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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-05-10
For The Green Mountain Freeman
Birney and Clay.

We shall now see whether the Van Burentes
will swallow their heads, and throw the electoral
vote of Vermont on to Mr.. Clay, or not. To say
the least, Birney's chance Of being President ofthe
United States is as good as Van Buren's. Indeed,
the democrats must choose between Birney and
Clay, for what few votes may be thrown by the
hot-headed democrats, will not only be thrown a.
way, so far as Van Buren, is concerned, but worse
than that, they will be thrown for Clay. Why
not then go with the real democrats of the State
and defeat the great STAKEHOLDER Of his Green
Mountain trophy, and place it upon the head of
Birney the Just, who is worthy of it? What pos
sbe good does any one think he is doing by voting
for Van Buren,? He never can be President
Why then should those democrats who dread
whiggery worse than liberty, pursue such course
as not only to increase Clays chances of carrying
the State, but to render it certain for him? Why
not all go the Birney ticket, and if his election is
not thereby secured, you will at least have the sat
isfaction of knowing that you have stood by the
principles Of democracy, and saved yoIr State the
dishonor of giving her electoral vote to a slavehol-
der, a duellist and wing. This believe is the
doctrine democrats used to preach to abolitonists
Will you illustrate its beauties, gentlemen, by an
exampe2 The question is really betwcan Birney
and Clay. Bnney will be defeated this year, bu
his principles never. Van Buren, will be defeated
and his principles overthrown. Not all the details
and minutia; but this arraying ffeemen by party
intrigue for the benift of slavery, will end with
Clay's administration. Yet thiuk the more can
did and rejecting portion of the democratic party
will not be so stubborn, and wiIlul and stupid as
to play the State into Clay's hand, because they
have reason to believe that other States, s. enough
of them to elect him, will act thus unwisey. Ii
would be poor excuse for me to fire my neigh
boris house, because knew some one else would
| if did not. knew it would be burned, and so
set fire in the roof, thinking it a less evil than tc
have it fired from the cellar Come, gentlemen
let us stand by our principles this year, and place
Vermont in the front rank of freedom-make he
the North Star to guide the eye and cheer the hope
of the millions ofdown trodden Americans, in thei
triumphal march. i. ii. f.
Stow, May, 1S49.
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York, or three in N. Hampshire, Indiana, Con-
necticut or N Jersey to do as much in choosing a
President, as one in Delaware, Arkansas or Lou
siana. That it takes two in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts, Illinois or Maine, to do as much
as one III Virginia. And that, collectively in the
Southern States, six voters will do nearly the same
in eecting the Chief Magistrate Of tho Union as
ten in the Northern States: that in electng Rep
resentatives, two at the South do about as much
as three at the North and in the Senate, three at
the South do more than seven at the North!
What a "DREADFUL PRECIPICEp Is not THIS the
SLAVE POWER? Where is LIBERTY?
hope the freemen of the North will examine
this subject for themselves, and see how much sa-
very they are heir to, and how much they are I'M
der obligation to do to abolish it. d. N. II.
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1t will be seen by the above table that New York
has the greatest number of votes to an eector, and
Vermont the least of the non-slaveholdng States
except Rhode Island, and yet Vermont has more
than Tennessee, which has the highest number in
the slave States. 1t can also be seen that twenty
electors, comprising those from Louisiana, Arkan-
Sas, Delaware, and eight from S. Carolina, are
the representatives of less number of voters on
an average, than the four from Rhode Island; and
also that forty-one electors, including those from
Virginia, Alabama Mississippi, and nine from
Georgia, on an average are the representatives of
number of voters less by one half than those from
New York. In other words, freeman in Louis
lana has a fraction less than four times the infu-
ence in eecting President that freeman in N.
York has; or that it takes nearly four voters in N
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-05-10
Defamation,

