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

tue courage necessary for fair combat. and hi
crows the loudest when furihest from his enc.
/ my Inc men OF the resolution arc dead. tbei,
inferior children Of 1879 are in their dotaoe
''e present generation, raised on hot cakes and
sweet hhlns, and stimulated with tobacco iuice
IS all talk and no cider, as destitute Of The STA.
nina on which courage is founded as its ninth.
ers are Of flesh. Look at the women charm.
ing at sixteen, faded at twenty, iooihless at
twenty-five, hideous at thirty, dividing their
time between their rocking chairs and lheil
beds, incapable Of cxerion, incompetent TO ex.
ercise, ever-ailing, listless, lazy, straight up
and down like az old fashioned cloihes-pin,
making up the deficiency Of their DEVELOPMENTS
with whalebone, cotton and bran are these the
things To sucke heroes The race has deter.
loraied, and is dwindling away, and, but for
the Introduction Of new aud healthy blood from
immigration, would disappear in century.
The moral deficiencies Of the people are
equal 10 the physical; the boys slang each 9th
or but never fight; the men assassinaie bu,
never come 10 blows; they talk terrible things
IN public meetings, and confine their terrible
dolngs 10 concealed shot or a sudden stab at
an unPrePared enemy. Ministers Of the Cos.
pei advise bluodshed and take up subscription
for iihes; (; everything necessary for comba.
Is sent TO the scene Of contention but pluck ;
the men are whiIe-liyered, and afraid Of each
other and If one party advances, the other
runs away; houses are plundered and burnt,
and unarmed people buichered; il the assault
ed pick up courage and advance again the as
sailants run IN their iurn, and like scenes fol-
low their footsteps. Indignation meetings are
held in all the cities Of the states, money is
subscribed for arms and ammunition, for food
and clothing patriotic oraiions thunder from
the rosirum, and incendiary defamation from
the pulPi,' the North is about to vindcate its
liberties, the East to fly to the assistance of its
children; outraged liberty is ls be appeased
with the blood OF the marsuders, the freedom
Of the soil Of Kansas to be relieved from the
opprobrious desp0tism Of its invaders. Now
surely there will he fighting. No, gentlemen,
not bi, Of it; it is still all talk, very tall and
superlaiive talk. but still, r0r ei prefered nihH
We do not think there is much occasion to
be afraid Of them, wh. lher there be war or
peace. contest in which there are more
hard knocks to be got Than plunder, is exactly
the one in which our degenerate cousins have
the least desire 10 engage. Let them hold
Kansas meetings and Sumner meetings, and
Champion indignation meetings. il they please !;
talk is their peculiar vocation, natioual insii.
tuition, and ore Of the most innocent With
population which, eager and ready to invade
the rights and property of others, is wiihou, the
courage to protect its own; with army made
up Of the congreea,ed scoundrcls of all nations,
and fleet manned feebly as il is, with such a
set Of riG-rlf, that while the one-half of the
crews are in irons, guard-boats while in harbor
have TO watch day and night 10 prevent the de-
seriion OF others, and the service 80 unpopular
that a single steamer has taken months after !,
was commissioned to obtain erew-ihere is
no more TO be dreaded from war-vaporing, or
the reality Of il from the United States, than
from similar gasconade, or actual action on the
part Of his serene majesty the emperor Of Tim
bueioo.