Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-01-18

IS not more likely that mischievous and foolish
politicians are greatly disappearing them
about these days2
b. viii not our correspondent ask her
sell whether, if she had heard, few month:
ago, that the people of Vermont "a State
having more free people than South Caro-
lima has, had worked themselves up to q
phenzy about the political or religious Opin-
IONS OF the people of Virginia and the States
South of her, and had declared, hot-foot, the
State to lie ont of the Union-that they had
dehed the National Government-had seized
the L, s. Arsenal at Vergennes, and the
the Custom House at Burlington, and had
sent men to Washington to treat with the
u .. Government as foreign power, for
the recognition of Vermont as a government
rs independent of the U. S. Government as
France or Great Britain is and had also
sent invitations to the States of New York,
Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and 9th
er States North of Masons u Dixon's line,
to join her in setting up forthwith new
confederated government by themselves,
will she not ask herself, whether she
would not in such 4 case have considered
the people of her native State to have lost,
in some unaccountable way, most or all of
the discretion and sound common sense which
they had when she lived among them And
further, if all the other great States referred
to were suddenly to break away from their
fastenings, and tack themselves to the skirts
of this little state and follow her lead into
disorder and revolution, would she not
believe that they were, to say the least,
qlate as much out Of their heads as Vermont
was?
We have only to add that, we hope the
Post Office Department, in the place where
our correspondent dwells, is not so managed
as to deprive her of getting the copy of our
paper which we shall send to her; and that,
if she does get it, that its possession will not
endanger her liberty, as it would in some
parts of the Southern States at the present |
time; also, that it will give US pleasure to
hear from her again, and to publish in the
Free Press any thing which she may send |
for that purpose.
oI Daughter of Vermont, 70 The |
Commissioner The rfpsqi Of the Psrs9ndl Lib /
city Law.
Born on the shores Of your beautiful lake nest
led for years among the glens Of your majestic |
nurtured intellectually by a rilI from
your University, your petitioner drank in love /
Of country, Of her ulo,, country as well as heI .
native State, with her vital breath. Nor mas
Southern home, not many leagues from the birth
place Of our immortal Washington, in the least
tended to diminish that love. 1t is rather expanded
and deepened. What sorrow then does the present
condition Of our country cause How does her
heart bleed when she hears her native State re-
rrminateI and spoken of in terms Of ntempt.
Should she venture word in explanation or de
Tense, should she say the sons Of Vermont are
oyal to their country, alas she is silenced by an
appeal to your Statute Book. Said one Of your
sons the other day, Eyes, let Vermont 20. wish
,he out Of the Union" Your petitioner shares
DO such feelings; but rather grieves that any one
ian utter such words Of any State Be pleased to
consider; is it not just possible you have taken
)ne-sided view ?
Easy is the descent to Ayernus-but to rerrae
he steps-tiis is the labor-this tho task" 1t
nay be no difficult matter to rend in pieces this
,nce glorious nation. But to yopac to reconstruct
All "there's the rub"
Let me besccch you by our common birth-right,
~ the patriotism and valor Of your sons during
he Revolutionary struggle, by the hopes Of the
'uture glory Of our country-be magnanimous.
Repeal all laws in conflict with our Constitution.
Though small geographically and numerically you
nay be mighty in influence Lead the way, others
nay follow. Show to all the world a scale balanced
N the highest pinnacle Of your mountains-a
Gale in which Liberty is poised by Justice. Then
hall you again deservedly be called the Polar
star. Then shall your sons and daughters, as they
preside at Southern hearth-stones, teach their
hildrea to love and veneratc Vermont.
w.
King Georrc Co Va Dec IL 1850