Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-09-19
The Sentiment OF the True
Democracy.

WIN. +. CRAMER; Sir,-lt is cause OF
congratulatlon with thousands of true Dem
ocra,s IN the State, that paper so widely
and favorably known, and wilhal so tue 10
the principles of the founders of the Repub-
DE, as the Wisconsin, should have the manli-
ness. 10 these days of party servility, 70
break the shackles and declare for the coun-
try. 1--WE might say Col and The country,
uchan s.i.o o. retrospect of the bloody
scenes cnncted on the plains of Kansas
" faithful found among the iaithess y faithful
10 humanity, &c The freedom Of speech and
the press, aud TO the rights Of persons and
property. The voice of the blood OF the
martyrod sufferers Ia Kansas, north Of :iG:3O
where the footprints Of slavery were forever
nierdcted, by a compact as sacred in every
moral sense as the Constitution itself called
20 you and TO every true Patriot and Demo
crat from the ground-nor called IN vain.-
The writer of this is heart and soul 10 the
same cause. And If It were becoming 10
the heroes of 10 to submit TO a candid
world the reasons for cutting adrlil from
iyranncal and corrupt dynasty, It may not be
amiss IN an humble democrat Of twenty-five
years standing, who feels impeilcd by the
strongest convictions of duy, by every i'm
pulse of patriotism, aud every sentiment Of
justice and humanity, to abandon a ship
winch IS constantly growing more praucal--
which finds itself in the whirlpool and grad
ualy approaching the dark abyss which
threatens 10 engulf all craft ireighted with
free PRINCIPLES, TO do the same
There is point beyond which forbear-
ance ceuses to be a virtue, and IN this case
rs crime. 1t is the cry Of the leech-gius,
giCe. And the question is iohere are uCs 10
stop2 II is a momentons question. We
have gwen the South the Fuglllve Slave
law, and that was dose which well nigh
slianged many good democrat in the free
States - 10 be conueritd into blood hounds 10
catch rnnd,Udy negroes The repeal of the
Missouri Compromise line, which had stood
as a barrier between Freedom and Slavery
for more than thirty years, came next-Did
any northern man ever dream Of such 4
thing Such treachery Such infdel-
ty? Such sacuege? Not one And yet
so devoted are northern democrats 10 their
organization and to the Union mot to say so
seryile To Sluthern task masters,) that
had the spirit of the Kansas act been carried
out IN good faith toward the actual resident
settlers this pill would have been swallowed
also II by fair and peaceful means-by le-
gal votes. the shareholders had carried their
point and won the territory for "the pecu-
liar insttution"-we have little doubt the
north would have bowed their necks to the
yoke and acquesced.
The patient who has been treated TO such
nauseous doses may well inquire what is to
come next? whether these are 10 pave the
way for others more offensive and degrad.
...,r ant RIO dody .au nsn a. soa that a
not alp no aIa
da doc rine of the Calhoun school must come
next--that Slavery .foios as naturally INTO The
federal territory as freedom. or as water seeks
ITS level = that the STAKEHOLDER has as good a
right 10 take his sidue there as you have your
horse or or and under equal legal guarantees.
Is It forgotten how and for what cause Hon.
Thomas ii. Benton, who has stood as q mas
siye pillar, sustaining the great measures and
principles of Gen. Jackson's administration
WAS ostracised and driven from the Senate,
Of which he had been an ornament and a
Mentor for thirty years? Have Democrats,
have the people forgot en- this II was for
this determined resistance to this doctrine.
which he denominated SiaUe,y propaganda
ism, and by which he lost caste with the
Democratic party, God save the mark 4 in
somuch that when he asked of franklin
Pierce the appointment Of friend as Post
master at NJ, Louis, on the change of admin
islralion in 1853, be- was refused Yes
Franklin Pierce denied so small boon 10
the venerable and distinguished Senator
among the last Of the great minds which
characterized a former age; who CALAMITY
threw himself in the breach to defend the
Bank Veto message Of tho heroic Jackson in
1881, graphing with giant strength with the
Hercules of the Wing then National Re.
publicanl party, Henry Clay, and who, soil
iary and alone" set the ball in motion. which
ceased to roll only when the sentence of
condemnation, pronounced on Gen. jackson
by whig Senate, for the removal ofthe de
posites from the U. $. Bank, was expnnged
from the Journals! How could the ashes of
that patriot, hero, statesman, repose IN the
tomb while Franklin Pierce was PLAYING So
contemplate part towards the great chan
pion OF his administration, the defender oil
his good pane aud fsmeY And all because
he refused To follow the lead Of 'ho urch