We have little patience with the defamation
we hear occasionally, about the dissolution of the
Union; for two reaSons-frst, the declaimers do
not mean what they say; and, secondly, they have
no right to threaten the Union, till they have tried
all its lust powers for the overthrow of what they
denounce. You will dissolve the Union? And
why? Because these shareholders are so graspng,
SO selfish, so reckless of all constitutional obliga-
ton. And what have you done to mend the mat
ter? That they are all you say, is true, but whose
fault is it? Whose fault is it, that we are now
threatened with utter degradation? Aye-we
push these questions home-ask your own hearts,
Have you ever raised your voice against slavery?
Have you done anything to enlghten your breth-
rem Of the South on this subject? Have you ex-
postuIted with them, argued with them, resisted
their frequent violations of the constitution Have
you not allowed the right OF petition to he tram
pied under foot? Have you not tacitly given your
vote for the support of unconstitutional slavery in
the District Of Columbia, and territory of Florida!
Have you not heard without emotion fthe appro-
praton by your representatives, of $40 900 600 to
defiay the expenses of war in Florida, which had
its origin in the determination of shareholders to
break up haunt for their runaway slaves! Have
uou not allowed these men to mOnopoze your
chief Federal offices? Have you not suffered them
to dictate to YOU who shall be your Presidents =
Have uou not gone on meekly submitting, voting
every four years for Shareholders, or their menlalS
and prescribing anti-savery men from olhciai sta-
ton. lust because the slave power so willed it,
Have qou not yielded to all its demands' Have
you in single case used your constitutional pow
ers for the overthrow of slavery influence! YET
Won would now dissolve the Union! Nonsense
Go and do your duty like men--use the powers
which YOU enjoy under the Union, for the over
throw Of its greatest foe, and do not blame it,
when YOU should condemn yourselves---put on
sackcoth and ashes, on account of your Delinquent
cies. We go for the Union and the Constitution,
because the proper use of the powers conterredD y
them, will accomplish all that reasonable men can
ask,-Cincinnati Herald.
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makers and law executors stand aghast at the inn
passabe distance which the American Eagle has
outstretched the British Lion in deeds of blood
They seem utterly to fail in understanding this
new principle of American jurisprudence, which
Furnishes as capital offence an act of mercy, en-
Joined alike by humanity and religion. The an
mails of the lnquistion, the blood of whose martyrs
once drenched her soil, furnish the only prece-
dents now extant for such mock justice and wan
ton barbarity. The transatlantic sympathizers with
the unfortunate John l.. Brown could do neither
more or less than gaze at the fact and each other
in vacant, lstless Amusement.
The meeting at Edinburgh, however, veDtured
an official remonstrance against the horrible pro-
cedure, to be transmitted through the British min
lister to the Federal authority of the U. S. and the
State authority Of South Carolina.
Such are the effects of American slavery-truly
the d" yiest the sun ever saw" ALPHA.
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THE FIR E L NJ A N.
Liberty and the Slave Power.
For the Green Mountain Freema


The " One INSTRUMENTATION Principles Of the
Liberty Party-Liberty Principles and Equal
Rights-Speyior influence Of Freemen in lie
southern States over those in The northern IN
electing President, Senators and Representatives
IN Congress-T Table sho,cing ho,c much-SonSe
Comparisons, &c.
Mr.. ED1roR:-At the present day much is said !,
and sometimes tauntingly said, that the Liberty
party is composed of men Of but one idea. Well,
what if it is so? If that idea is paramount to and
comprehends all other ideas worth contendng
for, then one idea is sufficient for the men of that
party. Ono idea, the idea Of Liberty, our forefa-
theirs considered of sufficient importance to pledge
their property, their lives and their sacred honor
to obtain. Of sufficient Importance to wage 81
seven years war at great sacrifice of property
and life [but not Of honor to enjoy its benefits and
the benefits of those other ideas that necessarily
follow in its train. This one idea was deemed
sufficient for the whole superstructure Of our ma
tional compact to stand upon. The preamble to
the Constitution reads thus: " We, the people of
the United States, in order to form more perfect
uHIOu3 CSluUllSH JuStlCC3 llSuC uOlCollC luuiuli-
ity, provide for the common defence, promote the
general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty
to ourselves and our posterity, do ordan and es-
tablish this constitution of the United States of
America" 1t may be said that there is more than
one idea in this preamble. Look again, strike out
the idea of Liberty and what do you have left
worth transmitting to posterty2 answer, Moth
ing Then why is not this one idea of liberty a
platform broad enough to organize apolitcal par
ty upon? Some, perhaps, will say they though
immediate abolition of Slavery was the one idea
on which the politics Of the party were based i
it is allowed that every inequality of lawful oil
constitutional rights throughout the nation is
slavery, it is sufficient; but if not, would say tina
understand the principles of the liberty party tc
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-05-10

