The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-02-03

can lava until the woods and prairies were
on fire. Cripples turned soldiers; pulpits
and lager beer saloons were turned into po-
litical forums church choirs shouted hosan-
mas to the Republican cause; women enter
ed the arena Of politics, and from donation
parties and sewing societies they hoisted the
Republican flag; office-seekers and negroes
split their throats and lungs in blowing the
Republican horn. When the smoke and
steam from the battlefield had cleared away
at the north, such spectacle vas never be-
fore seen. Democratic ex-Seuators and ex-
members of Congress, who had entered the
ring for Gubernational honors, were piled up
indiscriminately with defeated county officers
ard members Of the legislature, some dead,
some dying, some kicking, some shot in the
back, some in the neck. those not mortally
wounded limping and groaniug, and all curs-
ing. Towns, Counties and States were
slaughtered in mass. Only four States from
the entire north held on to the tattered and
torn Democratic banner. The whole party
was in sackcloth and ashes at the North.
In the Southern States the tables were
completely turned. The people Of the south
anticipated this combined army of the north,
and saw that they would be overwhelmed un-
less they united as one man. This they re-
solved to do. They built up breastworks Of
alternate layers of cotton and niggers, and
by battallions formed their forces behind
these impregnable defences. They stood
firm, received the bombs and missiles of what
they termed these northern vandals, until the
proper time, when they rose, made one bold
charge on the 5allot-box, and bore away the
prize, and elected Buchanan and Brecken-
ridge. Since the Inauguration of Mr. Bu-
chanan the fight between the North and
South has increased with double vengeance.
The Republicans, made bold with their sue
cess, re-opened their batteries on the south Z;
editors of newspapers lashed the institution
Of slavery and the Slave States with storm
of invective; from the pulpit and the lecture
room there was one eternal howl about sla-
very. Kansas became the battlefield of hos
tile armies, and the Potter's Field for dispo-
sing of all the dead carcasses in the Demo
cratic party. The Underground Railroad
was thoroughly repaired, speed increased
and fare reduced" The frontier of the bor-
der Slave States was nearly depopulated of
their slaves. An armed force, seventeen
strong, attacked Slave State under the very
guns Of United States Arsenal. The SOU
thern States became alarmed, the several FIX.
ecutives issued procamations ordering all
northern or Yankee school teachers, tin
clock, itch-ointment, pain-killer, and all pill
pedlars to leave the Southern States. 200
900 free negroes have been banished, and
will soon be OH their way north to join the
Republican army. They erected the gibbe,
and tried and executed five persons for mur
der and high treason, aud indicted the whole
universal Republican party as accessory be-
fore the fact.
The President, in the place of reposing or
his lanrels, and basking in the glorv Of Pres
idential honors, has been nesting on hatch
el si:ce his election. Congress has assem-
Iled, and tha, same old niger is in the tenc'
still Northern and southern belligeren
members grswl at each other like two mat
terriers over tainted bone, or make up IA
ces like two soured urchins over a game of
marbles. No speaker, no money, mo moth
ing.' One portion conlending that slav
is protected by law in all the States in tran
sit, and permanently protected in all the ,er
ritorial domain another that the minute h
enters free State or Territory his shackle
fall and still another that slavery anywher
in Gods Empire is illegal, and that it is th
, duty Of every Christian and philanthropist
attack it. On this latter basis John Brow
erected his platform, but the bottom droppe
out, and it proved to BE- his deadfall.
One OF the principal causes of the preseu
controversy in Congress is the President;
canvass soon to take place, ard the construe
ton of the new platforms on which the tw
/ contending parties are to assemble. prt
| pose plan to end this disgraceful controvel
sy, by new order Of things. Let there b
, erected one platform let it be walled up an
: barricaded after the manner of Spanis
Amphitheatre for National bull-fghts; sele,
,, from the north all the hot heads, govern
, ment-haters and negro-stealers-from tn
: south all the fre-skulls, Union-haters, an
: advocates of foreign slave-,raGe; arm bot
: parties with daggers and knives Of the keel
, est steel, and revOlvers loaded to their mu;
! zles, and sure fire; place them on this bul
, fight platform, bar the doors, let them pr,
: ceed to cut each other in pieces, and bio
+. out what few brains there are in the crow,
}, Should any survive the conflict, let all zoo
: citizens rise in mass and drive them out O
1 the limits Of the United States as unwortf
r the protection of the best government ev'
Instituted by man. When this is done, /
i the conservative portion Of the people a
e semble and erect new platform. Let i
: foundation be the rock of the Constitute
: as it was handed down by cur forefathers,n n
e mystified by the sophistry Of crime-cover,