Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-04-05


incredible to the future student OF our nation,
al rise and progress as the amazing and SELF
immolating policy of the mighty and mag
unanimous North. But what will that student
say when he reads, that that same Compro'
mise, ratified by the most solemn pledges, ob'
served with scrupulous exactness by the faith
full North, accepted by the high contracting
parties and published to the world as the ut
timatam of adjustments and compromises was
in the year of our Lord, 1854, at the hour Of
midnight, by the Congress of the United
States, ruthlessly, sacrilegiously repealed
Repealed, did say9 No! not repealed ihe
Missouri Compromise cannot be repealed
The House of Hampsburg could repeal the
popular Constitution by forcing the people
under the point Of the bayonet; the prejursd
miscreant on the. throne Of France could repea'
the Constitution Of the Republic by ripping
it up with his sword; and the Missouri Com,
promise could be repealed only by tearing 1T
from the statue book of Honor, rendlng 1t into
fragments, and throwing it on the altar OF the
Moloch OF Despotism. There let it lie bear
ing the sooty touch and sulphur smell OF the
Demon of the Black Power. Let the outrag-
ed North gaze on its mangled surface and
strike hands, in true and faithful compact,
that the encroachments Of the Slave god shall
end Let not that Missouri Compromise, once
violated, become Compromise again. Let
it hang as trophy in the halls of the demon
deity Of Slavery but let the virtuous North
VOW on the defiIed altar of Truth and Justice
that she hasuHade her, fast compromise will
the Emhasss ssof cha Rlack, Power. If thu
Nebraska Iniqdfty has opened path fol-
Slavery north OF S6 deg. 80 min., it has alse
opened path for Freedom south of that line
We have hitherto been the repellants in the
warfare; We may now become the assailants.
The whoIe land is now before US. There is,
indeed, "no North, no South to limit the
aggressions of either Slavery or Freedom,
The only rampant that the Nation and tbt
world regard as sacred against the ravages O.
the monster, has been broken down by com
bnaton Of Southern shareholders, Northerr
doughfaces, political demagogucs, and hire
ling renegades. With the destruction of The
Compromise of 1920 there are now no com
promises to hem in the area of Ere edom. Tht
Fugitive Slave law of 1850 can be repealed
in Congress, as it has already been by the PEG
pie of the North. Mason and Dixons Linz
and 36 deg. 80 min. arc to have no place OF
the maps of Freedom. No more Slave States
in the Union" must now be the fiat Of tn,
aroused and incensed North. "No more blacI
stars in our Country's flag" must now be thu
rallying cry Of the American patriot. Shu
up the foul spirit in its own graveyard. LIE
them hug their darling Institution" till i
burns, and posons and destroys them. Carr,
the Ordinance of 1857 to the very threshold
of Slavocracy and show them how the prin
cipies of that testament may be applied no
only to the No,th-tosst Territory, but to thu
South-west Territory, and to all Territory
We accept the remuneration of all Compro
misses. Now let the battle be fought, in tn
name of Liberty and Humanity, against HUI
man Bondage in every form. From the hill
of New England, through our own Keyston
State, and over the plains of the mi ghty West
the thunder of the Ballot Boz has rung
death knell in the ear of those who have pros
tituted place and po,oer to the service of tn
Slave Demon. Catch up the echo and roll i
on, We watchful sentinels of Freedoms TEN
pie. Aye, the people are abroad in the high
ways Of the Nation, gathering an cdccato
not taught IN the schools. Woe unto tina
clan or party that stand in the way Of an in
digpant people, made desperate by the friction
Of successive indignities, and eager to obtai
vengeance in the cause of bleeding Humanity