Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-07-13
THE TERRIBLE REBUKE.

THE TERRIBLE REBUkE.
We can scarcely conceive Of a rebuke more
severe and whitening than that which this apos-
tate and traitorous Administration has just re-
ceved in the action of the New Hampshire Leg
islature 1t had everywhere been admitted, by
friends and foes, that If any State in the whole
Union was safe for the Administration, that
State was New Hampshire. 1t had been more
invariably and more strongly Democratic than
any other State 1t had given Gen. Pierce ten
or fifteen thousand ma orty, and was relied on
as his chief pillar Of support and the unfailing
defender of all measures with which his Ad-
ministraton might be identified, But within
two short years, he hasseen that proud majority
dwindle and waste away to less than nothing
that pillar Of support completely overthrown,
and that defender converted into an antagonist
to dcnounce and defy him. Turning deaf ear
to all the advice and warnings Of his best friends
he has prostltuted the influence of his high Of
fee to the most fragrant outrage ever perpctrated
on the liberties Of the free North, and then had
the eGrontcry to call on that outraged North to
sustain him in his apostacy. Connecticut spoke
and denounced him. But Connecticut wills once
Federal State, it was said, and her detection
showed nothing Rhode Island spoke next, and
spoke like Connecticut, but still there was
nothing significant about that-she was Il little
State, and almost always found among the OPP
ponents of the Democracy. But New Hamp-
shire, which had always been Democratic, and
which was General Pierco's own State, WAS to
come, and she would tell the story. And New
Hampshire has come. and has told the story-a
story which, under the peculiar circumstances,
involves the most notifying, the most marked,
and the most signal political condemnation,
which it has ever fallen to tIe lot of any Admin
istraton to receive since the organization of the
Government,
After he and his Cabinet has resorted to the
most grcss interference in the primary elections
Of that State, which cam, off with Il doubtful
result, he arrogantiy issued his mandate to the
assembled Legislature to return to the United
States Senate the tools who had done his bidding
in tho Nebraska outrage, and to give thatlneas
ure the seal Of their appreciation; HIT niseum
~ maads were not hseded
eatrsaties and fliess ala iines
his minions, then had zTseedfse w IN s. -
most disgracoful, and bribery the 'host shameless
to accomplish his purposes. But all insain
The Legislature, in spite of all their State pride
appealed to for sustaining their own President
in spite Of all entrcates, threats, intrgucs, AM
attempted bribery, have deliberately and en-
phatically decided that they will not return
those recreant tools to the Senate; and instead
of endorsing, they have passed resolutions, by
still more decisive majority, condemning tn
has staked his political fortunes, ccnsuring hi
friends, and approaching his opponents
What lesson for political niquity is here
But by whom has that terrible rebuke been at
mnisteredl BY whom has it been done in tia
State and elsewhere Not by the Abolitionis
and Wings, as the Administration organs al
every day falsely aflirming.-not by them, c
either of them. The former have never nun
bered more than half enough to carry any Stat
in the Union, and the latter, till the Nobrask
outrage was decided on, were but mscrabl,
helpless wreck of Il party Its neither of them
and it is perfectly idle and vain for you, }
would-be defenders of the Administration,
prefer the foolish charge 1t is the best porto
of your own party, who, Disguised at the foil
and wickedness of the President of their ow
making, and revolving at his apostacy to IL
first principles of Democracy, have become h
judges and cxecutioncrs, and, in coniuncto
with the everywhere mastering fore. Of the
lato helpless and distracted opponents, arc no
preparing to place your sclfslain Administrative
and all who shall still laindly adhere to it, whel
no political resurrection can ever reach it.