Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-08-31
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minutes. The slave power will no
more consent to one measure than
TO the other. Planting themselves
upon a principle, they can put forth
their full energies-thev will not
convict themselves by implication
to any compromise--they will show
the South that they have confidence
in the justice of their cause--,hey
will define the true platform Of ac-
ton for the party of the people,
which is now rallying for the cam
paign of next year.
There will be no plotting to in
duce Northern members TO lower
their demands. Know Nothingism
will Prove a disturbing clement
Ambitious aspirants for the Speak
er's chair may be willing to barter
principle for votes. There are
Northern candidates. who may seek
to. wriggle themselves into that
place through new and tortuous
schemes of compromise. Let anti
Nebraska members beware lest they
invest with power a man who will
assign to slavery the control of the
important committees.
After all, it is not improbable that
the real battle Of freedom may be
fought OH the question of admitting
new States. Oregon was ready
last year. Next winter, a bill for
her admission as a State will be
brought forward, and possibly Min
nesota may ask recognition. The
slave power will resist both meas
uros. Its cherished policy has been,
the admission Of free and sla We
States in pairs, with view to pres
erve "the equilibrium" between
the two sections. 1t will adhere to
it with desperate tenacity; it will
keep Oregon waiting, with the hope
of consumating the perhdy of the
repeal of the Missouri compromise,
by yoking Kansas with Oregon,
forcing the one to drag into the u
Mon the other as slave State
This abominable plot is what gives
so much practical significance to
the resolve of the North, " No more
slave States" The North and
West must take this ground, or
there is no hope for Kansas. If
their representatives are true, the
scheme OF the slavery party will be
bailled, and the question Of the adj
mission of Oregon rs we'll as all
the other aggravating issues forced
upon the country by the slave pow
er, will be thrown into the Pres
r ldential canvass. Then let the
! non-slaveholders Of the Union be
1 true to themselves, and install an
a anti-slavery administration, and al
= else that is needful will follow in
/ order. The majority of twenty
two in the House, at the session
N next succeeding the Presidents cleo
St ton, would Il md firm and recev,
"a accessions. The Nebraska MAORI
Z ~ of the Senate would be paraIy-
> zed. Oregon would be admitted
: free and Independent. Kansas
2 would be remanded TO its teIritori-
, al condition, to be organized by its
actual settlers into a free Stale.-
Aud one by one would the agrees
sions of slavery be remedied, until
the principle of no slavery within
the exclusive jurisdiction of the
federal government should be fully
carried out and practically establish
ed beyond cayil or disturbance.
But all this depends upon elect
ing an anti-siacery President, and
hts again UPON THE UNION OF THE
MASSES OF THE FREE STATES, on the
one issue, FnEEDon VS.. SLAVERY,
in utter disregard Of all other poll
teal questions. Pile your free State
majorities in Congress mountain
high, and so long as you leave the
administration in the hands of the
slave power, it will mock at all
your efforts.