The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-10-25


obligation they would unques,iouably
have adhered to faithfully,had the North
attempted to begin agitation for its own
advantage. But finding an unexpected
opportunity for thrift in trcachery, as
they thought, they clutchcd at it with
desperate energy, aud Withdrawing from
their Northern allies, in separate con.
clavc, resolved t2disrcgard every obliga.
ton they had incurred. 1t is no mitiga-
tiop of their unfaithfulness to say that
the boon was offered them by the North.
They knetv that the act of a few low
demagogucs, was not the act Of the free
North. They kne,c that the North was
not willing to conccdc the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, and it greatly d.
miushes our respect for their honor and
manlincss, to hear them say that they
only accepted what was offered them
There never was political act more en-.
tirely inconsistent with the notion of
personal honor in its perpetrators. And
the less the Louisville Journal says of
the Wing party South, as being a {" no.
bic j. one and the hope of the nation.
the more decent will Its language bc,and
the moro will ii give evidence that il has
some portion of that honorable shame.
which shrinks from boasiing over deed
of bascncss.
We confess to an unuttcrablc shame
that a Northern Wing paper. like the
Buffalo Comrcrcial 1dvcuiSer, should
under such circumstances declare its es-
teen for the Southern Wings aud char.
ncterize their unprincipled act by no
stronger term than "impolicy." Has
the Advertiser no manly resentment, 10
decent sDlf-rcspcct, that it rejoccs in an.
ticipation of the reunion of the North.
cin aud Southern fragments Of the recent
Wing party, in time for grand rush for
the "placcs," now held by unworthy
Democrats For our part We share in
no such anticipation. There can be no
such reunion, without repentance and re-
formation of the Southern Wings, or n
self 1cbascmeut Of the Northern Wings
to which, we trust. they are not prepared
20 submit. We believe there is still
glowing in the hearts Of the Wings OF
the North, enough of honorable impulse
Of love Of truth and justice, of patriotic
devotion to the permanent welfare of the
country, to prevent forever any such un.
manly proslra,ion of themselves as the
Advertiser hopes for Weard very sure,
that, if that paper chooses to lead off in
the race for reunion, its followers will be
scanty and its success hopeless We re-
joicc that it is So Men, who. in the
presence Of temptation. have been tried
aud found faiihless ought never again to
be trusted Such men are the Southern
Wings.
Or all the remarkable things the Ad.
vcrtiser has said, none strikes us as more
extraordinary, than its expressed conf
dence that the time is Mt hand when
the topic" of Slavery will be ta5ooecl
in Congress"
lie can be but short.sighted politi-
clan, who surposes that that topic will
cease to be agitated in Congress, until
freedom or slavery has succumbcd in the
conflict upon which they have entered
We trust that the race of compromisers
is extinct, and that the nation will no
more have confidence in them. The race
is as old as the prophet Jeremiah, and
as in his days, % THEY hare hcalcd Mc
h"rt Of the daughter Of my peopl,
Slightly, saying, Peace, Peace, whc,,
there is no Peace" Thc nation trusted
in the compromises Of 1850 and thought
the vexcd question Of Slavery was at
rest for long years to come. So we were
told by our Solons and Lycurguscs
"IIc l0oAcl for locacs, Jm no good came,
for a hn,c Of health and 6ehcM trouble"
Let us look no more to such men and tc
such measures for peace,