Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-08-24
f1r the Green Mountain Freeman.

mlsrcpres ntation and fals,hood 1t must be
humiliating to thos3 who are forced to misstate
what they know ar &c facts, and that to for the
purpose of d,xci,iik tl.cir own friends; and
more especially 81 IN the facts are SO plain, and
50 we'll undeistott ia, evca person Of ordinary
camcity who has e; slight information on the
subject can readily dct7 the falsehood, and
the motives which induced it. This is most en-
phatically the case Ni,h the present Admins
sration in regard to the Kansas and Nebraska
Bill. More actual malicious and wilful
lies have been told ly lis friends about that
measure than about any other measure since the
organization of our Government.
was led to tbcs. remarks by looking over an
article in the Vermont Patriot, in which it is
stated, that, "gy the infamous Missouri Com
:. promise Slavery was actually sanctioned in a
" great portion of Kansas, to say nothing OF the
" Platte country, which by its extension by
" Northern men was actually converted from a
" slave into free country Byarepeal of that
" Compromise, Slavery is actually abolished in
" that part of Kansas lying southef tharty-six,
" thirty Nebraska was FREQ at all hazaris,
" and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
" makcsKansas free also. But lift Should become
:" slave territory, what then! TWAS doomed to
" Slavery by the Compromise of 1920"
Such is the rant of the Editor of the Patriot,
and tissue of ialselood more gross never was
uttered lie begins by representing that IA
!" large portga Of Kansas lies south of thirty
six degrees and teirty minutes northhttude. :"
BY referring to tho Vermont Patriot of June
ODD, you will find the Bin organizing Kansas
into a territory Which territory is described as
follows, g to wit, beginning at point in the
western boundary of the State of Missouri
"wherc the 37th parallel of north latitude
I" crosses the same, thence west on said parallel
g to the eastern boundary of New Mexico,
(" thence north on said boundary to latitude 38,
" thence following said boundary westward to
" the cast boundary of the territory OF Utah on
- the summit Of the Rocky Mountains thence
north on the summit of said mountains to tie
10th degree of latitude, thence east ON said par
allel to the west boundary of Missouri, thence
on said boundary to the place of beginning.
Now would ask the Editor Of the Patriot
low he gets a large portion of Kansas south OF
$500! know Young America has of Late
been travelling south with the speed Of comet,
and it is possible the young thing, in some OF
It's childish freaks, may have knocked the 37th
degree of north latitude clear over the Missouri
compromise line, SO as to bring Kansas within
the southern portion of the territory affected by
that COMPROMISE Tho Editor Of the Patriot,
being kind of assistant deputy wet nurse to
the Youngling, may have knowledge of this
fact, while we old fogies are ignorant of il.
Will he please to tell s wieie the young
child " put down the 31t degree, that we may
be able to find these t crn boundary 0! Kansas.
Now affirm, fogy OF no iogy, that every foot
Of Kansas lies north OF the line established by
the Missouri compromise and was protected
from Slavery Ivy that bill and further affirm
that the Editor Of the Patriot was fully aware
Of that fact when he wrote Tic article referred
to.
lie further tells Ills readers that Kansas " was
doomed to Slavery by the compromise Of 1920.
rhe law of Congr s., carrying oat that com
promise, declared that Slavery should be forever
prohibited in all tie territories OF the Unitet
States north of lat40l 26.ag,; and Kansas wa
by that law forever protected from the cncroAch.
nlents of Slavery, 1t is the repeal o. that com
promise that has doomed these lovely portions O
this lovely land God has given us 10 the witacr
ing curse of Slave cultivation.
But the Missouri comrromis bill enacted tat
Congress should not prohibit Slavery in the ter
ritories, being south Of $500, and any Statc'
which might be formed out of said territory
should be admitted into the Union with or with.
out Slavery as the people of said territory should
decide Aud this was all the compromise. bill
did to protect Slavery, as the Editor Of the Pat
rot well knows the truth to he. 1t merely re
ferred the question to the people, and yet the
Editor says that Infamous compromise doomed
the territory to Slavery. This is true. 1t dit
doom the whole territory south Of $500 tt
Slavery. The same principle is asaei ted in the
Bill organizing the territories of Kansas and
Nebraska and yet the Patriot tells us That
that bill secures these territories to free labor
If referring the question of Slavery to the POO
pie in one portion Of our territory dooms it tc
Slavery, it must have the same effect on every
other portion unless there is some cause arising
from the nature or position of tie territory
that tends to prevent it. Now the wholo coan
try from the gulf of Mexico to the 10Th DEGREES
of latitude is us favorable for slave cultivation
as Missouri or Kentucky. To that degree, under
the present law, leaving to the North territory
enough to make two respectable States, whilt
the South will manufacture from twelve to 6f
teen slave State this side tho Rocky Mountains
[ need not describe to you the fate of California
That is Slave State in fact, though not il
theory, and will continue 50. This gives almos
every thing to the Soath, and leaves little, very
littlo, to the North; and, If they do not put {
sudden stop to this policy, that little is mor
than they deserve.
Can the Union sustain this policy | tell yol
it cannot. know that set of men who pre-
tend they have tak1u'tNrejob Of saving the Tn
ion loudly accuse us Of intending to dismembo
it, But should that event happen, and its his
tory be fairly written, Pierce, Douglas & Co
will have the honor of having performed tina
feat. For long tino, the Union has been tho
political hobby for set of gamblers for thu
Presidency, and their satellites and tools. They
have piled Slavery upon it, and have mounted i
themselves, and will ride it to death, or ride il
to the devil, they care not which, provided they
ride and the people 60 on foot. Do they sup