Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-10-25
THE COMING SESSION OF CONGRESS.

The next session Of Congress is now, within
few short weeks, at hand and we cannot but
express our surprise that its near approach does
not awaken more solicitude among the people,
and consequently more discussion with the pub
lie press For, according to our poor judgment,
there has been no Congress, since 1890. whose
action involved such stupendous conseq uences to
the cause OF American Liberty as that of the
one to be convened on the first Mo nday Of Dc
cember. The Slavery question, for ought we
can see must, in effect, be settled by the present
Congress, and; probably, at the present session.
The startling events of the past year have, un-
der the keen and united instigations of the
South, been hurried on in such rapid SUGGEST IN
that the long expected crisis on the Slavery ues-
ton has evidently been put forward many years
in advance of the general expectation of the
North, u majority of whom have supposed that
compromises and conpacts would be the means
of staving off the dreaded crsis.an indefinite Pc
riod longer. But that majority now have been
taught that whatever truces they may proclaim,
the South will declare war. They have seen
that no compacts or compromises can be made
30 sacred add binding that the South will not
break through thcm--that there is no constitu-
tional right, however well established, that she
will not trample down to subserve the Slavery
interest, ind that nothing short Of the absolute
and universal dominion of the Black Power,
will satisfy her or induce her to listen to terms
Of peace. All this they have seen, not as thing
done under bushel, Of doubtful import and an
object ofsaspicion merely, but as a thing which
has been openly and clearly demonstrated before
their eyes--all this they have seen. and oil this
they have Mt length sternly resolved, they will
resist to the DEATH
Under these circumstances, the representa-
tves of tie North IRE about to meet those Of
the South, the one fully determined to stand by
the right and resist the lnenaccd wrong, and thu
other as determined to coerce, and, right OF
wrong, pursue h r aggressive policy to the end
making an antagonism scarcely less complete
nd attended with hostility scarcely less in
yeterate, than those which marked the struggle
between eur fathers and the British in the rev
olution. But, it may be said that Kansas viii
not, at this session, come up for admission
either as Free or Slave State. 80 as to bring or
the great issue for decision. She may not Blu
the transactions Of the past wear in that terri
tory necessarily must be passed upon, which will
open the whole Slavery question, and the South
believing she can better brighten what, with to-
much reason, she has called the doughface North
before, than AFTER the Presidential election, will
never suffer the occasion to pass without at
tempting to forestall the final decision. Thi
will at once bring on the grea. conflict between
Freedom und Slavery--a conflict which will I'D
init of no truce and no peace, aud in which tn
strongest must conquer and rule over the who'll
of this broad confederacy, and the weaker fall
and hs hft forever Of the mercy of the other
I'VE can see no other way. The cont, st has bee
suffered to 60 too far to admit of any other 81
tcIuutNo. Auc stotuif WHich hun utCu Bbshoiih
slowly 80 long, and lately 30 rapidly, and who's
heralding thunders are already booming loud
on our ears, must now at the furtherest, 500
burst over our devoted Republic; and Heaye
grant that its pure and glorious elements q
Right and Liberty may be left unscathed, an
their foul and dangerous antagonistics alone b
annihlAted.
Such, webelieve, must be the momentons re
suits involved in the action of the new Congress
Let no Free State member finch from his duty
nor cease to bear in mind that We can tolsrat
Northern treason NO longer. Let them all tax
the stand they have been instructed to take, an
trust to the event. We have no occasion to dis
, solve the Union. And if the Sonth, on accoun
of that stand, and our determination to main
tain it, wish to secede--let them do 90, an
peaceably too, or the first attempt at physlcn
force, in the Halls Of Congress or out, will b
terribly avenged.