Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-12-05
Touching certain resolutions sent
from New Hampshire, he says
The Acts of the Inst Session


Of the public acts, passed by the General AS
sembly at their last session, as are designated
by the Secretary of State, for that pur-
pose 1t will be noticed that after so
long trial, there is enacted a law
for establishing board of Education
The board consists of five members, the
Governor and Lieutenant Governor who
are ca oHcio members, and three others
appointed by the Governor and Senate.
The present board consists of Governor Flet-
cher, Lieut.. Gov. Slade, President Pease of
the University Of Vermont, Hon. j, D. Brad
ley of Brattlcboro, ind Hon. Thos. Powers of
Woodstock The board is good one. If
they can find the right man for Secretary, and
the people of the State will be content to
exercise reasonable degree of patience, and
not have the law repealed before it can have
fair trial, we believe great good to the
cause Of education will grow out of it. The
work, however, has to be begun from the
bottom, and gradually worked up to what it
ought to be. Not much more than begin
ming can be made in the first year. The
money expended in this cause could not be
better used
GEMS OF DEMocRACY.-Thc following is
recent contribution of the Richmond En-
quirer to the great Democratic cause of
Slavery Extension. The article is divided
under appropriate heads, in order that each
particular gem of Buchanan Democracy with
which it sparkles, may have its own peculiar
setting
From the Richmond Enquirer, Nov. 10.
Ndrcry the strongest bOnd of TniOn.- ALL
danger of dissolution of the Union is over.
Slavery will hereafter be, as it always should
have been, the strongest bond and cement of
Union. Slavery makes North and South mu-
tually dependent ; makes the one a market
for the produce of the other.
Without .Sarery ,ce should all unk d6un
together.-ln its absence, trade, intercourse
and commerce between the two sections would
cease, because tho pursuits and products of
each would be the same. In such event they
would become rivals and competitors, and in
lurc, instead of benefitting each other. Each
section would be poor and half civilized, for
it is slave products that create the wealth.
the trade and manufactures, and supply halt
the necessaries and luxuries Of the North and
South. We should all sink down together
to what Mexico and South America have be-
come. The old Spaniards who settled those
countries were, in all respects, the equals of
any men, then in Christendom, and despite of
Spanish despotism, the present Cubans, who
retain negro slavery, are very refined and
civilized people.
Slauery giues character 10 cir,h. ahOn.-
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all the civilization, the habits, customs and
manners of Western Europe and Ameri-
ca Since the unsuccessful emancipation in
Jamaica, England sees and feels this. 1t be
gins to be seen and felt throughout our Union
but especially in the border States, whether
slayeholding or non-slaveholding. Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri
were almost abolition States, thirty years ago
Their zeal for slavery now rivals that of the
most Southern States.
So the inhabitants Of New Jersey, and the
Southern parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana and Illinois, are better affected towards
slavery than those farther North. Negro
slavery is becoming popular as it becomes
known. Able writers in the South have sud
denly sprung up, who will make it universal
ly known. On all hands it is admitted to be
a highly conservative political element in go
ciety. 1t restraints within the bounds of de
cency and morality, freedom of speech, free
dom of the press, and freedom Of religion and
makes these liberties blessings, instead of
curses
Sfarcry IS conservative and elcrdttHg 1t
exercises a conservative influence over the ac-
ton Of the Federal Government. nd thus
will preserve the Union and benefit equally
North and South. 1t eleyatcs the Ia6oring
class at the North, by leaving to them manu-
features, commerce, and the mechanic arts,
and at the same time supplies them with
half the comforts and luxuries Of life. The
capitalists of the North see in this lnstitu-
ton the best preventive Of that growing
spirit OF agrarianism, socialism, and com
munism, which threatens their property The
philosophy that sustalns slavery will sustain
their possessions the opposite philosophy,
that OF abolition, already boldly and loudly
proposes to sweep those possessions away,
Sdrry cheopsnS the comforts Of htc.-The
extension of negro slavery would cheaper the
comforts and necessarles Of hie and advance