Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-06-02
fFrom the New York Times, (Whig).l

Of all excitemcnts, the politician should
provoke last, the excitement Of conscience
She is Il terrible master when she has control
OF people. The ordinary expedients ofpet-
ty politics, the miserable blinds and devices
Of gambling party leaders, are swept away
like pretty spider webs before a tempest 1t
was this stern impulse Of conscience which
broke one Union, when separation included
exile, and winter and storms, and home on
a savage coast.
1t is a mider day now but the sons of
those indomitable men live, and we are con-
WINGED that if the time comes, when they
must choose between State and Government
existing chiefly and principally to extend ne
gro chattel Slavery, and disunion, which
should leave our Southern allies to a servile
war, and shatter the whole fair structure of
our pOlity, they would not for a day hesitate.
We have lately been travelling somewhat
through the country districts of the North,
and we are surprised at the depth of this dis
content among men who once opposed
Slavery agtations, and who were friends of
the Compromises.
There is growing and profound dctermi-
nation among the masses of the Free States
that Slavery shall not extend ITSELF that the
great majority for freedom must arouse and
simply put the minority down come whdt
may, Whether it will be permanent and man
iiest itself in acts, time only can tell.
A Southern paper has lately scattered all
through the country an ingenious and insult
ing analogy, in which the Northerners are
pictured as holding the place Of the Greeks
in the Roman Empire supplying their chiv-
alric masters at the South with school-mas-
| ters, pimps and books, bearing their insults
and oppression, but reyenging themselves by
| tho not u inrs of hnr roo in nd tra1a
1t is a true analogy in one direction, but
with an exception. Our Northern politicians
have played for years now the mean, supple
Greek part they have bowed humbly to bull
lying, and quietly yielded to violence they
have crlnged they have betrayed their own
principles, while our Romans have never for
moment lost sight of theirs they have let
the few firm hold in check the many feeble -
but with all this, with their great men mise
rably cheated, and their own rights repeated
ly and contemptuously trampled, they have
had not even the poor Greek reyenge-our
Romans have not only conquered but cheated
them
With all the sting of defeat within us now
and with the burning sense of great wrong
perpetrated, we do not hesitate to say that
the Southern men in Congress, for years past,
have shown themselves men Of pluck. We
respect courage wherever it is-and we in
yoke the scorn of brave men everywhere, or
the cowardice and duplicity of those North
ern men who have lost us the battle in the
great struggle for freedom. If there haC
been half the manly spirit for Freedom thai
there has been for Slavery, the Territory o
Nebraska Kansas would have been free to
day and forever.
When we speak of dissolution of the Union
it is only as Of dim, terrible possibility il
the future. And yet there is danger. !
union without mutual confidence is impossi
BILE A few more such acts of bad faith anC
such fcrco contests and our bonds will be
come very weak. Will not the South Sc
this