Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-05-30
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BRATTLEBORO. VT.
SATURDAY, MAY 80, 1867.
Democracy" in a New Scene.

been tnrOupUOuI MI inc tTOuDtS III hunSus, Oniy
anxious to make 1t a Free State. They are now
''shrieking for freedom in u manner to put all
former shriekers to blush. Their present anguish
is caused by the discovery of plot by which the
Freesoilcrs aud Aboliionists have determined, af-
ter ALL to fasten slavery on Kansas, and thus de-
feat all the well laid plans of its democratic bene
factors.
A newspaper in this county, with an inside lin
ing Of government advertising in expectancy, is
not slow to charge the Republicans with duplcity,
and with so acting in the affairs of Kansas as to
make it Slave State while they profess to desire
its freedom. This paper indeed goes so far as to
charge the Republicans with being DESTROYS OF fas
tcning Slavery upon this territory, while profess
ing sentiments of the most opposite character. In
proof of this charge this democratic authority cites
the refusal of the Free State to vote under the
bogus laws and bogus Legislation Of Kansas. The
argus also asserts that if the Free State men will
only vote they profess to believe, the territory
will be free The substance Of the crime charged
upon the Republicans is that they do not now step
in and prevent the national democrats of Kansas
from converting that slave territory into Slave
State. How astonishing it is that national democ-
racy does not put out the fire which its incendia.
RIGS have kindled and which it appears by the ag-
onizing protestatons of its own organs, they are
again blowing into consuming blaze.
"If they" the Free State men, "votc, we shall
certainly have a Free State" say these veracious
organs. All suppose. however, they do not vote,
who then will have made Kansas Slave State !.
viii it not have been the national democracy .
And why, gentlemen of the democratic press, call
upon the Republicans and the Free-solers, whom
you have covered with every cpithet Of reproach
and contempt from the moment your Nebraska
Kansas bill was introduced to this hour, to save
the country from the excuses of your own party in
Kansas Why not call upon your own agents ?
you have ATcHIsoY, STRINGFELLow, BuFoRD, LIZ
coMrTE and, perhaps, TIrus. You have trusted
to them for three years. You have first denied
then admitted and adopted their acts; why not call
upon them to make Kansas Free State If the
"frecdom shriekers'' will not vote, so much more
free the road 70: these pioneers Of popular sover-
eighty" Somuch easier of performance the CRATE
full labor which lies before them. We hope that in
q conjuncture favorable to the operations Of the
noble policy Of self. government, which formed the
basis ofthe Nebraska bill they will step forward with
alacrity and spoil the game of the abolitonists by
making Free State Constitution, and submitting
the same without reserve to NIL the bona fde set
tiers of the territory. Thus will some atonemen,
be made for the horrible crimes which democracy
has committed in Kansas in the name of its prin.
ciples, since by its own act the pence of thirty.
four years, enjoyed under the compact Of 1920, wa.
broken.
But let not the pia,tlers about democratic prn
after this has been done, the people at the pressn
time, the voice Of history in the future, will nc
quit their party of the atrocities which its agent
, have committed in their execution of its policy. |
$ is not true that, even though Kansas shall com
: into the Union a Free State, popular Sovcreignt
: will have operated just as the democratic part
have from the first predicted" The country per
y fectly well understands that the thing called b.
y political charlatans popular sovereignty" neve
had an existence in Kansas, never was intended I
- be APPLIED anywhere. But granting that the sover
. eighty of the people, or self-goyernment was in
:, corporated as principle into the Nebraska bill
=, ;. what has been its operation That bill is not
thing of yesterday. 1t was thrust upon the cour
~ try three years nnd-a-half ago-and three yeal
haze passed since it became law. The memory
those three years is not to be boed out by the
+, yenent generaties and the loud talking on rrel,
n. tive issues of political journalists. The results
ID popular sovereignty during those sorrowful da,
IN are indelibly branded upon the countrys recort
n and have sunk deep into the popular heart The
will be remembered period of civil convulsit
never equalled nor approached in our previous al
mails. Civil war reared its front, skirmishes On
murder suspended all peaceful industry, and de
olated the entire face of beautiful territory.
:" Towns were burned, all the enormities Of sava
y warfare practced. The jails were filled wi
political prisoners Arbitrary proclamatons of r
~ belon were issued. Courts were degraded to 4
~ level of mere partizan clubs, and the tyrannic
and long exploded doctrine of constructive treas
10 was preached from the bench by judges infuriat
with passion and swift to shed blood. Nearly
whole population was put under the ban Of OF
lawry, and the fairest province Of the Repub
IL. was surrendered to men whose crimes have ASST
cir Hated them to the character Of demons. This
he a strong but not an oyercharged picture of I
ic, field in which popular sovereignty has had an
If restricted operation of three years. 1t is aot
way in which men responsible for the experim,
;" predicted it would operate, though we fully belle
'y- that many voted for it under the conviction Il
ent such results would flow from it. and resolved
'or justify them if they did. And they have ustif
them.
'ho We know it would be pleasant for democracy
forget the past but when we are asked to ackno'
edge the beneficial results of the abominable pi
q, Of treachery embraced in the violation of the NJ
" souri, Compromise, we think it right that the tr,
=" Of history should DO indicated, and the false
mocracy of these later days put to the blush, Il
i"e can blush.
the Supar.