Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-02-08

The Hon. John NJ. Bolts Of Virginia, is
out strongly against secession and for the
Union, and is candidate for the State con-
vention against the secessionists. In writ
ing letter accepting nomination, he
states the facts and arguments with great
force, of which we give sample below:
For myself, l am prepared to insist
upon every jot or little of right that the Sc
curity or the honor OF Virginia will entitle
her 10 claim under the constitution, as it is.
| am willing to vote for and lake as much
more as the North are ready to yield. If |
have not heretofore claimed as much as
others, it was not that was unwilling they
should obtain and enjoy it, but because
did not believe it would be granted, or that
we were entitled to demand it as of right /;
and therefore | never have consented, and
never win consent, to make the existence
or destruction of this government depend
upon any abstract or impracticable ques-
ton that may or may not arise outside OF
The constitution such as is now proposed, of
guaranteeing slavery, oy constitutional
amendment, in all the territory hereafter to
be acquired from Mexico or South Ameri-
ca, which trust may never be acquired a,
all.
When l see, too, that without the power
to strike blow in resistance or defense,
without the means to vindicate herself, the
State Virginia may be humbled and sub
dued-and all the gasconade and brayado
OF iight-hearted and fiippan, would-be pa
:riots cannot prevent it when i see that
single steam frgate, stationed at the capes
of Virginia, will as effectually block up
and destroy the entire commerce of Viz
GINA and Maryland as if they were sur
rounded by icebergs in the Arctic ocean,
while we have no naval force with which to
dislodge or remove the blockade when !
see that the commerce OF every other South
ern State may be cut off in the same way,
and by the same means, by sending one or
more war steamers to block up the ports of
Cape Fear river, Charleston, Savannah, |
the coast of Florida, Mobile bay, and The |
mouth Of the Mississippi river, while the /
of every free State, in the valley |
of the Mississippi, is left open by means Of
lake and canal communication with I
New York; when | see that of 100000 |
militia men enrolled in the United States, /
the North has upward of 100000, with |
no negroes TO guard at home, and the South |
only about 947 900, with our wives and |
daughters TO protect and our negroes TO
watch when l see that upon all constitu-
tional Obligations being broken down there /
must be incessant and exhausting hostilities
carried on between the border free States
and the border slave States, or else that
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee
and Missouri will speedily become free
States hirched on TO confederacy of
slave States, from which il is even now pro-
posed they should then be turned adrift
when see this State grooming under debt
,f S4500O,0O0, to be raised bv direct tax
alton, and all her sources of revenue cut
III, and without the credit to obtain dol
ar 10 any market in the world on any
erms, as will be her condition 10 state OF
'ebellion and civil war; when | see moth
ng but bankruptcy and distress staring ev-
'ry man in the face; when l see all these,
ind other untold calamities to be brought
lpon our people, by the inconsilerate haste
u an hours excitement or for misapplied
for state, that we are told in
dvance would hitch US on and 'precipi-
ate US into revolution whether we would
r not; when can see nothing but abso-
ute ruin and desolaiion for all in common.
'h'ch neither our safety nor our honor re- !
lures us to encounter, say if this work is
be done it must be performed by other
ahds than mine, for would not for all
ne honors and offices and wealth of the :
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