Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-09-26
Southern Sentiment.

We have already quoted from that able
and conservative newspaper, the Baltimore
Patriot capital article denounclng MS sheer
madness the threats of disuuon That pa
per is following up the blow thus ably struck.
In another article On the 10Th inst it places
good share of The responsibility for the
slavery agitation where 1t rightluIly belongs
upon the Democratic party It snys:
IF we 20 back many years, il will be
found that certain prominent southern Jour
mails have necessarily aghated this subject
80 matter how quiesccnt were other parts
of the county-no matter how indifferent 10
the hateful theme. yet Southern editors aud
southern politicians would NOT let 1t rest in
oblivion ] hust it before Us they wouldn't
all hazards. II was their thought by day,
their dream by night With perfect truth
may 10 be- averrpd, that not a week has pas
sed. during twenty-five years, IN which the .
loalhsonc question has not been paraded by
The Charleston Mercury, the Richmond En-
Qiirer, lhe Washington Union, aud other
such Democratic journals No rest, no peace,
but nu eternal puuung and threatening Oh
urratiuu This cannot bee denied. nor can
% bee denied that boo that time there were free
Quout intervals when the North was at rest.
ur wholly obllvious. But tins happy ndi
ton of things vas not allowed 90 continue.
Some new phase of the slave question was
devised to again arouse the iee,lngs OF wrath
md Indignation. u may seem strange that,
ON $50 tender o subject, southern men would
uu lhe n.k of uhuuiug the passions Of their
opponents How can tnls ln7lne course be
accounted ior2 The only rational answer
Is, that % IS powerful electioneerug wea-
pom, which they keep well prepared, and ev-
cr trumphanuy WELD Adrolt, skliiul, mile
politicians. they are not 20 be turned away
from their deep and well studied game, for
DO they were. the power SO long enjoyed
would be lost, and the Democratic party
would az once be deprive of that capacity
for mischief which is best seen in the com
yu.sIuns under which the Republic now la-
bors. ltlsa great thingtO
have the whole body Of the slave States act
ng iu harmony. The very fact OF such a ser-
ried phalaux iuumldaics opDoEtionan brings
over TO the South recruits from other States,
bv whose and 10 THERE own solid vote the vic-
tory - secured. 10 So mould and 10 SO WELD
the South, all that ~ required u.s. 10 arouse
its jealousy, and TO terniy 10 with The throat
of abolition. Here Is the whole mystery
THIS great weapon has one merit aud % is
that which gives % force outside the South
eru States That merit is, the constitutional
right winch the latter enjoy ofownership and
protection 90 the property concerning winch
they are so sensitive. For, Do spite of all
we daily witness of alteration from loyal'y
20 the constitution, yet, DO the main, % is
principle deeply craven on the American
heart But for THIS constitutional right md
the respect which men pay % is provisions,
nn free State would ever iy 20 The succor OF
the South Our lon -headed Mlchayes
know this so well that they never tor moe
meut dread any fatal consequences from that
sort of agitation they 10 their own hearts
no more fear any injury to their slave prop
eriy from the Free Soilers or A1otlonls's
;han they do that the Duchess of Sutherland
would step on one of their plantations and
cmanclpate their negroes"
IN another article ln the same number oi
the Patriot. we fad the following iorcib.e
exposure of the dIsunon huWhug
u Is "a notorious fact ih1t an ihe c.ampr
about dlsuulou originates with elccuoucer-
ug, aud from political deuagogues OF the
Democratic party. lhey started che cam-
paign Immediately after Nh Bdchanan's
nominiiion, with this transparent subteriuge,
90 lntmdate weak-mnded, vacIllauug per-
sons whose fears made them susceptible of
such Impressions. Seeing that the game
worked toembly well, they became embod-
ened Co push % 90 extremes. Every speech
and hirlugue now made by the leaders af
th.s party is iuterlarded with forebodur- of
dl-unwu, DO case Of M Buchanau's defeat
or, 10 orher words, the defeat of Democracy.
SO turn Democratic and own II, to support
Mr.. Buchanan and the prime pies Of bis plrty,
because conviction mny induce a belief 100
lher correctness, rs open, manly bli t1 for
sake the person of our choice io aud iu break-
ing down the man, whom no our heart we
believe bes,--to turn traitor as it were. 20
our own feelings and irreyocable convictions,
because sei-aspiraton sel-anbiuuus part-
ztns tell us we must do so, under pfe'ext of
saving the Unon-merely, however, IN sub
stance, 10 save themselves and their party
Is more than honest men would ask or sensi-
bic citizens submit tor
The nervous and timid persons at the
North who believe the Union is 10 danger
from the election OF Fremont--an election
which is fixed tact-shculd take courage
from The remarks Of thus high toned South.
ern journal OF the same tenor are.lrucles
which have appeared m the Louisville jour
nai, the Baltimore Clipper, he National Ia
ieHigencer, and other influential presses az
the South, and similar sentiments will be
common at the South after the election
c. Hon, Lawrence NJ. Kent, who assis.
ted Brooks IN the assault upon Sumner, has
been delivering political address in Lynch
burg Va in behalf of Buchanan, IN the
course of which he took occasion to give
vent to his hatred and spite against Ohio and
Massachusetts. The LynchOurg YIgint.n
says
a. Col. Keiits bitterest venom was direct
ed at Massachusetts, and he gave Us to I'M
dersnnd, too. that he had a special aversion
20 the pork grease of Ohio, as well AZ the
) cod fish of the Bay State The Massachu-
setts man, he sand, who emptled the tea into
Boston harbor, first filed hls pockets The
Massachusetts, regiment in the Mexican war
had to be guarded by two others to prevent
, them from punderng the baggage wagons.
In 1912 the people Of Massachusetts permit
, ted their brethren to be slaughtered on the
shores Of Canada, without sending them
help Then, he said, in alluslon to Mr., Bur
l,ngame, the citizens of that State were not
SO much disposed to go to Canada to fight as
now. Finally he exclaimed, God help me,
! want nothing more TO do with Massachn-
sets except on the battle field Referring
to the possibility of Fremonts election, he
declared that the man who, IN that emergen-
: cy, would not go for dissolution Of the IN
ion, was a traitor and a coward"
1t is needless to state that the charges
brought by this redoubtable Colonel Kent a.
galnst Massachusetts are without the shad
ow Of foundation. They are hes coined for
the occasion, and darkly tinged with the mal-
ice and venom which Brooks Kent, and theic
Southern sympathizers, have entertained A.
galnst Massachusetts since the real coward
Ice of The " chvary" was go thoroughly ex-
posed by Mr.. Burngame o. Boston Journal.
The people Of Monongahela City, Pa, are
highly excited at an outrage committed by
the Democratic candidate for Congress IN
that district, who knocked down an Old gem
tleman who had accepted an invitation 10
take the Fremont side Of an argument with
the candidate. The citizens Of all parties