The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-06-06

JoicinS WIN eScceulng great JOY over the
recent success Of the ADMINISTRATION in
Virginia. 1t is quite apptront that this
success was unexpected and therefore
the rejoicing is more intense. Why any
other result should have been enticipa-
ted is to us uno ccoui table. Not only has
Virginia always been decidedly Demo.
cratic state, but, in common with the
entire South, it has special grounds of
satisfaction with the administration of
President Pierce Never in the history
Of this country has there been an Ad-
ministration SO thoroughly resolutcly
and inflexibly sectional and pro-slavcry
and as politicians of all parties at the
South are fully resolved that the Slave
interest shall triumph over freedom, at
any cost of good faith and personal honor,
md at all hazards, it would have been
ex traordinary foolishness in the manage
mcnt Of their scheme, to abandon at this
critical time an Administration, which
has done their work for them with such
hearty and efcctual good will.
We too rejoice at this result though
not exactly for the same reason as the
Tammany Hall orators THEY see in it
the signs Of coming Democratic TIT
umph aud further subserviency to the
South, under the plausible name of ma.
tionalism. ne sec in it the more com.
plelc dissipation Of that verdant faith in
the manliness and chivalry of the South,
which many wcll-meaning and exceed
ingly conservative men at the North
still cherish. The Virginia election. We
find, is generally regarded as an cxpon-
cnt OF Southern sentiment Oh the Kansas
Nebraska bill.and as the forerunncr of
other similar results at the South. We
are astonished that any such evidence of
Southern sentiment can be needed. We
have never doubted that the Represent
ntives and Senators Of the South, who
sustained almost unanimously the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise knew the
spirit and the purpose of their constitu.
en's' All well inforissd men at the
North Know, aud havoioug known, that
the so much talked of honor of the South
is as pure myth as the fable Of the wolf
sucked infancy of Romulus and Remus.
Perhaps, howevcr,still further demons,ra.
tlons will be needed to impress this IN.
questioned fact upon the eutire North.
There are no limits to human credulitv.
aud especially to the credulity of those
among us at the North, who regard it
as their special mission to preserve the
Union. When these men are satisfied
that the South will regard no compacts,
that it compromises only TO wait for q
convenient opportunity to cast aside its
obligations TO the North, we do not sup.
pose they will all regard their occupation
as gone, but we trust their number will
be diminished and their inauence great.
ly circumscribed, We think that time
is near and we rel rice in it, because it
will put an end to all attempts at com.
promising with the South because it
strengthens our hope that the Nortl%ill
DO impelled by selfrespcc, by decent
regard to its own honor and the highest
interests of humanity, to move compactiy
to the decision of the only issue of great
aud permanent Importance that now agi.
tates the Country Whether the interest
of freedom or the interests of the slave
power, are to be predominant in our fu
ture history must soon be settled. The
question cannot be evaded, aud cannot
long bc delayed. The North cannot
triumph without struggle. We trust
no unmanly fears will hinder or put of
that struggle, We desire TO know what
its issue shall be, and We hold that our
fourth Of July celebrations are but i'm
rudent boasiings, if We fail to meet il
With a manly courage We have NJ
sympathy with any cowardly fears about
the result to the Union No man neel
fear to tread in the plain path of duty
anu u r-.---~, aud national honor
ia struggle must come, We sa y of hin
who fears and shrinks from il,
40 bastard whom such forctaste dotl
not cheer"
by every consideration Of manhood ,o
patriotism aud Of conscience. We ar,
bound 10 stand .irnr and united at tn,
NORTH, to insist upon our rights and tina,
slavery shall not be established in the
Territory from hich it has once beer
excluded by law In such conflict We
need strong aud large min ded men, tc
lead the North--men who are guided by
principle rather than policy-that is
Statesmen and not professional politi
clans. We need-and when the hour
Of trial comes, Heaven grant that We
may tind-men,
"Wise, upright, valiant; not n venal band,
who are to judge Of danger, which they fl ar
And honor, which they do not understand"