Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-08-09

+fAs ~ itAi+fN+-i' n N'AsfN lNfAiiF iAN Niil-
cinnati Gazette of Aug ., says ian immense
multitude assembled in Fifth street market space
from Main to Walnut, was vast sea of human
heads" The first speech was made by Rev.
Alison St. Clair, formerly of this State, but re-
Gently from Kansas. lie spoke Of the insecu-
rty of life in that territory, and repeated parts
Of a speech that he had heard from Aichison
out there, to an audience of Mssourians some
sober, and good many not sober. lie said -
81 must give yiu a specimen orihe language
of David II. Alchison of Missouri, formerly
Vice President of the Un ted States, otherwise
you can form no conception fit. Nearly every
sentence closed with the phrase by Cd. That
was fayorite oath with Alchison. lie was
telling wha, they were doing and mean; to do
in Kansas. lie said They'd go over into the
Territory, and they'd carry the election, by
Cd ! next they'd elect Legislature and
make laws for the Territory, they would enforce
them, by q ID next. that nov they had con
guered the id Abolitiouisis, and burned Law.
renee, and shut up its d-d seoundrels and put
them under arrest, they'd hang them, by Cd -"
OF Mr.. Burliugames speech, the Gazette
says "AIr. Burliagame spoke a little over an
hour and half, and vas listened to with the
deepest interest, and frequently interrupted By
bursts Of applause"
From the Ga1eite's sketch of his points we
take the following -
"lle thanked the audience for their lalierinr
reception, but said he knew well 1t was no per-
sonal triumph--no tribute to him as a man, but
a rush Of enthusiasm for that great cause and
those great principles which should survive
when all men are in the dust We have as
sembled here because the meanest tyranny that
ever trod on the necks Of men in all the ages
of the world has taken possession of the Gov
eminent, aud because you desire 10 bring back
the Government nearer to tha; purity and per
lection with which it came from the hand of
our fathers. lie then stated the origin of ne
gro slayery-of lis introduction here, and ofihe I
intentions Of the farmers Of our Government
with regard to it, Madison would not consent
to faint the Constitution with the the word
slave, through that accident by which It had /
a representation it became political power,
and fell into the hands of the fow-iuto those
Of IS, 900 voters.
The very same year the Pilgrims landed at
Plymouth the first slaves were imprisoned into
Virginia. and the two systems, freedom and
slavery, have travelled westward, extending
themselves ever since. He then contracted most
aloquently the progress Of freedom toward the
setting sun-of the intelligence and improve.
men, and enterprise that had followed in its
path, and of the desoadon and Indebtedness
len by slavery in its blackeniug conrse. Fisher
Anes had said that it seemed as if liberty was
always folio" ed by an assassin, and the assas-
sin her was slavery.
The North had furnished no little power to
sustain slavery. She had sent South. peddlars
IT clocks and peddlars of principles, She fur.
llshed The brain MARCY and Cushing) in the
present cabinet that was striking down the lives
md liberties Of our citizens in Kansas, but not
outstanding all the accessions the South is
continually receiving from the North, yet while
ne North is growing richer and richer, the
south Is growing poorer and poorer
The South is now as poor as a halfslarye
at--lhe fences of old Virginia are timblinr
own, her church steps were overgrown with
noss-her school-houses without windows or
hmneys, and her fields thrown open as tired
and grown over with the mullen and the thistle
They made no books--ihere were more books
published IN the old Fanuel Hall district (Mr.
, dlslrlc') than in all the South put together
ie'' notwithstanding the poverty Of the
south, MIR breckenridge clergyman one
Il those political clergymen who interfere in
ocular matters. Oh no (langhter) preaching ,
ct peace, but horrible bloody war had threat.
ned that the South would hurl upon the North
million Of men.
South Carolina, with all her boasting, had
OF neen able during the war (et alone whip
ing the British) to defend herself from her
wa Tories, and throughout the war in constant
'ar Of her slaves.
England in the last war, had been 10 shrewd ,
attack the Norlh-she sought the most yul-
cradle points in the country, she assailed the
md of the chivary-she went 10 the Capital of