Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-07-20

would THE World have him call sucn trans-
actions? or would it have the facts quietly
ignored, for fear of danger to the Union?
"THe World'' complains that Mr.. Sumner
tells of the blunted moral sense and clouded
perceptions of the STAKEHOLDER 1t laments
that he should speak of slavery as . a i've
headed wrong, 'and because the orator declares
that ''his soul sickens in contemplation OF the
acts of dishonest tyranny which have been
perpetrated by this dOmineering power"
"The World thinks he exhibits " diseased
and unhappy feeling" If expressions such
as these are evidence of disease, then the
whole civilized portion of this people is dis
eased. to an extent far beyond the power OF
relief from the catnip tea and other mild
drinks that such nurses as 'sIhe Horld'
prescribe. These words Of Mr.. Sumner find an
echo in the heart of almost every man, woman
and child north Of Mason DixOn's line, and
of thousands south of it too, though they may
not vet dare to make it known. But the
time is rapidly coming when even there, men
can be free to speak as Washington, as JEFF
ferson, as Patrick Henry, as Edmund Ran
dolph, and other noble men of nobler and
purer days, spoke and wrote Of that direst
curse which ever befel people-slavery.
For our part we think that in this matter of
slavery things should be called by their fright
names-that the clique Of Southerners who
boast, truly boast, of having so long con-
trolled the government and warped the des-
tiny of the nation from its original course,
should hear and hear often what the
people of the North really think
of their system Of human bondage and its
atrocities, and of all who defend or
wink at them they may thus in time learn
that cajoleries, INVESTIGATIONS, and rewards
of Office will no longer divert the attention
of the people from the real object for which
the Union was formed Bythat time too, the
projectors of "TRe World will have learned
that the people have dispensed with the use
of soothing drinks as cures for desperate dis
eases; that though Castle Garden committee
men and cotton merchants may protest and
southside viewing divines lament, the fact
nevertheless is patent as the sun at monday,
that slavery is a barbarian practice-that
it tends to barbarize the communities where
it preyails-that the blood which occasional
" flows from beneath the doors of its cham
bers declares the atrocious nature Of the
Blue-beard despotism Of the owner.
The day Will come when the habitatlons
of cruelty shall be laid open to the world
The legal and constitutional political rights
of the slayeholding States none would inter-
fere with, As Mr. Sumner himself says in
the speech which "The WORTH is 50 troubled
about, whatever may be the promptings Of
sympathy and Of godlike philanthropy, moth
inc is clearer than that our political duties
depend simply upon our political response
bilities and since we are not politically re
sponsible for slavery in Charleston, or in
Constantinople, so in neither place have we
any political duties in gard to it. Lament
it wherever it exists we must, and surround
its victims with our prayers, but our action,
while inspired by these sentiments, must rest
within the landmarks Of the law and the
Constitution.
Nevertheless the day is coming when from
the force ofenlightened public sentiment and
the action OF the general government, legally
ezerted under and according to the Constitu-
ton Southern men shall agree with Northern
men that slavery is "a five headed wrong"
whose death IS to be waited for with patience,
bat with hope