Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-08-10


of Southern exactiou. When your reasonable
requests are denied. need not tell you, with
| earncstness and emphasis, it is because eight
millions of men control eighteen millions
through our representatives elected by par
ty pledged 60 interests adverse TO ours
Slavery educates its statesmen in high school
under able professors. IL teaches that the
Northern men are cowardly, and that their
ambition is linked with avarice and untor-
tunately for us, 10 has arguments TO iortiiy its
faith. In half a century it may not be credit
ed that less than dozen men, trained under
these circumstances, so alarmed PennsyIva-
MIA President as 30 induce him 20 rccast
message, violate the plighted faith upon which
he was elected, disgrace his native State, and
degrade the high office to which he had tnon
but recently been elevated And yet not on
ly this has been done almost within our pres
euce but the representatives of free constitu-
oncics have been induced 20 lend their aid to
force sorvile labor into competition with that
Of the white man. and a slave State into the
sisterhood Of indopendences TO throw the ball
ancc Of power against their own people. Some
Of these are now not only respectable members
Of the Douglas church, but missionaries among
the unbeleving and outside barbsrans. |
have some Of them very distinctly in my re-
| collection, and it would be quite refreshing to
| hear their remarks in laudation Of popular
sovereignty, such as they denied to Kansas,
and in dcnunciaton OF Southern demands, to
I which they succumbed as reluctantly as a
/ thrice seducod damsel to her lover. | believe
it was Mrabeau who said "the presents Of
despotsm arc always dangerous :" he should
have included. in his remark the threat of the
tyrant as we'll as his reward.
The allegation that Southern combinations
arc formed for the purpose of counteracting
opposition extremists, is a sheer false pretencc,
resorted 10 as a blind aud cheat No fears
ever sprung from such parcntagc. Slavery
does not exist by legal enactment anywhere ::
it is the child Of force, and as the sentiment
Of the world is against it, it cannot live with
ont the sustaining hand of power. Surround
ed by an atmosphcry of freedom tits necessari-
lyunsafe, e,and statutory safeguards and deiences
became necessary Vassaage and subjeotion
never impress themselves without violence,
upon the natural man. whilst, on the contrary,
the sentiment of freedom must forever dis
turb the subjects of a despotism. The South,
to be safe, must therefore. extend through
and beyond all the counteryailing influences
TO which have referred, and, consequently,
our frontier possessions must be captured.-
But as the inherent weakness Of the South
is not equal TO this task, craft is resorted to
to supply the needed assistance. Upon whom
can this be more advantageously brought to
bear than President without courage, a
Judge without candor. or a legislator without
integrity; We are sold OF betrayed hourly,
and il we had not more forbearance than dis
erection we would terrify traitors. Millions
of acres of fertile lands, every now and then,
are flched from our industrial classes, who
require them for the support and education of
their families, to lie turned into barren wastes,
by those who have already blasted more than
onc-half of our soils as with avalanche OF
fire. Factories and workshops are tottering
in ruins and families and neghborhoods left
starving and in rags, because fostered indus
try is not required in that region where the
laboring man has no rights which the owner
of men is bound to respect. And ships rot
at our wharves, and storehouses become but
a rendezvous for idlcrs and vagrants for the
reason that un-compensatod chattel sincws
yield fruits cheaper than compensated skill,
and require no shield against the pauper
products of Europe. If change of tariff
laws were required by the South instead OF
the North, they could not fail of its accom-
plshment. In that case the President would
advocate it with ardor, if not with sincerity
and our Senators would again illustrate the
fact Of their trucking subjection to those who
secretly abhor their baseness and inhdelity
Our earnest wishes are not only constantly
disregarded but our prosperity is remorse-
lessly paralyzed by our servants, without an
audible murmur on our part and we are not
much ayerse, as we have often proven. to con-
ferring new leases of office upon such as de-
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for mischief. Does this seem unaccountable;
suggest no, in view of the truth have but
Just stated, that the party selecting them has
its hearts and brain in the South, and its obey
ing members, merely, in the North. The re-
medy for this shameless evil is as easy as it
is simple. We need but initiate the example
set us by those who have caused this eondi-
ton of things. Concord and iuhexibility of
purpose will accomplish all we ask Nothing
else ever can or ever will We might as well
expect a divided and discordant army, mar
shaed under opposing generals, to capture
the powerful and thoroughly disciplined and
guarded city, as for Northern rights and
Northern honor to be sustained by men in
the pay and keeping of those who would
weaken and reduce us In the ordinary bu-
snoss of life we never trust the faithess and
hlNAuH'nb 4 Nal lAoh liN h' ibaNbh lNi NhhHh
ing such as sentinels over our entire fortunes.
Just so long as our Custom Houses, Post Of
fees, Navy Yards and Miuts shall be stocked
with thousands, selected virtually by those
who are IN banded opposition to us, and
whose principal business, we are instructed
to believe, is compounding politics with per-
fdy, it will be impossible to render our con
dition better than it is. These leper-yards
must be cleansed. Their occupants load the
air with a contagious corruption. Through
out their bodies and their souls, they bear the
marks vf distempter with which the aristo-
/ cratic pollutionist has touched them. ! risk
but little in saying, that at this very hour,
this mighty phalanx, scattered throughout
the eighteen Northern States, having com
mon and powerful bond Of union are devils
/ ing measures to despoil our industrial classes,
confnng them in densely crowded fields of
/ labor, or forcing them to enter into competl-
/ tion and companionship with ignorant and
bruiaized bondmen. They all, yes, all, have
been brought to believe that the doctrines of
| the Declaration of Independence are but
stereotyped lies that the founders Of the
nation had but a sorry conception Of inalien-
able rights that the Constitution which
thoy framed was intended as an instrument of