Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-07-09

the amendment The result for which we
conicndcd was attained The Senate bill was
DEFEATED, Kansas is not n Stare State and
the President stands upon the records Of the
nation convicted Of official ialschood.
/ The bill which afterwards became a law is
most essentially different from that which
originally passed the Senate. 1t could not
have passed had all who voted with MS, for
the amendment and for time voted to adj
here. continued to vote in conformity TO their
express agreement. as understood by Ropub-
licans. OF that bill, and of those who voted
for it, do not propose to speak They as
well those who voted against il will be
judged by the present and coming genera
lions.
But the establishment of slavery in Kansas
constituted merely an incident in the pro-
gramme of the Administration. As before
stated, the acquisition of territory in Mexico
and Central America, the restoration Of the
foreign slave trade TO furnish victims to Guilt
waite the territory thus obtained, the annexa-
ton Of Cuba, the conquest of IIayti and sub
iecting its people to slavery. were some Of
the more important objects for which they
were striving. But preparatory to carrying
out these objects, the standing army must be
increased for even despotism is harmless
without the physical power to enforce its de-
crces.
As an excuse for this increase Of the army,
a war upon the Mormons, on account Of their
polygomy, was suggested, although the right
Of Congress to prohibit "that relic of barba-
rism' by law was denied by the Democratic
party, whose yauntod maxim had been that
the people of territory "havc the supreme
right to establish their own domestic institu-
tions in their own way"
The defeat Of this bill for increasing the
army constituted the first step towards the
overthrow of the slave power Rejecting
men then believed that the Mormon war
would be bloodess. An knew there had
boon no necessity for it, and presume peace
has already been or soon will be concluded.
The admission of Kansas under the Lecomp-
ton Constitution has been thus far defeated,
and If the people of that Territory prove
true TO themselves. it never can succeed
The attempts made in the Senate to With
draw our naval force from Africa, in order
that piratical commerce in human flesh may
be there carried ON, has met with signal de-
feat; the message of tho President which
had been prepared, approved by the Cabinet
and ready to be Transmitted to Congress rec
ommouding the acquisition of territory and
annexation Of Cuba, now rest quietly in the
Executive port folio. The mad career of the
Slape Power has been stayed. Our cause has
reached its eliminating point The cncmys
columns arc broken and retiring from the
field. Those States and statesmen who in
autumn last declared their intention of dissolr-
ing the Union. unless Kansas was Immediately
admitted under the Lccompton Constitution.
NOW roar you gently as sucking doves. --
That mock thunder, so long tho manufacture
Of Southern politicians, no longer shakes the
political heavens, and many a Northern polit-
ical driveler has lost his entire stock in trade.
Upon the Republican party now devolvos
the responsibility Of guiding the future adj
minstrauun and government. If il continue
to act upon the doctrines enunciatcd at its
formation if it continue tu act in harmony
with those great central truths, glorious
destiny awaits it. Its success will be as Ger
taiH as Gods attribute of Justice is injaUible
But if it pandcr to losslized error. if it Yields
to stupid prejudice, or seeks power by modi-
Tying its doctrines, it will retard the progress
of human liberty; it may, like other parties
consent to be shorn of its moral power by the
soft hand of conservatism. and leave the glo-
rious contamination of our enterprise to other
hands, and another organization OF such
results however, have no apprehensions.- -
Tho intelligence concerning the admnistra-
ton of government acquired by the people
cannot be eradicated from the popular mind
The patriotic sentiments already awakened
and called into active service cannot be STAYED
until our country shall be regenerttod and
made free.
The great religious, moral and political rev
olution now in progress will constitute an in
torcsting chapter in the history of our gov
crnment
1t is an enterprise eminently worthy of a
Christian people, and appropriate to the age
in which we live. II is too important in its
consequences, too vast in its results, to be
contaminated in ono generation. Many of
you have entered upon life since the com
menccmcnt of this reformation, and those
who were then at the noontide of their earthly
existence are now Watching the descending
sun as it draws near the horizon of time, and
others, who toilcd in the heat and bore the
bmthens Of the day, have passed to their re-
ward. To you who survive ! tender cheerful
and heartfelt congratulations upon the prog
ress of our cause, its present state and glo-
rious prospects for the future. TO have par
ticlpated in this patriotic mission Of peace
and Justice On earth, and liberty to all men,
must be far more satisfactory to you than the
conquest of armies or the destruction of en-
pires. can myself no longer participate in
those exciting conflicts, SO common In bygoue
days. nor is it important that | should live
TO see the contamination of this great work
'rW 60 on. As witness its progress. my
heart swells with gratitude to Him who as
signed my existence at this period of the
world, and to my fellow-citizens who have so