Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-03-01

SENATOR WILSON'S SrEEcu.-On Thurs
DAY evening Senator Wilson spoke
on Mr.. Crittenden's plan and COM
promise
Alter ailudIng in pointed terms to the Sc
! cession movement, which be characterized as
treason, Mr.. Wilson denied that the North
! hates the South. The citizens of Massachu-
sets and the whole North have ever treated
| the South with kindness and courtesy. Yet
New England, and especially Massachusetts.
| Is singled out for reproaoh. Massachusetts
! olings to the teachings of ebster and Adams.
She reads in all history that slavery has
fastened the decay and downfall of nations,
| and finds in the pages of Plato, Socrates
Burke, Fox, Humboldt, Washington, JefTer-
son and others, testimony which deepens her
convictions against slavery and its domino
ton and expansion. Senator BENJAMIN.
under the pressure of searching arguments
by the senator from Oregon Baker, lost his
temper and made gross assaults on Massachu-
sets. Governor Andrew never said the in
vasion OF Virginia was right, never had any
sympathy with it. as the senator from
Louisiana charged. There is no truth
in the accusation that Massachusetts, sends
senators here to insult the South.
Threats have been made that unless the
North changes her anti-slavery sentiments,
the Union cannot continue. The senti-
ments OF the North are those of the Declare
ton OF Independence and the foundersiof the
republic. The venerable senator from Ken !
lucky comes forward as pacifcator, with |
compromise. His purity of motives and |
patriotic Intentions are admitted, but the |
plan for running a Zine on &c. 80 is not com |
pomiser but unqualified concession, a cheat |
and delusion. The leaders of slavery prop |
agandism had fixed their hungry eyes on
Cuba, Mexico and Central America, In a
constitutional struggle on the question of |
slavery extension, its advocates we're ignomi-
nlously beaten, aud then rebelled The sem
ator from Kentucky also proposes te make a
rule applicable to all territory hereafter to
be acquired. The freemen of the North
who fought the battle of last November will
never accept this. lie also proposes to insert
IN the constitution provision that Con
gress snail not abolish slavery in the District
OF Columbia while Maryland and VIRGINIA
keep the institution Why would the nation
bind itself to await the pleasure of Virginia
ouch a proposition is an indignity and an
insult to the people of the United States -
Inc senator from Kentucky, seconded by the
senator from Illinois (Douglas), proposes
that the elective franchise shall not Be exor-
,lsed by any persons of the African race
Why are such propositions made now This
class OF men have exercised the rights of
citizens of Massachusetts, for over eighty
years. The ancestors of those men FOUGHT
With heroic courage in the revolution, to
Jain our liberty and independence, The
men Of the North will never put the pr' po-
itlons of the senator from Kentucky IN the !
constitution. The northern man who s.s {
aims them will suffer perpetual reproaches
rom insulted reason and violated conscience. I
nd his name be enrolled among those who .
ave betrayed the cause Of the peopIe, and
o consigned to the moral Indignation of I
istory.