Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-14
The Approaching Calm.

opinions of some of our most distinguished
Craftsmen, VIC are now nearing great CALM
Van Buren,, and Hon. Thomas ii.
Benton, with his thirty years experience in the
Senate, both expressed the hope that, If Mr..
Buchanan should be elected to the Presidency,
we should have psee restored to our beloved
country and, ibsieve Mr.. Buchanan enter
tanned the same opinion, in relation to the
Slavery question, provided he could carry a
portion OF the North with him. Now what
desirable end Is,there man on the Ameri-
can Continent, black or white, bond or free,
who would not reoce to have permanent
peace restored to our borders. with rights re-
tanned and restored trust not. Let the ty-
rant relinquish his grasp, and we shall have
calm indeed
But are such anticipations, under existing
circumstances, worthy of the heads and hearts
OF these men, who have studied the science OF
human government all their days! Do they
really believe in the established, immutable
laws of God Have they any faith in the re-
lation Of cause and effect or have they made
the grand discovery that the final order OF
things is to be reversed to accommodate itself
to the usurpations and grasping ambition of
this model Republic! Unless they haze, their
hopes must DO as Elusive as the vagaries of a
mad man. Wkasa@ster and oil unite, when
men gather grail es'of thorns and figs of this
Ties" in the natural world, and when virtue
causes misery, and vice happiness in the moral,
then, perhaps may be led to believe that the
autagonistic principles of Freedom and Slavery
may be made to harmonic in the political
world. And | marvel that these statesmen
with the lights Of past History before their
eyes, and the developments of our own Repub
lie, should even dream of peace, while Freedom
and Slavery are graphing together for the mas
terry.
Let us not he deceived -" God is not mock
ed; whatsoever man sows, that shall he alsc
reap" and It is equally true of nations. If W.
COW the wind, we must expect to reap thu
whirlwind.
We have arrived at crisis when it is useless
to daub with untempered mortars we hav,
made Compromises Of fig leares to hide ou
nakedbcss, till we have become the jeer and con
tempt of the civilized world Crying peace
when there was no peace Painful realtie
have now fastened upon us, and it is folly ant
weakness to close our eyes against them TIL
brutal outrages committed by The iniamou
Brooks upon the person Of the accomplished
Sumner are the legitimate fruits of that system
of oppression, which the Boosting Democrac
of our country have pledged themselves 10 max
T final. And what is still more humiliating
this mans hands, all wreaking with the bloc
; of his victim, are stayed up by the State c
: South Carolina and to our everlasting shame
r we have Northern men, men too, who ca
themselves Democrats, who can speak of tn
! tragedy, and the outrages upon Freedom
: Kansas, with an indifference that would max
a stole blush
. Alas for this model Republic, when America
s citizens can allow, with Indifference, her deare
! rights to be wrcsted fom her and more tina
this. bless the hand that FORCES the chains
t Have we really arrived at that dreadful cal
e which must Immediately precede the ultima
: triumph Of Tysanyioycr Freedo@l May Gs
: in mercy prcserGe US from such calm, ar
bless us, if need be, with the plaques Of Egyp
until we " let the oppressed 90 free " But
am aware that Slavery has come to be u Writ
at the South. She has lived to verify the O
: aid adage Of the poet, that
"Vice is monster of such hdcous mcn,
= That to be hated, needs hut to be seen,
e But often seen, familiar with its face,
O We pity, endure, and then embrace"
= Formerly, statesmen at the South, lamentt
o the existence of Slavery, both us IL moral al
i political evil now it is the happiest relate
k that labor can sustain to capital and tt
i foundation Of all true repubicanism "
!, The Governor of South Carolina tells us
-! his Message that "there wasa time, VIII
S cantlng phianthropists had instllcd into US
;, belief that Slavery was wrong But he nc
Q tells US that " until Providence interposes al
y changes his organism the African must cont
r ne to be : Il newer of wood and drawer of W
is ter. " " 1t is diseased sentimcnlality," sa
z the Governor, which starts back at the i'd
e OF legalizing the Slave Trade, and at the Gal
time 1ot xritbnut tbo
Il serWtude, which capital exacts of labor all t
IL world over" What IL pity it is that God q
rs not give white laborers thick lips and fat nos
d so that Northern capitalists could take adva
7. tage OF their peculiar " organism, and conn
g them 10 labor without making any return
h But is capital necessarily exacting And
70 cause the cruel capitalist unjnstly robs pt
20 man Of bis dinner, shall the Southern Govern
it be justified in robbing him of his manhoo
W Sentimentality, indeed Purse-proud in
% lence will soon grow fat on such u diet, a
n speedily disgorge itself of that " canting p
III lanthropy," which teaches us ito do u
/. OTHERS as we would have Others do unto u.s.
The modest Governor of South Carolina
down such men as Washington, jefferson, T
A rick Henry and Monroe, as =" canting phil
as throssts.' Bat will not desecrate these Y
he cradle names by associating them with s,
lie contemplate, inhuman sentiments If
D. Buchanan Administration can restore pc
il with " the right" we shall rejoice at it, {
lie no pride of opinion or party prejudice, sho
er detract from its merit but if we are to h
j. peace at the expense of humanity's call, tt
n " Our voice is for war - B. R
10 The BuRDELL MURDER. The excitement
of ing the trial of Mrs. Cunningham for the IN