Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-02-01
BE Ready For 10.

Se ftestuy TOT ~.
We have always believed, and still
believe, that disunion is an unmitigated
humbug. 1t always has been a humbug, it
noe looks like a humbug, and acts like a
humbug. The cotton states are mainly only
pointing beyond what they have done before,
because the north has so far risen out Of its
lethargy, as to elect a presiden. on the idea
of the non-exiension Of slavery.
The slave holders have always frightened
the north heretofore, and are greatly sur
prised that they have not done it now, and
will by no means give it up for the present.
They have wriihed and still are writbing,
and yet the north has stood firm thus far.
How long will the free states stand firm?
That is tie question of the day and the
hour.
A president has hcen elected on the prin-
ciple proclaimed beforehand, that the policy
of this government is henceforth to be OPP
posed to the extension Of slavery. A mis-
cradle minority of slave holders utterly
repudiaie this will OF the people, though
constitutionally expressed. Now what is
there TO compromised Nothing has been
done, nothing has yet been proposed
There is, therefore, as Mr.. Lovejoy says,
absolutely nothing to do but 10 remain firm,
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Lord"
Nevertheless, we have fears that Il com
promise will eventually be brought forward,
and in some way smu2gled through con-
gress. Our readers must, therefore, be
ready for it. 1t is not impossible that even
Vermont will be called upon to endorse
some treachery Of this kind, Mr.. Critten-
dcn's 50 called compromise is far worse than
the restoration Of the old Missouri Com
promise. 1t establishes and protects slavery
In all territory south of certain line, and
also in all territory hereafter acquired, south
Of that line---Ihus wholly conceding away
TIT ADNhiAtCS HBtH WuiSi ttlt TtDuDHtdH
larty was founded.
We understand that over eighty of the
republican members of the House have
declared against any compromise in the
present state of the country, and yet, we
have received information that makes us
fear still more, that some detestable COM
promise will be forced upon the country,
and, that at last, the north will make hu-
initiating surrender, as in other days of this
slave ridden republic. There can be no
doubt about the great mass of the repub-
licans Of the free states, but few of
them, it is greatly feared, will finally yield
This compromising spirit has been and still
i, the greatest danger of the country. 1t
affords but temporary relief at best. 1t is
now ten years since we had seige of COM
promising, the fruits of which have been
abundant ever since, in the most fierce sla-
very agitation the country has ever known.
We remember how few wings yielded
IN 1890, ard went in for the "omnbus
measures and the fugitive slave law. Only
few surrendered to cotton, but enough to
kill the whig party so dead that no resur-
rection ever reached it, Suppose we COM
promise again. What then? 1t will
simply be the butchery of republican prin-
cples for the present, and the total death,
destruction and end of the republican party.
Slavery gets new foothold, possibly be-
comes NATIONAL aud freedom nowhere.
Therefore, republicans of the north
stand firm and mistaken, maintaining TO the
last the principles of this government, as
cxpounded by Washington and jefferson,
even though every slave state shall secede
from the union.
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