The Vermont freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1842-1843, 1842-12-10
NEW BEDFORD FOR EVER!

Bso. LEAvIrr,-I have been on the battle ground Of
the State, between Thirty and Siarery, and it waxed
hotter and hotter until the victory carried by a
forced charge in favor of Snrery and Whiggery. No
man, who was not present, have any just concep
tl"ns of that date, and the used by Wing aris
tocracy, who of the wealth in TIE place, to
carry the election. If the overseerism of Congress
ceeds the overseersm of New Bedford arstocracy,
not strange that Northern members bow to their bully
ing In many cases, if nearly all, where Liberty
in the employ OF the Wings, o dependent
them tor any aid in business they either turned
out Of employ, or threatened, and will lose
about $3.50 worth of employ the year, account
of his integrity. In fact they coaxed threatened,
seerIz d, bul!ied dismissed from employ. and used
every other oppressive that m:'ifntu fnisphOod
and s"der could invent that would hav effect bribery
excepted, to either carry the Liberty to
the Wings, prevent them from going to the polls.
The result that five Liberty only carried
over stayed away, while vote increased from
AZ to a.. We had meetings every evening through
the week, and in tact increased nine rot's The next
morning after the election, the Sc Mercury, the Wing
organ OF that place, pad the Liberty men high
pnen for their fidelity to prtmrtpe; and think the
noble hearted Liberty men have satisfied friends and
foes in New Bedford, that they a commod ty
the mmfkt, and that the living principle of Liberty in
the hands of such men 10 destined To triumph. The
Liberty men are mostly poor and dependent others
for thu r employ, but they have counted the in the
spirit OF TO- and Liberty must triumph they die
tyrs. The Wings declared if mnney ,oouid buy, or
threats drfer from voting, they con'd have the day.
They got the members, but it is not the expression of
unbiased pnhc sentiment, and Will rHrOI upon them,
their victory of 1S40 has done The following fact
among many others, told to me by who heard
the conversation just | left New Bedford showing
their contemplate meanness towards poor c"ored men.
colored was seen by Wing with L.herty vote
in his hand; the Wing tried to persuade and him
to exchange for Wing vote but succeeding, he
put on the airs of "rsrserr, and stratened up in
great dignity, and with awful soltmnity told him, 81"
he roted THAT TICKET TO Gull at his house again
for ana SWlLI! ~
venture to predict that the next vote given for Lib
erty in New Bedford will be double what it this
year; for if they could gain under suh circumstances,
mhnf they n"f do under ordinary circumstances
with the same means?
Yours for Liberty, H. CUMMINGS.
Boston, Nov. 80, 1912
Our farmer friends may need to be informed that in
large towns numbers of persons support themselves by
feeding swine with the oal which they collect at the
kitchen doors of the houses The withholding of this
swll was the awful penalty denounced upon this free
citizen Of Massachusetts for daring to vote for Liberty
Where has successfully resisted, who tell
how many have yielded to the same appances' Was
the Albany vote gained by such means ED. ENAs.