Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-11-02
Reelection of Jacob Collamer--
Advance in Public Sentiment
Presidential Election, &c.

Advance in Public Sentiment
Presidential Election, &c.
Hon. Jacob Collamer has been re-
elected at the present session of our
legislature, to serve the state anoth-
er term in the United States Senate.
This will be his second term in that
branch. He received the unanimous
vote Of the republican party in joint
ballot, making his majority consider
ably above two hundred. Next to
Samuel 5. Phelps, Mr. Collamer is
the ablest man that Vermont has pro-
duccd for many years. Such man
as he is a credit to the state, and
when he rises in his seat to address
the senate, senators listen with be-
coming respect, for they well know
that he brings to the aid Of his sub
iect a capacious and well stored
mind, and drives his facts home with
irresistible power
Time was, and at no very remote
period either, when Vermont stood
at best not above par in the charac-
ter Of her congressman; they were
men clever, but not according to the
English Specification Of the term.
They were in the main harmless crea-
lures, inoflensive non-resistants who
crine ed beneath the scowls of south
ern domincering blacklegs, because
they feared-simple dolts that they
wcrc-that if they did not vote at
the crack Of the Carolina whip, this
dear Union which had been cement
cd togther by the blood Of so many
battle fields, would be dissolved and
the sovereign states like drunken
men be iostled one against another
till our glorious confederacy would
end as it begun-in blood. And not
Vermont alone, the rest of New
England, and indeed the whole north
was too often guilty Of the same sill
illness. Now, however, all is changed
Vermont and the rest Of the nortl
save here and there the debris o
temocracy-have thrown off the fear
that held them, and dane now to as
SORT their rights in the boldest Ian
guagc of freemen.
From being the arrogant and con
ccited bully, which presumed to car
ry its points by threats and blustel
the south has come to comprehen,
its own utter helplcssness, an
will soon be upon its knees befor
the august parsonage Of "Hones
Old Abe, the first republican pres
dent. The silly cry of " secession,
and Of " disunion" will soon agai
be hushod, not to be revived till az
other four years shall demand q ne,
executive.
The progress Of slavery is check
cd it is stopped. Not another inc
Of American soil can be appropri;
tcd to this national curse. VIVA
John c. Calhoun, its great apostl,
so much feared, the surrounding
the slave states bya Gordon of fire
ones, has been consummated, and i
limits are thus restricted. All thel
isto donow is toconiine it to its pre-
ent bounds and let it die a naturi
death. May God speed its diss
luton
This blessed result has been bro
about by the frlnness of a few ste
ling expomders of those aselfey
dent truths" which are incorporate
in the Great Charter of America
liberties; accomplished by such tn
men as Seward, Chase, Gliding
Hale, and others, who have battle
manfully for the right when to pr
fess the principles they now do WI
Il reproach even in the free state
And Vermont has done her part t
ward securing the victory which III
been won. Her Representative,
have reflected the sentiments of Il
people which have quietly but sure