Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-07-28

they will never embrace each other
again. Never, neuer. One must
triumph, the other fall. Now ! ask
kindly, respectfully, if the South
are ready for all this re they mean
III IL not, nothing can be more
politically unwise, than her position
under this bill.
How came the glorious and sum
ny South, with her chivalry and her
high principle, into this position p
Ii can be accounted for only in the
following ways. Her master states
men have departed. The living
voices of her Jeffersons, her Pinck-
neys, her Madisons, her Kings, her
Calhouns, her Clays, no longer sus-
tain her true interests, and sway the
righteous councils of a great nation.
Her advocacy has fallen upon youn-
ger statesmen. of a succeeding age,
born and reared i'll the hotbed of an
incroaching slavery, and too much
filled with the one idea, of extend
ing the system, so glorious IN their
own vision an encroaching system,
which the political fathers of the
South would have cried out upon,
in bitterer language than Jefferson
did in the Congress of 1775; and
Mason in the Convention of 1857 /;
when they called it an erecrable
merchandise" and "mfvnal traf
fc :" affirming, that "every slave
master is born a petty tyrant," and
that " slaves bring the judgments of
heaven on a country" Northern
men, also, more regardless Of high
political principles and personal free
dom than most men of the South,
who know not her just position, and
| fear, care not greatly, for her true
interests, are placed in the van of
this unrighleous warfare, against the
Constitution, and personal liber-
ty. Again, when men are bent on
a great measure, containing an i'm
mense wrong, they are always blind
to the sequel. They see it only in
one aspect, To push on, to accom-
pllsh, is the one thing which fills
their vision. For results, for far
reaching consequences, they are ut
terly unable to calculate. Such is
human nature, and such it ever will
be.
SINGULAR THINGS.
II is quite unaccountable that
slavery, which has always professed
to be a private, domestic institution,
barely tolerated at first in the old
States, to bring them into the IN
ion /; forbidden in all national terri
tory, should, all at once, shoot up
her ghostly head repudiate the
policy of the fathers, and the Con-
stltutlon; spread out her broad and
ill-omened banners, and claim con-
troll over Congress, and over the en-
tire free soil of the nation. More
wonderful still, if possible, is the
proposed method of doing away the
troubles arising from this great evil.
This is to give it, under cover of
the doctrine of popular sovereignty,
free scope over the whole nation,
wherever it can find resting-place.
If Congress should propose this
method of doing away the troubles
arising from other great evils, such
as hllbustering, intemperance, en-
croachments on commerce, or terri
tory, 1t would hardly accord with
the experience and common sense
OF mankind. The simple fact is,
II this measure passes, based on the
doctrine of popular sovereignty, APP
piled to slavery, and is receired and
endorsed by the nation, the glorious
star of American liberty eliminates
IN the present administration, and
her course henceforward, is doDn-
rard, in sky overcast with in
creasing clouds and storms, till she
sets in night of tenfold darkness
and rushing tempests.
Another singular thing is, that
Northern men, indebted to a liber-
ty-loving constituency for their of
flee, and their honor, and their fu-
ture political reputation, should be
ready to come strongly to the aid of |
this measure ; and should give the |
votes of free States for consigning
a million of slaves in Nebraska, 10 1
a degrading and hopeless bondage,
soul, body, and pOSterity forever. 1t 1
IS In vain for them to say they do I
not mean this. They mean it if
shareholders can accomplish it ;
and they mean to remove all legis-
Ialive obstacles to their doing this
very thing. Otherwise, the repeal |
Of the Missouri compromise, by the
doctrine of popular sovereignty, APP |
Piled to slavery, means nothing.-I
Another singular thing is, that men
should be so hot and hasty in the
pursuit of this great evil that Hon. |
Senators should be SO urathtuily |
attached TO IL, that even on hearing
he name of the Almighty, pronoun-
Led in connection with their Ne
oraska bill, they should go into
covering passion, and swagger like
Jupiter on the top of Olympus, thun-
ierlng at the inferior gods. | ad-
nit, however, there is another view