Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-06-19

has been wrapped, marking especially the false
testimony, congenial with the original Crime,
against the Emigrant Aid Company. Then
were noted in succession, the four Remedies,
whether of Tyranny-Folly-Inju and Civ
il War-whch last bids Kansas in conformity
with past precedents and under the exigenciss
of the hour, in order to redeem her from Usur-
patton, to take place as q sovereign State of
the Union and this is the True remedy. If in
this argument have not unworthily yindicated
Truth, then have spoken according to my de-
sires if imperfectly, then only according to my
powers. But there are other things, not be-
longing to the argument, which still press for
utterance.
Sir, the people Of Kansas, bone of your bone
and flesh Of your flesh with the education OF
freemen and the rights of American citizens,
now stand at your door. VIII you send them
away, or bid them enterl VIII you push them
back to renew their struggles with adeadly foe,
or will you preserve them in security and peace!
Will you cast them again into the den OF Tyr
amy, or will you help their despairing efforts
to escaped These questions put with no com
mon solicitude: for ] feel that on their just de-
termination depend all the most precious inter-
ests of the Republic; and perceive too clearly
the preudccs in the way, and the accommodating
bitterness against this distant people, now claim
ing their simple birthright, while ain bowed
with modification, us recognise the President
of the United States, who should have been
staff to the weak and u shield to the innocent,
at the head Of this strange oppression,
At every stage, the similitude between the
wrongs of Kansas, and those other wrongs
against which our fathers rose, becomes more
apparent. Read the Declaration Of lndepen-
dence and there is hardly an accusation which
is there directed against the British Monarch,
which NAV not now be directed with increased
force against the American President. The par
allel has o fearful PARTICULARLY. Our fathers
complained that the King had "sent hither
swarms of officers, to harrass our people, and
eatout their substance " that he " had COM
bined. with others, to subject us to a jurisdc-
ton foreign to our Constitution giving his as
sent to their acts of pretended legislation " that
he had abdcated government here, by declar-
ing us out of his protection, and waging war
against us ~ that he had excited domestic
instruction among us, and endeavored to bring
on the inhabitants Of our frontier the mercllcss
sayages :; 4" that our repeated petitions have
been answered only by repeated injury" And
this arraignment was aptly followed by the
damning words, that ga Prince whose charac-
ter is thus marked by every act which may de-
fine tryant, is unfit to be the ruler OF free
people, And surely, a President who has
done all these things cannot be less unfit than a
Prince At every stage, the responsibility Is
brought directly to him. His offence has been
both of commission and omission. lie has done
that which he ought not to have done, and he
has left undone that which he ought to have
done. BY his activity the Prohibition of Slave
ry was overturned. By his failure to act the
honest emigrants in Kansas have been left a
prey to wrong of all kinds. Nul1um fagitum
crtiht, nisi per te; nullum fagitium s'ne lie
And now he stands forth the most conspicuous
enemy of that unhappy Territory.
As the tyranny Of the British King is all re-
newed in the President, so on this floor have the
old indignities been renewed, which embitered
and tomcnted the troubles of our Fathers Tho
early petition of the American Congress to Par
lament, long before any suggestion of indie
pendence, was opposed--like the petitions OF
Kansas--bccauso that body " was assembled
without any requisiton on tho part of the Su-
prone Power Another petition from New
York, presented by Edmund Burke, was fatty
rejected, as claiming rights derogatory to Par
lament And still another petition from Mas
SilCliubcbuS Duy Wis uiSullSScu as NcAHtlDuS
and scnadalous,' while the patriot philosopher
who bore it was exposed to peculiar contumely
Throughout the debates, our fathers were made
the butt Of sorry iests and supercilious assnmp
tons. And now these scenes, with these pre-
else objections, have been renewed in the Amer
ican Senate.
With regret, come again upon the Senate,
from South Carolina, [Mr Butler, who, omui.
in no ri lNnfn .,itt,
the simple suggestion that Kansas had applied
for admission as State and, with incoherent
phrases, discharged the loose expectoration OF
his speech, now upon her representative, and
then upon her people. There was no extrayl
gance of the ancient Parliamentary debate
which he did not repeat; nor was there any pos
sible deviation from truth which he did mo-
make, with so much of passion, am glad t(
add, as to save him from the suspicion Of inten
tional alteration But the Senator touche
nothing which he does not disfgure- er
ror, sometimes of principle, sometimes Of fact
He shows an incapacity of accuracy, whether il
stating tho Constitution or in stating the law
whether in the details of statistics or the diver
sions of scholarship. He cannot ope his mouth
but out there flies blunder. Surely, he ough
to be familiar with the life Of franklin an
yet he referred to his household character, Will
acting as agent Of our fathers in England, a
above suspicion; and this was done that h
might give point to a false contrast with til
agent Of Kansas-not knowing that, howeve
they may differ in genius and fame, in this oxpe
ai3nce they are alike that Franklin when in
trusted with the petition Of Massachusetts, Bay
was assaulted by a loul-mout hed speaker, whor
he could not be heard in defence, and denounc
ed as a " thief even as the agent of Kansl
has been assaulted on this floor, and denounce
as a forger." And let not the vanity of til
Senator be inspired by the parallel with til
British statesman of that day; for it is only il
hostility to Freedom that any parallel can b
recognised.
But it is against the people of Kansas tina
the sensibities of the Senator are particular
aroused. Coming, as he announces, from
State aye, sir, from South Carolna--h
turns with lordly disgust from this newly-form
ed community, which he will not recognise eve
asa body polite" Pray, sir, by what It'll
does he indulge in this egotism Has he rea
the history of " the State" which he repre-
.sents lie cannot surely have forgotten i,
imbecility from Slavery, confessed taroughou
the Revolution, followed by its more shamelt
assumptions of Slavery since. He cannot hay
forgotten its wretched persistence in the sla,
trade as the very apple Of its eye, and the col
,dition OF its participation in the Union. L
cannot have forgotten its Constitution, whit
is republican only in name, confirming power
the hands OF the few, and founding the quail
cations of its legislators on "a settled freeho
estate and ten negroes" And yet the Senate
to whom that State - has in part committC
the guardianship of its good name, instead
moving, with backward treading steps, to COW
its nakedness, rushes forward, in the very ecst
.cy of madness, to expose it, by provoking
comparison with Kansas. South Carolina
old; Kansas is young. South Carolina coun
by centuries, where Kansas counts by years.
But a benitcent example may be born in day
and venture to say, that against the two ce
turtles of the older State" may be alreat
set the two Yeara Of trinL evolving cnrresnon