Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-10-31

if the dealers in ardent spirits, and the dis
tillers, and tho dealers in indecent prints and
pictures should determine to dissolve the
Union-to march to Washington and take
posse ssion of the archives of the Government
and the Treasury, because of these laws
which prevent them from taking their pro-
perty to the territories The Northern and
the Sou thern man are on equal terms in all
these respects. The latitude or the point of
the compass is nothing; whoever comes
there with his forbidden property will lose it.
His slave will be free. his pictures and prints
will be destroyed, his rum will be poured
out upon the ground, and his distillery burnt
down. This property claim, this slave in
the territory claim, is hollow and unreal
The claim is not to take property there, but
to take laws there which the Congress or the
terri tory have never enacted. The claim is
that a single Carolinian or Virginian slave
holder shall. by the laws of his own State, a
thousand miles from that State, have the
privilege of importing and planting and
spreading in the territory q poison by the
side of which indecent prints and maddening
drink are blessings. Is there anything SO
demoralizing as Slavery-anything so incon-
sistent with moral heath-so dangerous to
the peace of a community-so hostile to the
freedom, equality and mutually Of American
Institutions When the holy prophet of the
Lord in the ecstacy of his divine inspira-
tion, proclaimed to the indiscrim nate fu-
ture W'o TO hlm that uscth his neighbor' 5
service wuhoW ,rageS, and gireh HIM not 10,
his ,Cork,' he was not announcing n curse to
the unfortu nate being who was deprived o
his right to wages, and yet compelled to toll
1t was not to the victim, condemned to lose
manhood in the qualities OF the brute-not tC
the slave, but t. his master, that the voice O
retributive Justice announced the woe. The
master may add field to feld-he may grow
rich on the uncompensated labor of hi
slaves-he may meet no resistance to his cx-
actons-no reprisals from those whom he has
stripped Of everything he may even demon
strate that their condition is improved by
being unhumanized still, the divine woe to
him that useth his neighbor's service without
wages may bring ste e-ility to those fields
may send canker into his wealth-may give
his sons fierce and murderous passions-may
mingle the dreams Of terrors with the dreams
Of guilt when, in his midnight fincies,
trodden humanity shall spring up and look
around for vengeance.
Where Slavery exists and produces its pro
per fruits can an American citizen receive
through the public mails such mail matter
as he pleases-cln he read such books as ht
plea ses-can he have such library as hC
pleases-can he hear such preachers as h,
pleases-can he peaceably express such opn
ions as he pleascs-can he openly belong t
such political party as he pleases Not a
all-not one of them because of the terri
bic dreams that shake the STAKEHOLDER night,
because the whole people sleep in fear les
the words of Freedom for which our father
bled, and on which our country rests, shal
reach the ears Of the slaves that cook the
food, that kindle their fires and till the
fields, and are ignorant and brutal, impul
sive and revengeful.
Compare the average value of the land i
the Free States and the Slave States as give
by the census, and we shall see if, as a proT
erty institution, it should be extended to tn
virgin soil of the Territories.