Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1861-01-18
WHO is REsPoNsIBLEp

] " nv 10 ANhfoh OANRhRafhAt
Our neighbor of the Patriot, in his last is
sue, attempts to keep up his old warfare, and
denounce the Republican party as responsible
for all the ills with which our nation is afilict-
Governor Andrew Of Massachusetts, "hold-
ing to and proclaiming such sentiments" as
are contained in his inaugural address, "have
brought on the present crisis, and if quiet and
harmony are to be restored, they must be
withdrawn from public places and the Offices
filed with conservative men who dare to do
right" Now we have heard that kind Of
talk from the majority Of the Democratic
presses throughout the North so long that
we had about given them over " to believe"
the lie that they might DO damned" But
we have discovered an indication OF returning
reason,-a disposition to lay the guilt at the
door Of the really guilty parties. The Bos-
ton Herald, a radical Douglas Democratic
paper, takes a sensible view Of the matter in
the following article. which we copy from its
issue Of the 9th inst. We commend it to
the careful perusal of the editor % the Patriot
and his democratic associates in this State:
DlsUNIoN.
1t Is quite common to hear minimizing men say that
the Republicans have brought all Of the present difficult
tes upon the country and that the South fright In de-
mandng wha; she believes TO be her rights. These dec
larations far from being true We have apology
offer tor the Ministers who have deoaimed againt the in
sttuton Of slavery 10 the abstract and eho have hurled
their thundcrbots against the slave Neither do
we uphold or sanction the violence q Tie extreme men
q the Republican party the ultra Republican presses
hut we do say that the Republican par would not have
attracted conservative Democrats sHd " - 10 It's ranks
In sufficient numbers 70 make Il powerin the land had
not the South pursued equally violent policy on her
Part Il commenced with the quarrel between John C.
Calhoun and Martin Van Buren, in Gen. Jacksons time,
n struggle for political power and personal advance
mont aud finally resulted in rupture between Calhoun
and Jackson. Calhoun stirred up the South upon the
tariff aud notification and over, acts followed which re-
suited in concessions being made TO the demands Of the
South in that particular The Democratic party OF the
North took sides with the South for rcs trade, low
tariff which materially weakened The party 10 the North.
However the party stood up manfuy 20 the work aud
the tariff q 1916 established Then the slave
~ issue growing Of the Mexican and the annexa-
ton u Texas The great Democratic party Of the North
favored these and their for Jas X.
Polk who elected by the votes Of New York, Penn
sylvana, New Hampshire Maine, and other Northern
States The Democratic party stood by the South when
John Quincy Adams and others flooding Congress
with petitions abolish slavery in the Distrc, Of Column
ba. sc. The Democratic party fought the wilmot pro-
yso which attempted to be applied California and
New Mexico, because the South claimed that Il
constitutional and unjust 70 them Gen. Cass fought it,
though lost him the Presdencya portion of the South
declining for him and supporting Gen. Taylor,
though the Wilmot proyisn the issue The South
opposed the admission u California into the Union be-
cause her Constitution prohibited slavery hn her bor-
ders The South declared that Congress had power
under the Constitution to ogsae upon the subject Of
slavery; and the Northern Democrats said, amen The
South demanded non-ntefyentiOn upon tie subject Of
slavery 10 the States and Territories and the Northern
Democrats said The South desired the repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise, and the proposition came from
Mr. Dixon, United States Senator from Kentucky, and
was backed up by the south IN solid phalanx aud TO
this, also the Northern Democfa tic party consented al
though il drove them the wall in the ffc States The
Democrats have had to contend with violation the
part Of the south Of the doctrine Of nonnteryention,
applicable Kansas and the attempt 20 sadle slavery
upon that people by fraud and against their will Not
satisfied with this, and finding the Northern Democrats
willing 70 submit 10 anything which might be imposed
them, she made demands at Charleston and Bal
timore, bat finding for the FIRST time that Northern Dem
who having sacrificed themselves at home, would
abandon the position they occupied but deter
mined stand By the record Of the past and what they
believed to be their constitutional obligations,
with overbeang insoenee and branded Abolitonsts.
Then the Southern Democrats disrupted aud defeated the
party and thereby placed those power whom they look
upon open enemies.
This same party's followers the North Who have sus-
tanned them IN every instance where their interests
threatened required take the back track and
singular enough the restoration Of the Missouri Compro-
mise line comes from United States Senator from Ken
lucky with the announcement that il is restored
the Union will be destroyed South Carolina is in open
rebellion against the government, and other States
following suit declaring that they desire compromise
and will have southern Repube that they vii bring
the North her hght Under -lless circurn-
there is way opened fof the NOf bat bow
herself lower and consent to be ruined andiake druhb
ing besides. Now this is the alternative presented "a
the universal Yankee Nation there Is Of further
talk about compromises We stand up in boots
and fthe South kick harder than the North, why 50
be il So let haul the old revolutionary muskets.
pick the hns fix bayonets aud anybody against
them, they may get hurt, that's aH