Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-04-17
No. Is.

q VI thc -NcW maven colOlly, ana oil the colony o
; the Providence Plantations. They always did
1t. believe the Crown of England never an.
: pointed a Governor for these colonies; certain.
ly not for the last two. But were those peonle
without ever having exercised the right of self
government, better prepared to govern them.
selves then are our people, educated under our
State governments, who go into our Territories
Why, then, should we continue to have an
"Ahab to trouble Israel, while he laysthe blame
Of his own misconduct upon the emigrant aid
societies. Why not cut off these Territories
from all connection with the General Govern
ment, legislative or executive? Then we shall
have no more agitation in Congress, and no
more contention in the Territories. But SO long
as this connection continues, so long as we have
a President trying TO bias by his appointments.
and perhaps by the United States troops. the
will Of the people, so long shall we have agita-
ton, and we shall have enough of it.
THE DIsUN1oN DEITY.
Well, sir, have nothing to find fault about.
l am very well pleased with the present tenden-
cy of events. But, sir, there are those who are
dissatisfied, and who are inclined to invoke
certain diety-I think false deity-which pre-
sides over portion of this Union deity
winch has been invoked by great men on great
occasions, and by little men on little occasions,
for long time pasta deity in whose expected
presence both the people and the politicians
have sometimes stood aghast-"when he" in
prospect only, from his horrd hair shook PES
thence and war" This sulphurous god is Dis
union This Capital Hill has been vertable
Mount Carmel for the last quarter of century,
upon winch experiments have been tried with
TINS bogus deity One day upon Mount Car
mel was sufficient to determine the destiny Of
Baa and his prophets. But here we the most
patient people in the world witness these invo-
cations year after year, with exemplary endu-
rance, expecting that the great ls-to-bc will some
tune come. And you and !, Mr.. Chairman,
even during the present session of Congress,
have witnessed attempts to kindle here the fires
upon the altar Of Southern rights. But the sac
rihce, the altar, and the spectators were as cold
as alabaster. The prophets only were warm
but they were warm, not from the presence of
the god, but from his absence.
Well sir, shall we have this deity of disunion
invoked forever? Who is to blame If the
North has given cause, what have we done
What cause of disunion has ever proceeded from
us' Have you not had everything your own
way? Have We not let you have the Demo-
cratic party to use as you please? Laughter
Have YOU not had the Government for a long |
time And have we not let you use it Just as |
you had a mind to? We, sir were busy about |
our commerce, extending it around the world |
about our railroads our internal improvements !
our colleges, and all those things which interest I
Our people We knew that you had taste for |
governing and that by the indulgence YOU might |
be gratified without serious injury to us For |
many years you have had your own way, and |
now you come here and cry out 'disunion |
Why, what more can we do?
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN EFFORTS FOR THE |
HEATIEN.
We are told by Southern men that we have
a nation of heathen in our land and we are
told by the same authority that we have an in
SJIlltlnD, here, tor. their regeneration. I have
and there were mighty words of exultaton un-
becoming a Christian journal or Christian peo-
pie at any time, when it was shown that our !
contributions for foreign missions were a hun |
dred fold more than yours. 1t is true we make |
more contributions. The city Of Boston gives
for foreign missions perhaps more than all the
slave States and the city of New York per-
haps more than Boston. But what of that 7 |
We give a few cents apiece, and only few cents |
for foreign missions each year, which amounts |
to great sum, because we are great people. !
We send men to heather nations far over the !
water, to tell them about their future destiny. |
We are careful not to send our best men We
keep our Notts and Waylands, and our Beech |
ers and Cheevers, at home but sometimes a
Judson escapes from us before we know what
he is. This is about the extent we submit to |
ef-sacrifce for the sake of the heather.
Is there any cause for eXultation in this, when |
we see what our Southern brethren have done !
and are doing? When have we ever taken the |
heather to our hearth-stones and TO our bo-
SONS? When have we ever admitted the heath |
EN- to social communion with ourselves and our
children? When have we ever taken the heath |
en- to our large cities TO show them the works
of art or to the watering places to show them
fashionable society and beautiful scenery? Did
YOU ever see Yankee at the White Sulphur
Springs shedding benign religious influence
over little congregation of heather compen-
onsP Laughter We have pious women in
the Northern States whose bright example has
made attractive the paths of virtue and religion |
Conspicuous among them, in every good work, |
are the wives of our ministers and deacons !; but
not one Of these, within the range of my ac-
quaintance, would consider herself qualified, Ell
ther by nature or by grace, to be chambermaid,
dry nurse, and spiritual adviser, to ten or twen
tv hcathens in her own family. But, sir had
these worthy danes been NOBLE danes had
they come down to us from the blood of Nor
man Kings, through the bounding pulses of sun
dry cavaliers, and then had been willing TO as
sumo the humble offices of Christian charity,
we would have believed the time, so often pray
ed Tor, mad already come, Wnen hlnBs snould
be fathers and Queens nursing mothers in the
church. Where, then, is the ground for this
exutation on the part of the North?
In this age of material progress you have
seen the North outstrip you; but, with true
Christian patience and Christian devotion, you
have adhered to the great work of regenerating
the heather, [Laus ushter.] Now, sir, when was
there ever a class of men so devoted and self
sacrificing? | have read the history of the
Apostles have read the history of the Re
formers, of the Scotch Covenanters, of the HUI
guenots, and of the Crusaders and tell you,
not in one or all of these have seen any such
heroic sef-sacrifce for the good of another race,
or for the good of other men, as do see in the
history of these slave States. Ihave seen Fox's
Book of Martyrs but there is nothing in that
to compare at all with the martyrs of the South.
The census of the United States is the greatest
book of martyrs ever printed. Laughter
Other books treat of martyrs as individuals
the census of the United States treats of them
by States.
THE EMIGRATION PLAN IN VIRGINIA.
But, sir, there begins to be an enlightened
idea in these border slave States upon this sub
ect A year ago, when proposed to plant
few colonies in Virginia several Journals in the