Green Mountain Freeman

The "Natural Allies."

From the Richmond (Va.) Republican--a Whig Paper.

The following, we presume, will satisfy the Whigs at the North of their alliance which they have formed, and what they have accomplished in the election of Gen. Taylor. The last paragraph speaks volumes. We commend it to the candid perusal of Northern antislavery whigs.

We presume that by this time the people of the South are getting their eyes open to the true character of their "natural allies." The fact is that while the mass of both parties at the North are opposed to the admission of Southern institutions into the new territories, the most persevering and inveterate leaders of the new Free Soil Party, are the old Marshals and Lieutenant Generals of Democracy, while the rank and file are taken in at least equal, (we think more likely greater) proportions from the same party. These men, from Van Buren down, are the most bitter, most radical, and most unrelenting of the adversaries of the South. They are carrying out with a vengeance the spirit of the wild democracy, of the free States, and aiming at the establishment of the superiority of physical force, as the greatest controlling principle of free government.

In Massachusetts and Connecticut, the Democrats have united with the Free Soilers to prevent an election of the Whig candidates. Here is another exhibition of that brotherly love of the "natural allies," about which we hear so much. Look at your brethren, men of the South. Likely men, are they not?

The truth is, the history of Martin Van Buren ought to stand as an eternal warning against "Natural Allies." No man was louder in his professions of friendship for Southern men and Southern institutions. His party here considered him a model of frankness and consistency, while they denounced the whig leader, Gen. Harrison, as an abolitionist. The mask has now fallen from Van Buren, as it has from thousands of his party. They are true to the South as long as the South is true to their interests, and no longer. Van Buren is but a fair representative of the selfish, bargaining, intriguing character of Northern Democracy. Thus we see even the Northern men who sustained Cass, now coalescing with the Free Soilers of Connecticut, to defeat the election of Whigs to the councils of the nation.

And why? Are we told the South is to be punished for refusing to support Gen. Cass? A noble principle indeed upon which to act! And a noble people the South would be if their indignation is not aroused by the idea that they are only to obtain Northern friends by voting for Northern men, and to be punished for neglect to do so by assaults upon their institutions.

Let the South ask which are its men who from interest or revenge thus desert and betray its cause or the Whigs give us solid deeds instead of pretty words and winsome natural allies.

Southern man to the Presidency who cannot stab the South unless the dagger first passes through his own breast, and who will not permit Southern rights and institutions to be invaded while his hand guards the Constitution.