Year: 1859

A WHINING PLEA AND A FIT RET LIZ.


We find the following affecting appeal in the
Rutland Courier of Dec. 9th. The editor of
the aforesaid paper under the head of "Ver-
mont Marble" thus feelingly discourseth of the
great value of Union saving:


"lnasmuch as large quantities Of Vermont
marble have heretofore been sent to the South,
and as it is not just or fair that the innocent
should suffer for the wrong doings Of the gull
ty we would say to our brethren in the south
ern States, that notwithstanding the many tool
ish things that the Republicans of Vermont
have said and done, we have not heard of any
of the village bells being tolled in this State, or
flags placed union down or half mast, on ac-
count OF the execution of the man whose hands
were stained with the blood of his own country
men. May ace not, therefore, hope that the
southern States ,cW continue to purchase oar
marble and to treat oar citizens, ,oho may come
among them, on business or for pleasure, ioiH
the same marked respect as heretofore? We
would also remind our farmers, and business
men of all kinds, that, directly and indirectly,
we are coming money from and through the
marble business of this State; that it will not
inconvenience the southern people to do with
out our marble, and that it is the duty and in
terest of our people, without distinction of par
ty, to discountenance abolition preachers lee
lures and "spouters," and teach them to mind
their own business, if they have any, and if not,
to seek some honest avocation, instead of plow-
ing through New England preaching treason
and exciting gallant people, who ought to be
in harmony and love, to deeds of darkness and
of DEATH"


In late number of the Baltimore Patriot,
q rank pro-Slavery journal we also find the fol-
lowing, in an article all about these northern
Union-savers. tits very just comment on the
heartlessness Of the locofoco organs here at the
North which would have men swallow their
opinions for the sake of selling their marble:


ave perceive that the Locofoco Daugh-F Faces
in Boston, New York and Philadelphia propose
holding meetings for the purpose of appeasing
the wrath of Locofoco disunionsts in the South,
at the recent exhibitions of foolish sentimental
ism for John Brown by a handful, here and
there, of Abolition Disunionists in those cities.


"If there be any character in the world that
we have any contempt for, it is the dirt eating
Dough Face of the Free States. He has no
real regard whatever for the South and its in
stitutons, and yet, uuder pretense of sympathy
for them, he will proclaim himself our friend,
keeping his eyes steadily all the while upon the
pecuniary benefit to be derived therefrom. He
will do anything that Southern fre-eaters will
require of him, even to licking the very dust
off their shoes; and though these partisans are
perfectly aware of his hypocrisy, yet, strange to
say, they affect to be gratifed at the exhibition.
| Why is this? Because they hope thus to get
his vote. This is the sum and substance of the
| whole operation, and what is more, its real OBJ
| ject. The Locofocos of the South demand the
sacrifice, and the Locofocos of the North are
ready to make it.