Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-11-10
Senator Foot on Slavery and the Admin-
istratiOn.

lstfntlOn.
In caucus at Montpelier Oct. 10Th, Hon,
solomon Foot was called out, and spoke for
an hour with an eloquence and effect seldom
oqualled before Vermont audience. The
Rutland H,rGH gives the following abstract
of his remarhs-
- Whom the Gods would destroy, they
first make mad This saving had \ full it,
lustration in the acts IF the rrcacnt Admin
istration. IL is playing ita mad career before
the eyes of y confding, u betrayed people,
"rhcy were .-artled from their repose by
proposition 10 freak down the partition wall
b"t've"n slavery md freedom-which had
heen rcco cnlzsd by eYhry administration, ev-
cry L. .;isl.:i,c act ana by every Court. The
proposition was carried. The line Of demark-
alton was dotted out-thc ordinance of Free
dom was Icpcaied-the compact destroyed -
There is nov net one foot of territory bat
what is open t. SAY -. len miihous of dol
lars have been voted ~ purchase Il strip of
miserable hand from Mexico, on which to con-
struct Pacific ittii Road, (it i, .aidD bat all
tu aid tLc South. Two Slave States will be
made Of it, anl no benefit will accrue TO the
North, although the North will lay three
iourths Of thu cost tpnrrcss will not vote
one dollar to build a Northern OF Il Central
Rail Road to the Pacific. The road must 20
south, a4d slVcry must wind its snaky folds
c'un- IT. whole length.
" Virginia demands that the Slave Trade
with al it. horrors must ne legalizcd, Neu-
trality laws must lie repealed, IN order that
fllibustcrs may aid Slavery.
" The Administration is Il plant slav- Of
tn" South, and the South mean T. improve
their time. Its pet object ir 30 1htain Cuba
"a I. lt : utt l,.'
/ it cost $500 900 900. the SrlG.tc Wi! ratifv
its purchase uI H.. iinuS' will vote tn sup
plies. There are enough dou5i!-i;,t. nom
the North to aid the South in cHrryu. any
measure. Cuba will give Two more Slave
ctatcs-four Spanish slave Senators and
and tw'lye Spanish slave Represen atives.
" the South demand, also, the acquisition
Of Mexico, anl the other Central American
States. The administration sent the bully,
! Borland, to y caragua to get upa fuss, No
lnan was ever better fitted for such mission
lie got igto aquarIel got bottle broke over
his head, and succeeded admirably. The ad-
minislraton in Greytown found foe of it's
/ own size, and pitched into it. Grey
fmE
| Douglass desires TO have Dominican inde-
pendondence rocOSns sed, in order to obtain in
the end, another Slave state The Choctaws
and other Indian tlihes own slaves. 1t is pro-
! posed to erect that Slave territory into three
/ new Slave States.
! Also, the South ask for II treaty with En-
/ gland that fugitive slaves shall bt given up.
/ By the aid Of 80 Southern Senators and lG
| dough-laces from the North, the South may
succeed in passing such treaty, and we may
he obliged to depend upon England to protect
/ freedom
" The late Congress pissed two good bills
the River and Harhor, aud lndisent H.
sane bills. Virginia toll Pierce TO veto them
and he did il, Of course
" Tie legislative and the executive lower
are used chiefly 10 aid slavery. All the OBJ
iocts of government are second TO slavery
The records prove it--sId though the truth
ia. Slavery WAS never more strong, more i'm
/ ludent, more exultant, more insoleut than
now. hat siall NCrn ont--wnat rhall the
North do send no more dough faces {,
. Congress Srnl them 10 thc State Prison
,,nd them unyHhere, hut 20 Congress Look
out fpr Northern Jujrsrs' send men that
gold, o.icn, and power cannot influence. ~.
! ten has the North heun sold, and sold uog
chap slavery nt,or gained triumph
wlthoot ,Ii ,rJm t,- North. N1r.h,ri
tr,glchcry ha. cXtcudoC slavery. Tho s,rcr-tu
# ,..,.I. consist, ~ N,rtl,iu tryu.h,rr
"A N-..,yfu senator, born in 5. Shtni
and breathing th' mir oi IN, Nrrcn Mount
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