Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-08-30


with the safety and liberty of the European de-
scendants;" and he is the president of society,
whose grand object is TO eXtirpate our cOiored
freemen: than which it we're difficult to conceive
of a design more thoroughly diabolical re mas mas
asserted, that our national Government Is D9unu
to protect the domestic slave-trade'" witch oonn
Randolph himself a STAKEHOLDER, pronounced 10 ne
worse in some RESPECTS than the African trade IT.
self. and which John Quincy Adams, though neV-
Or calling himself an abotonis has declared It TO
he the "duty of Congress Immediately TO ABOLISH
He has EXPRESSED hilarious JOY, "that neither OF
the two great parties in thus country had any ue-
snr or aim nj abolition" He lives, he riots in
Insynrv. by plundering of all their earnings, some
sixty American Citizens; and, at the same time.
clamors like Senator, for the "PrOtectlon OF
American industry" He has been accustomed to
pour forth unmeasured SANDER and abuse OF all
who are worthy the name of aboIltlonIsts' Anu
no longer ago than the last spring, he eXuted be-
fore an audience ofslaveholders in North Caroli-
ma, in his whole course, base and protlgate as 1t
has been, in relation to this great queStloh ol hu-
mainly.
have said nothing of Mr.. Clay's dueling and
his alleged gambling, which certain very religious
people about to vote for him have taken so much
pains to gloss over. These are quite too small
matters Cor an abotionst to spend much time on,
in discussing the dement's ola STAKEHOLDER. You
would not attempt to deepen the infamy OF con-
pe,tv larcenv he had committed Besides, think
as well of MIR. Cay's alleged gambling, and his
dueling, as do of Mr.. Folks lauded plety or the
pety Of any other manstealer.
Most deepIy have regretted to find that Bur-
chard.-w is said to have just abandoned the
Liberty party and gone over to the Whlgs,-and
Shade and Giddngs, and even our friend Child,
who all still profess to be abolitloDlsts, aVoWng
determination to vote for this transcendent slave
holder, and doing what they can to induce others
to vote for him. And carefully, most carefully
have considered the Earguments" which those
gentlemen have presented to the pubic, IN justin
lcation or rather in condemnation, of the course
thew are pursuing. What are these ''arguments?'
They arc, in substance, that the election OF Mr.
CLAW will 'ssetttIe, and forever put at rest severa
great national questions" secure certain great IN
forests of the country and prevent especially, the
annexation of Texas. tell those Friends, that nc
great questions, now agitating the country cG'
be ''setled" so long as the al-dsturbIng force o
American slavery shall be allowed to exist. BY
IS the election of Henry Clay, new set of Office
seekers may be Settled" perhaps be ''put at rest
l. on full stonachs, for the space of four years, IL
l. the place now occupied by mercenary mlnlons o
l. John TYLER; and that is the only "great question
IN which his election is at all likely to "settIe."
y But what, professedy, are those great questions
" to 'sseue" which, the friends III reference ar
about in apparent vionaon of all their antslave
'oIN' ~
IN shareholders One, and the most prominent c
o. them, is that of the tariff. But have yet to Sc
the evidence that on this question there is any es
sential, practical difference between the Wing an
Democratic parties Nearly all the principal leat
t., ers of the latter have avowed Willingness to SUI
ST. tain all the ''protectlon' that Mr.. Clay hlmse
ID asks for or would deem it wise to accept. Eve
est Mr. Polk, though probably opposed to tariff IL
I'm protection merely, yet proclalns himself 10 De
ID favor of so levyng the duties as to afford, ncdel
tor tay sufficient protection to all the great nteres
m of the country Practically, then, tho views
re- that gentleman and those of Mr.. Clay amount
lie the same thing. And the present tariff so satl
al factory to the Wings, was enacted, as MIR. wei
ster in his Fanuel Hall speech very ingenious
'p- declared, by the votes of both Wings and Dem
Ids Gratis and would not and could not have been pas
am ed without the ad of the latter. One thing Is &c
ing tain, (our friend Child himself has proved iD:,
ize Whether the Wings or Democrats, or both, ha
lu- managed the matter, all our tariffs have ever I've
go, so adjusted as to throw the main burden OF su
porting the government on the hard-handed Wor
a ing men of the North; eXemptlng the saVeho
ign Ing Olgarchists from contributing their just sha
Ose of the public revenue; though the national Cover
ct- ment, whether administered by Wings or by De
ed, ocrats, has always prostuted large portion
that revenue to the maintenance of slavery, win
De- both of those parties, with brows OF brass,
I'M pleased to tell us the people OF the NORM ia
i'm Another "great question: to be Faeted' by
do election of Henry Clay, is that of distributing
'4O; the States the proceeds arising from the sale
Is | our public lands. A great question! How lie
nee would it take for the people to realize, from
ION course the sum taken from their pockets, by c.
ION spiracy of Wings and Democrats, and squand
e ed in CARRYING on the Florida war, which, by
in help of Cuba blood-hounds and Northern fir
nat men, was wageA for the sole purpose of enab
'on- Shareholders to catch their runaway slaves,
that kdnap free negroes and free Indians. On t
and question, Wings and Democrats are divided. L
tent the question has an aspect, which neither OF I'M
sup parties in their quarrel about it has seen fit to
all Jude to, but which is ncompatlbly Worthler
to note than all other considerations involved IN
mer refer to the principle on which those proce
eX- would be distributed, on which some years
and some Of them were distributes 1t is the rrll
nt- ple of the arocious basis fthe slave States +
obi RESERVATION in the lower House of Congress;
$, as which, in the distribution of the surplus re
OF nue. at the time just referred to, single sla
ont holder virtually received, might have so rect
graf ed, as large amount went into the pockets
ere any five hundred of our Northern freemen, ev
nave one of whom, by every principle of justice anC
the common honesty, was entitled to at least an eq
alb share with the largest Shareholder in the coun
cit The project of U. S. Bank having become
ard obsolete idea' believe there are no other 81
nal questions which the aboitIonlsts about to vote
ties; Mr. Clay hope to 'sete'' by his election, saw
CUES of course that OF the annexation of Texas
} the this is, professedly, the great question: wi
the they hope to settle, and forever put to rest
that voting for that STAKEHOLDER. But how is the e
more ton Of Mr.. Clay going to settle this questl