Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-07-25

safety any more than they could have
remained there IN safety They
could not with personal safety stay
there they were hunted away
What is there in this bill. what is
there in the proposed provisions any
where, 10y which you are going to
furnish them any security that they
can stay there more safely after they
90 back Instead OF persons over
running the Territory, and visiting
from house TO house with dcpreda-
tlons and violence, It is said that the
United States authorities, by their
Army. have driven them out. Well,
what has It come TO Instead Of
there being a storm of the Territory,
it is now blockadc--a siege. These
men have gone down on the MIS-
sour river, and blockaded and be-
sieged the vorv inroad To the Terri
tory by which the people are 10 re-
celve even tho,necessary supplies Tor
livelihood. These men have broken
up the harvest. They deprived the
people Of the opportunity of culuy-
allng their land have driven many
of them away aud now The very
same men of violence, whose habita-
tons ure full of the instruments Of
cruelty, have turned 1t into a siege
and blockaded the river.
How are the people who have been
driven out to get back How can
they return They are mocked
with being told. " II you VIII come
back you will be good voters But
ow can they get back : And #
they do get back, how are they to
stay there Have the laws under
which these invaders were at times
organized aud rallied as a sheriff 5
pass, been repealed ! Not at ALL
Have they been vacated Ia any way
Not IN the least. Is anything OF
thar kind promised Not al ail-
Has any provision been made for Sc
curly Not the least Is there
any promise Of it: None Now,
ask gentlemen, in all candor, how
tan they say that the provision, that,
il these people get back and can
stay there, aud vote next Nuvem-
ber, furnishes any security OF satIs-
faction That provision furnishes
no security in the nature Of things
it never can furnish any.
1t is said that some of the obnox-
ious laws of the invading LegIsla-
turc have beeu superseded 10y the a
mendments 10 tue bdl. That may
be but If so, the laws repealed are
not all that ought 10 be repealed. II
they are superseded at all, It IS mere
ly 10y the declaration of bill OF
rights. Where does that Dill Of rghu
come from; 1t is taken from tn,
Constitution of the United States
Was not the Coustifution of the a.
nitod STATES ia force there all ibe
tme II was. Then is Il any bet
ter for putting il in detail 10 a biil /:
Not at aIi Did prevent such laws
beng passed or beng enforced 10y
the courts there ? No. WIN II do
any more by enacliug 1t in this bill :
| do not see why.
have now, Mr.. President, stnled
briefly the leading facts, believed by
myself to be true, which operate as
lnsuperable obstacles 10 sustaining
the bill OF the committee, aud which,
IN my opinion, would form lusuper-
able obstacles IN any candid mind -
| am sensible that gentlemen may
differ with me as to the Iacts which |
have stated. 1t is SO throughout the
world. We must he governed by
the facts as we understand them. -
Some gentlemen understand them
perhaps in onc way, | in another ;
but while They are sublects-maller of
my own belief they must he guides
to my own judgment; and SO must
II be with Others.
Some gentlemen have suggested
thai a carte dtanche has been thrown
out TO us that the other side, find
ind themselves in trouble and want
ing to get out of 1t peaceably, ask
US what we propose 10 do have
already suggested what we should OF
course propose to do II tins were
true. We have proposed It, but 1t
has been REJECTED. We may propose
II agaln, but suppose it viii be re-
jecIed. II IS simply to rclrace tins
step, to obllerate ths mcasuse, to
replace your Missouri compromise,
TO reslaH, to reorganlze the Terrlto-
~, to do away with all the conse-
quences which resulted from lis IN
yaslon, aud proceed lurly aud pro-
perry | know that nothing OF that
kind will be agreed TO here, and
therefore shall not lake lime 10 dis
cussIng it but IN my own esllma-
ton the state of circumstances pro-
duced by this attempted experiment
is such that | do not see any easy
way, even in the mode / suggest, Of
producing immediate peace.
The experiment was to invite peO-
pie to this Territory, (for none were
there then, by saying TO them, you
shall be left perfectly free to regulate
your Institutions as you please SET
tic there from the free States aud
the slave States with your different
views of public policy" What was
the result of this 1t necessarily
brought into collision men OF differ
ent sentiments upon an irritating
topic, which they think personally
important 10 themselves, so that you