Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-10-04

passing away, with a certainty of its speedy and
entire disappearance.
The accession to power of the Liberty party i'm
plies-as take 1.-THE speedy extinction of slave
ny every where within our country; and, of COURSE
the bringing of all its Labor into homogeous
state. Till our labor be brought into this State
all legislation for its benefit must necessarily, be-
IN great measure, unavailing; and this can be
done only by the extinction of Slavery.
But you are ready to ask, how could the Liber-
~ party, If in power, extinguish slavery, seeing,
as is admitted on nearly all hands, that the gener
al goyernment-excePt as a eUGr measure to save
'tseJ-has no constitutional power over that inst-
tuition In the States? lreply-all that is necessa-
ny to be done, is for the appointing potOer of the
general government to bring into its offices and sta
tlons of honor and trust and profit, throughout the
south, only such as are notslaveholders- only such
as practically acknowledge, that all men are crea-
ted equal and entitled to their lives and liberty
No objection can be made to the constitutional
ty of such course. 1t is as simple, too, as it is
constitutional, and it will be found as effective as
II is simple. Its spirit and object would commend
it to all, except the shareholders themselves for
have always found 1t true, that however slow a
people may themselves be, to put away aCrOng
from among them, yet when once justice is boldly
done on it by their rulers, the act fails
celving their heartest sanction of approba-
ton. The shareholders would at first huddle to-
geher for their mutual defence. But it would be
unavang They could no more withstand the
influence of public opinion, now purified by an il
Iustrlous act of justice, and flaming on them from
every side, than the snowdrit of an April night can
withstand the meridian rays of the next days sun.
have written you a much longer letter than
intended when | commenced writing. The use
you make of it is left entirely at your discretion
impose no terms of "Confidental'' character,
entertain no opinions on subjects of general con-
Germ, to which my fellow citizens who feel inter
ested to know them are not perfectly welcome.-
MY opinions are the offspring of the best data thai
can command. AS long as believe them true,
respect them too highly to be ashamed of them. Il
ascertain them to be false, it costs me no strug.
gle to disown them A single remark | beg to ado
to what have said on the tariff. / am opposed
TO all rash legislation, to violent changes in the
existing order of things when lawful interests have
become implicated with it, Were now a mem
Der of Congress, should oppose the repeal of the
present tariff, before it was fairly and fully tried
II 1t should be found to work we'll for the country
and the country generally were satisfied with it,
should continue to supprt it. In this case, my the
ory would be proved false by ,facts-against whicl
no theory ought to be maintained. But should
work i'll for the country, and there should be
growing discomfort with it, should favor its re
duction to the revenue standard-but SO gradually
that all the interests involved in it might, in tn
highest possible degree, be saved from loss.
am, Sir, very respectfully.
Your obedient servant,
JAMES G. BIRNEY.