Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-03-03

I-JonS MlTcuELL.-Mr. Mitchell paper,
the CHi2ea contains rejoinder to the various
left handed compliments which he has recciv-
ed ON all hands since his announcement of his
love for American Slavery. lie quotes Il
number Of the severe things said of him,
. mentions the hissings and opprobrium bestow-
ed on him, and considers all as fair set off to
the adulation and putting which he staggered
under ON his arrival He says that she COM
menced the CHisen, with the fullest determine
ton both to have an opinion and to express it
upon every question of public Government
and he laughed at Womanism, and sneered at
Cold waterism, Negetarianism, especially at
Aboltionism ;--soon he made enemies enough.
There was view -holloo the game was in
sight-the hounds soon came on the scent in
full cry and such ferocous howl never
disnaycd the heart Of an Acteon. AT last
he believes that he may fairly strike a balance
between himself and American public opin-
ion, with some hope that the balance will be
il Us follows:
We understood Republicanism before we
came to New York we knew what we had to
expect and we knew that one of the aptest
Instruments and strongest safeguards Of Re-
publicanism was ParrhcSia or freedom of
speech. So we fearlessly launched this CiA-
zen Of ours upon the wide ocean of opinion
Where the tides fresh forever,
And the boundless currents free.
We do not repent it. There is no need to
be afraid OF any or all posi- de conflicts and
collisions of sentiment Of all the whirling
eddies and cross currents that the infinite
fountains Of human thought and lie are sure
to create in sucha boundless sea. The strong
swimmer delights in them. Only they who
have no pOlc-star to look to for guidance,
or no heart to buffet the waves, are in danger
oil sinking
1t i. true that, in this living and life-giying
ocean ut Ii ocrty, many strtng= fishes are bred ;
and even shiny monsters enough, barking like
the seA.doss Of Seylia-gurgling, grinning,
like shdrks-yolniting inky streams, ike
Notwithstanding and squirting, like ten
thousand grampusss. As we look upon the
Shouts Of our strange contemporaries, and hear
their dlscUrduut noises, and see the unCouth
aspect Of thcn showing their teeth, uphraid-
ing, threatening to worry us, We think of
SCHILLER Diver, as the griSly sights he saw
- shudlcrcl when. under lny thinking gaze
That wilderness lay developed, where wander
The dla son, and o--isG, and sca-salamRndcr.
And saw the huge HHtcn and ma niGed snake,
And the luo4HUact, and raycnug shark,
Their way through t., dismal water take
While the hammer l. HI walIowod below in the dark,
And the river horse rose from his lain beneath
Ana grUned through the CRATE Of his spiky teeth"
/ Worse than this eyen and more formidable
/ to any swimmer. llther. or diver some OF
the creatures are unclean; their uttcranrcs
are unsavorv; and 50 foul DO they sometimes
make the currents OF opinion (Which ought to
/ be fresh lurever) that one might sometimes
fear the common waters are turning into a
common sewer and fruitful mother Of dead
dogs AHathemn'
Yet We are neither afraid, nor yet too f.s-
tijlous. We accept, We gloriiy, we rcvel in,
/ .tr,'dom. Doubtless pond Of goldfish in a
royal park would he a better regulated and
better hammered concern than the ocean
crypt. Of the Atlantic. But give us freedom
before all things Erection, though cradlcd in
storms that sweep from pole to pole, and
rocked upon tides that sway and hcayc be-
meath Sun and Moon
So now for IL deep breath and IA long stroke