Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-08-24
\. soUTHERNER's SENTIMENTS.

r. seems to us that the lectures Of Mr.. Thos.
F. Marshall, of kentucky, have a sign ifcanct
and value, entirely aside from the interest Of
his topics or the force of his arguments Here
is Southern gentleman of uncommon intelli,
gence and public experience, and possessed Of
talents which, if they had not been sadly OBJ
scured by bad habits (Which be has at present
reformed, } would have given him a command
ing infuence;a Southerner by birth, education
and lifelong associations; who scouts the
idea that there can be PROPERTY IN human
flesh; who recognizes in the negro man,
with rights which the white man Is bound
to respect, who acknowledges the superiority
of the free institutions Of the North over the
q civilization" of the slave States who al
Iudes with disgust to the spectacle presented
when the slave trade was carried on under
the shadow of the capitol of the last and
greatest Republic of the world who thus,
and by similar expressions, confessos the es-
sential shame and wrong OF slavery; who
avows that he would not have it extended
over an inch Of free territory; who charac-
terizes the Kansas Nebraska bill as " an act
of wanton aggression upon the North
who ridicules the bred Scott decision who
despises the Administration, and detests the
Democracy, both wings, North and South,
their leaders, policy and principles who
sees the approach Of the Republican party to
the control Of the government without par
ticle Of fear for the Union and who asserts
that he utters the same sentiments, and as
freely, in Kentucky as in Vermont. Mr..
Marshall acknowledgements a very large
class Of Southern gentlemen and his lectures
furnish additional evidence Of the cx-
tent to which that class already sym
pathize with the principles of the
Republican party. 1t is true that he is
not a man Of sufficient moral courage and
principle to break away from his old associa-
tons, and take a stand by the side Of Cassius
NJ. Clay and Francis P Blair. and the gal
liant Republicans Of the South, but the ac-
cession Of the Republican party to power
Will evidently cause him very slight distress,
and from men of like sentiments with him.
the Republican party is sure to receive large
accessions in every slave State, during the
four years Of Mr.. Lincoln's administration
lie goes for the Old Gentlemen's ticket, as
the best he can DO under the circumstances,
and his position is,all the same, a rebuke to
the Bell and Everett men of the North, who
are trembling in their shoes for fear Of
dissolution Of tie Union, who find fault with
the Republicans only, and who, in effect,
give their sympathies and feeble influence to
the side of the slave power.
We can give but sentence to Mr.. Mr.
shall's only positive objection to the princi-
pies Of the Republican platform. lie is the
only man, so far as we have heard, who has
discovered that that platform denied the
sovereignty Of Congress over the Territories,
and if he will look little closer, he will see
THAI his discovery is nothing. The Republi-
can pIati.rm, neither in terms nor by impli-
cation, denies he control Of Congress over the
Territories Its eighth plank simply asserts
the broad truth, that the first and normal
Of all territory, is that Of freedom,
and that no human legislation can make
hat right, which is wrong by the laws Of
Nature and Of God. If Mr.. Marshall is
,eady to assan that truth, he can consistently
attack the Republican platform and not till
then