Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-08-24

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Government that issues proclama-
tons, and calls forth the army of the
Union to assist STAKEHOLDER to re-
cover his slave--wiih armed violence,
at the first election in that infant
Territory, Frustrated the Freedom of
the citizen and the purity of the fran
chlsc.
The invaders, alarmed by indca-
tons that the Governor would proba-
bly, observe his oath and protect the
sovereignty Of the people, were early
assured by the Secretary Ct War
that the Administration had regarded
him as leaning toward the other side,
and that the mistake would be speed
lily corrected by his removal.
That promise has been kept
Reeder has been removed, and the
present helpless subsection of the
settlers in Kansas to their lawlcss in
vaders is the act long intended and
now deliberately consnmated by the
Federal Cabinet, in obedience TO the
mandate of the Slave Power.
In the presence Of a crime Of such
magnitude, striking at the root of our
Constitution, and at the liberties aud
fame Of our county, crime upon
which the attention of the nation is
now fixed, as the treason is daily
developing before our eyes-it were
needless to dwell upon the lesser
outrogos fast multiplying in our midst
upon personal liberty and the sover-
eighty of the States.
While the Executive and Legisla-
tive branches of the Federal Govern
ment are openly on the side of the
Slave Power, the judiciary no longer
stands as it once stood, the faithful
and impartial guardian Of the consli.
tutional liberties of the people. Con-
yelent Judges who have unearned in
the service of the Shareholders the
first lessons Of the common law,
painfully recall to us the insoenl
brutality Of Jellreys, and the illegal
tyranny which he perpelrated at the
bidding of his master. The right Of
the State to punish crimes committed
within their borders against their
laws, under color of federal authority,
is denied. Consiabes indicted in
State Court for attempt to murder
have been liberated by a Federal
Judge. Citizens Of sister State are
now immured in prison for pretend
ed contempt of a Federal Judge, but
in reality forihavlng, on behalf OF the
society founded by Franklin, advised
strangers of legal rights, aud the
State Courts profess to be impo,ent
10 do them justice.
In the same case ii was coolly in
iImated from the bench that the Fed
eral Judges are thinking of changing,
or the benefit of tie Slave Power,
he great and glorious principles of
he common law, recognized and es-
ablished in the Courts of England, /
he Courts Of our Union, and the
Courts even of our Slave States
they propose 10 adludge, if the public /
opinion will permit, that an odIous
nd sectional system OF mean tyran-
y, for the introduction of which
ven the South has been accustomed
, curse the avarice of their British
ncestors, shall be converted into a
ederal institution, so as to allow
laveholders TO bring their slaves into
ur free neighborhoods, in defiance
{ the will OF our people and the
overci9nty of the States.
The long submission of the Free
iates TO the gradual encroachmenis
{ The Slave Power has been due
hIehy to the compromise into which
ley bad been deluded, in the belief
lat we might repose with confidence
pom the faith pledged by the Rep
.senialiyes of the Southern States.
hat belief exists no longer, and
an never again revive. The Slave
lower has discarded the last shred
# the garb of chlvalry, winch il once
eemed 10 wear-it glories in It's
over our credullty, aud
lands boldly before the world as
aithless TO its honor with the coun-
ry as 10 humanity with the slave.
The North consequently is less
now in determining its
curse than at any former period. -
III It's compacts with the Slave Pow
I outside of the Constitution are at
n end, and nought inIerfercs with
he right aud duty of restoring the
overnment TO lis original founda-
ION, on the truths declared in The
declaration of independence and
mbodied anew in the Federal Con-
titution. Nothing iorbids them from
IcnceioTth restricting 10 lis own ter
ltorial limits the sectional faction
nat, in seeking to wiold The aulhorl-
7 and the resources OF The Union
u its own advancement, so con-
antly dislurbs our peace, impugns
ar rights, insults our State sover-
gnty, aud furnishes our national
laracter.
The Republican party, standing
pom the Constitution aud the great
uths which underIie il, aud hold
" to the principles OF its founders,
Gords us the opportunity of unit
~, as did our fathers in the olden
lmc, 10 rces,ablish Justice, restore
domestic tranquility and re-secure
he blessings of liberty for ourselves
and our pos,er',y.
With common and righteous pur-