Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-05-01

| them from their duty-to permit Garrison, Alb
hey Kelly & Co. to drive them into hostility to
the South-to carry out the schemes OF Eu-
ropean monarchists-to war upon Southern 80
ciety-to pen up their negroes-in short, to OPP
pose the extension of Slayeryi' No. indeed,
thousand million times NO there is not one
single Democrat in the whole broad North OPP
posed to the extension of Slavery and they
only wait to have the truth spoken out, and
things called by their right names, to sweep the
abolition imposture from the republic, and to
bury its besotted tools in the profoundest depths
the lowest possible deep of the popular con
tempt"
| With such embodiments as these we think the
people need no longer remain in the dark us tc
what will be their destiny should the office
holding, ofice-pad Vigilance Committee suceoed
in dipping the people into the support of such
man as Pierce or Douglas. But let US con-
tinue. The Louisville Democrat of April 10th
says:
" We say that Slavery is now right and prop
err that it is best for both races that nothing
can be substituted for it without injury to the
superior race and ruin to the other. If they
want to be thought rational, let them meet us
on our own ground and prove it untenable. II
we are right as to the capacity of the negro,
they are guilty of egregious folly. We affirm
that all facts, all experience, and all history in
relation to the black race, confirm the Southern
ground on the subject, and it is most reckless
wickedness to destroy an institution affecting
the vital interests of whole race, unless there
is something to substitute for it that promises
to do as well at least; and we have right to
demand that it should promise something better.
African Slavery is right it suits the race 10
which it is applied better than any system hui
man ingenuity has devised.
The first step proposed to be taken to prevent
the extension of Slavery is a mistaken policy,
based on false assumptions. 1t assumes that
Slavery is wrong an evil-whereas, it is no such
thing, unless the existence of tho negro as heis,
is wrong and there is no sense in the furor
to make Kansas free"
A further development is given by Caleb Cush-
ing in his speech at Slash Cottage, in commem-
Grafton of Henry Clays birthday. We quote
from the Eoening Post:
:" He took advantage of the occasion to lay
down the law to which the North must hereaf
ter conform itself We must take carc-such
it seems, is the doctrine of the Administration
to give the South a slave State for every FREE
State created by the natural increase of the pop
ulation Of the North Under no other condi
ton can the Union be kept together. He said
will declare my conviction that to rende
the solidity of the fabric of the Union immova
BILE it needs only that the balance of power b
fixed permanently, and by means that canno
now suggest
The old doctrine of the nullifers-an equi
librium of the slave States and the free-a bal
ance of power which is to be kept perpetual
adjusted States are to come into the Unio
by pairs, like the unclean beasts into Noah
ark, every black State to be accompanied by
white one. A theory of this sort was, as GU
readers may remember, favorite dream of Cal
houn and the tendency to a disparity of mum
bers between the two classes of States, was, i
his eyes. one Of the grievances of the South
That theory is now adopted by the Administra
ton, and promulgated by member of the Cal
met who has the reputation of being the Pres
dent S favorite and principal adviser.
Mr.. Gushing retrains from speaking of tn
means by which this equilibrium of the Stat,
is to be maintained. But though he is siler
the facts speak for him. 1t is TO be maintaine
by fraud and violence if it cannot be maintain
ed otherwise. The government of u TerritoI
is to be revolutionized by force, if the slave oil
garchy cannot obtain control of it in any 9th,
manner, and when the people decline to subm
to the revolutionary government, they are to
treated as revoutl onists and rebels, and subd,
ed to obedience by the regular army. That
The process now in vogue, ande these, we pr
sumo, are the means to which Mr.. Gushing a
udes
10 keep up the equilibrium between the ty
classes of States, the next Territory which is a
mitted must be slave State. When MINES
ia comes into the Union, New Mexico must
admitted with "a constitution tolerating SLAYER
When Nebraska enters the confederacv as fir
State, Utah must be received with Slavery
galized throughout her territory. If Gregg
comes In with free constitution, another Sta
must be carved out of California in which h,
man bondage is sanctioned by the organic Law
Mr.. Gushing will not now indicate the meal
by which all this is to be effected, but when tt
proper time arrives his plans are to be ready :
They will doubtless resemble those which ha
lately set the Western part of our country in
flame"
This summing up of facts from the Pierce D
mocracy will show conclusively their intention
besides giving the readers of the Freeman an o.
portunity to compare positions.
The war of the peoples, Democracy again
the paid Democracy of Pierce will be resume
next week