Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-05-30
Rev. Thendorn Parker,a I.nnlnfa.


idea of Slavery. The two are antagonstic,
they arc fire and water to each other; one or
the other must prevail both cannot exist
together. The two nations are the North
and South. The north contains fifteen mil
lions OF ireemen three fourths Of the pro-
perty, five sixths of the education and seven
eighths of the morality of the Union. There
is nowhere on the globe, people of fifteen
millions so honest, educated, moral, religious
and well of. The south has ten millions
one and half millions of Shareholders and
their families three and a half millions of
slaves, who own no property, not even their
own bodies, who are uneducatcd for in
thirteen of the fifteen slave States a man goes
to States Prison for teaching u slave the
three letters which compose the name Of the
God OF Heaven and Earth-and the rest are
mean wh'tes, Shareholders iunkics, but little
higher in the scale of being than the slaves
No where on earth can you divide of
civilized people of ten millions 50 ignorant
as this nat on of the south. The north diff
fuses property and education. The south
conSolidates property-the Shareholders are
rich, though the States are oor,-and cdu-
Gates only the rich. The north cherishes un.
bounded freedom of speech, the south does
not Ike freedom of speech. The south raises
the great articles Of export-and through
them controls the money markets and com
mercial centres. Property and, through pro-
perty' slavery controls the pulpits of the land
with noble exceptions. In short the parcd
part OF the country is pro-slayery that, not
paved, thank God, is free soil. Slavery also
controls the politics of the nation. OF onr
Heelrc Presidents, eigM have been south
erners and four from the north of which
four the one born farthest north has crawlcd
the iarthest south in abject subseryicncc to
the slaye power. Five southern President.
have been reelected No northern president
has had reelection. The vice presidency
is the 9th wheel to cannon, Of no use save
in certain contingencies. So the north have
had ogh vice Presidents to five southern
ones. But one Of these, Fillmore. came into
service, and he turned the Federal cannon
against the north. For that he is now re.
nominated. The south controls the Iuiiciayy.
Of the thirty five Judges Of the supreme
Court n'Hefecn have been from the south.
The Chief Justice is almost always a slave
holder. Not since 1876 has there been
northern Chief Justice. or the twenty three
Attorney Generals, fifteen have been south
erners, eight northern men, sometimes select
ed like Caleb Gushing for entire devotion to
slavery. or the 2l7 diplomatic representa-.
tivcs OF the [. 5. abroad, IL are from the
south, 80 from the north, Of whom not one
has ever said a word against slavery, or who
could say 4 word now, without being recalled
forthwith.
Between these two principles there has
been a constant series Of striles, and slavery
has always come off the victor In l77G
there was but little fringe of slave terrific
ry, two or three hundred miles wide, ON tn,
Atlantic Coast. Now there are no free
States; the States are divided INTO the slave
holding and the slave surrcnIcring States.
There is not spot where a slave, though he
has committed no crime, cannot by law be kid
mapped back to bondage. Mr.. Parker com
pllmentcd Vermont as the Banner State Of
Freedom ; but seemed to think her hoas.
that no slave had ever been rendered back
from her soil dn" ~ "r"I, .I,a Geo. .I..e,
Vermont has no commercial centres rs to
the virtue Of the people,. Since 1853 the
north has gained no victory till last winter
The south Is aggressive. 1t has three ends
IN view LIST to put slavery into all the Free
States 81 to establish slavery in all the ter
rltorics 81 to restore the African slave trade
1t is gradually attaining these ends. From
the decisions Of Judge Kane at Philadclphia
and Judge Leavitt in the Cincinnati case.
it follows that ten thousand Shareholders
may take each thousand slaves through
Pennsylvania and be II hundred years in do
ing it,-and that any slave owner may bring
a slave to II free State, make him commit
any crime and the State has no right to in
tcrlere; i. it does, the [. s. government
must sustain the owner, Let these decisions
be carried out and slavery is established
throughout the free States
SO, slavery now is grasping the territories.
THE story Of Kansas, as told by Mr. Parker,
we must omit The south gains its ends by
means Of traitors, in which the north is rich.
The slave holder lives at the south, the slave
hunter lives also at the south and migratcs
north in the exercise of his calhng-the slave
hunter S dor lives at the north, and there
are plenty of them. Stephen Douglas Arnold
OF VT, rivals in inlamy Benedict Arnold Of
Connecticut.
The Lecturer proceeded to consider the #
fectof the introduction of Slavery into the terri
tories. If introduced, Kansas will not fill M
rapidly. 1t will be a poor state, for slavery
keeps the land poor. Compare the lands in
different States, at the government valuation
Maine produces only timber, granite and ice
her rugged soil is worth Sl2j0 an acre.
while North Carolina land is worth S3.43.
New Hampshire is worth SIC, 80 an acre
South Carolina $3.50; Georgia - 90 -
Kentucky and Ohio are side by side. Ken
lucky has the advantage in climate, soil and
natural gifts Kentucky land is rated at
5000. Ohio at SO If Kansas becomes
slave State, white labor will not be respect
ed, there will be no variety of industry, 10
manufactures, no good roads, no free com
mon schools, no abundant newspapers, no
Lyceums and lectures; but instead, the amuse-
ments of the people will be horse races, bear
fights or gatherings to tar and feather an
abolitionist,or to burn anegro at the stake. as
four have been burned at the south since the
LIST of January last. There will be no album
dant meeting houses, no Universal suffrage.
Property will be unsafe The person will be
unsafe. There will be two more slave Sen
ators; Nebraska will be slave Utah the
same. Texas will be cut up into slave States.
California will be divided and a slave State
made of the southern half Nic,r,,,,, ,,.;u