Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-12-22

Missouri, three times as large as the
State Of Delaware. Every Wing
in the Senate. including Henry
Clay and Daniel Webster, then APP
proved and voted for the bill. Not
a Wing in the other House opposed
it that | ever heard. | had con-
versation with Mr.. Webster on the
subject at the time, who adopted my
views of the propriety Of annexing
this territory to Missouri, although
ii subjected it to the laws of slave
State. 1t gave Missouri her proper
boundary on the river, and effeclu-
ally protected the Indians residing
there from the depredations Of law
less and unprincipled men. Ire
peat there was no objection to this
partial repeal of the Missouri Com
promise line that I ever heard Of.
whether from Northern OF Southern
men. And can it now be expected
OF me that should make myself a
party TO such controversy as that
which RACES in the North, aud
sweeps that noble division of our
happy Union like a whirlwind
can not and will not become a par
~ to such quarrel. did not vote
for the repeal of the line in the Ne
braska act, and l will not vote to
reieal the repeating clause in that
act, or to disturb the subject again.
Let 1t rest. Repose for the passions
Of men is required to save us from
ourselves. At this crisis, when
think there is far more real danger
than has ever existed before, (as the
sequel will soon show, ! rejoice
that an American party is to be
found in the country around which
and other men who think as | do,
can rally. The Wing and Demo-
cratic parties having in different
sections of the country male the
slavery question part of their re-
spective creeds, are split into irrec-
oncllable divisions, each about equal
ly ultra in their views and equally
uncharitable in their abuse of each
other. In one-ihird CT this State,
so called) Democratic ticket is
run, upon which one-half the can
didates are old and active Wings.
In another part Of the State an effort
has been made to get Wings to
serve OH a Democratic ticket, but
hear without success. In other
States, the division among the
Wings is such, that il is quite i'm
possible that another Wing national
Convention can ever assemble again,
and if another Democratic Conven-
ton should again make that effort,
rs it probably will, there can be no
real heartfelt concord in such body.
A party strong enough to sustain
the government in the trials to
which it will inevitably soon be sub
jecied, ought to be desideralum
with every right-minded American
statesman.
An appeal to American national
feeling for such purpose, ought
not to be in vain. and | do not be-
lieve il will be in vain. In every
State and in every section of this
Union there is now an American
party. At present foreigner not
naturalized and in trouble excites
more sympathy among the polite
sans OF the dominant party than any
native American could possibly do.
More noise was made by them about
Martin Kozsta, than would have
been created by an equal danger to
fifty native Americans in foreign
country. Kossuth was at one time,
in their estimation, an object of
much greater interest and admira-
ton than any American who has
lived since the days of Washington.
Gentlemen, am for devotion to
American citizens and American in
ierests. am for American in pref
erence TO foreign labor, American
mechanics, American manufacture
ers, American navigators, American
commerce, and above all, American
agriculture. ! am for American
breadstuffs, and an American mar
ket for them. l am for the country
rs it stands in preference to all 9TH
OF countries, and have no desire TO
win the foreign vote by abject fiat
terry or professions of greater re-
gard for foreigners than for those
born in my own-my native land.
My fellow citizens, am, as all
Of you who know me we'll under
stand, no candidate for any office,
post or station which parties or par
ty men could ever besiow. have
never held an office which | did
not gladly resign, and | suppose
] shall even yet resign the seat
now hold, before the expiration of
the long term which is before me.
But ! am not ungrateful to my
friends for the honors they have
conferred upon me, and | well know,
and can never forget, tho men who
bestowed them. There is no sacri-
fee which an honorable man could
make to sustain them which | am
not at all times ready TO incur. To
the Wings and the Wing party no
man was more devotedly attached
During the last session of Congress
the Northern Wings, including all
OF them except Mr.. Foot of Yer
mont, deserted us on the Reciproci-
ty question. They all voted against
protection to every article our far