Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1862-05-02

trclty, We can not only preserve domestic scryi-
| tudc, but we can defy tie power Of the world
! With frmness and iud- cnt crH o1et uD The
ifIeqa SLAVE EufGr' -i0v again O. r-pis tbr mob r
r,gigH offLs froJics. Ire line is coming when We
will boldly defend this emigration before the world
The hypocritical cant sui whining morality of the
latterday saints will die away before the majesty
Of Commerce, and the power of those vast pr0duc-
tioas which are to spring from the cultivation and
full development Of the mighty tropical regions IN
| our own hemisphere. We have been too long eDv-
| erned by psalm singin. schOol-masters from the
North 1t is time % think Tor ourselves. 1h-
foly commenced IN oar ot-a G7u0nmeaf uniting i-ifl
Grsqf Brfqin g decigrc siIUe Imp7rf1fioH piracy.
And we have ever since, by joint fleet with
Great Britain the coast Of Africa, been struc-
| Cling tO enforce his Hiissrabls hiufer. n ne
sLAyE-HoLDIsG RACE ia tbrss States 5ui true 70
neuselues they hlv, great destiny bs9rs t1sn. -
| (SotatVa Sfuifrrd, Charleston, s. C., oh1uf lsJD)
So long as the Southern lenders could control TIE
United States Government, an make its whole
power subseryient to their scheme, they could not
DO better than to remain in the Union. They have
forescen, however, that this control must be tenn
porary, unless they could dcmoralizs the whole
North on the subj ct Of Slavery. for which they
made desperate attempt; aaI hoped taat az lca,;
buchanan would give them Kansas aai Cuba be-
fore they went out. Falling in this they rsbelled
simply for the purpose Of realizing their scheme
out Of the Union, when that was no further posi-
bic within it. This however, was no afterthOught,
but had been, for years, predetermined on and
prepared for, TO be put in execution Whenever the
National Government could no longer be made
their instrument.
Since all this is demonstrably true and renders
the real cause Of the rebellion as obvious and ce-
tain as is the cause Of daylight. is Il not some
what in derogati0n Of the truth Of history to ele-
yatc mere accidental csa9tfi5u Of the rebellion
iato the cause Of i; Ac-aafsl coEliti0l-s-r
it was only by the mos, unearthly lying and vii
fal misrepresentation Of the purpose Of the North
in regard TO emancipation that there came to be
any " negro question at all.
Tie obiec; Of this letter however, is rot TO
viniieate the truth Of history SO much as to ex-
press the hope, the earnest wish, IF many Of your
friends that you modify Jour statements in regard
60 the origin Of the rebellion So as to express more
guarIctiy what IS doubtless your true opinion, and
what indeed you say in enc part q your sFe-ch,
namely, that the negro question "Uls ilsfruualill
in producing the rebellion not the -1a,s Of il
Why rhoull i. be proclaimed from the four points
os the c5mpas by men whose aims are the opp0-
site of yours, with miscbieyous intcn. and most
mischievous edtc. 60 far as the ignorant are made
t. believe them " the Republicans are compelled
20 acknowledge al last, even the Dlairs, the lead
ers Of the party admit if, that Slavery had moth
ins 20 DO with o1isinaiing the rebellion. It was
no purpose Of the south in regard TO Slavery, 10
sllrgy question, but tie eluduc. of the Moth,
originating the neyro question, and so compelling
the South to rebel in self defence against negro
equality and amalgamation.' The North there
fore is responsible for the war and not the south,
Tor the negro question could not have originated
in the South
These arc not, perhaps, quite legitimate infer
cuccs from your language, but they arc such as
troa. it. How far they from the truth Of his [
tory, iced not be further intimated.
One word in regard to policy" 1t is IN /
5ubtedly true that the consideration of the negro
question Is important in determining the policy /
Of the government. but it was not necessary to as
sert that it made the rebellion in order TO insist
or that importance. It's eoaParatvs importance, !
however, aoe, depend upon the correctness Of that
statement. For if the slavery question: which /
the South had made paramount 70 all others in its
scheme, no, merely of political but Of e7mmreill |
power, was, as it demoustrably was, the essential
-sus, Of the rebellion, then TO overlook this lues
ton in your policy will be fatal mistake. The |
policy Of the government, as you describe it, |
seems to ignore altogether the slavery question, /
and to take it for granted that the south is ready
TO give up their .i4ves provided they can get rid /
Of the H,yro,s. It is to be hoped that the gov
crumcat has different evidence Of this from
what appears in the language Of slave /
holders in Congress. For Is there any inherent |
probability that the South is willing not only all
at once to forget its twenty years CHERISHED dream
Of untold wealth and power, Of which SiaUay was
reckonel the essential condition, "tho corner
stone;' but to come down meetly from their Pc
trician elevation 70 embrace that base, coatemned
and hated I-1uSrs form Of society, % vituperate /
which they have exhausted all the languages |
they are acquainted with Will not the Slavery |
loving leaders still have more control over the |
non slayeholling and ignorant masses, than any
Of the Government or Of Northern men |
which can be made to reach them
The policy you speak Of is excellent, provided |
il can be realized. But is it not singularpolcy,
the execution Of (which depends upon the good |
pleasure Of those over whom the Government ac-
kuowledges that it has no control Let Us sup |
pose the first part Of the policy TO be realized, |
namely, that all the states have resumed loyal |
relations to the Government; but in regard to the
second part, resting wholly in their choice, they
choose to have nothing to do with it. How, in |
that case, lis the suPpostion absurd? is it not
that prudent statesman would carefully consid- |
er y will cur condition be different from what it
was three months before the rebellion, except the
loss Of a few thousand lives, and the waste Of a
few hundred millions;
The p9'fiell power Of slavery would be at Al
end, you say. Buswhy! Would no. the South
have tle same number Of votes as before is there
not at the North party Gin the shade just now,
a Jacobite party if you please, which, however,
does not need the imprudenec you speak Of to
call it forth )-as willing to take power and spoils
as before And would not this party proclaim in
all ears, and make half the world believe it, that,
by the confession Of the Republicans themselves.
the South has been wronsed, that the siaUe qass-
hon was not the cause Of the war, but that the
South was goaded into rebellion BY the negro
question, thrust upon them by the North -
Where, then, as the hope Of power in the old CO.
alition revived, would be your disposal Of the ne
gro question with the consent and cooperation of
the Shareholders
Or, suppose, that at the ED Of the war the
policy is not wholly declined by the South, should
we not, the country being overwhelmed with debt,
between unreadiaess and unwillingness to meet
the expense and the difficulty Of agreeing upon
the Details drift into exactly cur old relations,
and commence to nourish the seeds ofanother con-
test
If, as you affirm, the South will readily co oper
ate in what you consider "tLe Presidents policy
vhv not reauiro that the reyoItcd States commit