Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-01-23
Political.


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serving M, caoilibrn5 of siror,b beeer s tbc .ee,ops
in Che senate and arming The South with power Of
a on ana % aSon oc..,r .s' 'Ss & Fa5ts Us
revert To- te original policy Of the government and for
every new free State TO demand an equivalent accession
and c tba mo- relonabe na9 ein oppose h and il
can harly hn 20 command the appreciation OF coHserya-
ts pe ~ ne ote ia IN ae & cent ly aoEs'sr " ,55 o t5e
concession Of ~ demands.
Now we do not wonder that the Richmond
print reckons with such positiveness on " the
approbation of conservative pcople in the
North ."-understandinp of course. that il
means the conservative men of its own stripe.
Tho doctrine will .. command their annroba-
finn doubtloss and tbev will lint he too
bo,n, to render another nroof of tbeir obo-
dience IL tbere vero onv oueetion abont II.
| il would he set at rost NJ once nv that intima-
ton that the South has the power 20 compel
the concession of its demands" That means
that the Soutb will dissolve the Union unless
its will is indulgod and nj sucb words the
Union-savors are upon their knees at once
This has been weU tried. The Richmond
Enquirer understands it. and so do We There
is no disnpto an tbot score
But there is another class of conservative
men bor, in tbc North Who do not wear tbe
| Richmond strino and Who we forwarn the
| EpoUicer. will he very Ekclv to meet its
! scbencs with =. G,ctitions resistance. They
aro tbo truo conservative norton of the North
/ tho neonlo who bavo already testified at the
nolls tnoir dotorrnipotior IN rcsist tho innova-
/ fops and o,,,,roes;o,s of tbo slave ro,yer
| Tbov recoenise no such nr;ncinle az the In
! o,,ir,, contends for and thcv viii not tolerate
! IT, anrl;catior Orr co,ton,,ora,,,'s tbroot
whom oddrcssod to tbom il as tho idlest wind
! W. arc f,r ,rD,,i,t,;,;n,, o,,5or, corstitrtiopa1
! onorortv in its corn1o,ast ;nto.,ritv In 6del-
| ~ m bat dutv ,vo viii ,,;old 70 mono Rpt
/ os is onr dotcr,oinotion 10 unbold the present
,,,orontios Of tbo Consultation so Is our de-
| Termination to resist the foisting Of new fea-
lures upon that instrument We are for the
Constitution MS If il and arc for No amend
ment of IL either actual or virtual II is 70
ms an all-suficient or,anic law of tbe Feder-
al Union To snnerinduce nnon il a reo,,lo-
tion whereby no Froc Stoto hall be admitted
without a new slave State 10 balance il is an
assumntion eos;er claimed tban secnrod and
! the Eao,,irer will nrobabIv find il 50 in spite
of its very interosting SUGGESTION that .. the
/ south has tbc newer IN comnol the concession
of lis demands"
There has been tberc Is and tbore will cor-
tD,,o 10 ho , d;sno,;tr bo+,,,oor, +Lo ,,,,,,l,-
ton of tho North and tbo south Tbis dis
naritv we believo il n necessary unavoidable
/ rcsult of tho difference botveen tho social
systems of tho two soctiors In snito of tlo
sunerioritv of the south in climate and di,,or~
| sitv of production and notUitbstonding TOO
I that the present area of the slave states Is
twice rs iarpe AS that of tho Freo the disnar-
itv will not only continue. hut it will grow
larger and lar0er. Tho rate of incroaso is
nearly one third more ranid in the Free states
than in the slave and tbero ia evorv rooson
to believe that nv the time tho ontire country
reaches population of fiftv million. the for.
mer will contain four times ne many white
men as the latter. II is nreposterous 70 he
lieve that the South con snstain an EQUALITY
in the senate under such vast disnronortion
of voting population. If is hard enougb 70
bear even in the nresent condition of the eoun-
trv. AT the late Presidential Election. the
Free States cast 9.g33 750 votes. while the
Slave States cast only / .137 793 votes-noar-
ly two and half 70 ono. The State of New
York alone cast more than half as many votes
as all the Slave States combined. Yet we
have lint two Senators while tbe 6ftoen Slave
States have thirty On the face of II II il n