Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-12-30

blood. the breath of their nostrils, and with. |
out it they will die. Let them not have
dollars worth Of it. Which of these States
is it that has not permitted its mobs to de-
prive us of our property? Which of them is
it whose citizens have not stolen and run on
our slaves? Where have their conservatives
been for the last twenty years? Why did
they not speak out before we commenced
arming? Asleep; dead to all care for US,
our rights, our interest, our peace, our safety.
What has walked them up now and caused
their skeleton forms to expose themselves to
the public gaze? Love for us? No but
the fear of losing our trade, and consequently
the ruin of their country, the fear of the hush
of the buzz of their spindles, & that the Jolly
" heave-o" of their sailors will die into an
echo"
" We prefer them as open enemies to false
friends. We have had quite enough Of them
and of this Union. The South has, within
itself every element of great nation, and all
we want is to cut loose from the free States
and form a Southern Confederacy. In
Southern Union is our only hope OF safety
our only chance for progress, and it Is mad
ness to delay. Now is the day and now Is
the hour (unless we mean to succumo 10
Northern aggression and submit to Northern
insolence and INSULT to stand forth and take
our stand as a separate nation, and ne"
power in the earth; let us march right to our
goal, peaceably if we can, forclbiy II we We
must. 1t is all a mistake that liberty VIII
perish with this Union-it will take up lUs
! home at the South and there abide.
Two or three things about the NY mon
| Saving meeting are worth noticing. one
was the letter from General Scott. Assuming
that the object of the meeting was Tor the
purpose of "allaying the distrust when is
now sowing discord among brethren' ne
assured the committee of his "lively sympa-
thy in it, though he declined to be present
He thought that in case OF any SERIOUS
outbreak" a vast majority of the people
would Join in the National cry ''the Union
must and shall be preserved In such a case
he said he should be on hand, at minutes
warning. Considering General SCOTS his
tory and his position in the army, the dlsun-
;ooists NAV take his remark for a hint worth
remembering.
The n. Y. Herald says that at one of the
outside stands where speaking was going on,
General Scott was nominated for President,
and Sam Houston for Vice President and
makes a great fuss over it, though the
other papers do not notice 1T The
notion of Tammany Hall leading off for Gen.
! Scott for President is a rich one. The very
thought of his election would set the South
ern disunionists to feeling of their necks.
Then there was the letter of Willard Fill
more, why, he had the audacity to charge
the whole uproar with which the nation IS
now disturbed. and John Browns expedition
into the bargain, to the unrighteous attempt
of the slavery-extensionists to spread slavery
by breaking down the Missouri Compromise,
and trying to force slavery into Kansas.
Moreover, if he did not say he was
sorry he signed the Fugitive-slave-law bill,
he said the act Of signing it was pam
FIJI one, which, with the pro-slavery
men, is Just as bad He will get no more
compliments from them. They will put him
over on to the Black Republican side at once,
and say he is as bad as Seward. Mr.. Fill
more's letter is 50 far in advance of any
thing which was heard from him while he
was dreaming OF being elected President,
that he deserves q eat credit for it. 1t did
not chime in with what the chief speakers
| said. bv a wide difference.
The speech of Prof. Mitchell, from Cincin-
natl. seems to have been as amusing to the
muluruue as any part Of tlio r'osf-rr'Aan"A
He went in strong for a new party, the grand
principle Of which should be that every mem
oer should hold himself bound neither to seek
nor accept Office! lie was ready to join
and how many Of those present would say
aye to his proposition - Would they al
agree not to accept of Office for five ye'rs !?
Voice from the crorCd-''Ask the gentle
mon on the STAGE - IShouts vt laughter.