Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-03-06

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commotions. rxcept in the cases of Missouri.
Texas and California We as even now admit
ting two Others, Minnesota and Oregon and
these transactions 90 on so smoothly that only
close observers are aware that we are thus con-
solidating our domnions. on the shores of Lake
Superior and almost at the gates of the Arctic
ocean. II is manifest that the apprehended diff
fculties i'm the present case have some relation
to the dispute concerning slavery. which is rag
ing in the territory of Kansas. Yet il must be
remembered that nine of the new states which
have been admitted expressly established sla-
very or tolerated il. and nine of them forbade
H. The excitement therefore is dino tn neculior
circumstances. He Thought there were three
of these. namelv:-
First. That. whereas in the beginning. the as.
cendancv of the free states was absolute il i,
now being reversed.
Second. That whereas. heretofore. the nation.
al government favored this change of balance
| from the slave states to the free states. it has
now reversed this policy and opposes the change
/ Third That national Intervention in the ter
ritories in favor of slave labor and slave states
is opposed to the natural. social and moral de.
| vclopments of the republic.
In arguing these propositions Mr.. Seward
said that Nebraska was resigned TO free labor
without a struggle, and Kansas became a thea
ter of the first actual national conflict between
slavehoding and free labor immigrants, who mel
face to face to organize, through the machiner,
of republican action civil community. In tn,
first hour of trial the new system of popular SOW
ereignty signally failed-fiiled because it is i'm
possible to organize by one single act, in one
day, a community perfectly free, perfectly SOW
ereign, and perfectly constituted out of elements
unassimilated, unarrangcd. and uncomposed
Free labor rghtfully won the day. Slave labor
wrested the victory TO itself by fraud and VIC
lence.
In speaking of the opinion pronounced by Tho
supreme court of the United States in the Dret
Scott case, Mr.. Seward said" In this i'll omen
ed act it forgot its own dignity, which had al
ways been maintained with just Judicial jealousy
They forgot that the province of a court is sim
ply Jus deere and not at all 'juS dare.' The,
forgot, also, that one foul sentence does more
harm than many foul examples for the last dc
but corrupt the stream while the former cor
rupteth the fountain And they and the presi
dent alike forgot that judicial usurpaion is NOR,
odious and lntolerable than any other among
the manifold practices OF tyranny
Having traced step by step the history of Kan
sas affairs, Mr. Seward then gave a concise &C
count OF the national intervention III the terri
tories, in favor of slave labor and slave states
since 1870 adding" No wonder that the CUES
ton before US excites apprehension and alarm
There IS at last a North side of this chamber