Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-10-16

ortumn was so beautifully extended to !
tbsoppressed and exhausted people of
Kansas, by the charitable and liberty
living citizens of the North, had been /
amply sufficient to satisfy the immediate
wants of the poor of that Territory, and /
thst there was therefore no occasion for
the food and clothing provided for by
said act. Though no portion of the
money thus appropriated has been ex-
pended, l am still proud of this act of
benevOlence on the part of the Repre-
sentatives of the people Of Vermont, and
shall always remember with grateful
exultation that they have placed thus
publicly upon our Statute Book the evid-
ence of their sympathy for the oppres-
sed and destitute victims of the aggres-
sive spirit of Slavery.
Nothing has occurred during the past
year to diminish the indignation and
alarm, which the great majority of the
people of Vermont have felt at the rapid
increase of the Slave power and the ex-
travagant nature of its demands. On
the contrary, by the recent decision of
The Supreme Court of the United States,
in the case of bred Scott, if the opinions
Of the majority Of the judges as express
ssi BY them are to be received as law.
hereis little hope left that the spread of
Slavery will ever be stopped under our
--ssent form of government.
By that decision Slavery is no longer
@si0nal it is made national, and declar-
aUbe recognized by the Federal Con-
sa-,-lon. The Constitution is said by
Hwa force to carry Slavery into every
Ivory of the country, and any act of
Gagress or Territory, prohibiting pro-
7:ay in slaves, Is pronounced unconsti-
gronal and void. This decision con-
ricts with the legislation of Congress
tram the foundation of the government
down to the year 1854, when the fruit
iul source of all our woes, the Kansas
and Nebraska Bill, by northern treache-
" and the insatiate demands of the
South for an enlarged Slave market, and
an increased political power. was sprung
upon our unsuspecting people. It de-
clares unconstitutional the numerous or
ganic acts of Congress, establishing the
territorial governments Of the North
West Territory, of the Territories of In
diana, illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Oregon, the Compromise of
1920 and the act for the admission of
Texas. 1t contradicts the opinions of
cur most eminent statesmen and jurists.
expressed for long series of years, both
in Congress and from the bench Of the
Supreme Court, by Clay, b. Marshall,
and all the leading men of the country
both from the North and the South. with
the single exception of Mr. Calhoun,
deemed in his life time, even by his fellow
shareholders, as extreme and fanatical in
hls support of Slavery. In that portion
Q: the decision touching the citizenship
Of the African race, it Perverts and mis-
represents the plain and obvious truths
OF history. Under the ruling Of the
majority Of the Court, the acquisition Of
new territory Will result in the certain
extension OF Slavery. Not even the
people Of the Territories themselves are
allowed 10 excluded Slavery fom theil
midst they are doomed to its whitening
curse, and notwithstanding the sounding
promise in the Kansas and Nebraska
Bill, that they should be left perfectly
Zee 10 form and regulate their domestic
Institutions in their own way, they can
-oi, while in the Territorial condition
shake it of. The great improbability
that, when Slavery has once planted it
loot upon a Territory, it will ever b
abolished, is proved by the impotent eff
forts Of the best citizens of the olde
Slave States, to rid themselves Of tn
system Of Slavery, which is degradin
and running them.
Il The logical results Of this decision ar
alarming in the extreme, and may we
arouse the Free States from their daI
& gerous apathy. Il, as declared by th
majority of the Court, the Constitute
guarantees property in Slaves, and pro
81 hibits any law interfering with the rigt
q the master TO his slave, ii Is fair il
Il ference, if not a necessary conclusion
that the STAKEHOLDER may, for perposes
Pleasure or profit, take his slaves wit
f lin in his journeys through the Ere
States, and hold them there, notwithstar
4 ung the prohibitation Of slavery by the
& avs But fortunately, most of the al
Z 1orent doctrines enunciated by the M
1 .orIty Of the Judges were unnecessary
Inc determination of the case befol