embrace the whole, eYelIng down OF the usurp-
err, lifting up of the oppressed, until all shall
stand upon one common ground, with no dlsnc-
tons but mert-with no lights but justice-wth
equal protection to the property, persons aud
character of all, with no organization but liberty,
a carrying out and establishing in practice the
principles of the " second branch of the resolution
passed" by the House of Representatives in Con-
gress on the Goth day of February last, without
dissenting voice, which was as follows, {" that ev
cry citizen, and every section of the country, has
right to demand and Insist upon an equality Of
rights and privileges, and to complete and am
pie protection of person and property from domes-
tic violence and foreign aggression
The object and aim Of the abolitionists have
been perfectly UNDERSTOOD even by shareholders
themselves, and in consideration of the additional
rights privileges and honors guaranteed TO them
by the provisions of their State and national con-
stitutons-that of holding slaves as property and
a superior influence in electng the Executive,
Senate and House of Representatives of the I'm
ion In view Of the dwelling down of their supe-
rior rights to the level Of northern freemen, or
where equality would place them, dreadful
precipce" is in their prospect before them, and
when they discovered that the aboIitionists were
about to appeal to the ballot box for the attain
ment of their objects, Henry Clay Of Kentucky
was alarmed and could keep silence no longer, but
arose in his place in the Senate of the Uuited
States on the 9Th day of February 1889, and said,
" Mr.. President, it is at this alarming stage Of the
proceedings Of the Observation-Disclosures that would
seriously invite every considerate man in the coun-
try solemnly to pause and to deliberately reflect,
not merely on our existing posture, but upon that
dreadful precipice down which they would hurry
u.s." This consider sufficient proof of the fore
going statements, as well as evidence that it is
through the ballot box alone the abolitionists can
expect to effect their purposes fit snot sufficient
more can be had from as authentic sources.
As many of your readers may not understand
the lofty eminence upon which slavery has placed
the treemen of the south above those of the north
| have formed
TABLE,
showing the average number Of freemen in each
of the several States to an electoral vote and also
a representative in the House, and member of the
Senate.
For basis of calculation have taken the num-
Der of votes polIed for electors of President and
Vice President in 1910 with two exceptions. list
Rhode Island has amended her Constitution since
1910, which extends the elective franchise. | have
therefore taken the number of votes given TO
Governor in l849 as being more appropriate. Cd
South Carolina chooses her electors and State Of
lac H., A. T
general election. | have made an estimate pro
portioned to the votes and free population fNortI
Carolina and Georgia.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-05-10
For The Freeman.
For the Freeman.
British Oppression more tolerant than
American Liberty.

Is it not so' Weemean of course, in the prac-
teal operation of some of its laws in contrast with
some of own; certainly not with the upper
verted spirit of our Republican Institutions. Take
a fact in point Meetings, enthusiastic and nu-
merousIy attended, have been held in England,
Scotland, and Ireland, to exchange sentiments of
astonishment and horror upon the transaction (re-
Gently published in the Freeman) of sentence of
death being pronounced by an American tribunal
upon an American citizen, for the CRIME of aiding
an American aComa1 in obtaining her g inalienabIe
right" to personal 6bertyi Across the Atlantic,
beyond the precincts of slavery-that " peculiar
in8tjtution,' with peculiar laecs-they know not
what to make of so monstrous an outrage against
every principle of Liberty-aye of common justice
too, as this. Their laws of tyranny and codes OF
brutality can furnish no respectable parallelto this
new enactment from the word-famed Land of
Liberty and Human Rights. They have provls-
ions for intlicting death upon such as despoll the
rights of citizens, but they have none for admins
tering death for that benevolence which aids a
citizen in obtaining has Own rights; and their law
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-05-10
For the Green Mountain Freeman.
Stowe Female Anti.Slayery SOciet,
Stow, May, 1913.

