Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-12-17

been several times aired in the Washington
Constitution as something truly awful. Here
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w. Thorough organization and independent polft
cal action on the part Of the nonslaveholding whites
Of the South
al lnelgibiliiy Of pro-slavery shareholders; never
another vote to any one who advocates the retention
and perpeiuaiion Of Human Slavery.
I'LL No cooperation with pro-slayery politicians
them in society.
"lV. No patronage to pro-slaverv merchants; nc
gucstshp in savewaiting hotels; no fees to proslav.
cry lawyers; no employment to pro-slavery physicians
no audience to pro-slavery parsons.
ny: No more hiring of slaves by non-slaveholders.
"NL Abrupt discontnuancc Of subscriptions to pro-
slavery newspapers
AT ga large meeting of the citizens of West
moreland County, Virginia, held on the 2sth
ult., to express their Indignation, &c., aroused
by the doings of John Brown" the following
moderate measures were proposed and agreed
to be tried as an experiment; which, failing of
the desired effect, would be succeeded by Dis
union:
First, We will adopt strict non intercourse in
trade and commerce with the citizens and merchants
ol all the non-snveholding States. We will neither
sell to them any article of the growth manufacture
OF our State nor buy from them nor consume any ar
vi Ut 1nHllulNClure Oh tllclr states.
Second, We will cease to travel amongst them. or
visit Them except upon the most urgent and unavod
able business.
Third, We will employ no laborers or mechanics
from the North.
Fourth, We win arrest and send cut of the State In
the most summary manner, all itinerant vendors of
Northern books newspapers, periodicals any other
article OF Northern growth or manufacture; and all
persons who are suspected Of anti slavery opinions or
sympahies, or who cannot give precise and true nc-
count Of themselves ms engaged in lawful business we
VIII treat as Migrants and ncendiares."
Such resolves are common throughout the
Slave States, and were before John Brown ever
saw Virginia. But we never heard that any
author or advocate of such resolves was ever
threatened with the penalties of treason, or de-
MED the fellowship of the National Democracy
on that account. Recommendations of nom
intercourse are only deemed monstrous and
reasonable when they are made in opposition
to slavery.
The democrats all through the country af-
feet to believe that the Republican party is i'm
pcated in the so-called Unreasonable" attempt
of John Brown to seize upon Harpers Ferry;
and they persist in charging this crime upon
prominent Republicans particularly and upon
the party generally, without the shadow of
proof Of course.
If CHARLES JANIS FAULKNER is to be be-
leved, and we take it the democrats do put con-
fdence in him, for they elected him to Congress
several successive terms from the lIarper's Fer
ry District, no less a person than Gov WISE,
one of the democratic candidates for the Presi-
dental nomination at the Charleston Conven-
ton, had threatened to do what John Brown
did actually accomplish with seventeen men,
Mr. Faulkner presided at a recent meeting of
the democracy of Berkeley County, Virginia,
and in Fan able, conservative, and national
speech thus showed the policy which Gov.
WISE laid down in 1856:
when that noble and gallant son of Virginia, Hem
ry a. Wise, declared, as was said he did in October,
1906. that II Fremont should be elected HE WOULD
SEIZE TIE NATIONAL ARSENAL AT HAIR
PER'S FERRY, how few would at that time have
justified so bold and decided a measure? n is he
fortune Of some great and gifted minds 10 see far in
ddrdnoe ~ hetr cOtempOrdJieS. Should William II.
Seward be elected IN 1850. where is the man now in
our midst rho ,rouM nat cali for the Impeachment Of
goreRor Of Virginia rho irouH senty suffer that ar
head"
This national, patriotic, conservative, Union
saving" declaration is not treason, Oh, no! II
comes from democratic govern or and dem
ocratc candidate for the Presidency and dem
ocratic stakeholder. But when poor, old John
Brown-blessed be the memory of his virtues
acts up to this threat it is treason and murder,
and he must be strung up, almost without Judge
or jury.