Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-09
WHOLE NO. 27S6.

It's natures nhcrc. 1t will be national again,
during the third forty years, and forever after
wards It's not wise and boncfoent for us
alone or injurious to you alone Its effects
arc equal, and the same for Us all.
WHAT THE REPuBLtcANs ARE ACCUSED or.
You accuse the Republican party of ulteri-
or and secret designs. How can party that
counts its votes in this land Of free speech and |
free press by the hundreds Of thousands, have |
any secret designs Who is the coniurer.
and where are the hidden springs by which he
can control its uucongrcgated and widely-dis-
pcrscd masses and direct them to objects un-
seen and purposes unavowed But what arc
these hidden purposes You name only one
That one is TO introduce negro equality among
you. Suppose we had the power to change
your social system what warrant have you
/ for supposng that we should carry negro
equality among you We know, and we will
show you, if you will only give heed, that
what our system Of labor works out, whcrev-
er it works out anything, is the equality Of
white men The laborer in the free States,
no matter how humble his occupation, is
white man, and he is politically the equal of
his employer. Eighteen of our thirty-threo
States are free labor States. There they are
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,, YER
mont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York,
/ Pennsylvania, Ohio Michigan, Illinois, lndi
aua, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa. California
and Oregon. ] do not array them in contrast
with the capital States. am no assailant Of
States. All of the States are parcels of my
own country-the best Of them not so wise
and great as | am sure it will hereafter be
the State least developed and perfected among
them all is wiser and better than any foreign
State know. Is it then in any, and in which
Of the States have named that negro equal
ity ohends the white mans pride Through
out the wide world, where is the State where
3 class and caste are so utterly extinguished as
they are in each aud every one OF them Let
the European immigrant, who avoids the Af
rican If his skin exhaed contagion, answer.
! You find him always in the State where labor
is ever free. Did Washington, Jefferson, and
Henry, when they implored you to relinquish
your system and accept The one we have adopt
ed, propose to sink you down to the level of
the African, or was it their desire to oxalt all
white men to a common political elevation;
a LITTLE PLAIN TALK.
But we do not seek to force, or even in
trude, our system on you. We are excluded
Justly, wisely, and contentedly, from all po-
j litcal power and responsibility in your capi-
' tai States. You are sovereign on the subject
of slavery within your own borders, as we
are on the same subject within our borders
1t is well and wisely arranged. Use your
authority to maintain what system you please
: We are not distrustful of the result We
i have wisely, as we think, exercised ours to
c protect and perfect the manhood of the MEM
j bers of the State. The whole sovereignty
upon domestic concerns within the Union is
= divided between us by unmistakable bounda-
y ries. You have your fifteen distinct parts !;
= we eighteen parts, equally distinct Each
II must be maintained in order that the whole
j. may be preserved. If ours shall be assailed,
= within or without, by any enemy, or for any
r cause, and we shall have need we shall OK
pect you to defend it. If yours shall be so
= assalled, in the emergency, no matter what
the cause or the pretext, or who the foe, we
shall defend your sovereignty the equiva-
lent of our own. We cannot, indeed, accept
n your system Of capital or its ethics That
d would be to surrender and subvert our own
- which we esteem 20 be better, Besides, if
d we could, what need for any division into
States at all You are equally at liberty to
1 reject our system and its ethics, and to main
T. tain the superiority of your own by all the
forces of persuasion and argument. We
must, indeed. mutually discuss both systems
t All the world discusses all systems. Espe-
- cially must we discuss them since we have to
T. decide a nation which of the two we ought
to ingraft on the new and future States grow
c ing up in the great public domain. Discus
o sion then being unavoidable, what could be
more wise than to conduct il with mutual toll
4 Grafton and in a fraternal spirit;
@ You complain that Republicans discourse
= too boldly and directly, when they express
with confidence their belief that the system
/ of labor WILL in the end, be universally ac-
cepted by the capital States, acting for them
selves, and in conformity with their own con-
stitutions, while they sanction too unreserv-
! edly books designed to advocate emancipa-
ton. But surely you can hardly expect the
Federal Government or the political parties Of
the nation to maintain censorship of the
press or Gf debate. The theory of our sys-
TEN Is, that error of opinion may in all cases
safely be tolerated where reason is left free to
combat it. Will it be claimed that more of
moderation and tenderness in debate are ex-
hibited on your side of the great argument
than our owni We all learned our polemics,
as we'll as our principles, from a common
master We are sure that we do not, on our
!, side, exceed his lessons and example Thorn
as Jefferson addressed DIR. Price, an English
= man, concerning his treaties on emancipation
in America, in this fashion,
"Southward Of the Chesapeake, your book will find
but few readers ooncurrng with It In sentiment the
subject, Of slavery. From the mouth the head Of the
Chesapeake the bulk of the people will approve il ia the
oy, and IL will find respectable minority ready 10 adopt
IL in practice minority which for weight aud worth Of
character prepondcatos against the greater number who
have not the courage diyest their families Of prop
ey which, however keeps their conscienccs unquiot.
NOrthwad of the Chesapeake, you may mud here aud
there opponent your doctrine, you may find here
aud there robher or murderer but in no greater
This Virginia. is the next State to which we may
turn for the interesting spectacle VI Justice IN
conflict with ayarce aud oppessona conflict whore the
sacred side gaining daily recruits the influx
into oiicr Of Young men, grown and growing up"
"Bc NO., then. discouraged. What you have written
will do great deal ~ gpud and could YOU still trouble
lnumef about our welfare, man is more able a. help
the laboling side
You see, sir, that whether we go for or
against slavery anywhere, we must follow
southern guides. You may change your pi-
lots with the winds or the currents but we,
q whose nativity, reckoned under the North
Star, has rendered us somewhat superstitious,
must be excused for constancy in following
, the guidance of those who framed the nation
al ship and gave us the chart for its noble
. voyage.
o SOMETHING FURTHER ABOUT THE REPUBLI-