Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-11-24

| well to states where slaves cannot be reclaimed
on account of popular violence, as to those
having laws obstructing the fugitive slave bill.
The folly of the provision furnishing the people
of Georgia by q heavy tax on such northern
goods as they need to purchase is only exceled
by the magnity of the proposition to outlaw
northern citizens in Georgia, and legalize their
robbery and murder. AS matter of fact there
is at present no security for the life and proper
ty of northern man in any of the rabid pro-
slavery states, where the will of the mob is the
higher law; nor are southern born citizens any
better protected il they dare to differ from the
dominant mob-but so atrocious u proposition
as this in the Georgia legislature, to legaize
robbery and murder, we were not prepared to
see. 1t is hardly possible that it can become a
law but the fact that it is gravcy proposed goes
far towards justifing the most sweeping as
scrtions made as to the barbarism incident to
saveholding society
But what can be expected in state where
the chief magistrate is capable of such absurd
and preposterous stuff as distinguishes the late
message of Gov. Brown? Take the following
suggestions, for example =
"Sbould separation take place. and the
northern states take up arms against the people
of the South, and attempt to inctc our slaves
to Instruction, these northern white laborers
who have suffered so much injustice at the hands
of those who have wrung from them the hard
earnings of the sweat OF their brows, should
not only be informed of their rights, but they
should be encouraged to rise in their might and
divide among them the surplus of such north
ern capitalists as have received their labor for
many years without making just compensation.
After they have declared their independence Of
those who assume to be their masters, and who
will not associate with them as equals, they
should be invited to join our standard and to
| associate with us upon equal terms They
should be literally rewarded for their services,
should no longer be required to perform the
mental service of the negro, and should be
taught that the true aristocracy in the South is
an aistocracv, not of wealth, but of color and
conduct. We should not hesitate to spend
whatever sums of money may be necessary, to
give proper information upon this subject to
the down-trodden and oppressed laborers of the
North, and to encourage them, il case of diff
Guilty with the northern states to take into their
own hands that justice which has been so long
denied them by their naughty oppressors. As
we did not begin this warfare but it has been
! forced upon u.s. we should never end it, till the
! aggrcssors are the greatest sufferers. The gold
4 silver, and other treasures of proud and haugh-
! ~ northern abolitionists, would afford a rich
harvest to those in their midst, who have been
all their lives kept in poverty and obscurity
who are more loyal to the constitution of their
country, and much more worthy to enjoy those
treasures than thousands Of their oppressors
| who now possess them"
! Our northern working men will be highly
amused with this proposition to get up an in
surrccton among them. AS yet great many
southern men are just as proloundcdly ignorant
| as Gov Brown shows himself to be- of the con-
dition OF society in the free states. They have
so radical a conviction that labor and slavery
are essentially the same thing, and that capital
in some form or other necessarily owns and
governs the laborer, that they cannot comprc-
bend the political and social equality that pre-
walls among a community OF frecmen. The
idea of free man voluntarily working for
himself, instead of compelling an inferior to
work for him, and actually glorying in his own
independent seli-support is a greater mystery
to these plantation lords than any of the hard
knots of the metaphysicians. They do not com
/ prehend 1t, and cannot believe in it, and hence
such prcposterous recommendations as this of
Gov. Brown TO stir up instruction among
northern laborers. We should like to see Gov.
Brown engaged personally in such mission.
| He could do it with entire safety, though he
would he in some danger Of having his feelings
"toched' by the ridiculc Of our white slaves"
nnety-nine in every hundred Of whom have
more reasonable views of political economy and
| OF government and can vndicate them better,
/ than the governor of Georgia Let Gov Brown
ny an 'ntanS % aiieau WIN his iusul uNtiuiIa.v
| plots at the North. 1t will be rare sport. and
We shall be independent Of Punch and Vanity
fair Tor the winters -Sprinlfeid Rep.