Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-05-29


habit of mower combination OF energies lound
only in a hundred arms directed by hundred
eyes; control Of public opinion, through venai
rens and prostituted press an ability to sub
sidse crowds in every vocation OF lie-the Pcii-
tician with his local Importance, the lawyer Win
bis subtle tongue and even the authority u 'ne
Judge on the bench and familiar use Oh men
in places high and low, SO that none IRON inc
President to the lowest border postmaster shouiu
decline to be its tool; all these things ana more
were needed and they were found In the oilVe
Power of our republic. There, sir, stands the
criminul-.l unmasked before you-heartieSs'
graspng, and tyranncal-with an audacity DC
yond that OF Verres, subtlety beyond that OF
Machiayel meanness beyond that OF Bacon,
and an ability beyond that Of Hastings. JUS
tico to Kansas can b. secured only by the pros
tration of this influence; for this is the power
behind-greltcr than the President-whlch sue
cors and sustains the crime. Nay. the proceed
nss now arraign derive their fearful conse-
quence only from this connection.
In now opening this great matter, am not
insensible to the austere demands of the occa-
SION but the dependence of the crime against
Kansas upon the Slave Power is so peculiar and
important, that trust to be pardoned while
impress it by an illustration, which to some may
seem trivial. 1t is related in Northern mythol
ogy, that the god Of Force, visiting an enchant-
ed region, was challenged by his royal entertain
CIR to what seemed feeble feat OF strength,
merely, sir, to lift cat from the ground. The
god smiled at the challenge, but calmly placing
his hand under the belly of the ANNUAL, with
superhuman strength, strove. while the back OF
the feline monster arched far upwards even be
yond reach, and one paw actually forsook the
earth, until at last the discomitted divinity de-
sisted but he was little surprised at his defeat,
when he learned that this creature, which SEEM
ell to be cat and nothing more, was not mere
ly cat, but that it belonged to and was part
of the great Terrestrial Serpent which. in its
innumerable folds, enclrcled the whole globe
Even 80 the creature whose paws are now las
tened upon Kansas, whatever it may seem to be,
constitutes in reality part Of the Slave Power,
which, with loathsome folds. is now coiled about
| the whole land. Thus do expose the extent
of the present contest, where we encounter not
merely local resistance, but also the unconqucr
ed, sustaining arm behind. But out of the
vastness OF the crime attempted, with all its
woe and shame, derive well founded assur
ance of q commensurate yastness of effort against
it, by the aroused masses of the country. deter
mined, not only to vindicate right against wrong
but to redeem the public from the thraldom Of
that oligarchy which prompts, directs and con
centrates the distant wrong
Such is the crime, and such is the criminal,
which it is my duty in this debate to expose,
and, by the blessing of God. this duty shall be
done completely to the end. But this will not
be enough. The apologies, which, with strange
hardihood. have been offered for the crime, mus
be brushed away, SO that it shall stand forth,
without Il single rag, or fg-leaf. to cover its
vilenrss. And, finally, the true remedy must
be shown. The subject is complex in its rela-
TINS, rs it is transcendcnt in Importance and
yet, if am honored by your attention, hope
to exhibit it clearly in all its parts, while con-
duct you to the inevitable conclusion, that Kan
sas must be admitted at oncc with her present
II new star to the blue field of our national flag.
And hereI derive satisfaction from the thought
that the cause is 50 strong in itself Us to boar
even the infrmitics of its advocates; nor can it
require anything beyond that simplicity of treat.
ment and moderation Of manner which desire
to cultivate. Its true character is suci, that
like Hercules, it will conquer just SO soon us it
is recognised
| IIy Idoh " III w ulNlucu utluGT tnTcG ulucTCnl
hcads-trst, TIE CRIME AGAINST KANSAS, in its
origin and extent secondly. THE APOLOGIES FOR
THE CRIME and thirdly, THE TRUE REMEDY.
But before entering upon the argument,
must say something of IL general character, par
ticularly in response to what has fallen from sen
ators who have raised themselves to eminenct
N this floor in championship of human wrongs
mean the senator from South Carolina, (Mr
| nutlor md tbn H.
Dougas.) who, though unlike as Don Quixott
and Sancho Pauzl, yet, like tits couple, sally
forth together in the same cause. The senator
from South Carolina has read many books o.
chivalry, and believes himself chvalrou
knight, with sentiments of honor and courage
OF course he has chosen mistress to whom liz
has made his vows, and who, though ugly t.
Others, is always lovely to him; though polluted
in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sigh
i mean the harlot, Slavery. For her hi
tongue ii always profuse in words. Let her b.
impeached in character, or any proposition mad
to shut her out from the extension of her wan
tonness and ITO extravaganza Of manner o
hardwood of assertion is then too great for thi
senator.
The frenzy of Don Quixoto, in behalf of hi
wretch, Dulcinea del Toboso, is all surpassed
The asserted rights of Slavery, whieh shocl
equality of all kinds, arc cloaked by fantasti
claim of equality If the slave States canno
enjoy what, in mockery Of the great fathers q
the republic, he misnames equality under til
Constitution--in other words, the full power i
the national territories to compel fellow men t
unpaid toll, to separate husband and wife, an
to sell little children at the auction bluck-then
sir, the chivalric senator will conduct the Stat
OF South Carolina out Of the Union neroi
Knight! Exalted senator! a sec'nd Nose
come for a second Exodus. ..
But not content with this poor menace, whic
we have been twice told was measured" III
senator, in the unrestraned chivalry of his nj
ture, has undertaken to apply opprohious word
to those who differ from him on this floor. II
calls them " sectional and fanatical;" and o.
position to the usurpation in Kansas, he denouI
. ces as "an undertaking flnatcisn." To
sure, these charges lack all grace Of origiulit,
and all sentiment of truth; hut the adventuror
senator does not hesitate. He is the uncompr,
missing, unblushing representative on this hot
of higrant seciionahsm, which now dominee
over the republic, and yet with ludcrous i;
norance of his own position--unable to see hin
self as others see him-or with an efrontel
which even his white head ought not to prote
from rebuke, he applies to those here who r,
sst sectionahsm the very epithct which desi;
mates himself.
The men who strive to bring back the govern
ment to its original policy, when Freedom an
not Slavery was national, while Slavery and nj
Freedom was sectional he arraigns rs sect,ona
This will not do Ii involves too great pc
version of terms. tell that senator that it
himself and to the organization " of whic
he is the " committed advocate that this ep
tl,ot belongs. now lastcn it upon them Fl
myself care little for names but since tn
question has been raised here, affirm that tn
Republican party Of the Union is in no jus
sense sectional, but m re than any other party
national and that il now goes forth to dislodg
from the high places of the government ti
tyranncal sectionalisn of which the senate