Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-11-30
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poses may have encouraged. She e..-. pains
that the fugitive slave law is not execo'eu III
some of the states. This, if true, the whole
country knows to be sham. so lar as
South Carolina is concerned, she is so situa'
ted that no slave can escape from her limits
into free states. However mnoh cause inc
border slave states NAV have TO complain Vi
the escape of their negroes INTO the lre'
states, it IS clear that ooutn Caroiil,' oan
have No such complaint. In her resolve sue |
processes to be preparing to deiend herSei.
against encroacfment on her rights. Let
her adhere to this policy, and not attempt
to dictate to other states what they shall 90,
and no collision will occur, for no encroa CHI
ments will be made.
The disunion feeling in the South Is,
doubtless, greatly exaggerated A sort OF
terrorism seems to prevail in some places,
which, for the time, appears to have crushed
out any manifestation of Union sentiment:
But as the causes for the excitement are all
imaginary. the election of Repubiican
President. in the constitutional mode, GER
| tainlv affording no excuse for it, 1t is reason
| able to suppese that reaction Will soon
take place among the Southern people them
selves, which will overthrow the dlsunlonists
| at home. 1t is a great mistake to class the
supporters of Mr. Breckenridge as disunion-
| lists. Some few of them may be, but Mf.
Breckenridge himself and his supporters, a 5
| n class. are doubt not, as sincerely at
| tacbed TO the Union as many of those VINO,
| for political purposes, during the recent ez-
| cited contest, sought &c fasten on them fhe
stigma of disnnion,
Should the conservative and Union men in
| any particular locality be unable 70 cope with
| their adyersaries, and South Carolina or any
other State, under the lead OF Uul!Ifiers and
| disunionists who have iOr years Leen seeking
| a preteXs for breaking up the government,
| piunce into rebellion, and without cause
assail by force OF arms the con. tituted au-
| thorities Of the Union, there will he but one
| sentiment among the great mass OF tie poop
| lie of all parties. and in ali parts Of the coun-
| try. and that Will be that ''the Union
must and shall be preserved and wo : to the
| traitors who are uarshalled against it.
Should any Republican inquire, what has
been gained by the triumph OF Republicanisn.
| | answer much We have gained decision
of the people in favor Of q Pacific railroad
a homestead policy-a judicious tarf-thc
! admission into the Union of Kansas as IL free
state-a reform in the financial department
off the government and more important than
all, the verdict of the people-the source Of
power. and from whose decision there. is no
| appeal! that the constitution is not a slavery
extending instrument.
Freemen, both of the North and Of the
South will hereafter be projected in ali their
constitutional rights. The policy Of the
government, as of old. viii now set in favor
Of freedom. and not for the supremacy OF
slavery. as has been the ease for the last six
years. Freedom heRce.orth will be the law
of the territories, because The people, III their
majesty. have 81 ordered, and neither courts
nor Congress viii i've ale to thwart taci?
viii. When full effect shall have t,en gwen
to all these great measures Of the Republican
party, and the prcjadices ensendcred against
il in the minds of many, by tie artiul ap-
peals of dcmagogues. who have misrepres MT
cl its OK ects, snail have been removed by
actual Knowledge OF its acs, we may expect
the bitterness OF party spi.t TO su'side, the
cry OF di,anion to be hu5hed. and the pra-
cipes OF Republicansm to become the per-
manent policy OF the government, under
which 1t Will flourish and prosper, as trust.
forever.