Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-11-19
miscellaneous Etrms.


arc now assuming a complete shape. we may |
with profit read a few Of the lessons which
they teach. The Hon. James II. Hammond.
Of South Carolina, in a speech delivered be.
fore the people of Barnwoll in that State, on
the goth Of October last, said.
Il has fallen upon shareholders Of the South to conduct
this question Of African slavery TO its final conclusion
Such is our fate. It's inevitable Let us checrhly ac-
cept and manfully perform destined parts and do
it with disrust Of God; with misgvings Of our
cause or Of ourselves with panic foolish attempt
hy from dangers which cannot be avoided which have
not been proven 10 be insurmountahc and which l. for
one, believe that conquer. After what has been
achieved by divided South now that Il Is almost thor
oughly united; that we have President aud his
Cabinet, majority in both Houses Of Congress- SUI
preme Court Of the United States, and still hosts Of allies
In the free States, all substantially concurrng with in
construction Of the Constitution, and under its obi
cations earnestly battling with for the Of
onr rights and ntcress,-wc il to country, TO
ourselves to the world, aud to postey TO cast aside all
weak fears all petty or impracticabc issues, all
wangng and yituperaton, personal and sectional, and
move forward with the dignity of conscious strength and
camness Of undoubod courage, to the overthrow Of
ry false theory Of government, and every sentimental
scheme for organizing aoorcarYing with as the Const
tuition Of our fathers and i we can, their Union
n the South has any desire to remain la the Uuion
and control H. She her safety requires TINT She should,
in some essential particulars n she docs remain in IL,
Kind and true to all who are true 20 truth aud TO hct
This is plain talk and paraphrased runs
about thus THE South is aggressive for
Slavery, not simply that it may preserve that
Slavery within the bounds where, according
to the Constitution, the North neither can
nor wishes to interfere with it, but the South
is aggressive in order that it may control the
Union for the benefit of the extension Of
Slavery, or whatever else the South chooses
to do with Slavery that for this purpose the
South has now a President and his Cabinet,
a majority in both Houses of Congress,
Supreme Court of the United States. and
still hosts of allies in the free States, and all
it has to do is to 90 on conquering and to
conquer for Slavery and the control of the
Union, conciliatng it is true, all the North
who will aid in this cause and be true to the
South. without daring or vcnturing to be
true to the North Slavery aggression and
the control of the Union. with a Democratic
party for the great engine to drive forward
the work, is the sum and substance Of the
whole matter And the Democratic party
has for years answered YES" has bound it.
self to this car Of Slavery aggression, is, as
Senator Hammond says, bound to it now,
hand and foot. to drag it along. Twenty-Five
years ago. James buchanan said that the
Northern Democracy was the natural ally of
the South in this work and he has proved by
practice what he taught by prccept for as
and his Cabinet The Washington Union,
the organ Of the Administration. breaches
the same doctrine, that it is the mission of
the Northern Democracy 90 work for Slavery
and Senator Hammond says that Northern
Democracy has fulfilled its mission
The first great lesson taught by the late f.
lcctOns is an emphatic NO to Senator Ham
mond,. to James Buchanan, the Washington
Union, and, to use the language of Senator
Hammond, their "hosts Of allies. The voice
OF the late Elections to these waves of slavery
aggression, dashed upon the North by Buch- /
anan Democracy. is, "thus far shalt thou go
and no further, back to your own bounds and
no breath from the North shall disturb you,
but against further encroachment behold the
brcakwater is rising" Thisis all. Our Elec-
tons here are simply saying that this control
of the Union by the South solely for the
sake Of spreading its local institution of Slav-
cry, must come to an end, we have had G.
nough of it ; this President and Cabinet for
the South, and not for North and South, can
no longer be endured, we have had enough of
them this Democratic Party for the south
ern section Of the Union only, and calling it.
self national at the same time, is not party
for true citizen of this Republic to tolerate,
and we have had enough fit; we are not a
gainst Slavery within the bounds recognized
by the Constitution on the contrary, we will
see that it has all the rights for its protection
therein guaranteed by the Constitution but
the North, too, has rights--rights Of freedom
and these shall be preserved from further ag
erosion by Slavery. This is the first great
lesson of the recent elections. That it is a
momentous one, that it is one calculated to
startle the South and strike with dismay the
Federal Administration, we admit, for it shiv-
ers to atoms that Northern Democracy which
works for Slavery, and it calls for the reign of
national Republicanism, which, while it will
respect the rights of the South, will not sub
nit to be its slave for the propagation of Slav-
cry, and the extinction Of all the rights of
freodom-N y. Courier and Enqnerer.