Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-03-16
New Hampshire.


by a goodsizc and most respectable audi
cncc of ladies and gentlemen.
New Hampshire.
The Administration men held mass meet
ing at Manchester, some days since and were |
confident of success. The Anti-Administra-
tion and Anti-Nehraska men, held their Com /
vcntion at Concord on Tuesday. The gath |
ering is said to have been the largest in the |
State since the old Harrison times, number
ing seven or eight thousand The best Of
feeling existed among the opponents Of Ne
braskaism, and the most confident anticipa-
tions of an Administration overthrow pre-
vailed. Among the speeches made, was one
by John p. Hale, Of which we find the
following sketch in the Boston Atias -
Mr.. Hale spoke OF the mighty gathering of
the people, and said it was an evidence that
he State of New Hampshire was beginning
10 find the cold track, y which in the storms
of false Democracy and Nebraska they had
lost, like bcnightcd travellers in Il snowy
waste. lie referred to the cry that religious
liberty was in danger, believing that it came
almost entirely from men who have practi-
caly no religion at all, and who consider that
due attainment in Christian grace cannot be
made except from official stations. The Pres
ident and heads Of Departments at Washing
ton, would hardly have been chosen as the
chief priests ofpiety, or the Democratic mem
bcrs Of Congress for the principal expounders
of religion
There were some things, however, that
were in danger. lie was not certain but the
Union was in danger-not the Union of the
States, but the union between the old hunk
- g..f\ l., Il tlo III
lie crib. Coming events cast their shadows
before, anil the resignation Of many Demo-
cratic oiicthpidrrS in the state, was AZ sgnifi-
cant as the dCscrtiou of sinking ship by the
rats.
lie next referred to the great anti Nebraska
movement at the North. Not ono ofthe States
had spoken since the passage of the Nebras-
ka bill, but had condemned it, In Ohio, es-
| pecially, was the result peculiarly gratifying,
| because the old hunkcrs met the issue fairly,
without skulking, and they were totally rout-
ell, Cass's own Michigan and Douglas own
| Illinois We're also uncontrOllablc by the hunk
| er Nebraskaitcs and so ofevcry other North
! crn State where the battle has been fought
| Shall New Hampshire stand bravely with the
9 9th Northern States for lreedom or shall
the music Of clanking chains, and the signs
and groans of slaves That was the true is
sue. 1t had been said, we must "acquiesce. -
| lie would acquicscc innothng wrong, SO long
as he could resist. or freedom OF speech re-
mained by which he could protest against
the wrong. Suppose in 20 men had gone to
Boston and said they must acquicsce in the
stamp act and the tea tax, or the union with
! Great Britain would be dissolved Our faith
ers would not acquiesce they said '.lct us
have Constitutional liberty, or no Union at
all. Every body acknowledged the iniquty
,,ft hn \pl, In ,,,l .,
majority to acquiesce in the decision of the
minority Let acquicscencc be talked to
slaves, not to freemen.
Mr.. Hale next alluded to the proceedings in
the last Congress, and the scandalous advice
given by the New Hampshire Patriot to the
| anti-Nchraska members Of Congress, to vio-
late their pledges to their constituents A
man in State Prison who should he guilty Of
such advice, would never be "a. io"eh a't =. =
! II" TcI"lIr'i - ,ut ittv correspondence with
ngfcllpw, Of Missouri, and the acknov
Judgement, or rather claim on the part of the
leading Southrrncrs, that the question OF
slavery is settled forever in Kansas yet. said
he, men will stand up and declare there is no
danger OF slavery ever going into Kansas
lie contcndcd that the introduction Of slave
ry into the territories was not constitutional
and quoted Washington, Jefferson, and other
early statesmen to sustain this ground -
Some seemed to consider that the Cunstitu.
ton was not for plain men to read They
think man should be as stupid as Il city
Alderman, or as corrupt rs IL Member Of Con.
gress. before he can be privileged to read that
instrument Washington and jefferson, in
| the view Of these men, werc not much of pOl.
iticians, but then, we must remember, they
had no great privileges. They never read
the Baltimore Platform, and they died before
the New Hampshire Patriot was printed -
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