Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-07-17

1t. We shall have the use of it in time of peace,
without the cost of its care in time of war. But
am against our meddling with it for another
reason. That ship canal is the antagonist of our
own roads to the Pacifc 1t is the antagonist
OF national road through our own land to our
own California. 1t is the antagonist of that
road, and intended to make the high seas the
only, and the perpetual, line of communication
with California-to make the Atlantic ports con-
tinue te be forever what they now are-the en-
trepots of California trade and travel-the sole
point of departure and return for all trade and
travel between the two sides of our continent
between the thirty states on the Atlantic and in
valley Of the Mississippi and the golden state
of California.
Now, am against all that monopoly Fair
play is pretty play. Let the Atlantic states have
oil the advantages which the sea gives them /;
let them continue to go to California by sea, or
any rout they please-by Panama, by Cape Horn,
by the Nicaragua lake, and the ship canal when
1t is made. Let them use all these routes, and
have prosperous voyages on all the routes. But
let us who live inland, aud own land all the way
to California, and are almost half way there
let US have road on the land and not for our
selves only, but for al-for the Atlantic cities az
well as for the interior-for the north and south
as well as for the centre for a central road
suits.
The present administration is the deadly enemy
OF this central route. 1t is for anything in pre-
ference to this route-for an outside road north,
along the frozen latitude of 40; for an outside
road south, along the burning sands of Sonora
and Sinaloa for a foreign water route through
Central America, seven thousand miles ronud
and it is for this foreign route that we have all
the quarrel with England about the Bulwer- Clay
ton treaty, the Mosquito coast, the Ruatan Is.
land, the Bay of Islands, and the Nicaragua
canal and it is for this also that we have the
libeous per ersion of the Monroe doctrine.
Enmiy to this road and plosttuting the pow
ers of the government to defeat, is one of thu
great offences of this administration-an offenc,
against the whole Uuion, but especially agians
The state Of Missouri the natural route for th'
road, and along which it is already one-third bull
from the Atlantic coast TO the centre of thi
state, and where it would be in communication
with all the railrord lines and all the steam boat
navigation of the thirty states on this side of tn
Rocky Mountains. But this is large subject
and will require full speech to itself, which
shall receive.
THE ENLISTMENT QUESTION
The browning of all these attempts to pick
quarrel with Great Britain is in the recruitmer
question, and in the dismissal Of Mr.. CramptoI
This crown to the work is the labor of Mr.. Cusf
ing, whose fitness to make foreign war, or I
guard domestic rights, may be seen in his ow
account of his mission to China, and in HI
speeches in Congess justifying the British attac
upon the steamboat Caroline, under the flag
the Union. and moored to our shore-boarded b
stealth. her crew slaughtered in their sleep, ar
the vessel set on fire, and, wrapt in flames, SCI
plunging over the Falls of Niagara with II
dead and dying on board All that Cushn
justified for which he scourged upon the sp
by William D, Butler, of Kentucky, and W
took the scourging as man would who knew
- deserved all he got, and was thankful he got
~ more all which may be seen in the second v
- ume of the Thirty Years View"
/, This is the man to stand guard over Amerc
"a riehts-to pick quarrel with Great Britain VIII
a. she has done us no harm, and has made apologl
a for the mere technical offence which she m;
J. have committed. The case was this; Our
antc cities were full of uunaturalized foreignt
v mos, of them her former subjects, She wish
% to recruit them for the CIimean war-but 10
II it without violating our laws-gettlng them to
~ to her own territories, and there enlist Afle
a wards objection was made and instantly
,e practice was stopped, and apology made for
unintentional wrong. There was no harm do
N us, The only danger of harm was that Rus
a might resent is as aiding her enemy, in volatl
l, of our neutrality.
et That would have been serious complaiE
t. but Russia never made the war was over bet
's the recruits, (f any, could get to the Crime
y and now peace has long been made, Russia a
H. England are friends, and we must pick quar-
10 with England on account of Russla-Rus
herself having no quarrel with Great Britain
O. no complaint against US. That was the o
ID harm apprehended, and it never occurred.
or for taking such people away as she was ende
's' oring to get, should think their loss no dam
a' to us and that irrespective of their foreign bi
se hold that any man, native born or foreign, v
~ would quit the United States-whore g
~ wages, comfortable living, and independence
in reach of all--and go six thousand miles to
Crimea to lead the life of British soldier
Id sxpence day hold the loss of any such /
~ would be no damage to our country, 60 as mi
ia of them as might
;" For this Mr.. Crampton is dismissed. NO,
"a, Mr.. Champion, but the British governmt
oo For he only did what his government direc
ny and what it has justified and assumed. Thi
dc very different from dismissing minister for
us act of his own it is an insult to the British G
an ernment lit is challenge but the dangeris p
ed. The administration which dismissed
n Champion, have themselves been dismissed ig
10 minously so by their own party, and the wi
u. power Of the county. The whole country
at dismissed that administration. They have
to party. no adherents, no support. Their
TO- janisary guard the venal office holders
deserted them. from their ruined fortt
to sllnk all a,eay'--and crouched at the feet of
wo conqueror. And to finish this universal desc
w themseUes---fed Efrom their own solitude
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