In November last, some Of the Ladies Of this
town, who felt the responsibility cast upon them
by the nhumanity practised upon large portion
land, resolved to resist, with such means and iDfu
ences they possessed, the tide of desolating
pro-slavery sentiment which had set in upon church
and state, and public feeling, till the hope of the
slave had well nigh persisted, and with it the glory
of our land. They accordingly formed a Society,
and adopted a constitution, prefaced with the fol-
lowing preamble:-
" We the undersigned, feeling it our privilege
and duty to assist in carrying forward the Anti
Slavery enterprise, by such means as come within
the reach of our opportunities, influences ana APP
prOpriate efforts, associate for the turherance OF
the cause under the following organizations"
"THE OBJECT of this association is to obtain
and ditfdse IL more general information upon this
subject among the female portion ofthe communi-
ty, and thereby deepen and enlarge our own SYM
pathIes, aud send abroad through the whole com
munity better and stronger feeling for the crush
ed and bleeding millions of our ensaved fellow
countrymen; and also to meet the wants of the tu-
gitives from slavery, as we have the ability ana
opportunity" ..t.....It =
&c Membership All females, who nave CEASE? :1i-
RI support or apologize for slavery, ana Wno ~;
use their influence to turn the current Vi PuOi'o
oninion and feeling and action against it, may be
members Of this Society"
The necessary committees, Treasures &c'' were
appointed, and they set about the work of benevo-
lence in procuring some articles of necessary clo-.
thing for the benefit of the refugees from American
despotsm, who are pouring in by hundreds to
Canada. meeting of the Society was called the
first day of May and the donations collected, to be
forwarded forthwith to Dawn Mills, Canada
West care of Rev H. Wilson, Agent ofsaid Mis-
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THE SABBATH AMONG SHAREHOLDERS. Inere
- otaIv been COW TaAliOra OF tho friands ut the
mas laie IN the State of South Carolina. The
,reat object was to demonstrate against the "sin OF
sgravelng on Sunday, 'and the transmission ofthe
mail on the railroad on the Lords day." Nothing
was said about the trifing matter of some two or
three hundred thousand slaves in the State, great
portion ofwhom have no more Sabbath than the
inhabitants of Timbuctoo, or New Zealand; nor do
we learn that these reverend and pious gentlemen
of the convention, expressed any concern about
the "Sunday travel" of chained groups of men,
women and children, urged on by the whips of ne
gro traders. 1t is to us a matter of profound as
constituent that these sanctimonOus hypocrites
could meet together for such purpose, and look
each other in the face without laughing. -EsseS
Transcript.
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From the Albany Patriot.
Notes Of Southern Travel.
A GROUP OF KNAVES.

