The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-05-21

as it docs this Spring The fruits Of the
labor aud enterprise Of the last few years
are beginning to manifest themselves.
Ga every hand thrifty trees arc shooting
up, and relieving the naturally arid sur
face of clay. The walks, thoughSot suI'
ceptable Of great improvement are better
ih many parts of the village than ever
before. The little parks with which we
abound are growing more and more orna-
mental. Il we keep on at the pace we
are now going. we shall yet find our.
selves the handsomcst country town in
the region round about. Our onvirons
can safely challenge those of any town in
New England for beauty OF prospect and
general coufguraiion Of country. If we
only use a tenth part of the resources
which nature las put into our hands, we
can mako our homes in this mountain
county, the most beautiful on earth.
E& The attention of those interest
ed is particularly called to the condition
of our Cemetery. 1t is long time since
any general attempt has been made to
| clear up the grounds and reduce them to
order. At present there are several
monuments entirely broken down, and
many more in danger of falling from the
action Of the frost Besides this, the
trees, shrubs and bushes have become
scattering and tangled, and require con-
siderable trimming, and in some places
ought to be cleared out altogether. Half
an hours work, on each lot, will put the
grounds into condition bcfittng the
resting place of our honored and beloved
dad 1t would seem that the
Iurying Ground Association might,
il the course of eight or ten months
uore manage to paint the new fence and
restore the walk near the entrance
Mn. THEODORE PARKER addressed
highly respectable audience in the Meth
odist Church, Monday evening on the
subject Of Slavery extension, and parti-
cularly in its present aspect as connected
with Kansas. lie commenced with show
ing that this country is composed of two
totally distinct nations-which he de-
nominated tie North and the South.
These nations were different in all re-
spccts from each other, save that they
had a common ancestry and 4 common
hngulgo. The fifteen millions Of the
Worth were better off were better fed.
better clothed, better housed and better
educated than any other fifteen millions
living together on any part Of the globe.
The South Of ten millions one third
African Slavcs--frce blacks sc, were
worse fed, worse clothed, worse housed
and worse educnted than any other ten
millions Of people living together any
where on the Continent of Europe. The
ideas of the Sc two nations were, if posi-
bic. still wider apart than their material
condition. In the North the leading
idea was that Of Freedom which was
democratic with constantly increasing
democratic tendencies which involved
the right to life. liberty and property ;
which could not be alicned or forfeited
save as each man forfeited it for
himself This idea made labor re-
spectacle, life and property secure; built
school houses for rich and for poor. Ga
the other hand the leading idea of the
South was bondage was towards sub
verting the rights Of the weaker: was
ariatocratic aud with continually increas
ing arstocratcal tendencies made life
liberty and property insecure and alto
gcther in the hands of him who had pow
or enough to rob the weaker it held
that a man might be ailened and forfeit
cd By person other than himself: il
f made labor degraded and built 10 school
J, houses for the poor, but taxed the poor
to ondow colleges for the rich.
These two nations so dissimi'ar could
not travel together, one or the other
must rule.
The South, for tho seventy years o
our National Existence, had had its owl
way till las, January, when in the cleo
ton of Banks for Speaker, the Nortl
achieved its first victory. 1t had beer
said that there was no North, Thi
3 turned out to be mistake last winte
the Mississippi River froze over a
, Natches-and snow was a foot dee
at Washington. lie enlarged at con
I siderable length on the aggression
-. Of the slave power, on the methods of it
operation, the sources Of its strength a
. home and at tho North, and insisted tina
it was the deliberate design Of the Sout
4 to plant Slavery not only in the Terri
tories, but also in the Free States an,
to that point cited the decisions Of Ju6e