Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-04-19

has recently been ascertained to be greater
than from any other port in all those seas.
The Southern legislators and citizens tampes
with philosophy and emasculate literature to
prevent their wives and children knowing
what is thought of slavery in The foremost
countries Of the world. There the lady who
takes up Oowper to read while she rests from
the heat, finds no trace in her copy of the
passage, "Heaven speed the canvass CALAMITY
unfurled," nor of good many others which
women elsewhere are wont to enjoy. Her
son at college is obliged to take his moral and
political philosophy all sliced and hashed,
there being no edition of any European work
on those subjects fit fol his study, in CON-
plete form. The little child, too young for
church, but beginning to keep Sunday by
learning Mrs Barbauld's hymns, of world
wide fame, finds one shorter than the rest. 1t
is SO from the cutting out of that apostrophe
SO affecting to English children: Negro
woman, who sittest piniug in captivity" All
this is, in fact, the central idea of every de-
vice for preserving the peculiar domestic in
stitution" of the Southern States from moles-
tation, from what the planters are pleased to
call the narrowness Of foreign opinion" on
that subject
We repeat here the declaration we always
make to prevent mistakes when treating OF
American affairs that We are speaking OF the
Southern States and not Of the whole Union.
But we must also add our usual question
how long does the entire nation mean to al
low the saveholding interest to represent its
domestic policy and its foreign relations! VI
the millions of heads of families in the Unit
ed States, only S47 ,525 are shareholders; and
yet the slaypheAess hare been the guides and
masters of American politics from the time
that the nation entered the retrogade path OF
foreign conquest and annexation. President
Pierce conjures us all to believe that his ma
ton has no ambition, and explains that all it.
annexations have happened merely through
manifest destiny This destiny is becoming
so extremely maifest DOW, that, even in the
crisis of cur war in the Crimea, the French
and we are carefully placing our war ships ii
the roadsted Of St. Domingo and we shall
not relax our watch over Cuba, Or any Other
land which lies within the boundary Of " des
tiny"
Meantime, there are features of American
destiny which it would be we'll for all the gen
uine republicans to attend to before it is toe
late. The destiny of all tools of the Russian
Gar is the same they become slaves polit
cally and morally. While there is negro sav
cry in the United States, the Gar has handle
Thy which he can guide the political machine
which is betrayed into his hands by the snobs
and the men-owners of the republic. And
4 who cannot see that the time must come wher
it will suit his convenience that there shall b.
no democratic republic on the shores opposite
his own eastern boundary If he can now
embroi the Republic, it is time to be taking
heed that he does not break it up, when the
convenient moment comes. The great Amer
can Union has received rebuff from the Do
minican State. All true lovers of freedom
must hope that it will serve as an admonitiol
to the sound part Of the nation to take tn
management of their affairs into their owl
hands.