Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-01-21


counties, and double the circulation at large OF
any paper in the State. 1t offers the best medium
or legal advertisements, and at as cheap rates.
Foolish Attempt to Brighten the North.
The New York Heard takes upon itself the
difficult task of defending the Lecompton Con-
stitution and the Administration policy of adj
hitting Kansas as a Slave State with it, under
the plea of just offset to the admission of Min
nesota and Oregon as Free States. And also,
that unless Kansas is 50 admitted, the South
will dissolve the Union. The Herald says:
"a great crisis is at hand and an issue which
is to determine the position of the South and
the extent of the political ascendeney of the
North in the General Government is involv-
ed in this otherwise paltry afair-the Kan
sas Lecompton Constitution. From the po-
stion which has been taken by Senator Doug
las and Others of the Demo cratic party, the
South in this matter have but little to expect of
Northern clemency- ON the other hand, all the
walls Of Anti-Slavery wrath, Of thirty years ac-
emulation, will be poured out upon the Slave
Power and the Slave oligarchy by Northern
demugogues and fanatics But let the states
men and the politicians of the South meet the
exigency as the occasion demands. Let them
rest their cause upon the time-h onored principle
OF mutual concessions ID the North and the
South. Let them demand the admission of
Kansas with her Slave State Constitution, as on
ly q reasonable concession to the South for the
admission of Minnesota and Oregon as Free
States and let them unite their forces in the
Senate and in the House to achieve this COM
promise as the last f3othod of Southern equai-
ty in the Union, and they may win.
All the proceedings of the last few days in
Congress may be compared to the frolics of
lot Of idle Central American boys near little
grumbling volcano. They are frolicing, but
they are awaiting signal for precipitate flight,
though uncertain, many of them, in what direc-
ton to run. A few days more, and this Kansas
volcano will open it's crater at Washing
ton-casting up rocks, ashes, fire and smoke in
a boisterous volume. But when the eruption is
at an end, and when the smoke shall have clear
ed away, the whole country will realize either
that we have escaped the perils of dissolution,
or that they lie directly before us. In the
meantime, as with the Southern States, the al
tentative is between an armistice and an abso-
lutte capitulation-let her representatives be pre-
pared at least for an earnest, dgnifed and unit
ed demand for still another armstice with the
North as the only hope of ultimate peace"
Again:
" At this point, we fear, the North will be
met by such determined front on the part of
the South, that the issue will speedily become
the admission of Kansas with her Slave State
Constitution, or the secession in Jodv from,
both Houses Of the members from the Southern
States, as the initial increment 10 separate
Southern contederacy.
The North will surely be content for the sake
OF peace, to recognize Kansas as temporary
Slave State, with two permanent Free States
coming in at the same time. Should this good
old plan be discarded now, and should the Kan
, sas lLecompton Constitution be rejected because
Of its recognition of Slavery the next proceed
ing will probably be practical Southern move
g ment for the dissolution of the Union.'
And again
"The question has been enlarged, with thu
recognition Of Slavery in the lecompton Consti
| tuition, into question of Northern acquiescenc,
in the result, or the submission of the South tt
the pressure of Northern majority. And al
it is manifest that the submission Of the Soutl
. in this case will reduce that section to mer
dependency of the North, we may safely antici
pate the most determined Southern resistance
= against all attempts and all devices to set asid
the Lecompton Constitution.
With this state of things between the two sec
q 81,
as Slave State may prove to be the last parce
e which breaks the cancels back. The provoca
ton to the South will only be the more pointe
and offensive from the fact that two new Ere
States are at the same time awaiting their ad
= mission into the Union. Will Northern mem
! bers of Congress, then, insist upon the rejection
= of the Lecompton Constitution because of it
l recognition of Slavery? Wehopenot. Or, vii
j., the Southern members consent to it? If the
r do, they will show to the world that all thei
= complaints, grievances and threatenings, and al
+ their Southern rights movements, plans an
\ combinations of the last thirty years, have a.
y been empty buster, fuss and fury, gas an
I. 4. humbug.
n Her rejection, therefore, will be a Congress
o onal edict against the South of the most dec
!, siye character: for, from that moment the OF
ganc law of the South will be the law Of sui
= mission--absolute submission--to the will of a
+ overwhelming Northern majority. The prestig
of Southern rights and the time-honored prime
:, pie of Northern concessions will be trample
j. under foot with the rejection of the Lecompto
e Constitution, and the law of the strong ar
n will supersede those fraternal obligations upo
! which the Northern and the Southern States eli
" tered into this confederacy!
" Will the men of the Southern States subm
IL to this? We may be mistaken, but we appr
A bend that they will not submit to the reiectiC
Of Kansas as Slave State but that they wi
,e resist all attempts to set aside this Lecamptt
&c Constitution with the desperate resolution
- men defending the last rampant which lies
" tween them and fierce and impacable enem
~ We apprehend that the Southern men in Co
j gress have the will and the courage necessary
" make this Lecompton Constitution the te
I'll question between the Union as it stands and
" separate Southern confederacy."
nc
70 IF the South recede from his Lecompt
NJ Constitution, they Will be entitled to no furth
y. pity from the anti-slavery fanaticsm of t
NJ North, and they know it, They cannot reced
81 they must now maintain their ground, or
m forever hereafter Inundated and disgraced
lis the pointed and decisive shape which this Kans
Oh question has assumed there is no alternative
n. yea or nay. 1t is now question which Ri
on above all administrations, all party consider
- tons Or party estimates for the Presidency.
10 is an issue between the North and the Sout
es and the simple question involved is whetl
ry Slavery shall be any further extended, or sh
bit be permanently restricted within its present Ii
as. its.
The only ground of a comprehensive tres
~ of peace is the admission of Kansas as Sis
iiS State, as Il concession to the South, in view
ow the two new free States or Minnesota and 0
at gon. From the peculiar circumstances of
to case, it will be difficult to bring the North
IT. the mark but from the momentous conseouen