The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-07-09

new SlIltN Vlu W lunhC Ill utChiui
rules and regulations respecting the
Territory aud other property belonging
to the United Stotes." The lessons of
history fully confirm these conclusions.
Coordinate with the founding of the
Constitution was the Ordinance of | 7S4,
that sacred and irropealable compact be-
tween the people, which forever dedica-
ted to Freedom every inch OF territory
then held as the property Of the United
States. That instrument was recogni-
zed by the sth act of the first Congress,
and has been sacredly observed since
and the power of Congress TO Pyohi6H
slauery IN Eelcral Territory has been
admitted. either by the approval of acts
involving the power, or by explicit dec
larations. by cvcry President, from
Washington to Fl'more-the present
incumbent being the sole and sad cxcep-
ton TO the universal rule We do
therefore adopt this great principle of the
Constitution and of cur patriotic fathers,
as a cardinal point FREEDoM mi Ma
o RULE-SLAvERY THE SECTIONAL
EXCEPTION aud we confirm our earnest
faith aud ardent hope by these mcmora-
BILE words, uttered by GEO, WAsmNGToN
10 his first and most solemn act as Prs
idont of the United States.
ut would be peculiarly improper to
omit, in this first official act, my %fervont
supplications to that Almighty Being
who rules over the Universe--who pre-
sides i'll the Councils of naiions-aud
whose providential aids can supply every
defect, that His bencdiction may conSe-
crate 10 tic Liberties and happiness of
the People of the United States, a Gov
ernment instituted by themselves, for
these essential purposes and may enable
every instrument employed in its odmi-
nistration to execute with success the
function allotted to his charge"
But tie Government of the United
States has abandoned these Essential
purposes for which it was designed.
We are witnesses to a Revolution-from
Freedom to Slavery-from Republican,
ISM to Tyranny-from responsible Gov.
crument to an Oligarchy.
Tie Uni0N IS endangered: it is en-
dangered by the Slave Poverty the
extension OF slavery, by aggressions upon
Freedom, by violated C~ompacts, and by
violations Of the Constitution itself.
We cannot tolerate them.
Tile Government is pcrrcytcd Slave
ry demands all and controls all. 1t
controls the Executive, the Diplomatic,
the Judicial, the Legislative and the
Military powers of The Government. 1t
dictates our domestic polioy-our bust.
ness, our expenses and our INCOME. In
spite of eXtravagant expenses. already
treble the avowed democratic rule pro-
claimed by President Polk-running up
from twcnty.ivo millions to seventy five
millions per annum-the treasury is
still full yet when the great agricultu-
raj, manufacturing and commercial in
tercst Of the country demand a necessa-
ry appropriation, they arc repulsed with
a constitutional scruple and a veto and
the labor of the free. sturdy and i%ntelli-
gent American citizens is left alone to
combat with the haggard hordes Of Eu-
rope and the unpaid labor Of slaves.
Slavery dictates our foreign policy, our
Milo an. pNl iiNhtlN' VI lOdST' Va tb
longing for the Union. has becn repulied
by a concession of reciprocity at the ex-
penso of our own interests. and an EN-,
pire Of free territory in Oregon has been
surrendered; but the slavocratic valley
Of the Mississippi was bought at the TX
pense OF a comm } treasury, and slave.
cratic Texas seized by fllibus,cring and
war-California, Utah and New Mexico
we're won by the common blood and
treasure, clearly for the extension slave
ry-but thanks to the patriotic counsels
of a TAYLOR and the fidelity of Fremont,
California. crowss the column of Free.
dom, and New Mexico and Utah arc
still within the bounds of hop While
the slave power-with tho completely oil
of its Northern allics-a Gushing q
Pierce. o Douglas a Blchanan-- Offer
millions Of the common treasure fol-
slaveholding Caja, and a terrible wal
with the great powers Of Europe as the
ultimate alternative and while war is
threa'enrd even against the weak sister
Republics Of South America, for the fur
Their extension of slavery to the bound
airy of Slavocratic Brazil - Freedom i.
rulilessly crushed in Kansas. by the
Government and Army which were
bound to defend it. We denouuce thi:
sectionalism of Slavery,
Tie Constitution ITSELF has been
stricken Mr0ugh anil MrOugh- a sac
rifco to the Oligarchy: by open viola
tiop of the privileges of the Senate and
tue freedom Of debate BY denials of the
right of petition ; by violations of Tho
right to the writ of ha5eas corpus aud
trial by jury b. tests of Office, and ar
rests for constructive treason, unknown
to the Constitution and the laws; by
suppressing freedom of speech and of the
press by denials of the common and
constitutional rights of citizenship b.
searches and seizures without warrant
by infringements upon the right to keel
and bear arms by deprivals of life, lib
city and property without dne process o
law and finally by denying the power o
self government to the people Of Kansas
and suppressing the sacred right of sui
frage at the point Of the bowie knife AM
the bayonet. We denouuce these grea.
outrages upon the Constitution, and viii
ILL, Co.. ;ta 1of,noo