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

them, but we have been subdued. and we
have yielded much that we might save some
thing We have been subdued in return for
forbearance and liberality. We have never
failed to treat our Southern brethren with
more than a generous share Of our considera-
tion.
When the Constitution was formed q ratio
of representation was consented to by which
now the North has but one member of the
House of Representatives for every 20, ,7OO
white males over 81 years of age, land these
are the people in all the States,) while the
South has one for every Il, ,l0S-nearly twice
their lust proportions and in the Senate the
North has one Senator for every ll3,S55,
while the South has one for every 4S ,424-a
great deal more than twice their proportion.
Taken altogether, the representation OF South
ern voters in Congress is more than twice as
great as their equal proportion-an ineqnal-
ity and injustice which nothing but spirit
of Cancellation could make tolerablc to the
North This first great advantage to the
South has been never disturbed, and is OF
itself enough to account for all the victories
Of the South
We also gave them the seat of Government
in the Slave States surrounded on all sides
by Pro-Slavery infuences-another immense
advantage.
Ifa Northern man would recover his Ia
boring animals found in Slave State, he can
recover them only by an appeal to the Courts
| in that State and to the verdict of her Juries.
! lie must take the law g delay at his own ex-
pense-but let STAKEHOLDER claim that a
black man (his laboring animal) has escaped
! into Free State, and the STAKEHOLDER seizcs
tho alleged fugitive, by the hair and the
throat-tears him from his family and pro
perty-drags him before single individual
who is hired by double fees to decree him to
be a slave without Judge or Jury, and the
General Government pays the expense ot
transporting him in chains to Slavery. hat
an inequality of privilege in favor Of Slavery
the North allows to the South
And relying upon the good faith and ho-
nor of the South, when Territories north OF
the Missouri Compromise line should be
ready, we have consented to the admission
of the States south of that line, but when
our turn came southern honor has Jailed us
and the restriction is repealed.
As the natural result Of these inequalities
a vast majority of the Offices of the General
Government in the army and the navy and
the civil service are given to the South.
And so of the highest honors-of the
twelve Presidents of the United States, ,choser
by the people, all but three have been ol
southern birth Out of sxty-eight years the
Government has been twenty years only II
the hands of Northern Presidents, and forty
eight in the hands of Southern Presidents
and for forty years past all the candidates oil
the parry uniformly opposed to the extension
of Slavery to Free Territory have been oi
Southern birth--incapable of looking upor
the Slavery question from the fanatical poin
of view-Clay, Writ, Harrison, Taylor, Scott
Fremont.
Of the exalted officers who have the mos
controlling influence in directing the affair
of the legal and administrative policy OF thu
Government, the comparison of the native
of the n orth and those of the South is equal