Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-03-02
INSTRUMENTATION.

NOn-lnteryentl0n OF the Federal Government
in questions Of Slavery, is the spacious cry by
which the hard-driven apologists of the Nebraska
outrage are now trying to quiet their own kick
lug conscionces, and breast the storm of popular
indignation everywhere raised by that browning
measure of Southern audacty. But it is false
and hypocritical cry; and those who thus make
use of it, know it to be so. They know that
this very bill of denominations, for which they
are urging their feeble apologies, is the boldest
step of intervention in favor of Slavery ever at
tempted in the American Congress. They know,
also, that the South have no intention of carry
ing out any such principle of on-intorvention,
were it established. They know that when the
Slave Power wants another law to extend her
domain, or protect her interest, she will demand
it, even to the establishment of Slavery in every
free State of the Union
Non-interyention 1t is a pretty time for the
South to prate about nen-intervention Previ-
GUS to 1920, every acre of territory west of the
Mississippi River, from Mexico to the British
dominions, was free, and Slavery therein forever
prohibited, by the ordinance of '17S7-an ord-
nance which the South and North almost equally
contributed to establish. But Southern plan
tcrs, faithlcss to all compacts as they arc now,
and ever will be, where the Slavery interest is
concerned, stole into the tcrritoy south of the
Missouri River, and i'll contcmptuous defiance of
that sacred ordinance, established slave-holding
settlement They then demanded admission into
the Union as a slave holding State. This brought
on the great battle between the forces Of Free
dom, and Slavery, in 1920, which resulted in the
noted Missouri Compromise, of itself an out
rage, in which the South forced the Federal
Government to intervene to wrest from Freedom
and the North all our territory south of thirty
six and half degrees, yielding to the North
only that part covered by the ordinance which
it was then supposed could never be used or
wanted for the purposes of Slavery. This was
the first specimen of Southern non-intcryention !,
Next she assisted to get up Il revolution in Tex
as, originally a non-slaveholding country, and
procured its admission as a slave State. This
was the second specimen other non-intervcntion !!
! Not, however, content with this, she next TO-
mented q war with Mexico, and forced that
crippled nation to cede her, as the only condi-
ton of peace, all the territory north of the
Southern line of Texas through to the Pacific
and all this, which WAS free territory by the
laws of Mexico, and by the laws of nations so
should have remained after the transfer-ell this
she demanded should be opened to Slavery. And
the demand was virtually granted by the Com
promise of 1850, in which the South again OBJ
tanned all she wanted, except California, to
whose admission she consented only through the
well-grounded fear Of having free and indie
pendent Republic to deal with, instead of con-
federated State, that she could control by Fed
eral power and patronage-and in which com.
promise she, in reality, yielded only the removal
Of Slave Pen, from Washington over the river
t. Alexandria, about which she cared not fig
Tais was the third specimen of Southern non.
Intervention And now we have the fourth
and, we trust in Heaven, the last, specimen
in this outrageous Nebraska Bill
Such is the Southern idea of the non-inter-
vcntion by the Federal Government of which
we now begin to hear 50 much from the North
ern defenders and apologists of the Nebraska
movements non-interyention which means, as
the whole Slavery controversy, from first to last
abundantly proves, that the South shall be per.
mitted to intervene and ntermcddle, whenever
she pleascs, in favor of Slavery but the North
shall never be permitted to intervene or inter
NEEDLE, in any way, against it, either to inter
rupt its progress, or limit its political influence
in the National Councils.
The preservation of the Constitution, in it.
just Interpretation, and the Union of the
States finder it, have ever been with us darling
objects. But if the Nebraska Bill is passed in
its present shape, we care not how quick that
Union is dissolved 1t is bold, but not a
thoughtless word. What we have written, We
have written.