Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-09-08
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lie admired it, achievements in the acquisition Of
Louisiana, If Floril,, Of Texas in the war of 1871
IN the Mexican W.. va the war upon tho federalism
and upon liddlu.. g., in the Missouri Compro .
mise, in the establish, NJ of the subtrea.ury, nd
in other things too num,. o. to mention where dc.
mocracy had always come TO-. i..',ious. ms railways
would everywhere, nowith,tti. ,.ipot tempcsts;
and finally nj the end Of an and half he
fairly arrived at tho Ncbrnskr g.. The last great
triumph of the democracy, (oxcc.. ;.cytown, which
be forgot TO mcnton) and was bu-uy applying the
usual drapery Of the principles Of Tho Declaration
of lndcpcndenco'-" the principles NJ the Rcyolu-
ton"-"o NJ, power originates with the pcope"-
e the people have the inherent righ, to make their
own laws" the inherent rich to determine
what institutions most conducive to their ,ro
liberalization, just a, this point, some one. a
Wing, NJ took him to be, inquired if the gentle.
man would define what he meant by righ
He said he meant the inherent right o: the poo.
pie to rate sh'v pic17cd &c But / must give him
the credit ofeonng pretty bravcy up to the scratch
though it was plainly not in the programme. for he
went to say that if it were proposed to alter the
Constitution of Vermont so as to admit of ,iaveyv.
the people would have right to vote IT, But,he less
said of Vermont, md in Vermont in that style, the
better, He therefore suddenly appeared on tho
line Of SO 80 > and said such line ought never to
have been established, and inquired why the people
the north side of that line should be deprived of
privilege, granted to those on the south A uues-
ton, | thought, easier to ask than to answer
only should have put it in thi. form,-why should
the people on the south side Of this line have in.
nicted upon them from which those on the
north side exempt
But this uulucky line was too near Nebraska the
Nebraska country was plainly not pleasant region
to the orator. He therefore took wing and scared
beautifully for indefinite space, both Of time and
distance, in tho regions Of tho "higher law -
Thence he descended. with "talons fierce, and
bloody bcak," upon the "knov -Nothing. assuring
them that they need not expect to escape the com.
mon fate Of all the enemies Of democracy, that they
were doomed to destruction and "ctcrna death. -
q suppose, Of course, he meant political eternal
death that this country /. not yet ripe enough to
be rotten that VIC should not tolerate this rotten
know-nothng scheme of dcpriving innocent foreign
ers of their right to vote Then asserting that he
was ready to discuss the Nebraska bill with any
man from morning till night, he brought to end
almost two hours talk Nebraska, Of which Ne
braska did not occupy more than ten minutes which
ten minutes suf1ccd to get through with the usual
phrases constantly used to cover up the real deform
tiles and iniqutic. Of the bill. The speech
skilfu one, considering the inscparablc dicutic. Of
the subject, but failed entirely, all human and
inhuman logic for must, in removing dimin.
ishing the rdiculou, logical absurdity, the mon
strous political absurdity, and the atrociou, moral
absurdity Of the night Of the people to declare and
constitute such and SO many they please of thnr
nunb,r the hereditary Slaves Of the rest. y. Y.