Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-19
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moral ana physical science, 1t is high time that
such turn should take place. For, in order
to he able TO govern themselves and advance
thcir real material interests, the people must
think ana be able to draw scientific deductions.
a people VINO undertake the task and the cares
OF sovereignty must expect to find that sover-
cllgnty allei with ITS crown OF thorns rather
than as Il pastmc iull OF Jokes, concelt and mer-
ry talsehoodS-such as characterize our politics
of the present times a political falsehood, ut
tereu WIN a cunning leer' mas come to be con-
sldered as OF a hgher order, aud oil lar more
relishable 2est than scientific fact would be.
cannot possibly say now much weight to at
tach to the general conviction that change in
the seasons, to the detrimcnt OF the wheat crop,
really has taken place; nor say what influence
moral causes may have had III producing the
effect. IL Is very certain that many OF the wheat
fields OF the state have never had Sabbath or
change OF crops since they were first laid open
by the pillow, Year after year they have been
driven ana lorccd with all the lntemperance OF
inc mohc!-maklng spirit, without respite and
without rest 'nlserly greedlness OF gam,
without stopping to commend Itself to the bless
lngs OF Heaven, calls upon these wearled though
fertile helds every year, more and more, to give
give In consequences perhaps' the cnincn-
bug may come, ana somewhat OF the blight
winch is now attributed TO cold and backward
springs.
1t is certain however, that there are other
reasons, over ana above those OF changing
climate, why the people OF the northwest should
seek the new countries OF hansas and Nebraska.
met man on the plains with load OF but
ter, cheese, etc, far beyond the settlements, fol-
lowing up the stream OF gold dust from Pixies
ieak as a large hsh might venture up small
rill. Ills family mad migrated from Old to New
Ehgland then from Cohnectlcut TO Vermont;
then, when "llintons Dltch was opened, from
Vermont to New York; then from New York
to ONO; then to Iowa, and hnally, he himself
was looking out lor claim IN Nebraska. IL Is
IN tins way, by successive stages, that the I'M
migration from New England has gone on;
slowly gradually, and surely. building railroads
as 1t went, so as TO take the Germans and irish
along with it, until finally it burst upon Mlssou-
II ana the new territories Ike the tenth wave,
with an accumulated force that nothing could
resist.
On the other hand, the migration from Nir-
Slnla, the other center OF English population OF
the Union, has been through shorter space
and more rapid IN Its expansion. From Nir-
ginia II flowed on 10 Kentucky, and from there
it spread out over the immense territory of Mis-
souri,, wi ere, having no upwelllng lite-sources
OF the white race at home, 1t fairly swdshed out,
not being able, even, to fill up the limits
of the State, and much l'ss to colonize
Kansas. Instead OF white men, the wealth OF
States, she raised negroes, whose migration
took south western direction, and, If it has
not furnished the wealth and power Of the coun-
try has given us polltl control ever ince the
first days of ) kson. itow vain and futile as
the attempt oi SoHth Carolina, by teverlsh
political spasm, to attempt to stay the long ac-
cumulated force OF the migration that is now
pouring down from the northwest, by sending
her poor young men from so long distance to
wrest Kansas from the flood. And what kind
of craftsmanship is that which declared that
according to the laws OF immigration Kansas
should be slave State
But how is 1t that the African race has en-
bosomed within itself so long the power which
controls us? 1t is because the northwest have
been blinded by the name of democracy; and
have been called on to play pranks for the di-
version of the Notwithstanding for democ-
rdcy while sustaining one of the most naughty,