Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-04-23

attempt to cover up an audacious criminality
we must all condemn.
"By the action of the Thirty-fourth Congress
the complaints made by the residents Of Kan
sas were ascertained to be true. Although the
South, by the legislation of 1854, was pledged
to maintain the domestic sovereignty of the
territories, portion of their people from Mis-
souri, entered upon the soil of Kansas, and, by
force and fraud, seized the lawmaking power,
stiled the voice of the majority, and enacted
statutes disgraceful to the age and nation. This
fact when legally revealed, made deep i'm
| preston upon the public mind, and Mr. Buchan-
an found it necessary, in order to carry the cleo
ton in his own State, to pledge himself dis
tnctly to the maintenance of the doctrine of
popular sovereignty, and to defend the rights of
those who had been ruthlessy despoiled.
will not pretend to indicate the particular weak
ness in his nature that induced him to turn the
hand of the suicide against his own fame, as it
matters little whether it arose from timdity, q
fear of his enemies outweighing love of his
friends, careless disregard of fair dealing, or
a weak and puerile vanity. 1t is enough to
know that he deceived all our hopes, turned
with blacklist ingrattude upon that self-sacrifc-
ing friendship by which he reached the goal of
his feverish ambition, and sought by all the
means within the reach of drunken and stag
kSiiHS huthOiltNe W ulSRTdCt every man NnOm
he could not debauch Suddenly, and as by
the touch of the wand of the magician, he be-
came transformed from the sympathser with
down-trodden freedom, to the open and shame
less defender of aggressive and law-defying
Slavery. The halls OF the National Legislature
were turned INTO marts for conscience He
published his interpretations of party princi-
pies and platforms with the arrogance of die
tator, and commanded his subordnates in of
flee, and his coward slaves, to reiterate and pro-
claim his bulls Of party accommodation against
all who were rash enough to follow an indepen-
dent Judgment These acts of themselves are
enough to sever allegiance. 1t would be an i'll
shapen manhood which could tolerate them in
silence. But because we denouncc them, we
are mathematical as rebellious. Sir we will
see where the rebellion will end. 1t will end in
the supremacy of the laws in the integrity of
the Constitutions in the publication of parties
in the sworn loyalty of executives and the Wig
orous growth, material greatness, and eternal
dominance of the North. That is where it will
end"
'fhose who stop to talk of Cancellation and
compromises between us and the self-constitut-
cd oracles of the Democratic party can have
but feeble appreciation of the real condition
of things. When YOU can harmonic light and
darkness, integrity and corruption, the patriotic
devotion OF the private citizen to the principles
of our Government with a tyrrany worse than
that of the middle ages, it will be time enough
to cry peace Let this truth be made prom
lnent-that there is an eternal antagonism be-
tween Freedom and Slavery. The constitution
of the human mind and the human heart makes
it inevitable; and the one or the other must
eventually gain the asccndancy. The struggle
between them, but Just begun, is now going on
IN our midst, and he is but superficial obsor-
yer who docs not discover it. We have acted
honorably-benevoently. For long, long years
we have defended the chartered rights of our
southern brethren; We have even conceded
their exactions; we have given them all the adj
vantages springing from unequal legislation
we have changed policy to suit their notions of
interest; until having grown fat, they demand
as prerogative what We granted as favor,
and having found President without affections,
a sworn officer not afraid of perjury, willing to
back their pretensions they would now treat us
as common enemy, and brand our names with
indelible infamy. They have done more-thev
have gone further-thcy have come amonst us
and bribed cupidity with gold, ambition with
,,o,,o -, "'.. ~, WIN .c"'Por"r! conse'
quence' 10 90 violence to justice: Longer for
e"l"''e NV oil! oeascs 10 oe Virtuous' cut 1t
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lo"s III Noeialice' truly, YET not lost we Will
su'e 'hein U! walls ana hre ana blood, II needs
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tion has heen accon,,;ohad u'h;oL "a Isunpa-
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movers If Con,ress IN ,tnso af ~" ''I ~ Vi .ne
TO carry out HE ,reocbor'' ,,s ho ha ioi
tho Rerrosertat;ros ~ 10 .o u.s. ie nus nHS"ileu
bribed the venoI re,ordoJ ~ Poopr; iJ nus
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ton If rho jot,or onJ sr;r, :" IS ,h .on.'a'en.
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mission Of rho ontro.e l. 200 p,a',;s une e"ll'-
doubted Il yos y, n,,rsh .o t an,.n 90 pe
south 70 forco slovar,' 'rou , i" VI " .he
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to disregard them was apostacy. More recent
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