Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-04-28

hAdtNoih Ophtutioulotct tuoudltuintat Nilotu-
crats, &C., &c. In this way they led the poor
fellow about, and stuffed him with the most
crude, inconsistent political aliment imaginable.
The bad effect Of such sorry diet was soon Wis
ible. lie became pufFed up and asthmatc T; his
health declined, and his mind seriously impair
ed. Still he would take nothing which did not
come from the Clique. After the las, Presi-
DENTAL election he became perfectly infatuated.
lie thought the political millennium had come,
and that il was now given To the saints of his
party TO rule the earth. His appetite was un-
natural and bis digestion bad He could no
longer bear any wholesome political nourisli-
ment. The Declaration Of Independence sick
ened him. He lost his relish for the Bill Of
Rights. lie would take nothing which had
the least smack of freedom for all men in it,
lie coniIated a perfect NcgrophObia.
A black man threw him into spasms. He
delighted to hunt fugitive slaves. He reioiced
greatly when poor, painting fellow creature,
who had escaped from oppression, was caught
and returned TO perpetual bondage. lie grew
fond Of the Pope and Of popish priests and
bishops, and declared that popery with It's in-
QUESTIONS, its auto de Tcs, its intolerance, lis
| ignorance, its Bible burning, was about as good
il not bettrf than Professionalism, which lis free
press, its common schools, It's open bible, and
is republican tendencies. Slavery, he said,
was divine institution, as much as the "Stais
the Church and the Family" Freedom was
for white men only. He was willing 10 ex-
tend the area Of Freedom indefinitely, provided
slavery could 60 along with il. lie was a zeal
Gus advocate Of all compromises that helped
slavery, while he was for repeating all that
were favorable TO liberty.
/ As he became worse, his appetite grew more
voraeious for unwholesome political food and
improper mixtures. lie ha6 great penchani
for veioes, and fugitive slave laws, and Nebras-
ka swindles and flibuster proclamations, and
the speeches Of Southern disunionisis aud
Northern doughfaces, and the proceedings Of
conventions got up TO calculate the value Of the
union. During the last political campaign, he
took immense quantities of Iarriman's Pills
Duncans Tinciure Of Cstholiciam, Hibbard a.
Wells's Compound Biiersfor the cure Of Know
No,hngism, which disease he had caught, and
of which he thought he was dying. After the
great American demonstration at Concord, HI
became wholly delirious, and there was evi
dently determination Of blood TO the head
which was much aggravated by still large
doses Of the medicines Of Drs. Hartman &
Duncan, Buuerfeld, Hbbard, Wells & Co.
Besides these, he swallowed whole issues o
the Patriot, Newport Argus, and other thing
equally pernicious aud indigestiblo. Symptom
of apoplexy and asphyxia suddenly snperyened
! and Just as the sun went down on the 18th o
! L.. 81 ...s
The posi- norton examination revealed som
| curious facts. The brain had evidently bee
+ softening for long time, and the ventricles @
} the oer5Tun were filed with extrayassied blood
r The heart was slightly ruptured but. III
, siomadA and bowels were hugely distended
and presented what in other circumstances
D would have heen most ludicrous appearance
d They were filled with a mass Of heierogeueou
: aud indigeslible materials. There was Pres
dent Pierce's Inaugural, and the part prom
isinR to prevent slavery agitation had produce
a large ulcer, which had supurated an
: broken. There was the Fugitive Slave Law
the Nebraska Bill, several vetoes, Douglas
n Cass's, HibbaTd's and Norris's speeches.
+ There were fllibus,er procamaions, reports
# the trial and rendition Of fugitive slaves, eul'
e gies on Popery, DR., Lords letter 10 Nortl
4 em Presbyier, DR.. Adams's South Side Vie
!. Of Slavery, John Fletcher's studies Of Slaverl
n gres, numbers of the New Hampshire PatriO
/. and other Hunker papers Of the State, and
Q other States. Beside these, there were HnI
$ ker handbills, and Know Nothing renunciasior
d without number. But the crisis was eydent
O FASTENED by that number Of the Patriot in whiC
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