Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-12-22
VERMONT AND CALEB CUSHING.

1t is quite evident that Caleb Gushing does
not think very much Of Vermont any way, and
that he particularly despises her political record
He recently made a speech in his village of
Newburyport, which, like one OF Cobb's mot
the late treasurer, but Sylvanus,) stories in the
New York Ledger, was not completed in one
number, hut was continued from day to day I'M
til he gave out, like the Deacon's lone horse
shay" altogether. Its pertinent to remark
that Cushing's audience gave out several days
sooner than he did, or there is no knowing but
that the old vehicle would be running now
In this frequently continued speech Caleb VEN
tilates his opinion of Vermont as follows:
"Yet so it is, nv friends; yernont-whose rela-
tions are quite as much Canadian MS American.-Ner
mont, which has nothing TO gain or lose by union or
disunion",which is too far separated from the heart
of the Union to warm with its pulsations, which re-
ceives all its impressions Of the internal condition of
the Southern States from abolitonists libes or is own
morbid ~fancy,-which is never disturbed by demands
of extradition, vermont has determined that what
ever she in her limited sphere can DO 10 Dissolve the
Union shall be done, and that nothing shall be done
which in her limited sphere she might do to preserve
the Union"
Now we remember the time when the late
Horace Everett of Vermont was so much in
the habit of telling what he believed to be the
truth about the iniquitous system of Southern
slavery that the conservative of the Country
were wont to stigmatize him as an "abolitionist. >
Mr. Everett was at that time a member of Con-
gress from this State. At the same time Ca
leb Gushing was a member of Congress from
Massachusetts And if there was any man in
Congress who surpassed Horace Everett in say
ing sharper things, or in making bitterer speech
es, against the attempts of the slave power
TO rule the country, that man was Caleb Cushing.
Compared with him John Quincy Adams
and Joshua r. Giddings were corservatives.-
No man did more or could then well do more
in educating the North to hate slavery and to
curtail its improper influence in the general
government, than Caleb Gushing did during the
administration of Martin Van Buren,. What
William Slade and Horace Everett were to
Vermont, Caleb Gushing was to Massachusetts,
All the difference between the men of Vermont
and their self-constituted Judge is this the
men of Vermont said precisely what they meant
and meant exactly what they said, and their &C.
tons were consistent with their speeches
whereas, subsequent events have proved that
Caleb Gushing did neither that to him any
speech was fit, any action proper, so long and SO
far only as it was consistent with his over-shad-
owing personal ambition. Whatever Vermont
may have determined to do-and Caleb Cush-
ing charges her with having determined a grea,
-Galah Cushing NAV rast ascura1 that CHI
aever has nor never will turn traitor to her ira.
dinons, to the teachings of her early statesmen
and the teachings Of the Fathers of the Repub.
lie, to the Union. to the Constitution, nor tc
the true principles Of universal liberty regula,
ted by law which lie at the foundation of them
all. No one is authorized to promise as much
for Caleb Gushing.