Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-09-01

to it. aud forced to II passage by all the ty-
rannical arts known to legislation, and all the
sinister influences within the reach of an un-
sCrupulOus Executive. y grOsscr violation
of all the requirements OF honor-of all the
safeguards and guarantees of republicansm
was seldom perpetratcd
"Non-intcrvcntion,a n Cheat.
NOminally conceding the 4" non-interven-
tion' of Congress in the local affairs Of the
territories, it yet intervenes in every form in
which Intervention is possible. 1t imposes
the Governor and all other officers upon them,
it prcscribcs the most unhcard-ul-uat to the
people it restricts the suffrage to actual cii-
zcns; it places in the hands of the President
and his agents the power to mould the future
character of the community and it author
ICES no legislation which is not subject di-
rcctly or indirectly, to the control of the fed
eral government. The non-ntervention which
1t establishes Ia the permission to introduce
slavery into Il district where it was before
forbidden, and the transfer of legislative con-
troll, hitherto exercised by the representatives.
of the whole people, to a body of judges ap-
pointed by the executive 1t had no other
end from the hopnniur, and in that end it
has succeeded,
what is TO be Done !
We have dwclt upon the proceedings
we have left ourselves little space for urg-
ing upon other parties their duties in the
crisis. But We will not speak to them as
parties. We will say to them as Americans,
as freemen, as Christians, that the time has
arrived when all divisions and anmosities
should be laid aside, in order to rescue this
great this beautiful, this glorious land from
"A hateful domination. As il now Is. no man
who expresses, however moderately, II free
opinion of the slave-systcm of the South, is
allowed to hold any Office Of profit or trust,
under the General Government No man can
be President, no man u foreign minister no
man tidewaiter, even, or the mcancst scul-
lion in the federal kitchen, who has not first
bowed down and eaten the dirt of adherence
to slavery. Oh shameless dchascmcnt, -
that under Union formed for the establish
mcnt of liberty and Justice, under IA Union
born of the agonics and ccmcntcd by the
blood of our parcnts,-a Union whose mis-
sion it was to set an example OF republican
freedom, and commend it to the painting ma
tons of the world we frccmcn of the nitcd
States, should be sufTOcated by politicians
into silent acquicsccnce with dcspotism =
That we should not dare to utter the words
or breathe the aspirations of our fathers, or
propagate their principles, on pain of ostra-
cism and political death just Heaven , into
what depths OF infamy and insensibiity have
we fallen
We repeat. that until the sentiment
of slavery is driven back to its original
bounds. to the States to which it lcgitimatcly
belongs, the people of the North are vassals.
Yet their emancipation is practicable if not
easy. They have only to cvince determine
ton to be free, and they are free. They are
to discard all past alliances, to put aside all
present fears to dread no future coalitions
in the single hope of carrying to speedy vic
tory banner inscribed with these devices -
The RIPEAL OF THE FUGITIvE SLAVE LAW
The RESTORATION OF THE Missouri CoMrRoMlsE,
No MORE SLAVE STATEs,-No MORE SLAVE
TERRlToRlts,- ,-TnE HOMESTEAD FOR FREE MEN
On TIE PuBLIC LANDS.
We shall give some other extracts hereaf-
ter. The author is evidently one wont to call
himself Democrat but he is not one Of the
Machine Democrats