Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-07-05

M ue "iehefed ana consumed by the blasting d
breath OF the peoples wrath There is an :.
o'd Spanish proverb, which says that 1.-The !.
feet OF the ayeugng Deities are shod with =
wool" Softly aud silently these avenging
delties are advancing upon YOU. You will
lind that the mills Of God grind slowly. but
they grind to powder" I
Of one hundred and forty-two representa-.
tives of the free States, Of the North one
hundred and twenty, elected by more than !
3OOO00 majority are pledged against the
Kansas N ebraska iniquity. Your platform
requires these representatives to violate their
pledges to the people, to smother their own
hottest convictions, to abandon your party or
resign their seats. Do you, sir, believe these
representatives will obey yourunholy DEGREES
Do you believe they will betray free and
generous people at your bidding tell you
nay! They will trample with disdain upon
your platform They will spurn it. and spurn
you. The people will sustain them, and tram
pie your platform and you in the dust
Sir, the gentleman from Alabama Judge
Hopkins) takes exception to the declaration
made by me the other day, in reply to the
gentleman from Virginia MIR. Boiling that
the past was yours-the future ours" He
objects, he tells US, to my assuming the func-
tons of a prophet. Sir, Imake little preten-
sions to the gift of propbecy-but it requires
but Il slight knowledge of the aspects of the
slavery question Of America, to pronounce the
opinion, that the pact OF the Republic belongs
to Slavery-the future to Freedom Perhaps
the distinguished gentleman from Alabama
believes that we of the North arc mere con-
quered provinces--that the people will obey
your DEGREES and !" conquer their prJudices. I
One year ago, when the slave propogandist
proposed to repeal so much of the Act of the
9th Of March 1920, as prohibited slavery in
the vast Territory lying in the heart Of the
Continent, these slave propagandists laughed
to scorn the predictions OF the friends of free
dom, and the repeal would meet the stern re-
slstance of the people of the North The
naughty chiefs of the Black power, and the
Administration, and its Northern tools in Con-
gress, have gone down before the stormy wrath
Of the people! The predictions made in the
Spring Of 1854, are now historical deeds
g contaminated facts" So it will be now
The deed you are about to perform will sea-
your doom forever.
You tell us that we ought to rebuke the
fanaticism of our people. Sir, tell you the
people Of the North are in earnest-they arc
not fantics or blgots. l know something Of
the people Of New England. | have set a,
the tables and slept beneath the peaceful roof;
OF many of the mechanics, farmers and trades
men of Massachusetts, New England
and tell you the men who read their oper
Bibles around their fresides, when they rise
IN the morning and retire at night, arc the
men who will spurn your unhallowed DEGREES
men who will rob you Of none Of your rights
but they will inhexibly demand their own
The antl-slaycry sentiment of the North is {
profound religious conviction, resting upon thu
commands Of Almighty God, "to do unto
others as we would that Others should dc unt'
u.s. to love our neighbors as ourselves
Ito undo the heavy burdens and let the op
pressed 60 free!" Sir. do you think that tn
descendants of that sturdy old Puritan race
that met the demands of priests mobiles ant
Kings with the stern " Thus saith the Lord,
will smother the hottest convictions of thei
souls, and obey the DEGREES of a body of me
like this! | tell you sir, they will do So
, never.
L ask those gentlemen who think the Amer
lean party can be organized successfully upo
The basis Of these resolutions, to turn back ft
only seven years and read the history of tia
brief period. Seven Years age this very moat
:, i i, ~ I sIEegasty, led !
= Slavery pfohibiti0ll 35h the Territories.
that day the wing Iarty began to die.
< staggered into power, and with its palsiel ar
withercd hands it signed the Fugitive Sla,
n Act, and with its feeble expiring voice it d
t clarcd that the Compromise Act of Is;
G should be ga final settlement of the Slave
n question:" and then it sunk into dishonor
|. grave. Such was the fate OF that once po
It iul party, which sometimes contested succe.
l. fully with its great rival for power. II
Democratic party went down in 1913, becau
J. the people believed it more fully pledged
/, slavery than its rival. 1t went into power
$, 1852 not because the people loved it or h
|. confidence in it. but because the people hat
70 and distrusted its rival 1t laid its victoria
q hand upon the anti-slavcry movement, Il
g to-day it floats upon the waves of the poll
d cal sea, a shattered rudderless wreck.
uo rnv ON In mi 10 ~,
=. with this organization what the Wing a
n Democratic parties, with million and h;
l. of voters each, led by old chieftains and q
w. complshed statesmen, ANONYMOUSLY failed
accomplish. Perhaps these modest New 70
IS champions think they can do what Clay, We
y ster and Cass could not do.
Or The gentleman from Alabama Judge Ho
d kius) brings into this National Council t
= reputation Of a learned iurist and able awy'
n | listened with attention to his eabora
i speech Of nearly two hours, and must say wi
is entire respect Tor the distinguished gentlems
SC that he Most skilfully avoided judicial de
y sions and historical facts. His positions We
II mere unsupported assertions, in the face
in the uniform decisions of the United Stat
y Courts, from the organization of the govel
TO mcnt to the present moment, and OF the acti
es OF the National Government from the ina
o guration of Washington to the inaugurati
le OF Pierce. His theories came from the pl
IS life brain Of Mr.. Calhoun, and like most
o the school to which he belongs, the gentlcm
+ paid little difference to facts, when they cal
lie in contact with his theories. To establish
1t theory of constitutional construction, he We
re 50 far as to interpose The word White" aft
to the word " free" in the second scctiol of t
IN constitution. The gentleman asks, with
ut tone of reproach, why we Of the North t
as not willing to live up to the Constitution
De our forefathers made it--why we are not vi
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