Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-02-22

SHALL SIT AS A JUROR on the trial of
any prosecution for the violation of any
OF the sections of this act.
Read them, study them till you get their
iull force, and see if any Despotism ever
went further against liberty. Such arc the
acts OF Mr., Pierce's legitimate assembly
hat would Hancock and Adams, and JEFF
ferson and Franklin, and Sherman and VOL
colt, and Bartlett and Rutledge, and the other
immortal worthless who signed the Declare
ton OF independence in l776, have thodght,
had 1T been said to them within eighty years
the Chief Magistrate of the Government
which is to have rule over your people, will
boldly give the lie to the principles which
youput forth as the basis OF that declaration
and will use his power to enforce far greater
outrages on the liberties of the people than
those which you charge upon the King of
England, and for which you are ready
to encounter all the horrors of war
YET that is jua wha uc see nop and
Franklin Pierce, the tool of ADLER, if no more
guilty men than himself is the man.
All the justification which he sets up foi
his course, in the conduct of Emigrant Aid
Societies or individuals in the Free States,
amounts to nothing, and he knows it, and
all his upholders know it, Atchison and the
Border rufians know it also Whether men
have gone to Kansas for settlement on their
own motion, or on the motion of Others, sim
ply to secure farm at a cheap rate or be-
cause they wished to establish freedom in a
territory which the most SACRED FAITH of the
Nation had PLEDGED to FREEDOM FOREVER, has
not the least bearing on the merits Of the case
Their right to do either, and to do it without
let or molestation, was perfect under the law
| OF Congress, perfect under. the law of common
sense and humanity, and perfect under the
law of reason and of God.
The condition of the inhabitants Of Kansas
is how perious in the extreme. Beyond the or
binary trials of life in new country, always
severe, -and aggravated by the uncommon Sc
verify of the winter, they have had to protect
themselves as they best could from the fero-
cities of men M better than savages and
now they are hemmed in by them and have tc
meet as they best can the threats of the Pc
sident and the determination Of the slave.
power of the nation, to destroy them root anc
branch if they do not abandon the free gov
ernment which they have formed, and WELD
all obedience to a rule set up by as great viz
lation OF liberty, law, and right as the histor,
OF the world can show By their pepper off
eials they appeal to Congress for protection
and they appeal to their countrymen an,
friends for help. The slave power at Wash
in5ton may forbid their having the one, bu
all the threats of Pierce will not keen tn
people of the free states from aiding then
with money and arms, and men. They oughh
hare That AID promptly md in aJundaucc
Does Franklin Pierce think that the pcopl
ct the Free States the descendants Of tn
mon who rallied at Lexington and Bunker
hill at Bennington and Sarotoga, " no mar
chcl barefoot to victory at Princeton an,
Trenton, who endured the rrivations OF Val
l.y Forge to secure liberty for those " no wer,
to come after them, will see their sons. theiI
brothers and their neighbors in Kansas treat
edits outlaws at the bidding ofhimsclfa and hi
lie pretendsto think that the gait cring ofmei
from Slave States to force Sldrcry into hdnSds
aud under the name Of "upholding law an,
ord r to shoot down people there becaus
they have formed a Free State constitution
and the gathering of men from Free States
not to invade Missouri or any state, not t
attack anybody, but to help the settlers thcr
djcnd their homes, their families their owl
lives and their liberties from destruction, ar
to be placed on the same ground Right an
wrong, Heaven and hell are not more widcl
asunder Weak as he is, he knows it. Pre-
tend what they may, all men of common dis
ccrnment know it also. The civilized worl
knows it now, and it will know it for a.
time to come.
We have reioiced to see the condition
Kansas brought with emphasis to the motto
Of the State Legislatures of Ohio, of Me-
York and Rhode Island, by the Governors
those States respectively. We have rejoiced t
see the accounts ofpublic meetings and of ger
. crous contributions to encourage and help til
people of Kansas in their extremity. We hop
to see them more and more. We hope to SC
them in this nei Shborhood, and the sooner I'll
+ the better. Prompt and abundant aid may y,
save Kansas x the country from open civ
war. Atchson and his hackers, Pierce an
+. the corrupt and ambitious politicians VIII
o. have urged him on, may pause when they SC
, the unfinching determination of the people
: Kansas to maintain their rights upheld by Il
p powerful sentiment of the Free States, al
% may think it wise to let the State Constitl
ton so quietly into operation. If, howeye
$ in their madness and desperation, they begl
. such war, on their heads must lie the gull
n The consequence of such an action as Il
II President threatens, is thus well stated by Il
!. Ncw YORK Courier and Enquirer
o e." Let the first United States gun DO frt
:. IN Kansas against the steady opponents
Border Rufhanisn, and such civil W;
would spring up ut its sound as would nal
VI those stand ashast who called it into eXi>
Iy cnce. The men Of the North, willing
endure Irovocation to the last, would endu
no longer and such wrathfu Il cd won
pour into the territory as would sweep troop
!" and ruthans, and slavery, and every vcstiI
4 and supportero OF it away at once and 10
- over.
II Presidential and Political.
a The presidential cauldron begins to simnl
d. and bubble considerably. The variety Of
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