Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-08-31

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0-F~Thc National Era Washington has
of late favored the idea of a restoration Of
The Freesoi! Party, but it will be seen from
tiiu nliivuins -s,.-is 49,. - -l--i- .--.- A..
Republican line, tot union of the masses
of the Free States for Freedom in utter dis
regard of all other political questions"
Pom the Washington National Era
The Struggle in the next Con-
gress.
Alabama, Missouri, Indiana, and
Pennsylvania, having yet to elect
Senators, will send four Nebraska
and anti-Nebraska men so that the
next Senate will stand, anti-Nebras-
ka %, Nebraska 40.
OF the 23l members of the
House, Ia have been already
chosen, leaving sixty to be yet e.
lected. As all these will be from
the slaveholding States, they will
Of course be opposed to the resiora-
ton of the Missouri Compromise.
1t is supposed, then, that the next
House will Observation-Disclosures
/ les, Nebraska loo, showing an APP
parent anti-Nebraska majority of
: p.
VIII this be an available MAORI
ty? Will all the members elected
on account of their hostility 10 the
policy of the Nebraska bill he pre-
pared to do all they can TO undo the
wrong inflicted by it? Would u
bill 10 restore the slayery-prohibito-
ry clause of the Missouri comprom-
Use be suffered 10y the solid phalanx
Of one hundred and six pro-slavcry
members, familiar with parliament
AIRY tactics, to go to final, direct
vote Can that apparent majority
of twenty-five be relied upon fo
successful resistance to such tactics
Has not the North, with muci
, larger majority TO begin with il
r former struggles, been invariably re
duced in the end to a helpless min
o-ity:
n But suppose the first exceptio
should be presented in the ne,
= Congress--ihat the anti-Nebrask
/ majority should compel a direc
vote, and triumphantly carry sncl
, bill, how is the Nebraska MAORI
~ of eighteen in the Senate TO b,
overcome VIII Cass and Douglass
Bright, Toucey and Weller, Gwin
Wright and Thompson, reverse
their votes The House holds
the purse strings, and can stop the
supplies. Aye, it can arrest all Ie-
gisIation till the Senate yield. -
That is true it can do so-but
viii il? When has it ever done it?
Men who engage i'll such a policy
must be able to look upon revolu-
ton without fear. Could muiori-
ty OF members be rallied in support
OF such an experiment Would
not the timidity of some, honest
doubts in others, the lukewarmness
or treachery of others, be insuper-
able obstacles to its success
II, then, it should seem impossi-
bic 10 carry such bill in the face
of such opp osition, why would it
not be better for the anti-NebrasSa
members to plant themselves at
once on the ground of a principle
instead of a Comprehensive prin-
ciple of No slavery within Unit
ed States territory instead of slav
cry IN portion Of United State
territory The ground the FREE
. States stood on in l54S was the po
Icy OF the ordinance of 1857, in
. terdicting slavery in all federal ter
!. ritory. Betrayed, and driven from
that position, it was some compen
), sation in their defeat to remembe
. that the Missouri compromise, ilsel
- a departure from the policy Of tn
- ordinance, still secured the large
). aud more valuable part of the ter
- ritory Of the Union TO freedom -
4 Bar in 1854, again betrayed, they
i were robbed of this heritage the
i fponcy OF avery-promoilou any
: where was broken down and the
: slave power now demands all
: Whittier shall they gol Is there
a lower deep to which they can be
, driven They have turned upon
the aggresSor, determined upon a
final resistance What now is their
true course Fifty-four Forty,
or Fight !" No more compromise
no halfway measure-no issue
upon exceptions Let them de-
mand the revival of the policy of
the ordinance of 17S7-" No slave
ry IA federal territory THIS is a
principle, sound, constitutional,
comprehensive, sanctioned by our
fathers principle, adhered to,
which gave us Ohio, Michigan, In
diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, with
their millions Of free laborers, and
tue population of which has given
ms Texas, notification, propaganda
ism with a horde Of slavery conspi-
ratoIs, who are laboring to use the