Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-12-06

their character, aud il is 10 be hoped transient
in their inGuer c.
Perfect liberty Of association for political Oh.
jecls, aud the widest scope Of discussion, are
/ the received aud ordinary conditions Vt GOVERN.
mcni in our country. Our institutions, framed
in the spirit NJ confidence in the intelligence
and integrity of the people. do not forbid citi-
zens either individually or associated together,
to attack by writing, speech, OF any other meth.
DDS short Of physical force, the constitution and
the very existence Of the Union. Under the
shelter Of this great liberty and projected by
the laws and usages Of the government they
assail. associations have been formed in some
Of the states, Of individuals who, pretending
10 seek only tn prevent the spread Of the insll-
tuition Of siuvcry into the present or future in
choa,c STATES Of the Union, are really inlamcd
with desire to change the domestic institutions
Of existing states. To accomplish their OBJ
iects they dedicate themselves to the odinus
task Of dcprcciatne the government organza-
iion which stands in their way, aud OF calum-
lnisting with indiscriminato inycciye. not only
the citizens Of particular states, with whose
laws they fluid fault hut all others Of their fel-
low citizens throughout the country, who do
not participate with them in their assaults up-
on the constitution, framed and adopted hy our
fathers and claiming for the privileges /, has
secured, and the blessings il has conferred. the
steady suppori and grateful reverence Of thoif
children. They seek an object which they
well know to he revolutionary one. They
are perfectly aware that the change in the re-
aiive condition Of the white and black racrs in
tho savehulding states. which they would pro-
mote, is beyond their Law full authority. that to
them it is foreign object. that /, cannm he
effected by any peaceful inslrumentality of
theirs that for them and the uta,es Of which
hey are citizens, the oulv patb IN lis ,eco,,.
plishment is through burning cities. ,nd ra,,o-
ed frlds. aud slaughtered populativus. ard all
there is most terrible in foreign. cotnplic,ted
with civil and ser,ile war: and that the first
step il the attempt is The forcibIe DISRUPTION of
country embracing in its bru,d boson. de-
erco Of liberty, and an smoun, Of individual
and public prosperity, to which there is no par
allel in history, and substituting in its place
hostile governments, driven at once and newt
ably into mutual devastation and lralricidal car
mage, Transforming the now peaceful aud felici-
ious brotherhood in,n a vast permanent camp of
armed men like the rival nouarchies NJ Europe
and Asia. Well knowing that SUCH ami such
only, are the means aud consequences Of their
plans and purposes, they endeayor to prepare
The people Of the United States for civil war
by doing everything in their power TO deprive
the constitution and the laws Of moral auihori-
ly, and to undermine the fabric Of the Union by
appeals 10 the passion and sectional prejudice,
by matchmaking iis people with reciprocal ha-
tied, and by educating them 10 stand lace TO
ace as enemies, rather than shoulder to Shout
der as friends.
II is by The agency Of such unwausniable in
reference, foreign and domestic, that the minds
Of many otherwise good citizens, have been so
lnflamed into the passionate condemnation Of
the domestic institutions Of the southern states,
as at length to pass insensibly TO almos, equally
passionate hostility towards their fellow cil-
zens OF those states, and thus finally to fall in
to temporary fellowship with the avowed and