Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-11-08
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THE FIR B Z NJ A N.
For the Freeman.
Mr.. Birney and the WhigS.

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Mad dog! mad dog kill the mad dog InI
their desperation and as their dying effort, the
Clay party have set up the hue and cry at the ex-
cellent j. G. Birney, hoping to divert public at
tention from that same old coon, who lives by rob
bling the hen roost. They have made the wonder
full discovery that the democrats at SaginaW-the
neighbors and acquaintance of Mr.. Bmey have
after consulting him, nominated him as candid
ate to represent their county in the legislature off
Michigan. A horrible conspiracy. Letter. after
letter is dispatched from Detroit by somebody's
county committees are called to consult and act on
such an emergency; coons arc sent out to explore
the country-to smell out the dead carcass, and
make report. And the whole editorial corps of
coonitcs are reused to action-types flying, press
cs groaning, and papers flying to the four winds
What's the matter? Why, Mr.. Somebody has
found out that Mr.. Birney is more respected in
Saginaw than some men arc in Dctrot-thinks
that the wind can be raised and goodIy number
Of guUS caught, which will make fine picking for
coons BIney has sold out, and gone over to
Polk, is the only cry sent on to Boson-"UsE IT'D
is the direction, and the induccment to use Il; we
assured that twenty thousand Liberty men
will he converted and vote for Henry Clay. Here
is the end Of the plot, desperate effort to help the
2;33's': aoa, AID "a:sc grand ,uaater mason
little higher on his throne What cant coons and
brother masons do; | hope they wilInot Morgan
ize Birncy, and execute upon him the penalty of
the masonic oahs. How many guIIs will be caught
in the coon trap cannot tell. hope we have not
twenty thousand if we have, they may as well
he devoured by coons, as hung dead weight up
on our body. Gdeon's army would not vanq uish
the Mdianes, until the army was greatly reduced
and so it may be with Liberty party. But victory
will come The Barley Loaf tumbling into the
camp of the Midianites, will do the work, and the
princes of INDIAN will fall.
What is the crime charged why Birney is a
Democrat. So was Jefferson and Harrison, and
nine tenths of all the wing party. Even Mr. Clay
himself has told us, that he received his politics
from Jefferson, and is a Democrat of the Jef1er-
sonan school But Birnoy has turned traitor and
, gone over to Polk. Well, had he gone over to
Clay, would he have been traitor l.? And would
all this cry have been made by the whole pack of
coons Would not that Mr., Lawyer, have
altered the case' A traitor And have not
all the Clay presses and Olators been employ
ed these four months to make just such traitors
Have they not traversed the whole land, and done
all that they would do, by hook or by crook, to
coax. and induce honest liberty men, to leave their
friends, violate their conscences give upt the strug
gle against slavery, turn traitors, and vote for
saveholder1 And has not Mr. Burchard, and 9th
ers of that stamp hearkened to those seducers and
gone over to their camp and tried to intce as many
as they could to follow their traitorous example
s1laak1t say you Mr. Somebody at Detroit Is it a
~ more immoral or criminal to leave the Liberty
party and join the Democrats, than it is to leave
the same party and join the Clay party 0 dear
SIT is ma Bull that has done the mischjeE--WeU
nsust stop and couSiderp' Every man has RICH
to examine the ground on which he stands, ant
to change his ground when he conscentiousll
thinks duty requires him to do So and not cling tt
a corrupt party when he their wickedness
and it is base to stigmatize him as 4 traitor for 81
doing. But Birney the nominee of his party
We'll, if our nominee does any thing worthy o
censure, we can look after him without any hell
from the Clayites. Much indeed should we re
greet to have Mr.. Birney sell himself to Polk o
Clay; but should he do it, we would throw hin
overheard and choose another pilot. He Nigh
disguise himself; but could not carry off twent
from our party. We go for principIeS-not men.
Birney sold himself to Polk. 1t would seel
from the story that might as well say that M
Birney had bought up the democrats of Sagna'
for mis- party, as that he had sold himself TO then
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transaction well understood by both parties.
the citizens of Saginaw had local interest, whc
they wished to have taken care of in their legslt
ure and had confidence in Mr.. Birney's honest