Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-02-03
31oIiticaI.
SENATOR IVERSON on THE DEMO
GRATIS


In his late speech in the Senate, the sena-
tor from Georgia said
"Sir, do not wish or intend to do nius-
tice to tho Northern democracy. In times
past they have been true TO the South and
true to the constitution. They had the pow
cr and they exerted it in the vindication aud
support of the just, equal, constitutional rights
Of the southern states. They have ever been,
in Congress and out of it, the bold and decid-
ed opponents of the Wilmot proviso. they have
denounced it as unconstitutional, arbitrary
and unjust; they have even been the support
ers and advocates of the rights of the south
ern peoTle to the capture and rendition of their
fugitivcs slaves they have defended the Flu
gitve Slave law, and insisted on its faithful
execution; they have opposed all conflicting
legislation in the free states intended to OBJ
struct and defeat the operation of the law
In this repect they have been faithful to their
constitutional obligations and to the South !;
they aided the South in repeating and remov-
ing the Missouri restriction, and degrading
/ badge of southern inferiority and submission (;
they have disclaimed in every form and in all
places any rights on the part of the northern
people or of Congress to interfere, directly or
/ indirectly, with the institution of slavery in
denied the rights of the northern people to
hold slaves as property, but have uniformly
affirmed it they have for years, under the
most adverse and trying circumstances breast
ed the storm Of abolition rage, fanaticism and
/ frenzy, which has swept with such tremen-
dous and crushing velocity and power over the
free states and, though weakened by deser-
tions and political deaths, they stand to-day
the only barrier the South has, save its own
fortitude, courage and will, against the swell
ing. surging terrible waves of abolition fury
which threaten to overwhem us in ruin.
"But, sir, while | admit and applaud the
soundness of the northern democracy in all
these and many other respects | am constrain-
ed to say they are fundamentally unsound and
wrong in the great principle which lies at the
[ foundation Of all the dangerous anti-slavery
agitation of the free states. In common with
the Black Republicans and aboltionists they
denounce slavery as a moral wrong, social
evil, and political curse. Now, sir, if these
things be so, and you believe them-if slavery
is morally wrong socially dismoralizing, and
politically in furious TO the community in which
il exists, then the conclusion is inevitable that
it ought to be abolished and a sacred duty
is imposed upon every one to use all the
means in his power to accomplish that end
The premises thus admitted and laid down
lead directly and rapidly to abolitionsm first,
perhaps, with moderation and tender forbear
ance then more positive, determined and ag
gressive and finally rabd, turbulent, unre-
lenting, revolutionary, exterminating and
bloody; stopping at nothing short of its great
end and aim--the universal emancipation of
the slaves of the southern states. 1t has been
this very sentiment and conviction, pervadng
as they do, all classes of the northern people,
and universally sanctioned, promulgated and
used in their schools, their pulpit their halls
of legislation and their courts of justice, that
have produced such frequent and widespread
mutnies in the democratic camp; such con-
slant and numerous desertions from its organ
ization, until now it is, in all the northern
states, mere remnant of 4 once powerful and
victorious party.
"Sir the southern people can never feel
safe in the Union, OF have any abiding conf
dence in the effective aid and comfort of any
party at the North which tolerates or sane
tions this great fundamental error"
70 Mr.. Jacob Barker, an old and esteem
ed citizen of New Orleans, at the Pilgrim Celc-
bration 10 that city, in alluding to the South
ern bluster about disunon, told some unplas-
said
1--WE know full well that our slaves would
not be wroth the clothes they wear if the Union
should be dissolved. Their value consists in
the preservation of Southern rights, as guar
auteed by the Constitution Should il be va
Gated by division of the Union, the Northern
section would initiate their cousins the Brit
ish making all free who should put foot on
their soil. This would depopulato the border
States Of their Slave population, and they
would, one after another, become Free Si4taa,
until not one would be left to tell how it had
happened.
WELL INDoRsED,-A Southern gentleman,
writing home to Charestown, IS. e. from
Boston, pays the following compliment to his
allies, tho Northern Democrats. The Chival-
ry should be entirely satisfied with the indorse-
ment
"If you were here for only short time, you
would be convinced that if there exist in the
whole Union any body of men who hate the
these Northern Democrats are
the most incorporating. | have several ac-
quaintanceS among the latter, and if you could
only hear them talk, think you would form
a better opinion of them"