Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-07-20
make a signal addition to the list of worthy
representatives from the North.
1.-THE WORLD"

ever started with more sounding pretensions.
If all that was said of it by its projectors
and friends during its period of CESSATION
were to be believed, New York City was to
have in It's birth, for the first tme'
model newspaper-a journal to be dlstln-
guished from all others by Its ability, Its
versatility. its strict adherence to the line Of
sound principles in business, politics, relig
ion and morals 1t was to be paper which
the merchant, the farmer, the mechanic, the
man Of study, the lawyer, the divine, the
MUSICIAN, the father and the mother, might
rejoice to see, which the old and the young
might take delight in and profit by, and the
world at large be signally the better for
Capital in profusion was said to be provided
for it, and If like other great bodies 1t was
slow in getting into motion, when once
fairly started, its movement was to be so
much the grander, and its accomplishment
to be 50 much the more an object Of general
admiration.
VANITY Far suggests that, SIN view OIL the
antiquity and fossiliferous nature Of the new
daily, called "THe World, - its name be alter
ed to "The World before the Flood. . The
lester hits one obvious characteristic OF It's
columns. For that distemper the patient
might take physic and recover but it shows
SYMPTOMS of a disease which is constitutional,
which no medicine can reach. 1t looks as if
it was in the bone. 1t is in this respect that
we feel most disappointed. We did expect to
see "THe World - take a firm position for
the principles political as well as moraD
which were laid down and supported by
those noble men of the last century,
whose names are ever to be seen as a glory
around the brow Of our National Government
as it rose from the sea of RevolutiOn and which
no clouds Of selfshness and corruption in
later and less patriotic generations can ever
obscure. We did expect to see it labor boldly,
clearly, and steadily to bring our country
back to those principles, from which
the Government has 50 far wandered, to be
resolute to unmask the sophistry, and to re
buke the corruption which have so long been
undermining the primitive free institutions
Of our country and gradually riyeting on the
necks of our people the CALLING chain of an
inexorable slayeholding oligarchy. But the
way Of The World is not so. Essentially the
paper appears as a Union saver Its cry is
''peace, peace" Its ambition is to be called
an independent Journal - and 50, on the
question that is discussed and to be discussed
freely and fearlessly in every town and ham
let of the nation, that in spite Of the protest
atoms Of timid merchants and time serving
politicians, forces itself into every religious,
moral or political organization, and viii not
down at any bidding-the question Of FREE
DOM, Of free institutions, and the innate
rights Of man, great moral as well as polit-
zeal question, it is afraid to take decided
ground looks first one way and then anoth-
er,paddles little in all directions. and makes
positive Roadway in none.
"THc WorlF' discusses the platforms of
the Republicans, the Douglas democracy and
the Breckenridge democracy, and it does not
see any very great differences between them.
"THe World'' thinks "Mr Bell Is the best
candidate for the Presidency now in the
field, but nobody supposes that he has any
chance Of an election
Mr.. Everett, it thinks, to be sure, lacks some
of the qualities which belong to a party lea
-.r," but as a statesman merely, "no man
in the country is entitled TO take rank Of
him" Were WASHINGTON now alive, he
might be found as deficient in the arts which
make a great party chiefas is Mr.EyERETT.
Mr. Breckenridge letter of acceptance, 1t
says, Contains a subterfuge though probablyhe
was unconscious OF it, that his doctrine does
really amount to this, that Congress ought
to legislate for the protection Of slavery IN
the territories, and it is hardly fair to call
that non-intcIyention-t stealing Doug
las thunder but after all "there Is little in
these novel demands that ought to excite
alarm in the North. at would be haz-
arJous venture for southerncr to take his
slaves into a territory in face Of the superior
energy with which the North pours in It's
colonies of free laborers, and of the fact that
the moment a State government is formed,
the multitudinous free emigrants can exclude
slavery at their pleasure Evidently in
"THe Worlds view no harm would come
if Mr.. Breckenridge should be elected.
But like other journals which make special
claims to be considered independent, its tone
is quite different when it talks of what is
said by a Republican. 1t has lately shown
its independence" by column Of abuse on
Senator Sumner, for his last great speech
the one before the Cooper institute in New
York.
The Republican Senators, Of whom Mr..
Sumner is one, taken together form body Of
men which, for ability, far-sighted wisdom,
honesty, and fearless devotion to the great
principles which rest at the foundation OF the
Government, have never, in our opinion,
been surpassed since the time Of the trainers
of the Constitution. They are not all equal
in glory, but all are stars. Each in his own
place can do his work ably and well and
Mr. Sumner justly ranks high among them.
His learning and gentlemanly accomplish
ments, his scholarly method Of investigating
great questions, his statesmanlike views on
all national concerns, must be acknowledged
by every person not possessed with an
'infnite zeal to be thought independent. -
lie has also a strong hold upon the respect
and ati-ction of the people of the North, not,
as Z. The ITorld' says, because he was once
! brutallv assaulted in the Senate Chamber,
but because he has decided and clear views
Of the crimInality Of human slavery, and is
not afraid to TO express them-and does
it in manner unanswerable, except by
the bludgeOn or the revolver. But " The
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