Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-09-21

Shame shaHe1 These outragos cry aloud
to Heaven. and to Tic people Of Massgchl-
sets. (Sensation,) Their intrinsic wicked
ness is enhanced by t!lr way in which they
were Accomplished, Df tho Rrst ! snow
something from personal observation; OF the
latter | am iniarluel auly by public report.
1t is characteristic OF the slave power
never to stick at ai,y means supposed to be
needful in carrying Forward its plans; but
never on any OCCASION were its assumptions
so bare.acel and tyrapnical as in the passage
Of the Nebraska bin.
This bill was prccipitated upon Congress
without one word Vt public recommendation
from the President. without notice or discussion
in any newspaper, and without single petit
ton from tho people It was urged by diff
terout advocates, on two principal arguments,
so opposite and inconsistent, as to slap each
other in the face. laughter) One being that,
Iby the repeal OF the prohibition, the territory
would be absolutely opaa TO the entry Of slave
holders with their slaves and the ether being,
that the people there would be left to deter
mine whether Shareholders shoud cutter with
their slaves. With some the apology was the
alleged rights Of Shareholders; with others it
was under The, Speeious guise Of popular
sovereignty tho alleged rights OF the people
Ofcourse the measure, thus upheld in defiance
0. reason, wascarriel through Congress, in def
auce Of all the securities OF legislation.
1t was carried, first. by whipping in to its
support, through executive Influence and
patronage, men who acted against their own
declared judgment, and the known vii! Of their
constituents; sqoadIy, by toisting out ofplace,
both IN tho Senate and House OF Representa-
tiyas important business long pending, and
usurping its room; MrdiH, by tramphng
under foot the rules Of the House of Repre-
sentative. always before the safeguard OF the
miaority ; tonrthy, by driving it to u close
during tho present Congress, so that 1t might
not be arrested by the indignant voice OF the
people. Such arc some OF the means by which
tho Nebraska Bill was carried.
Ii tho clear will of the people had not been
Idisregardud, it could not have passed. If the
Government had not nefariously intorposod its
influence, it could not have passed. If it
had been left to its natural place i'll the order
to business, it could not have passed. If the
rules Of the House aud the rights Of the mi
nority had not been violated, it could not
have passed. If ii had been allowed to 20
over to another Congress, when the people
might be heard it would have been ended.
Contemporancously with the final triumph
Of this outrageous the very night ofthe pass
age OF the Nebraska bill at Washington--an-
other scene beginning dismal tragedy, was
enacted at Boston. In those streets where
he had walked as a freeman, Anthony Burns
was seized as s.ave--undcr the base prctcXt
that he was crimlna---imprisoned in the
courthouse. watch was turned into fortress
and hasvacoon~--gurrdcI by heartless myr-
Iiuidons, whose chie idea Of liberty Was tho
license TO do wrong--,Loud applause and
lcrieS OF" that's it that's it Nc -
escorted by Intrusive soldiers Of the United
States--and finally given up to a slave hunter
BY the decree Ola petty magistrate. who did
not hesitate to take upon his soul the awful
responsibility Of booming fellow man, in
whom Nc court fkd no fault, to fate wurse
than death. How all this was accomplished
| need not intimately relate. Suffice it to
say that in doing this deed Of woe and shame
the liberties OF all our citizens, white as well
as black, were put ia jeopardy-th the Mayor OF
Boston was converted TO a tool, (Applause)
the Governor of the Commonwealth to a
cypAer long continued applause)-the laws, the
precious sentmens, the religion, the pride
and glory OF Massachusetts were tramped in
in the dust, and you and | aud all Of US fell
down while the Slave power fourshed over
us Shame, shame and appause.}
These thinSs, in themselves, are bad--vcry
bad f.; but they are verse when regarded as
the nasural emanations Of the oiigarchy which
now sways the country. And it is this oil
garchy which, at every political hazard, VIC
must oppose. Already its schemes of new
asgrand'sement are displayed. With Il
watch!huess that never sleeps and an activity
that never tircs~-wth us many eyes as Ar
gus and smlny arms us Bt'iarcus---thc Slave
Power asserts lis perpetual supremacy now
threatening to wrest Cuba from Spain, by
violent purchase or more violent war; now
laundering ioy another slice of Mexico, in
order to give new scope TO slavery; now pro-
posing once more to open tho lideous, heaven
dofying slave trade, and this TO replenish
It's SHAMELESS with human flesh and now by
the lips of an eminent Senator asserting an
audaclous claim 10 the whole group Of the
West Indies. whether held by Holland, Spain,
France or England, as our Southern Islands"
while il assails the independence of Hayti
and stretches its trcacherous ambition even to
thodirtent valley Of the Anazon.
III maintaining its powcr it lias applied a
new tesi fer Office, very different from that of
Jefferson; rs he honest is he capable is
he taithfp! to the Constitution ~ None Of
these things are asked, but simply as he
Iaitisftl to slavery 2" Cries of That's a
fact.') With arrogant cstracsa, II excludes
from c'ety Office all who cannot rcspend to
this test. sseseinpetc and irrational has this
tyrpnby bcee.ae, that, at this moment, while
| now speak, could Washington, Jefferson or
Franklin. once aore descend upon earth ard
nlnG's IN lts affairs to bless it with their wis
don't net Che Of tteiii, with his recorded opn.
ions Gu slavery, could rtceiTc !, nomination
for TIC Presidency from National Convcn-
ton ol eitheref the great political parties,
nor stranger still, could he be confirmed BY
the lsenatc ias AIRY political function under
tha bpvenlmsut, HID this test prevailed in
eat'es days, Washington could not have been
mad1 Cemmaslcr'ia.Chiefo Of tho American
arn'y jciterser cnald mt hasa taken his
plaee on the Ccmriittee to draft the Decara.
ten ct Independence and Franklin could hut
hass gone to France With The commission of
the 'niant republic to secure the invaluable
ALLIANCES ut tat pcwarlul Kingdom.
" Nlew of thasc thing our dutie. az ''ta''
Hest First and tnrsmest the slave power it,
sell must Ia ogar,htcwn. Lord Chatham
once sSc'slH,sd, in stisfIas language. that the
tlms hal beou when hs wss content to bring