Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-11-30

by our benevolence.
LincOIn-SecessiOm Lib
erty Laws.
Thus far the more we have seen of Mr..
Lincoln, the better we like him, and the more
does the country become impressed that he
is eminently we'll qualified for the post to
which he has been chosen. His course in
not yielding to the c1amor of the old hunk
ers of the North and disunionists of the
South, not to mention few timid republic
cans, for proclamation of his intentions,
is justly admired by the great mass OF his
supporters. We believe Mr. Lincoln's pol
icy will be fully up to the republican stand
ard. 1t may be well to remember in this
connection that Mr.. Lincoln and the Re-
publicans of Illinois, occupy position
quite as thoroughly republican as many of
their friends in other States. When Mr..
Douglas come out against the Lecompton
constitution, many republicans out of Hi
nois favored his return to the Senate, but
Mr.. Lincoln, Senator Trumbull and other
leading republicans of that State who knew
him best, dissented and ran straight Re-
publican ticket, and denounced in strong
terms any lo,Uering Of the Republican
standard, to gain temporary ends. We al
ways admired the course of the Illinois re-
publicans in that contest, and it is with
pride that we point to the fact that the pres
ident elect was the standard bearer on that
occasion.
We are led to these remarks from the
fact, that since some of the slave ridden
States, South Carolina in particular, have
worked themselves up into such a state of
demoniac frenzy, few republican papers,
we are glad to say they are few thus far
have come out for the repeal Of the per-
sonal liberty laws, and in some instances,
of all anti-slavery Legislation in the north
ern States. We need not say that we do
not sympathize with this timid, time-serving
policy of old hunkerism. 1t is the same
spirit which brought forth the pro-slavery
compromise and iniquitous fugitive slave
law of 1850, and finally eliminated in the
repeal of the Missouri compromise, which
created more trouble to the country, and
more slavery agitation than all other thing:
, combined Should any party or set of mer
bring forward such policy again, they
r would Justly meet with the fate of states
men at that period.
1t is passing strange that some people
at the North are totally oblivous of al
{ past lessons, Did the South support Web
n ster at the whig convention of 1852? No
a they. Not vote would they give him
3 Nor would they support Gen. Scott, not
Q withstanding Fillmore and his wing admin
: istraion had chained up Boston Cour
!. House, with fugitive slave within, and tn,
two great parties of the North both prom.
ised in their platforms to hunt negroes an,
to abide by that compromise. Then it wa
when they had got us completely down ant
Inundated, with their heels fast on GU
necks, that they RACED an old landmark an,
: attempted toopen territory to slavery, whicl
had been free from that curse for more tina
thirty years.
Next, the personal liberty laws have nc
> been issues in the late campaign. II is
matter of State rights. If any of thes
laws are unconstitutional the courts ca
e take care of that. Besides personal libel
ty laws are necessary. There is scarcely
week that in some State, free persons al
not kidnapped and carried into slavery.
is only last week that man upon who
e the slave power had no legal claim, WI
= actually stolen, and carried him off in
bondage. This man had learned to res
and write, and but for the fact that he wro
note and threw it out of the windo
: where he was confined, to boy who toc
,e it where directed, his story would new
have been known. In his case, even 4
y forms of the infamous fugitive slave Ia
u were not gone through with, and when
rs writ of habeas corpus was made cut Cor hi
as Marshal Rynders brought forward anoth
negro of the same name, while others e
&c, gagged in the rascality were carrying off I
sh man for whom the writ was intended.
= This talk about personal liberty laws
all sham on the part of the South a
IN their allies at the North. They have c
Of isied for twenty years. One difficulty
lys the South is, they Do nc; understand the ?