About three miles from &c Mason s. Dixon's "a
Line" on the west branch of the Susquehanna, live
a set of careless scoundreIs, whose chief business
is man-huntlng, and whose occasional amusements
are countereitng, stealing sheep stabbing killing
men, and debauchery in its lowest forms. These
convenient tools of the refined, genteel slaYchold-
ers, are scourge and terror to the neig hborhood.
The farmers fear to prosecute their evil deeds,
lest the vengeance of these Wretches should fall OH
them. One Of them, Sampson Lyman, is now in
the Eastern Pententary, in Philadelphia, for his
counterfeting exploits. His brother John, with
Cad. Jones, Jake Forward, and some others, con-
stitute such group as nothing but the life of a
kidnapper and man-hunter could create. Associ-
ated with them is set of females, not whit more
elevated in moral character. No doubt the lordly
shareholders despse these, their necessary tools.
But IN my opinion, the STAKEHOLDER is much more
despicable creature. He is the principal in all
this knayerY.
OUR LATE SENATOR KERR.
Take as a sample, the late U. S. Senator He
resided in Easton, and was member of the Epis-
copal church. To-day his slaves, nearly 40 in
number,were sold at auction, and most of the ira
ders in blood from this city went down to the sale.
Among the poor victims are not few who are
nearly related to the Honorable Senator's family.
But who cares? Nothing is more common than
the sale Of their own children by very honorable
Shareholders. The cases where they sci their chill
dren free are the exceptions. Henry Clay never
had the grace to free but one of his slave children,
the one he emancipated, with its mother, in 1889.
THE AMERICAN SLAVE TRADE.
This is great and glorious country of ours =
She wont allow her people to buy and sell any but
her opn citizens, under penalty of death What
peculiar disinterestedness, very The rise in the
price of cotton, since January LIST, has raised the
price of slaves very much. There now three
large slave prisons in this city; Slater's, Done
wants, Formerly Weolfolk's,) and Campbell's.-
They accommodate sundry other small dealers
with prison room, at 25 cents day for each VIC
tim. Hope H. Slater, the most gentlemanly of
his clan, has sent 400 to the New Orleans market,
on his own account, since last October This is
about one third of the number shipped from the
port of Baltimore in thar period. Slater sent %
last week. He has five or six men out in the coun-
try to purchase slaves for him. These wolves
prowl about the land, seeking whom they may de-
your. Their appearance strikes terror into the
hearts Of the helpless poor!
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NU MBER 10.

sion. The donations amounted to between $40
and $50. An address was delivered before said
society by the Rev. H. Carleton. A report from
the secretary, showed the number of members now
III. That number may be doubled in one month
if a proper effort be made by the Central Commit
tee. B. H.F.
Stowe, May 8, 1914.
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W The editor of the American Farmer says
that as far as he has been able to ascertain, the
wheat crop has withstood the winter well, and suf-
Tered but lite comparatively, from winter killing.
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10 From investigations made by Rev. David
AbeeI, missionary to China, it appears probable
that about onethrd or one-fourth of all the female
children Of that country are slain after birth
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U5 Truth never suffers by opposition,
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-12-17
r.,, For the Tribune.

"hen all other reforms shall have been &C.
compilshed, and all other kncwledge attained
ana disseminated, It is 10 he hoped that some
regard vii be paid 10 the supply OF vital air for
assenoiases CT huisan 6eings. The utter neg
iece manifested IN this particular a; pre.ent is
wonoeriul. We see students storing thei. minds
WIN io'e, ancient and modern, that they NAV
acI az nouors5'e part among men, but at the
same Time drying up the fountain of life, and
destroying the physical energies by depriving
the lungs OF uitaL cir. We see the minister
urging moral and religious truths upon an audi
ence who are Dasting from the same cause
We even see assemblages called by the en!ight.
ened of the land, lawyers, judges, and senator's
for the purpose of considering subjects most inte
resting and useful to man, and the audience is
compelled to sit in an atmosphere which stup;-
ies the faculties and destroys the power OF atter.
ton, which loads the tongue, impairs the power
OF digestion, and is TO be succeeded by dizziness
and pain in the head, except among the robust
One might suppose that fresh air is cheap cough
and SO necessary TO life, liberty, and the pur-
suit OF happiness" as 70 constitute one of the
mallenabie privileges of man; but, alas, in the
lecture room, the concert room, the church. even
IN the parlor, oneis frequently compelled to gasp
for breath, and to have the system Sd violently
shocked on going out, as 20 produce cata1h or
fever, or wha! is perhaps worse, after being over
heated, have a current Of cir thrown directly
upon the exposed person. Were it not for The
protection afforded by cold wafer, these things
would be unendurable. AS it il, they carry
many 10 the grave. Sound the trumpet, D
Tribune! and rally the great company of suf-
ferers from this cause, who are row pale, deoil;-
tated, and downcast in defence Of the essential
clement Of life, OXYGEN w.