Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-02-24


ty are upholding in power. want the de-
luded masses Of the Northern Democracy
to see the hypocrisy, the arrant cowardics
OF their leaders at home, who are faiiguing
the weary oar Of the country with their
WORKOUT professions of love aud devotion
TO the Union, while they dare not rebuks
the disloyal avowal' and menanccs Of the
leaders they Ellow with craven soul and
fet,cred lip,
When, NJ. President, thu Republican
party. summoned into being and into aciicW
in 1856, by the aggressions of slavery, By
the crimes against the people Of Kansss.
! appealed in tones as earnest rs ever issued
from human lips, to the American people.
TO their sense of justice, their love Of lib.
er,y, their emotions of humanity, and their
sentiments of patriotism, to all that is high.
est, noblest, and holiest in human nature, to
rescue the government, arrest slavery ex.
tension, redress the wrongs of the people,
and give rePose to the country, by restor.
ing the government to the policy Of Wash.
ing,on and J, iferson. Democratic presses
and Democratic leaders, whose vital and
animaiing principle is the propagation and
expansion of human slavery on the North
American continent, raised the startling war
cry Of disunion. Timid and selfish conser.
vatism. which saw, unmoved, liberty cloven
down in distant Territory, and heard the
imploring appeals for protection Of freemen
whose sacked and burning cabins illumined
the midnight skies. shrank appalled, when il
heard this cry Of disunion, opened its long
purse, and continued the dcstinies Of the
country in the keeping of men who avowcd
their intention to ruin if they could not rule
it.
TIE FREMONT TcAMPAIGN--wHATw WAS SAID.
Sir, when that uncertain contest was GO
ing on, when the election Of Fremont seem.
ed to the leaders of the Democracy not only
possible but probable, the Senator from
Louisiana, (Mr. Slidell), one of the most
skllful leaders of the slave Democracy
the acknowledged friend and champion of
Mr.. Buchanan-declared to the country
that "if Fremont should be elected the
Union would be dissolved" The bold, DASH
ing, and out-spoken Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Toombs) declared with emphasis, that
"if Fremont was elected the Union would
be dissolved and ought to be dissolved"
The Senator from Virginia (Slr. Mason)
then, as now, at the head Of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs, who avowed on the
| floor of the Senate that "ihe South has the
right to the natural expansion of slavery a.
an element of political power" declared in
public letter that unless the aggression
upon the rights of the South, as he was
pleased to designate the resistance of the
people of the North against slavery exten-
sion, ceased, he was for ''the separation Of
these States" Mr.. Butler Of South Caro-
lima, then leading member Of the body,
which placed him at the head of the impor-
tant Committee on the Judiciary, said:
"When Fremont is elected, we must ro-
ly upon what we have--a good State gov
ernment. Every Governor of the Sonth
should call The Legislature of his State to-
gether, and have measures of the South de-
cided upon. If they did not, and submit
ted to the degradation, they would deserve
the fate of slaves. ! would advise my
Legislature to go at the tap of the drum"
Sir, ! might quote other declarations Of
Senators, in which these ideas are express
ed; but must pass on. In the House, a.
the records will bear evidence, these senti.
ments were profusely uttered by the men
who upheld the course Of oppression in
Kanzas, and dictated the policy of the
Democratic party. Mr.. KEITT, in fiery
and vehement speech to the people Of Lynch
burg, Virginia, exclaimed, in view of the
apprehended election of Fremont:
Il tell you now, that il Fremont is elect
ed, adterance to the Union is treason to
liberty. cloud cheers) tell you row.
that the Southern man who will submit to
his election is traitor and a corard. En-
thusiastic cheers0"
This speech so contemptuous, SO defiant
towards the people of the North, so en-
phatic in its avowals of disunion, was prompt-
ly endorsed rs "sound doctrine" by John B.
Floyd, now Mr.. Buchanan's Secretary of
War--a gentleman Of whom the Boston
Post, the leading Administration organ in
New England, in 1850, said, 'henceforth ho
must be treated as disunionist, and tho
most dangerous of them ALL In the au-
tumn of 1856, Mr.. Brooks of South Caro-
lima, received from the people of his dis
trict an ovation. Senator Butler, and the
Senator from Georgia Mr.. TooMBs at
tended, and other Southern Democratic
leaders sent applauding letters. To tho
assembled people of his district, Mr.. Brools 8
said:
ave have the issue upon US now; and
how are we TO meet it? L tell you, fellow
from the bottom of my heart. that
the only mode which / think avai!able for
meeting it is Just TO tear the Conaitsfios n