Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-10-02

ttNlhNs lutN NlIlc IL Out, us IL were, Ill lpHlDle
characters on the face of the globe. And even
her eldest child Spain, stands as a living wit
ness, whose imitation of the example of her
mother, conquering but to depress and degrade
to rob and enslave, to sophistcatc and stultfy
has sunk her once vast power, almost as it were
before our eyes, from the first in the scale of
nations TO among the very lowest While the
blood. and gold. and slore-repo,timientos of the
New-World gave rank, position and title to her
citizens science on the other hand literature
the fine and useful arts-all in fine that eevates
refines and ennoblcs, went down and finally dis
appeared from the land And can we perceive
nothing of a similar cloud of benightment and
brutalization drawing over us?
One of the most marked compensations grow
ing out of the evils of save-extenson has been
pointed out by its advocates as something which
ought to reconcile us to its spread; and this
compensation is its conservatism. 1t will pre-
serve pure Americauism, said they, in the land
sincc where the slave labors, the foreigners will
not come.
But what mockery is there not in such an ar
gument as this For, with the foreign popu-
laton as their allies, they have Frustrated if not
destroyed the only conservative party of the
country which, among other radicatcd institu-
tons, would have sustained theirs to any easy
and dignited fall; and they now claim unre-
nttINc NilNl Ull UTMOST ullNtINdl lnNul-
gence of crime. Setting up their Black Propa-
gandism as the only Divinity to be worshipped; !;
holding it forth as the ultimatum-as the sane
tilted end that justifies any and every means,
Hey lay claim to conservative measures or in
fuences! Virtue alone in Republics. is conser-
vatlve. while under their peculiar notions what
virtue is there which might not be reckoncd a
crime?
But the powerful support which the slave
spreading sentiment has thus far derived from
the foreign vote is soon destined to he lost to
it. lndoctrinated by the teachings Of a woman's
heart. foreign vouth are now tauCht IN obbor
slavery TIC rising generation in Eurono bny.
ing become as familiar with TrNc1r To,t's C,p-
IN as Christendom is with p,r1 AM Vpc1NI,
will come among MS only TO vote against ~
s,reod in vha,aver sb,po nr o,,;so :, mo-, ,,ro
sent itsclf II sbould hc rcr,crhorod ,bo+
tbongh tho Viii, nor,,, ,,,o,. ,,ns.;ll,. L donJ
tbonSb its noble Tect;,nde NAV bayn c,Iloo ~ bo
meath slove-snreod;ng wrath ne stoteI,' od;Gco
falls beneatb the aomes rovor ~ ho ros,oroJ
arain. vet Rpnnhl;con;sn, il M od;ous do,;,,n..
tion 70 tbe dreicnor. i ;s sor,c,h;,c v,I;ch
France. the Democratic cbomn;on of rrrone
strove for in vain. and is hence sometbine hat
opposed TO slaye-extension here in tbc iinite5
States. NAV be voted for with all sofcty u;,bort
democratic misoivincs and with n decision that
no demagocueism can d;ycr, ,nd NO ,,oo,,Io,.
diplom1c1 deceive r'r'"'"'
But since it is the slave snreodinp sertimo,+
that sustains the foreigner in his cxtr,ordnor,.
position of nolitirol nover anorg nc ,,o ,o,
that the several causes of unwbolcsomr cvc;,o-
ment nrevailing in tho country and ,yb;cS $40
have enumerated may bp f,irly reducnd 70 ,,ro
viz: SIAvF-FyTrNs1o> and Nrw Drscovrvtps
OF Com. And in fac, ,bcv who do mn, rn-
ceive in the extroord;nnrv nrcvolence of criro
irrepulnrity and disorder ri lotr voars and in
the general spi4t of INDULGENCE with which
they are tolerated. they who do not sec in This
the dark workings OF Slave-extcnsion. can form
no idea of the instrumentality to which that in
stitution has resorted nits preposterous attempts
to spread itself over the territory of a free Ma
ton 1t is neither printing nsy professionalism,
nor the discovery OF new Continent, nor the
wonderful developments OF science. nor any
thng OF the KIND that lends its stimulus to re-
newed enterprise and lofty achievement among
us at the present time but it is chiefly the
spread OF slavery, sentiment which, whether
IN the old world or the new, inspires those upon
whom ITS existence is forced with nothing but
cynlclsm desperation, disregard of personal
character and finally contempt of humanity and
OF self. For 1t is the nature of man to become
impatient and reSenttul of the shackles of slav
cry whether imposed upon himself personally
or upon his neighbor.
But not the least i'll consequences which it
produces is the influence which it exercises up
on our politics and our political men. Not
lew of our statesmen, accustomed to regard
slave-extenson as the sovereign good, have al
most ceased to know what the true distinguish
ing character of actions is; and while they
seem to think that their schemes are deep and
their combinations vast, their schemes and com
binations are looked upon by others from differ
ent but long established points Of view as fail
ing in every particular that constitutes acumen,
competency. or even common morality. Low,
vulgar cunning takes the place with them of an
elevated intelligence, and coarse symbols, tropes,
and falsehoods, such as prevail in brothels and
masonic lodges, become the very essence of re-
fined and exalted diplomacy. The government
is constantly forced by them into impracticable
positions and puerile measures; so that fool
ish lavishment of expenditure like that occa-
stoned by this expedition to Utah, may be re-
garded as at best but one stumbling step of the
government in long series of others which
have been compulsorily taken in order to recoy
er first. With such statesmen the majority
becomes kind of God, to the exclusion of all
sensible ideas the blush of shame ceasing to
visit even moral turnitudp whom kpnt in couu-