful
of southern frebranjs that there have not been north
ern shoves enoughto take up and scatter them for the
suppression of combustion.
But men still felt and lhouehtand talked; and the
talking grew louder, and began To be heard in strange
places in legislatures, and even in pulpits. 1t was
Hat nI,t, tba
an rxneuisher on a lighted candle. The right Of
petition denied, the gag law applied dis
cusson, and personal threats and abuse heaped
Sp9s any man Mho dared assai slavery Probably no
this There are seldom more than twenty speeches
day, now, in Congress, the subject of slavery,
whatever may be the bill pending, for lighh house.
for revenue, for clam,-slavery IS always the sub
jent discussed. All parties have gone into it. The
southern members breakfast, dine sup on the discus
sion. 1t is meat and drink; it is their coffee, wine
and schnapps-ihe universal food, the universal bev-
erage. Nothing will go down without slavery to spice
it. No body is half anxious lest slavery should
not be discussed your real southern gentleman who
tells the North at the boiling point of every Speech
every subject, that the Union is about to dissolve
under the unrigheOus discussion of slavery
When Texas broke loose, we had rare peace times
While the South was slipping Texas into its pocket,
the North begged to be quiet not to be alarmed
and especially not to fear the accession of slave terri
tory. But once in, the North was bid mind its own !
business and not NEEDLE with southern affairs With
Texas came war. Mexico was dragooned into trea-
ty, plucked and dismembered. Then came the ones.
ton of her territory, now called ours
At length California and New Mexico must be Ia
ken in hand. The South wanted peace and--slave i
territory. The North wanted peace and brisk sale
Of goods. Agitation of went 10 the WALL
The compromise measures were gotten up to quiet =
ne Seoay q st hs mos, Gd l lay a a
den, where for very shame it had skunk TIL it was !
almost forgotten, tooth or two was given it,
and the old sharpened its limbs were rub c
bed with a little political niment till they were lin
Der enoughand then the grizzly monster was put in
10 that menagerie Of peaceful beasts called Compro
mise Measures. Barnum was not wanting. In d
deed, there like to have been little agitation
80 many political Barnums cast, west, north and south
claimed the right Of managing this peaceful Compro
mise. =
The North roared aloud when she saw such peace v
She meyer before such lambs and doves. But Q
pungent odois were applied, and she prevented
from aintng All the merchants doing southern bus
mess rushed to Castle GARDEN TO prevent agitation - r
Those who would not go with them were threatened
and badgered. Agitation had no chance at all.
All The venerable sons Of thunder on the conserva-
tive SIDE were out, fierce for quiet. AbOlitionsts
were failed to the very husk Agitaors were drown
ed TO silence by The uproar against them. Agitation
When was ever anything effacually used up 1t t
was used up at Andover, then in Boston, then at New
Haven. then in twenty places in New York and Brook
Ign. 1t was put down in all prominent Cities
1t is incredible how many times was slain and bur
led. Peace was obtained in Philadelphia by Commits.
sioner lngraham sending back free man TO slavery;
in New York we had rare peace times in the arrest
trial and rendition of Long, of Preston, of - t
Boston had Shadrach peace, and Sims peace Peace
sprung up like grass Chrsiiana Pa and waved like
cedars Of Lebanon at Syracuse.
Then at last came Uncle Tom, an apostle of peace c
an universal coponeur Of quiet, suppessing agitation
in every house of the land wandering uhquitous :
through foreign lands and speaking in all tongues and
everywhere with the same effect of suppressng agita
ton There slight dust raised to be sure when
the New York Observer mounted its charger, and
started in pursuit of Uncle Tom. But the seed came
back without its rder-Uncle Tom was too much for
Don Quxote
No sooner now the elections passed. than we
are at work again put down that inveterate Aqita-
ton If cat has nine lives this old cat must have
ninety and nine. Mr.. Lennon brings eight slaves to
New York 10 rans-shp them to Texas The courts !
asked leave TO examine the invoices of this bill of
goods. Judge Paine felt called 10 aga,e the matter
a little The Journal of Commerce was good enough G
while the court were celebrating, to tell the Judge
how to decide the case and was greatly surprised to
lind that he paid attention TO it, Not 10 mind the
southern organ Is but hairs breadth from striking
The Commonwealth.
Judge Paine frees the slaves To prevent all ae-
laton the Journal of Commerce admits that he seem
ed to go by law and the antecedents of that paper
make il little tcklish 10 recommend a Judoa "a M