Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-09-05

By order of the Committee,
I. +. BELLINGER, Chairman.
IRON the Sew York Courier & Enquirer
The Boston Post asseverates 1T il down.
right calumny and lying to assert that the
Democratic party have declared in favor of
extending Slavery into Free Territory" Has
the Post yet to learn that parties. like indi.
vidual men.are to be Judged by their actions,
not their words What sensible man care.
what the Democratic party has declared, or
tailed to declare, In reference to the matter
OF carrying Slavery into Kansas When
was a burglar, taken in fagrante d,l,cto, al
lowed to mock the Court by pleading that no
body ever heard him say a word in favor Of
burglary 1t j. enough that the burglar has
committed the act. And it is enough, in
this case VI Kansas, that the bogus Demo-
crdcy broke through the walls built by
Northern and Southern patriots to shut
Slavery out and that the whole party has
since been engaged on tside and inside in
helping Slavery to a complete possession Of
the Territory. There never was a conpleter
connection between principal aud &C
complice than has existed and still
exists between the border rufians Of West
ern Missouri, and the present Demo
cratic administration with its supporters in
Congress. If the %rufisns invaded the Terri
tory the bogus Democracy have stood behind
t. protect and aid them in every solitary act
they have committed. Not a robbery, or an
arson, or a murder has yet been perpetrated
upon a Free State man, which the Judges
and the prosecuting attorneys, kept in Office
by this Administration have not allowed to
pass without legal punishment. Clarke, the
Indian agent, murdered the Free State man
Brown, more than a year ago, and is yet in
office. Donaldson, the Federal Marshal,
marched upon the Free STATE town Of Law
renee with his burning and sdcking posse
co01i0tnS, and is yet in Office. Chief Justice
Lecomptc proclaimed upon the bench the very
doctrines Of constructive treason which con-
signed Jefreys to everlasting intamy, and put
them in practice against the Free State lead
ers, and is vet in office. Governor Reed
er refused to cooperate with the Sharery
propagandists, and was put out Of Office.
Colonel Sumner used his military
force to ~dispersc the Frce-Stdte Topeka legis-
%Iature. under express instructions Of the Ad-
Miuistratlon, given without u shadow Of con
s|tituuonal right. The bogus Pro-S'arery
? legislature was forced upon the t.S=
MODS from Missouri. in sl.t.
against the clearest will Of the eo~D
territory. as has been legally and most COM
4 c~Iusiveiy proved, and yet the administration
PERSISTS 70 this day in backing up, with its
Nt'4t tlEfliLlus lNN lllldllJu~ AOluH- Ol LItl
body. Whitfield was sent by the same vio-
lent sleans to be the Pro-Slauery delegate Of
the territory in Congress and the whole De-
mocratIc party in the House combined 70
keep him in lis seats. The Democratic Sem
ate has steadily refused to pass appropri-
atlons necessary TO the maintenance of the
army, unless the bill be free from all %restric-
ton against the use of the amy to enforce
the bogus laws, and carry out tho schemes
for making Kansas a Stare STATE. In the face
of all these facts, what avails the protesta-
tion of the Boston Post that - it is downright
calumny and lying 10 assert that the De-
mocratic party has dscidred IN favor of e1-
tending slavery into free territory Who
can be imposed upon for a moment by a dis
claimer SO ostentatious and yet so fimsy'
50 far as mere theory il concerned, it is
undoubtedly true that the Democracy do not
all belong to the same school Some are full
believers in the Calhoun doctrine of an ever
continued political equilibrium between the
Free and Slave States, by never adding to the
one without at the same time adding in like
manner TO the other. Caleb Gushing, Attor-
uey-General under the present Admlnistra-
ton, it will be recollected, earnestly defend
ed this doctrine at the dissertation of Henry
Ciay's birthday at the Slashes last April.
Some maintain that the Federal Constitution
Of its own force, in ESTABLISHING State equal
ity,' carries and secures Slavery on every
foot of American territory not within the
jurisdiction of sovereign States, and that
Congress cannot interfere with the operation
Of this, in any way whatever. Some, though
admitting that Congress has the abstract
right to legislate, are yet for delegating all
power overthc subject to the inhabitanto of each
territory. in conformity TO what they call the
sacred principle of sQuatter sovereignty. But
l. H.,
triues prOt-ssei, there is yet no disagreement
inthe practical end 70 he accomplished and the
substantial means to be employed. Border
%ruthans, the President and his Cabinet, the
. Democratic majority Of the Senate, the Dem
ocratic majority Of the House, and the Demo-
cratic presses all over the land are here OF
one mind and one policy. They never rebuks
or gaiusiy each other, hut speak and act
with a harmony that might well be coveted
by even the purest cause. Whatever makes
towards establishing Freedom in Kansas they
all oppose, whatever makes towards establish
in. slavery i'm Kansas they all uphold. No
army in the field ever went through a cam
plign with more definite unity OF purpose. or
under more complete discipline.
Il is altogether too late in the day for such
vrgtexts as that Of the BOSTON Post. The boz
gus Democracy has sown the wind, and
there ia no hclp torthem- they must reap the
whirlWind. They have linked themselves
body and soul To The false gods of Slavery
which our fathers knew not Of, and they
must perish IN the day Of trial when these
are impoteut to save. 1t was madness 70
imagine that this great Republic, framed by
uur latlers for such purposes as are set forth
IN .Ae preamble of the Constitution, could be
converted into an instrumentalitv for the
propagation and extension OF human bondage.
1t was ln'atuatIon to suppose that the free
men Of the North who recognize the dignity
of free labor, and make it a religious duty
to teach their children to recognise ana re-
we're IT, would quietly see 1t made an outcast
from Its bruadesJ, and fairest, and most sol
EMMY assured domain, and wretched stolld,
degraded. black servitude pushed INTO Its
place. 1 people who have once realized the
ends. and tasted the blessings OF free govern
ment, do not SO quickly change. Party
leaders NAV. for purposes OF their own, give
themselves IN to such obliquity, and the ma
turtl tendencies of the mass OF any party TO
follow its leaders may do much towards per-
vertinr a people from Just principles and the
rigLt plth, but are utterly inadequate TO
rr,ducs any such reversal Of character and
conduct as would be involved in such a
change as that labored for by this modern
S!ave-driving Democracy. The truth of this
will soon be exhibited in a way which the
blindest of them cannot mistake.
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