Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1843-09-06

vet who "a his ciiofis 10 oppose IS goNcrntd bl
s,nnd and practical judgments OF the cdrrvcsciog
boi.crous and proscrip,ive aboIi,iouisn, which 70
qaires the surrender OF all other principl Top
posed or no,) and utterly condemns all tina, do not
/ flll in with it, schemes however Wild or imprac
licasle they NAV be We imagine that had not
NJ Eaton been a cantidhic Of the iriig pariv,
this letter would have been satisfactory enough
to have secured his enrolmen, on the list Of true
! and genuine abolnonisis Bu, no. he is Wig.
attached to whig principles and may be by pos
sb,iy induced once more lin the election OF Pres
idcn,) to choose between positive opponon, Of alb.
olhionism and one who possibly may not favor i,
quite to the ex,en, that we could wish And there.
fore they say although we can almost receive
him, We, we cannot quite. Now can any thing
appear more ridiculous than the exhibition OF this
conscieniousness' of these men who refuse to vote
for man whose whole course of life has been
marked by those vinuos which ever characterize
the true christian and pbilanthropi,, who avows
himself arden,ly devoted TO the cause of abolition
and pledges to do allsn his power, consistent with
his dclibera,c Judgment to carry out these princ
Piles. We say whax the consciertiousness or
the consistency ofthose pretended aboltionists who
refuse to vote for such man, upon the ground that
he is whig and does not quite come up TO their
sandafd-and yet, who march boldly to the polls
and ,ote for men on their ticket who have made
but little if any pretentions TO abolition feeling
who are devoid Of the ordinary sympathics for
a. iys hr,, r
through life has been such as would leave their
friends 10 doubt their entire dsintercs,edness in en-
gaging in any phanthropc enterprise whatever
Again we witness the striking inconsistency of
those men in their expressions of regard at one
time and condemnation at another, of the same 'ab-
olitionsm. AS for instance, the letters, speeches
&c o. such men as J. G. Adams Seward Sade,
Giddngs, G.. NJ Clay and many like them are
all received as orthodox, are used and endorsed as
genuine brcathings Of the spirit of abolonsm-
their acts in regard to the question, are extolled
and laudcd las they should be,) and yet let one of
these men be set up in Vermont upon the wing
ticket candidate for to,cn representative even,
and Vermont aboitonsts cannot according to
their standard vote for him Thus the men, who
by their untiring exerions, their powerful minds,
and never-sleepng vigilance have been for years
arousing the North to sense of the injustice of
southern slavery and guarding her people against
the aggressons of the arrogant uphoders of the
system, the men from whose minds came the first
sparks which lindled the fire of abolitionism in
the north, and by whose efforts its principles have
been sustained, are the men 10 be denounced at the
pinch, as luke,warm pretenders only, and are to
make way for sucb men as - - but
we will not name them in connection with the
white haired time ponored, odd man eloquent
The thought of such a judgment as is here con-
tempatcd pronounced by Vsrmonti brings re-
proach and disgrace with it.
And now in view Of the fact that but one opin-
ion Comparatively speaking) exists in Vermont,
upon the subject of slavery, and while the wing
party can with perfect propriety adopt all the
measures Of reasonable abolitionsts, have already
done So and pledge themselves hereafter to carry
out the views of public sentiment upon this ques-
tion-can it be the policy of true abonionsts
to desert this party and unite with faction pur-
SUNG for the sole benefit of its disconnected lead
ers, course so ultr and illiberal as must for
long time prevent that effective, and united action
upon the question, which the importance Of the
subject demands, and which we believe Vermont
is nop ready 10 YELL