Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-08-08


holders and purchasable member,
Of Congress, any measure may be
safely carried aud maintained. How
such a state Of things can commend
itself to the spirit or seli.respect Of
northern electors, we ask them Ia
answer.
But what shall VIC say Of the iu-
ture Kansas lost to freedom, and
as home for the oppressed OF all
nations free labor driven across her
borders, and that noble domain OF
the New World, broader and larer
than many a realm Of the Old, made,
not prosperous and rich like WIscon-
sin and Iowa, but half barbarous,
like western Missouri.
That, however, is not the worst
consequence. The same spirit
which contriyed the Kansas conspir-
acy, already hints that the prohlbl-
ton Of the slave trade is an unjust
discrimination against the Sou,h.-
And why mott If Slavery be no
evil, or if a Federal legislator may
not legislate on the idea that slavery
10 an evil, why should he make ii
piracy TO bring slave into the coun-
try : Why not let each man buy,
according to his own conscience,
what he finds TO be property, or
which is the same thing, what he
finds everywhere, to be saleable p
The same principle which jusifies
the Kansas act must Justify the slave
trade, and condemn, as an infringe
ment upon the equal rights Of the
South, the exclusion OF the foreign
traffic. That step being taken, and
it is The next if the present succeeds,
then Slavery is virtually established
in all our States, for, according to
the high Federal or, as the phrase
is, the National doctrine of some Of
our Courts, whatever Congress au-
thorizes to be imported may be sold
any law Of any State 10 the contrary
Notwithstanding.
No, fellow Democrats, our only
safety is to stop where we are--io
make Kansas a Free Slate-to pun
Ish the authors Of the present agta-
tatlon, and in that way, for that is
The only way IN which II can be
done, put an end to the slavery ag-
tatiOn.
How is this TO be accomplished
BY rejecting the Cincinnati Convcn-
ton aud It's nominees-tor they are
insepaiable. That Convention met
while the country, or, at least all
but the southern part of 1t, stood
grieved and shocked by The violence
aud lawlessness IL Washington and
in Kansas. But not a word of dis
appreciation did the Convention III
ter. They resolved upon certain
iruisms which nobody has ever dis
puted passed resolution against a
Bank of the United States, as III
anybody had dreamed of such
thing for years-a subject Just as
pertinent 10 our present cIrcumstan-
ces as the Virginia or Kentucky res
olulions and then gravely resolved
that every new State must form its
own institutions, by impulalion de-
nying both TO Congress and TO the
Territorial Legislature the right 10
exclude slavery.
Who does not know that no free
State has ever yet been admitted IN
TO The Union, into which, as Terri
tory, Slavery was admitted? Who
does not know that slavery will 20
wherever stakeholder goes, if he is
permitted TO take it with him; that
slavery exists in kentucky in nigh
er latitude than some counties Of
Ohio and Indiana, and in Missouri,
several hundred miles further north
than the southern limits Of the free
State Of Illinois that ii is an insliiu-
ton easily planted in the infancy of
settlements, and most difficult TO be
eradicaled in their maturity
But why not let the people of the |
country decide The question for
themselves say these new profess
soTs of "Squalter Sovereignty" or
ht leas, said so before they introduce
ed fire and sword into Kansas, TO
dlsarm the squatlers in violation of
" the right Of the people TO bear
arms'-to break up their meetings
10 violation of their right peaceably
to assemble and petition for re-
dress of grievances" dispense
their assemblies, gathered TO make
their own laws---to burn their houses,
built with many Tolls and sacrifices IN
the midst of the pralries--lo hunt
their wives and children into the
wilderness, their only refuge from
the fury OF these guardians of squat
ters' rights. Why not let them de-
eide the question for themselves r.
II they who decide were only decd-
ing the question for themselves, there
might be some plsusibilly IN the /
question. But they decide for them
selves and for all future inhabitants
of the Territory. They who came
into Territory after slavery is in
troduced, have not a free cnoice in
the matter. At the very least, wait
until there is a sufficient population
10 make State, before you let
Slavery come in. Was il ever heard /
that when a ships company is max
ing up for voyage, the first ten pas
sengers who put their feet on board
may make rules for the ninety who
follow--rues that should be unaller-
able until the ship shall have been a
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