Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-09-27

itself as the tool and accompice ofall the wrongs
Inflicted upon Kansas. and by its venalty atd
inbecility brought the country TO ar iuirsiino
wat
hud all its Representatives iu Conercss.
with three individual exceptions, laboring ia
earnest real, by speech and vote. to cover up
the inquiries Of this Administration aud the
Border RuiIians of Missouri, and to suppress
fair investigation Of outrages which shock both
humanity and republicanism, and defy the Con
stiiuiion and The laws
hnd these same representatives, after the
truth was eleilcd in spite of their efforts, still
refusing 10 relieve the people from code Of
laws imposed upon them by foreign army,
and still refusing 10 admit them into the Union,
only for reasons which, in the cases Of nine ex-
isting States, have been declared unlenable and
u no account.
Eld them disregarding a Free Constitution
adopted in legal. constitutional add Ine-sane-
toned msnner. (and which no man can doubt
to have reflected the will Of the people, } and
supporting law to produce substitute, which
IL is easy 10 show would have perpetuaied in
the State Government the usurpalion which
had by force elready seized apon the Govern
men, Of the Territory.
ind them refusing to make appropriations
Cor the army, unless that army is to be used to
enforce code OF laws yiolaiive on their face,
Of the Constitution, enacted by Legislature in
violation Of the laws of ine United States, and
imposed BY foreign force upon conquered and
subjugaied American citizens
] hnd them. in a word, steadily aiding BY
all their Congressional action to make Slave
Stale 10 northern attitudes, and that, too, against
the will Of its inhabitants.
iad that one Member, who more than any
other stood Ou, against the enslaVement Of his
white fellow-ciizens. is refused a denomination
by the Democratic party of his district
j End in the canvass now going on that the
whole tone Of their party press is in the same
direction. When the first startling intelligence
of the oatrages in Kansas reached the States,
their editors denounced the foul wrong in terms
Of fitting indignation. |, was but spasmodic
effort. however, and in Difference TO the South
and the prevailing sentiment Of the party, they
have dropped OF, one after the other, until
now, so far as | have been able to ascertain,
lhere is not Democratic PAPER which dares
boldly to Justify and defend the Free-Staie par
iy, and denounce their invaders. ln place of
encouragement and sympathy for their outraged
fellow-chizens from the North, there is liuIe
else ihan jeers and ridicule for their oppressed
and suffering acknowledgements OF
their motives and conduct, aud pretended in
credUity Of the statements and appeals which
they send their brethren OF the States.
fnd their speakers exhibiting the same
spirii-some Of them ignoring the question en-
lirely; others Of them treating ii with Perver-
sons misrepresentation and false issues; and
others taking openly the side Of the oPpressors
but one Of them advocating the cause Of Kan
sas, or favoring her admission under the Free
State Constitution adopted BY her people.
In the public demonstrations and professions
Of tie party, find banners and devices coniaIn-
ing brutal insults, in response to the appeals OF
} that people for protection against unparaIleled
wrongs, calculated, as no doubt they mast be
intended, to prepare the masses for continued
refusal OF justice and protection, and relent-
less persistence in outage and oppression.
find all the democrats South, and portion
of the Democracy Of the NOrh, boldly repudi-
ating the Kansas Nebraska bill, by insisting that
Slavery has right to go into the Territories,
in spite of Congress or the people; and that tho
inhabitants Of the Territory have no righiio
pass Territorial laws to forbid il or exclude il.
= Democratic Representatives from Pennsylvania
: even, in the Senate and The House, hold and
proclaim these opinions; while other Repre-
ssniaiives from Pennsylvania, with Democratic
/ leaders from other States, declare themselves
publicly To be non-commiiial upon this heresy
the inevitable tendency Of which, il is easy to
show, will be 10 prevent almost entirely the Tor
nation Of any more Free States.
: Having originated movement myself, to aid
. onr people by sending them men and money,
and having prosecuted ii with the siriciest avoid
ance Of party character and studied neuirali-
: ty to the political canvass, and having ear
neslly asked tie cooperation OF men Of all pa T.
ties, have failed 10 enlist 10 it, to my knowl-
edge, single Democrat. In The Conventions
) Of Cleveland and Buffalo, called without dis
: iinction of party, 10 furiherance Of this enter
5 prise, there was no DemocIa, present but my
! self. This cannot have been from any war: Q {
t generosity or Of means, but only in Difference
to the prevailing tone and sentiment ofthe par
~ which is enlisted upon The other side of the
question. And not only have they absiained
! from aiding the movement, but in their presses
1 and by their private influence they have endeav-
ored TO cripple and reiard II by sneering at it,
warning the community against il as treasona-
= BILE, and declaring that the money would be mis-
D applied, thus endeavoring 10 prevent contribu-
tions even from friends Of the measure.
5 might go on with this catalogue and emu
meIale other indications, il necessary, showing
5 ,ha, the prevailing tone of the party is hostile
/ 10 Kansas but ! consider il only necessary to
n add that what | have said relates but IN tha
: North The South, where the great mass of
the party is to be found, makes no Preiension,
as whole, to the advocacy ofbui anything pure
Border Rufiianism.
$ What, then, have the Free-S,aie men Of
e Kansas to expect from Democratic Admins
= tration, even ii presided over by Mr Buchanan
If he could be leii TO act upon his own impulses
: unaffected by external influences, and free liom
I all pledges and obligations, express and impli-
y ed. the case would be very different. But, nn-