Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-07-16
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mon Territories and to be protected in all rights
hat other citizens of the Union may claim =
On the contrary, that portion of the Northern
people poisoned by British writer's, who blinily |
and stupidity, or knowingly and traitorously |
labor TO do the work Of European monarchsts,
reply that Southern society is wrong, INN raj
and an evil that must be got rid Of,
they proclaim their design to get
possession of The central government, in order
to VIE it for the accomplishment Of this object.
Here, then. is the issue made up between the
people of the South and that portion of the
North indoctrinaled with the lies of Adolf
tionism, taught them by the agents and tools
OF English monarchists. The former demands
the same chances for the development Of its pc
cuiar social system and the same protection for
the rights of Southern citizens in the common
Territories that is aimed by the people of the
North. The Republican or Ami Slavery par
ty not only refuses to admit these claims but
avows its design to seize the government and
WELD it, indirectly. at least. for the utter ruin
and destruction of Southern society-to pen up
its negro population within existing limits in
order to compel the abolition Of slavery, or
in other words, to force the white men and
white women of the South 10 equalize with
their own slaves "
Now, in view of this state of things, it is
perfectly evident that if the SOC called Republi-
can party should get into power, the South
would be compelled 10 dissolve its political
connections with the North for not only would
its self respect mpe it 10 do so, Int its safety,
the preservation Of the social order, of all that
is good or valuable in human society would be
imperilIed, if it submitted to the rule of an
anti Slavery party And with this possible
contingency before us, the question comes up,
what is the duty, and what the proper and safe
policy OF the Northern Democracy, or that por
ton of the Northern people unainted with the
hideous eprosy Of Abotionism
! There would seem to be but one way, one
single plain unmistakabe Path to follow
Disnnion. whatever it might be to the South,
would be destruction to Northern Democracy,
which, unless the whole history of the past is "a
lie, has only been able to sustain itself by its
alliance with the former. And therefore, look
ing alone to its own interest and without re-
gard to what are termed constitutional compro-
misses, its highest interests, its very safety de-
mands that it shall form unit--a perfect one
ness of reasoning us well as action with the
citizens of the South. On the contrary, if the
few patrv and mercenary Office seekers are to
rule the Demo cratic masses at the North. who
admit all tie dogmas of Abolitionsm as alb
stract truths. as they hitherto have done, with
the stupid and mean notion that the people
can stand the truth itsell.--if, we repeat this
base toadying to the vicst imposturc ever i'm
posed on human creduity is to continue any
longer. then the party will be defeated, for
it is thousand times better than defeat and
disaster, and suffering beyond expression should
overtakc masses OF men than they should live
liars, hyroorites and impostors, who believe
one thing and act another thing, exactly oppo.
site to the former
But the path Of honor is also in this case as
f in most Others. the path Of safety, and the de.
cison Of the Supreme Court is II trumpet call
to the faithful to close up their ranks for the
great contest in 1860 and we doubt not those
smart fellows, the timid and double deal
politicians, will sec, that even for them it is
safest to stand by the truth as it is boldly and
autboritavely laid down by the Chief Justice
the hravest, truest, and noblest man of the last
half Of the nineteenth century"
From another article in the same paper, we
take the following:
" The negro is a subordinate species of man,
and when in juAtapostion with the white man,
s must occupy, of course, "A subordinate social
position Thus in the States where this negro
element is mainly found, the laws, the egsll.
ton, the general rules and regulations which
-lgovern society provide for the wants of both
lrnccs-- for the subdrdination and protection oil
the negro as we'll as the wel-being of the
. whites. They do not create it; the A mighty
does that: He has made the negro subordinate
O to the white man just as He has made white
v men equal with each other; and the general
rules and regulations of Southern society sim
ply regulate these relations And when II cit
= izen of Virginia tales his negroes 10 Kansas, of
course, the local Legislature must provide for
the security of his property rights vested in
the persons OF these negroes, as positively and
as clearly so as it is their duty to protect other
rights of property, Of any other kind or char
acter.
The assumption that the people of Kansas
can exclude Slavery can trample on the
rights Of the Virgnian, or OF any one who is Il
citizen OF a State, is II palpahe absurdity, tor
it imp lies that the people OF Il Territory are
sovereign and independent, when it is clear that
they can have no right to infringe on the rights
of others. And il is equally clear that Congress
has no such power, for not only is the federal
government limited TO well defined boundaries,
but no government wha tever has right to in
fringe the individual rights OF IL single citizen
however obscure or humble.
Sum"ing up the foregoing remarks, thus
briefly and hastily presen ed, it will be seen that
there are two distinct propositions involved and
y which, once clearly apprehended by the popular
mind, will dispose of this disturbing Territorial
stion forever. LIST. The people of Terri
tory are sovereign within the boundaries of theil
own natural rights, and in regard to their owr
local affairs End. They must respect the
!, rights of others, Of all American citizens-the
rights Of property without regard to the form
+ presented, and, therefore, must provide for the
+ protection of g slave" property.
S In conclusion it is only necessary to say a
e word in reg I'd to the expedency of slavery >
e in Kansas When the repeal of the Missouri
T. restriction was under discussion, Senator Butler
10 said that he did not expect nor did he desire t,
e see " slavery in Kansas. lie hoped that il
i. would become neutral ground, and serve rs ;
kind of breakwater against northern tanaticism
This. in the present temper of the times, wa,
y as philosophical as appropriate to the occasion
II The negro should be in his normal position
n wherever he happens to be, but it is not onl,
wrong but unwise- in the extreme 10 fore
9 slavery into Kansas, or to take advantage o
j. techuicaities to thrust it upon the- nlajori ,
d there or anywhere else Absolute acquiescenct
n in the rule Of majority is the vital principle o
l. our system and it were better that the eartl
l. opened and swallowed it up than that Kansas
l. should become the means for violating thai
9 principle.
IT If "a convention should frame pro-slavery =
ii constitution and refuse to submit it forwards
to the people, the result, OF course, would be tC
y nnane the anti" slavery sentiment of tn,
= North and embarrass the friends of I" slavery ,
!; We say the friends OF slavery" meaning
ID thereby not the Democratic party, but thos,
y like the conductors Of this Journal, who no {
J. that negro subordnation or so-called slavery. i