Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-02-13

" The annexed article is worth keeping,
to be read and pondesed occasionally. II is
the philosophy Of the rebellion
From the N. Y. Evening Post
1NCOMPATIBILlTY OF SLAVERY
WITH A FREE GOVERNMENT FOR
WHITES.
There are many intelligent Southern men
who perceive clearly that the ultimate tenden-
cy of African slavery is to destroy the free
dom Of the white population wherever it is
established. Col. A. j. Hamilton is one Of
these. Mr.. Lorenzo Sherwood, long domi-
eiliated in Texas, is another. This gentle
man, in October last, made at Champan, in
this State, a speech in which no not only
showed this to be the inevitable consequence
of the institution of slavery, cited the author
ity of the slaveholding politicians themselves
to show that they both saw the incompatible
~ of slavery with a popular government. and
desired to hasten the time when they could
restrict political rights to an hereditary order
of men. Some of the proofs Of this are
curious enough Mr.. Sherwood quoted MIR.
Spratt, the noted South Carolina secessionist,
in the following passage;
"ie assumed that there no man in the South who
deserved the name " statesman who would pretend that
secession caused by aby aggression OF the North
upon the rights Of the Souththat 1T was still less the
result Of any OF oppression the part Of the United
States government-that the result the reason was be-
cause Of the difference in the organization Of society
North and South was because in the non slA,ehold-
ing States from the very fact that every man was free
man, the North nAtualy demooraiio'-.evefy man
being afreeman the result that the labornp class in
the non ayehoding States had The power Of government
auu required out htle Argument q provo, when that
was The case government instead Of being in the head
was in the heels Of society Mr. spratt further assum
ed that no greater truth uttered than that ut
tered by Mr. Seward when he said there was an irrcpres
sble conflict between tho two systems Of society,""
On the Sd Of May, 1861, NJ. R. H. Gar
nett, of Virginia, wrote letter to William
II. Prescott, of South Carolina, which was
captured not long ago among other papers on
Barnwells Island by General Hunter. In it
he says:
81 must acknowledge, my dear sir that look to the
miote with almost as much apprehension hope You
we'll object To the democrat Uemocrac, in its
original philosophical sense, is indeed Incompatible with
slavery and the whole system OF southern society"
Mr.. Sherwood quotes from speech made
in the Vicksburg Secession Convention of
1889:
while our population has advanced, there has been
no proportnnate advancement in the number Of slaves
Inc widening west has made demand Of slaves upon
the Older Sta"s-the elder states have been compelled
To yield to such exacton With every Transportation
there was hireng labor ready tn supply its place with
hrcihg labor the form and spirit Of democracy
IL made is way the botder-t overspread the
States Of Delaware and Maylandt extended the States
of Kentucky. Missouri and NirginA-it entered into
southern cuts-it glided into schools and pulpits-it
cept about the halls Of legislation and is that
not alone in the with the North which bears
the banners " dem cracy, but with the democracy itself
within the STATES the cities and the institutions Of the
South The speaker assumed, that II this dtmoctacy
oouldnol be got rid Of, the separation from The North
would merely adjourn the contstihat. ths sout h.
ern democracy grapples slavery in it, homes and Is
hearihstoues, slavery like the 1hraoan horse that
its rider from the field and that escaping enemies
ID mn lsahlN
contest with its entmcs at home
Here is another testimony of the same
sort
I'm easy written by J. Quitman Moore Of Misss-
sipp and published in the Chailestu Ne curry and re-
published In DE Bo'oS RsticD in 1861, the author in
revilement Of the democratic principle says
"'Ihose pe'tilent and pernicous dogmas-'the great
est good Of the greatest number'-the majority shall
rue-are. in their practical applications the fghtul
source OF disorders never to be the
most false, and passions the inost wild destructive
and ungovernabe. In Ameri a., says the author by
reason OF tue operation of causes wholly exraHeous
the considerations Of government and society the rcpub
icin experiment has been prolonged beyond recorded
precedent but painful as the reflection must be to ali
such subscribed to the Utopan philosophy and have
abiding faith in the capacity Of for enlightened
self-ule it must be confessed that the experue
democratic Republic Of America has failed The author
concludes that the institution Of an hereditary Senate
and Execuu i the political form best suited to the
genius and most expressive Of the ideas OF the South
Mr.. Sherwood proceeds to argue strongly
az ainst Cancellation as one gross delusion, to
point out the necessity of exterminating
slavery as the only safeguard to the liberty
of the whites, to show that we cannot, with
~-y ssrety 70 me Tree states, allow separa-
ton OF the Union, and to dwell upon the inn
por,ance Of resolution and united effort in the
cause in which we are engaged
The speech is an excellent tract for the
times and we are glad to hear that it is to be
al hab Oh