The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1861-11-15


that either the constitution of half year ago
or the act of last July can be rule of actor
after all slaves in Missouri have been dec,ar
ed free and the people of Massachusetts bay,
cheered their Senator in his exposition of the
only practicable course, and while memorials
to Congress are signed by innumerable mul
titudes who have taken their stand on the
only tenaGle ground, political and social.
The proposed course is, as has been ex.
planned before, to declare personal slavery
impossible wherever the authority Of the Re
public is present Wherever that authority
appears 1t deposits an organizing agency, by
which order and industry will be secured, and
the necessary new arrangements made
Whatever funds are requisite for the change
are offered by the memorialists-no as pay
ment for species Of property which they
now avow to be not of the nature of proper
ty, but as gift for the object Of opening
new style of labour market. The plain
sense of the citizens is this Ave have sac
"rlticed much for the Kepublic,-to free it
Iron the fatal curse " hich was killing it
" W e have given our sons and brothers to
death, and our fortunes to the winds. We
ARE not disposed to pay over our last saw
"lnss or earnings in purchase of men, won-
zen, and children who are not properly pur-
"chasable at all; but we are willing to afford
the means of working the plantations till
crops produce wherewithal to pay the la
g "bou.ers, and yield the landowners their
due profit Such is the proposal Some
foresee future trouble, moral and political, in
creating claims such as have barely died out
from the first revoluton-c!aims as demoral-
lzlng to the individual as embarrassing to
the Government but this evil would be i'm
measurably greater if the scheme of freeing
the slaves Of rebel and not OF loyal citizens
could be put IN practice: and it is for fll-
ture time to settle how to bring these new
claims to an END as soon as possible. The
Immediate consideration is how to unite the
greatest number of the citizens and by that
means the Government, in an honest, ayow-
ed, sing le-minded and >insle-taced policy
which may be fitting basis for the resere-
rate republic.
The first essential condition is that there
shai! be no more pretences that the existing
constitution viii serve for the future or does
at present rule the acton OF tie state. The
second American revolution, which began a
quarter OF century ago, and has been pro-
tessed by the ConttItratcs from the day Of
Mr Linco.ns election, ncccsSaril, involves
the President and all other authorities. and
every citizen in the country. Ii is absurd to
attempt TO conceal the fact. It's avowal
makes no retrospective change; bat the a.
vowaL i, all-lmportant to present wisdom and
future welfare. The North could have pur-
sued no other course than it has done. for
the Republic must be sustained. But the
time has arrived for securing better vital con-
ditions for the Eep1blic; and :he way to DO
this is to establish 4 strong provisional au-
thority, by which new Iabour system may
be organized and enforced on the one hand.
and all mob d;ctation be made impossible on
the other. This IS the rerolution"yy Nayr
renderel nercSSny by the faUlts Of tie Con-
sttt"t.on, oriyinM aM arqurcd 1t should
be received in its own likvncss,,.i.d not dress
up il mask, :or fear Of w.lrl anybody may
say. The first revolution was blessing to
thank Heaven for. Let the second be so