Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-02-03
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

SOUTHERN PRESCRIPTION.
Liberty, especially in the enlightened State
of South Carolina, promises to become a
proverb. Mr.. Perley Seaver, of Oxford, a
year ago went to that State to superintend
steam saw mill, his employer also being an
Oxford man. BY industry and economy he
accumulated funds to purchase house, and
he thought himself settled for life. Mr.
Seaver, says the Worcester Transcript, was
quiet. religious man, and as there was no
preaching or other religious ex rcises in the
place, he was wont to call his neighbors to-
geth on the Sabbath to read the Bible and
hear a sermon. A rumor got round the vii
lage that " Seaver preached abolition ser
mons, but nothing was done about it until
Saturday nj .ht, Christmas Eve. At about
l o clock in the morning he was waited upon
by large delegation, who alter ransacking
his papers and books, and obtaining from him
an admission that FIVE negroes had attended
his meetIngs-how many whites attended is
not stated-ordered him to leave within
twenty minutes. Sedver offered 10 20 at
once, if they would buy his place, but this
they refused, and he came away within the
specified time, finding it impossible to dispose
OF his property.
1t has been commonly supposed that men
at the South, pursuing their honest avoca-
tons, and minding strictly their own bust
ness, would not be molested But that state
Of things is becoming obsolete, if we may
Judge from the light Of the foregoing. The
subject is farther illustrated by the Atlanta
(Ga.) COnfderay, which suggests the fol-
lowing as a shibb)leth for Northerners who
desire to visit the South
We regard every man in our midst an enemy
to the institutions Of the South who does boldly
declare that be she believes African Slavery to
be social moral and political blessing. Any per
son holding other than these sentiments, whether
born at the south North, is unsound and should
be requested to leave the country"
Were a like requirement with this to be
published from Italy, the world would cry
out, shame
Mr.. CoRwN's speech on Monday and
Tuesday Of last week is spoken of as one of
remarkable interest and ability, holding the
undivided attention of all who heard it.
members. senators and strangers. The Ny.
Ir15une's Correspondent says of it:
Though this speech exhibited all the
salient features Of Mr.. Corwin's elouuence,
wit, hnmor, drollery, pathos, happy CLASH
cal illusions, apt historical illustrations,
quaint Biblical expositions, garnished and
set off with those unique gestures and
dramatic expressions of countenance for
which he is celebrated. vet, its leading
characteristic was the majestic march of the
argument. Amid all the glitter of the light
er and gayer weapons of attack and retort.
there was heard the incessant booming of the
heavy artillery of logic in defence of the main
that the doctrines of the re-
publican party, and especially their opinions
upon the power and duty of Congress to in
hiblt Slavery in the Territories, were
identical with the teachings of the trainers
Of the Constitution, and the great men who
had expounded its provisions in the Legisla
tive, Judicial, and Executive Departments of
the Government He caused the words and
the acts of jefferson, Washington. Madison.
Marshall, Monroe, Crawford, Calhoun,
Adams, Writ. Clay, and Webster, to pass in
ing and solemn review before his auditory,
he, all the while, pouring along their path
he glowing light of fervid and approaching
'ulogy. In those portions of his speech
where he dwelt upon The policy of the faith
,rs of the Republic in excluding Slavery from
The North-W Territory, and of their elder
sons IN lnhiblting it north OF the parallel of
Sc 30, he rose to the level of his theme
lttering sentences of tran>cendent eloouence.
His answer to the charge that the re-
publican party is responsible for Brown s
INVASION Of Harper's Ferry: his interiected
ketch of Brown as Puritan of the
Jromwellian type, around whom the angels
# the Most High encamped night and day,
MS charge that the Free Soil resolutions of
)emocratic State Conventions, passed in
o4o (Which he ready were far more likely
o have melted Brown to his attack on
! lrginla than the speeches of Seward; his
hallenge to the South to quote anything
rom the most ultra abolitionsts more in ,
endlary than the writings and speeches of
Jefferson and other slavehoders, which he
tied. were given in his happiest vein, both |
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