Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-04-05
DEMON OF THE BLACK POWER.

| DEMON OF THE BLACK POWER.
Extract from an Grafton, delivered in West Chester Pa
upon the Anniversary of Washingtons Birth Day, by Rev
Robert Lowryl
The Demon of the Black PoDsr has the
Nation by the throat. 1t is questionable
whether any legislation has shorn this monster
evil of its dessolation; while it is certain that
the inevitable and predetermined tendency of
much legislation has been to extend its rava-
ges and increase its victims. Slavery, as
popular institution, is stroger to-day, with all
the augmented wealth and industry of the
North than at any time since the formation of
the Government. The Slave interest in the
Halls of our National Legislature is more
potent than the voice of millions of Northern
freemen. Resistance to the demands Of a
caucus is certain defeat to the party that
opposes. Never did such an oligarchy find
place under the shadow of Free Institutions.
1t is an anomaly in the workings of political
science to tolerate ut the heart of free nation
a spirit whose very alment is the virus of
Despotism. 1t cannot be that the brood OF
the serpents and the eaglets Of Freedom re-
main in the same nest forever. The extermi-
nation of one race or seperate nests for both
must be the ultimate alternative.
1t cannot be disguised that we are vergiug
toward a great crisis, which will try the pat
riots heart-strings to their utmost tenson. The
Union, priced, prayed for, eulogized, almost
de,ted. swings ON the pivot of the Slave Ques-
ton. All other clouds on the national horizon
are but fiimsy vapor, compared with this robe
Of midnight that covers the heavens like
pail. The statesmen of the Past met the Evil
as an insolent Incident; and, having not the
moral courage to deny the boon demanded,
invited 1t to the National ireside to conciliate
its wrath. The statesmen of the Present find
the worlds outcast still sitting at the Nations
heart, now master of the Domici, and more
insolent than ever. The politicians of the day
not only dare not eject the intruder, but have
no power to curtail his demands. What has
the South ever asked for that she has not
obtained 7? What administration ever held
the ship of State that she did not direct 2
And yet the surdid hacks OF the political sta
bic fawn on her favors and evade her frowns.
We cannot stave off the solution Of this mon
ster problem. We may taavel through do
nestle feuds and rven ties and dsmembered
States to find it, but the solution will come at
any price. How long will the Nation make
compromise of its virtue with the rapacious
encroachments of the Black Power?
What is the prime element in the Mani
fest Destiny" doctrine of the political Solons
of the times? Is " Destiny of such tropical
tendencies that it can only make advances to-
ward the equator? Why have we no" Des-
tiny" toward the shore of the St. Lawrence
and the banks of the New Foundland? Why
have we no Destiny" into BaHn's Bay and
Russia America! Why have we no ten mil
hons for a strip of NORTHEASTERN territory,
or for sone fertile Mesilla" in British Amer
lea The answer is obvious The demands
of the Slavocracy are the rule OF national pol
icy. We can inscribe on our banners Fifty
Four Forty or Fight" and then give away
portion of Oregon we can make patriotic
speeches on the integrity of our territory, and
then yield, with diplomatic flourish, a slice
of the State of Maine because those North
ern chimes are not exactly adapted to our Pc.
Guitar Institution, and we could not afford to
90 to war for soil that cannot be employed in
the humane purpose Of slave-brecding. Every
project for the annexation of territory, eithe.'
by purchase or conquest, has been for the in-
terest of the Black Power. Why this morbid
grasping after foreign territorya 1t is not
even pretended that it is needed by the de-
mands of immigration. ITO preclude war
with contiguous nations by incorporating the
nations" is too specious pretext, since the
warlike nations are only in one direction.
What is this territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT but
the inhuman rapacity of the Slave Demon,
eutrenching itself in new acquisitions, and for
tifying itself against anticipated danger? Let
the American Union once be dissolved, and
two-thirds of the territory will be consecrated
to Human Bondage. And still :. the demand
is renewed for drafts on our notonal treasury.
1t is not enoug ii that Louisiana, Florida, Tex
as, New Mexico, California and the Meslla
Valley have almost all been devoted to the
selling of blood and muscle, Or held in reserve
for future speculations in Gods image. 1t is
already intimated that Sonora is held loosely
by the Mexican Republic, and for a oonsid-
Grafton Lower California can easily be OBJ
tanned while the Southern 6lbusters are uu-
ceasingly clamorous for Cuba, and have i'm
mortalized in prospective, thename Of Kinney
as the entering wedge of the Slavecracy into
Central America. No demands are too AFRO
giant for this assurant Black Power. En- partc
legislation for Southern railroads is one Of the
smallest Of its modest requests. Southern
Conventions, with commercial colours and po-
lltcal cargoes is but another phase OF ag-
gressive assumption. Fulsome threats of Sc
eeslon have always been the spectres that
haunted Masons and Dixon's Line; while the
} Southern necromancers have awaited them
selves of Northern Stupidity to prove them
selves adopts in legislation, at the wotul ex-
pense of the gullible North.
Never has iniquity made such encroach-
ment on the patience and patriotism of free
people. Notwithstanding the vice of Slavery
has disappeared from the Northern States, the
influence of the slave interest on the Central
Power was never. greater than now. Previous
to 1920, the policy of the Government was to
guard the Territories from the spoilaton of
the Black Power, and shut it up within its
allotted habitatioR. La that memorable year,
the noted Compromise, which was to secure
forever the dominion of Liberty north of SO deg
30 min, was but tho magnanmous and hon
est REIMBURSEMENT of Right, for the satisfac-
tion of weaker party, and allaying of Sec
tional turbulence. 1t was treaty in perpe-
tuity tor the permanent securement of the
boundaries of Freedom, and the determination
of the area within which the Black Power
should be circumscribed. 1t was neither de-
manded by Justice nor Necessity. 1t might