Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-09-07


the States in all the territories, and the right
of the people TO determine the slavery Ques-
ton for themselves when they come to form
State Constitution. That is the only true
Democratic doctrine.
Few at e South deny the power Of Congress to pass
laws ir hc protection Of slave property ia the ierrto
rics-l cert0uily d0 Hof.-I HerscheU y. JchHa0H.
Mr. Johnson is the candidate Of the Doug
las party for the Vice Presidency. Are these
things consistent;
~ $50 long as God allows the vital cur
rent to flow through my veins l will never,
neUer, NEVER, by word or thought by mind
or will, aid in admitting one rod Of free ter
ritory to the everlasting curse of human bond
age. '- Henry clay b tie Senate.
Dogs arc said to "spoal with their tails &"
-Hrs Hail.
Then you will admit that bob-tailed dogs
are ,tump-orators.-H1nior@ Times.
CuANeE OF SENrMENr.-Gcorgo Wash
ngton, the father of his country, omancpated
all his slaves by will, and it was regarded in
that day as the crowning act of his wisdom
and devotion to liberty.
The other day an old gentleman of the
South sought to emancipate his slaves, and
the act was regarded as prima Jocis evidence
Of imbecilty or insanity.
Washington directed that his young slaves
should be taught to read and write and proyid-
ded means to deiray the necessary expenses
thereof But now the very act of teaching q
slave to read or write is punished as a felony
by the law of his native State of Ntrginia.--
Was Washington a fanatic, a fool OF knave
along with his compatriots Of the Revolution,
or is 1t the present generation OF slaveholding
Statesman who make the imitation of w ash
ington crime
~ Hon. Joseph b. Varnum, Jr. leading
American of Now York, refuses 10 follow in
the footsteps Of Hunt and Brooks; and pro-
nounccs in favor of Lincoln and llamlin.
~ Gov. Stevens, of Oregon, chairman of
the Breckenridge and Lane National Com
mittce, has received letter from Mr. Brock
cnridgc, in which he emphaticaly contradicts
all rumors in relation to his withdrawing his
name from the presidential canvass.
- Douglas not having found his mother
in "Maiue, is going to put for Virginia
at once.
10 The late State election in Texas, re-
suited in the triumph the Bockonridge party
hl Il ial ~ h0NlA ANl NllNo NllNNhAhH RHlA AANhn-
ton of the presidential track entirely.
Prentice says there is but one kind of trade
that your true ire-eater doesn't regard as
plcbeian and vulgar-and that's the slave
trade.
10 A Western letter says that Carl Shurz
will probably be the successor of Mr., Durkee
in the IT, S. Senate, whose term expires in
1861.
Douglas paper in Kentucky says that its
friends in that State are now perfectly unit
ed-that there is but one watchword-ono
cry among them" We don't wonder that
the poor afflicted fellows are all taking one
good long "cry' together.-Preatice.
Abiding to the late great Lincoln demon
straton at Wilmington, Del, the State Jour
nal declares that "it has awakened much
spirit in the Lincoln men of this county, who
have set the ball in motion, and it will not
cease rolling until November, when they will
poll heavy vote for their candidates. Let
the glorious beginning made on Friday night
be carried on until Delaware takes her place
in the gaeat Republican phalanx."
~ The Breckenridge Democracy, on their
return from the State Convention. at White
River Junction, gave three hearty cheers for
Gov Seward who happened to be at the De-
pot at Windsor. This courteous compliment
to the New York Senator, much distresses
Brown, Of the Age, and be vents his spleen
accordingly, considering it as an intimation of
friendship between the two partos.- Times.
- Tho editor Of the Jackson County In
diana Union, a joint stock concern, hosted
the Breckenridge flag, and in the next issue
he completes the story "Ihe result of it
is, six Of the stockholders Ga majority caught
me By the editorial back Of the neck and scat
Of the brooches, and left the concern"
AN EDITOR AssAULrEp.-B C.. Nancey
a son Of Col. Wm. L. Yancoy attacked Col.
Sicbles, editor of the Montgomery Con/edcr-
ation, in the streets Of Montgomery on the
22d inst, for editorial comments on Ianccy's
course. They were separated before any
considerable damage was done. Mr.. Siebles
is a Douglas man.
70 Mr.. Marsh, in his great book on the
English Language gives some curious facts
in regard to words The vocabulary of the
language now contains nearly hundred thou
sand words, of these, Milton only used eight
thousand, and Shakespeare but fifteen thou
sand.
~ At Breckenridge meeting held at
New York the other evening, Daniel S. Dick
nson said that when n. England and North
western delegates at Baltimore promised their
States to Douglas, that pledge was made
"suLjed 10 slight mcumbrmce h'd by one
Abraham Lincoln" Pretty good
Douglas has given up all idea Of carrying
the North, is going down South to stump.
In Rhode Island 4" he thought more Of clans
than he did of negroes. OF course in Vir-
ginia he will have to think more of negroes
than Of clans"