Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-03-21

the polls, constitute no case in which
the President should interfere for
their protection Z And yet, when
there was a slave to be returned,
the President Of the United States
would not trust to the ordinary
modes Of communication, but tele'
graphed to his officials that the
Treasury was wide open for them.
Put your arms in up to the elbow
help yourselves the Federal Trea-
sury is at your service They did
it pretty literally, too, and ] believe
they were not satisfied until they
had taken something over $50, 600
of the funds of the Federal Treasu-
ry to send back one negro Al
though the President may thus in
terfere, and although the Federal
Treasury may be put at the mercy
of the officials of this Government
in the city Of Boston, yet when the
peaceable inhabitants of a Territory
are invaded and conquered, and the
ballot-box made to give way to the
cartridge-box, without anything be-
ing done by him to prevent it, we are
told that the President has done all
his duty, and is entitled to the COM
mendation of the country and his
friends here come forward 1t seems
to me with some temerity, to say the
least-and challenge the approba-
ton of the Senate and of the coun-
try.
What followed the result Of the
invasion of Kansas-this going over
of Missourians, as admitted and as
shown A law was passed and !
will read you that law, although it
has been already read twice
fnny poison, print, write, Introduce into, pub
lsh circulate, or cause 10 be brought INTO printed,
written, published, otcifcua'ed or shall Knowingly Md
assist to bringing into, printing publishing OF oiicu-
latng within The Territory, any paper pamphlet fnag
zinc handbUl circular, containing any statements, ar
gumsnts opinon, sentiment, doctne, advice iuuan
DO calculated 20 produce dsofdotly, dangerous,
beious dsaleoou among the slaves Of the Iefrtoty
to induce such slaves escape from the service of
their masters, or TO resist their authority shall he guilty
II felony, and be punished by mpfsunmenti al herd
labor for term not less than five years.
but as much longer as the judge
sees fit The honorable Senator
from Tennessee, Mr., JoNEs, in
commenting upon this law, finds a
little fault with il. He thinks it is
not quite severe enough, but he
says it ought to have been a penalty
of death, and that every one offend
ing against its provisions ought to
be hung on very high gollows-
on which Hannah was hung. But,
let us suppose the law to remain as
it is and let us suppose that a court
was organized in the Territory of
Kansas for the trial of offenders a
galnst this law: what would be
done with a man who was found
with a document in his pocket,
reading in this way
" The Southern people have NO RIGHr-natu-ul.
moral or potea-to enforce slavery upon the tor
ritoes They have no more right to 20 hete All hold
slaves, than they have To do 80 in New lamp. hfo.-
TUE SHAREHOLDERS HAVE NO MORE RIGHT
TO PLANT SLAVERY IN FREE TERRITORY,
THAN WE HAVE TO ABOLISH SLAVERY IN
SOUTH CAROLINA"
DO you not think that would a
mount to an inuendo," to say the
least of it Who is the author of
that sentiment 7 The editor Of the
Neto Hampshire Patriot 1t is not
one of his post norton remains, but
was publ he'd as late as the 2Sth of
December, 1913. That is the dec
laratlon of the Neao Hampshire
Patriot; and l suppose all of us
know the relation which that paper
sustains to the present Executive of
the United States. If any Senator
does not, he may find that one of
his first official acts, after he was
elected President, was to present to
this editor a gold-headed cane, in
token Of the very high estimation in
which he held him, and the manner
in which he had discharged his du-
ties Do you not think a man
ought TO take five years for that
Would it not come up TO an inuen-
do, or advice, or opinion Z" That
was in lS4S. Now let me go back
one year. Suppose a man should
be tried under this law, and this
document were found in his poses
sion:
" Rssorsd, That we declare it OUR SOLEMN CON
YlCfloN, as the Democratic patty has heretof 2,
done, that neither sllrery HpoiHafory serritHds
'hoUd hereafter eris, Ia any tertiioty whieh mey b.
acqule cd by or annexed to tho United States and tia
approve Of the Of cation 10 Congress
favor ofthe Wilmo, Pfoviso."
What is that? One of the reso-
lutions passed at the Democratic
State Convention of New Hamp-
shire, in October, lS47. 1t must
have been a hard dose for them, for
was one Of those Senators whom
they were thanking for voting fol
the Wilmot Proviso. Who were
the committee that produced thi;
resolution | will read some Of
their names. Amongst the gentle
men who reported that resolution
was John S. Wells" the Presi-
dents captain general and standard
bearer, who is stumping the State OF
New Hampshire for the office OF
Governor to day. He has some
hopes Of being elected, but | think
more fears of being defeated, in a
bout two weeks.
Another member of the commit
lee that reported this resolution was
Joseph H. Smith, highly respec-
table gentleman Of my own village
The President has shown his appre.
citation of Doctor Smiths patriotism,
judgment and politics, by appointing
him 10 the hiphlu imnortant oa;ca