Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-08-20

gnated here, and many Others the South a.
dopted With the effects Of these we have
long striven The victory is ours We
should now suffer the clouds Of dust and er-
! ror to pass off, and then march boldly on.
We have achieved great moral power, and
, should use it. In locking back at the errors
built up by the South herself, it may be seen
that she has been thirty years engaged in
pulling down the work of our own hands
during the preceding thirty Our proper po-
} sition is to meet the issue we have raised
+ Slavery is no sin. Tho slave is in his normal
condition-the right man in the right place
This we have taught the world, and it is
great blessing. The notion of equality is
gross absurdity, everywhere contradctcd by
nature In nature, no two men are formed
alike-no two things are equal. God has
made IL so. IL was the poets idea Of harmo-
ny, the spherical yet the globes arc all ir-
regular This is the great moral battle the
South has fought and won France and Eng
land, after long and expensive reflection. per-
ceiye the rectitudc and justice Of our position.
Look at the condition of Exeter Hall, the
rendezvous of fanatics. that has governed
London in its mock philanthropy. that has
ruled Great Britain IN iti crude, speculative
philosophy hy--irom whence has issued all the
edcts of trouble 20 us. whence sprung the
I question Of the right of search Of American
ships in American waters and in the Gulf of
Mexico. This Exeter Hall was at its last
gasp, and had brought England to apologize
I TO rs. Mr. Hammond then instanccd the
change Of sentiment in England, and Mr..
Brights speech in the English House Of
Commons. Tho people Of Great Britain
were coming to their senses, and a great pow
er was launching against the ianatcism OF
/ Exeter Hall
He then spoke Of Great Britain and the
Coolie trade--of the French Louis Napoleon
and the African apprentice svstem-charac-
tsrizing both as the result of a correct con-
ception OF the proper sphere OF these laborers.
accompanied 10y a sckly shrinking from the
ayowal Of the name. Who ever heard of the
Coolie cr apprentice returning home after
years of seridom--who would expect to hear
/ u' lie next referred 90 the absurdity of Ii
IBERIA and It's colonization scheme II had TO
be supported by the United States, and it is
said there is tax imposed upon all those
who philanthropically send out negroes from
this country. We now learn that many Of
these sons Of Freedom are bought at Libc-
ria by Louis Napoleon at twenty dollars per
head. This caps the climax Of Exeter Hall
philanthropy.
And SO in the Northern States of the
Union, tho supporters Of this crusade Of abo-
liton will soon be reduced to a corporals
guard Of few old maids and fanatics Many
of these misguided people he respected for
their honesty, and for that alone There
we're many others, however in fact maiori-
ty, who were actuated not by sympathy for
the slave but TO have a hobby, which, IN
times Of political iudiscretion, would carry
them into Office. 1t was. therefore. ques-
tion of sectional power rather than fanati-
cism In the State of Now York, he knew
there were many good and true men. ready to
serve the South and the Union-men whose
word and honor could be relied on-while at
the South there were a great number whose
fidelity was only lip service. He knew
Northern men who had voted to sustain the
rights of the South, when they felt that by
doing. they consigned themselves to a has
ty political grave. These men gave MS
strength in the National Councils, and he de-
sired their fellowship. Distinctions were
drawn between National and State Rights
Democracy
"At this period, there was no issue before
the country or State, and he did not appreci-
ate their signifcancy. He would not have
South Carolina tied 80 the organization of
this party or any other party that did not act
with the party Of truth and right. He be-
lieved that if the good men Of the North Of
fcred aid, we should accept it, not cut our
selves off from their sympathy and support.
We of the South are on a mine, and should
be vgilant. But must have the true and .
good men of the North to sustain us. lie
would not bind South Carolina to any fac
ton, for better or worse. The South should +
be one. We should be united and observant
awake to our rights, and mindful how, on ,
the recent Kansas question, from out of our 4
own midst. We are used. We should be firm
and harmonious. All the opposition mea-
sures of which the South has complained in
the last thirty years, she herself naugurated.
Washington and Jefferson, in the matter of
Slavery, set the evil example The North
borrowed it from thom The Bank of the
United States originated with the South
The South. under some of our leading men.
was godfather Of the tariff. And it was the
same with the internal Improvements. Then,
if the South had done these things, and un-
done them, has she not the power, if still
united, to control Hence he had hope for
the power and position of the South in the
Union. A substantial issue should not in
duce us to secede alone with four or five
States, it might. While remaining in the
Union, and striving manfully to hold our own,
we should keep the alternative steadily, not
only in our own view, but in the view of the
whole country We should not for a moment
allow our people to be luled, by hopes of
preserving the Union, into apathy, or the be-
lief that to accomplish OF secure strength
would not require all their talent all their
energy, all their watchfulness. all their cour-
age, and perfect state of Union and prepara-
ton, to take decisive measures on the short
est notice.
Mr.. Hammond said he was opposed to any
further annexation of Territories. lie pre-
ferred that our manifest destiny should work
out its own results. He wished the country
to have nothing to do with Mexico or South
America Mr.. Calhoun was right in de-
the Mexican war. Its results have
proved injurious, and the opening of Califor-
MIA routes has created an unprecedented ex-
pense to the country, and is the cause Of more
deceit and proaigacy, than has
ever been known before, both in and out Of
Congress. If we want any Pacific route, let !.
us have it by taking Tehuantepec, or Pana-
ma with the right of way. Progress was his
policy, but he was not in favor of rash or