Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-06-11


sections Of the country, within a few weeks,
, in favor Of the formation Of now party, to
superccde the Republic party. The follow
/ ing, from the Nec York Courier md Epg,drar,
, so completely exposes the mllicy of such a
s movement, that We commend it to the careful
consideration Of our readers.
at seems that there is talk in Washington
about the formation of a new party to be
styled the Peoples party of the Union -
the first feature of which is TO be "the igHor-
ing of all questions productive of sectional
d strife" The idea we suppose, comes from
q the circumstance that Peoples parties have
been formed in many citics-our own among
the number--thc distinctive feature Of which
is the ignoring of all political considerations
in the election Of municipal officers. But the
thing is a chimera. II never can be realized,
and never ought 20 be. The Democratic par
~ is irrevocably committed to an active pro-
slavery policy. For the last six years It's rule
ing spirits have not cherished a thought or
uttered a word the spirit and intent of which
was not to fortiiy and amplify the Institution
of Slavery. To that end they have broken
most sacred compromises, have perverted
every power of the government into an in
5trumentaHty Of forcing Slavery upon virgin
soil. have constrained the supreme Court to
put unheard of constructions upon the Con-
stitution and to that end they are maturing
still further schemes Of repeating the Neu-
raity Laws, of LAYING violent or at least
fraudulent hold upon Cuba and Central A.
mcrica and of re-opening the slave trade, one
step towards which was taken no longer ago
than last week, when the Administration por-
ton of the Senate Committee of Foreign Az
fairs voted in Committee to report measure
abrogating SO much of the Webster-Ashbur-
tom Treaty as requires our country to keep a
squadron ON the Coast of Africa to operate
against the slave trade There never has
been in the history of this country a party
policy moro decided. more unmistakcable. or
more fixed than the pro-slavery policy of the
present Democratic party.-Everything is
made to give way to it, It oycrridcs cove
nauts, ovcrrides presidents, ovcrridcs MAORI
tics overridos constitutional obligations. over
rides popular rights, ovcrrides the most COM
mon principles of Justice. 1t cheats. robs,
.pIlagos, murders-chcats with its English
bride, robs with its test oaths, pilagcs with
its Lawrence and Ossawatomie raids under
Federal officers and murders by rcwarding,
and still continuing to reward. with its best
official gifts, the murderer of Barbour and the
murderer of Phillips. There is nothing too
desperate for this party TO attempt, nothing
too foul for it to stoop TO-. IL SO be there is
the slightest chance % serve their favorito i'm
sutatiou 1t possesses no spirit but that Of
dishonesty; it knows no policy but that of
aggression.
Wen now, what folly is it TO talk Of sig
HorHg all questions productive of sectional
strife, when such are the impulses, and aims
and rcs1lute courses, and confirmed habits of
the present Democratic party To ignosc
these questions is TO ignore the Democratic
party itself for it is that party alone which,
since 1882, have been raising these questions.
/ They have raised them in pursuance of q GER
tain policy they have stakcd their very cxis-
tcnce. II unresisted, they arc sure to be sue
cesstul and yet, because iorsooth. the great
strength of the Democratic party lies in
particular section of the Union. and sectional
sriie is an unpleasant thing, weare asked not
TO trouble ourselves about the Democratic
party, and to turn our attention to other mat
ters. The walls Of the Constitution. the pill
lars of our Republican Government. are
trembling before the mining mattock and the
batterug ram, but what OF all that let o..
go to tlnkering our pots and kettles We
can tell the man or the men who counsel such
conduct, that they strangely mistake the man
hood OF the Northern people The time has
gone by for buying sectional peace at the
price of blindly ignoring or tumcly acaui-
oscmg in agsrcssons. The North has at last
found ont that such a line of conduct leads TO
nothing but oppression and gnominy and
ruin. We say that the North has found this
ont; for now, thank heaven, there is North.
Ten years have gone since Daniel Webster
declared to the people of Marshfcd eve
talk of the North. There has been for
long time no North. think the North Star
is at last discovered. ! thul, there will be
North. The prophcscd time has come.
there is now North, and a North too. which
IS prepared and determined to stem this mad
tide of Slavery innovation let them grieve
who may. If the North can have any aid
from Southern men in this work, good. There
are southern men whom she honors-rncn
who have never bowed the knee to the Baal
OF anatlcism-men in whose bosoms vet glow
the fires which animated the statesmen of old.
The Bells and Crittendens the Marshalls and
Dayiscs Of the South. are admired and hon
ored from Maine to Kansas. Their praise is
in every Republicans mouth and nowhere
can Republican be found who would not re-
ioice to be able to fight by the side of these
lii1H "H"lu0b VIC lH'Ntlu NduualS--ndN. VINO
would not willingly lengthon the cords and
extend the stakes of his party SO as to cm-
brace its tents and their tents within the same
glorious camp The Republican party has
already attested its loyal and generous feel
ing in this regard by rallying, as its Repre-
sentatiyes did to a man, to the support of Mr..
> Crittcnden's measure for doing Justice to
Kansas. But well affected as the Republi-
can party is towards those noble men Of the
South, and anxious as it is to account them
friends and allies, it cannot consent either to
cease to exist or to forget the end Of its ex-
istence- 1t sprang into life expressly to do
what every other party had failed to do-to
repel the aggressions Of the slave power.
And until that power ceases to make aggress-
ions and ceases to cherish the slightest dis
position to make gressions-untl it be-
comes willing and fully prepared to accept the
Constitution Of the United States. with the
construction and operative force assigned to
1t by Us trainers, and observed by all its early
Northumberland it can content itsoie|
with the securities that are really in thai in
strument, and abstain from foisting into il adj /
Jacants that are not there, and never for
moment thought of-uuti it can learn 10 al. /