Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-05-17

T0Ii1StS the NOrh; that lS such aoohtlonIstS us
were Washington, Jefferson, and as you are UNI
derstood to have been many years ago-wo don't
know how it is with you now" Well, but
mean those fanatics. the sell-styled Liberty Party
They have put back emancipation great way"
said Mr.. Clay. oh" replied the delegate, sit
is pretty generally understood among MS that the
sinews of war arc furnished for them by the loco
foco party, and the prime movers are leading loco-
focos; it is designed to break up the 'Oh'g partly"
That's it that's it Just as thought" said
Mr.. Clay.
Now what murderous stab was thus given to
the cause of human freedom, and by man whom
the Wings of Vermont had chosen to represent
them in their National Convention! Here was
man from our midSt-claiming to be as much OF an
abolitonist as Washington who declared that the
GaItot-bon was the only proper place to abolish
slavery, and pledged his rote for the object; or
jefferson, who, in rejecting upon the subject OF
slavery, said he &C trembled when he remembered
that God was just, and that His justice could not
sleep forever" endeavoring TO quiet the awaken
ed conscience of one of the most confirmed and IN
fuential shareholders in the land, by the assurance
that those at the North who have resolved upon
an honest and systematic use of all their constItu-
tiona powers for the overthrow OF American sa-
very, are aiming to subserye the interests OF that
party which shamelessly procams itself the 'nat-
ural ally of the South" Would not the interests
Of the great wing party allow this delegate to
bear as honest and honorable testimony to the mer-
its of the Liberty Party as did the savehodlng
Cassius M. Clay? Who can calculate the effect
on Mr.. Clay'5 mind, had this man replied to his
t inouiry--" Sir the Liberty Party embraces large
portion of the virtue, intelligence, and legal knowl-
edge, the Christianity and patriotism of the North
o Taking the ground first occupied By washington
himself that slavery was the creature of law, anc
should be abolished by law, they appeal to the bal
lot-box, not the bayonet; like the great Irish re
former having faith in the power of reason, rutl
/ and virtue, they expect to achieve bloodess rev
. olution, more glorious than any yet arising iron
;. force aud arms" But no: Mr.. Clay is given t.
Is understand that there is honest, effective abol
tonsm at the North; that he may go on, unheed
l. ed and uncensured, prostitutng the mighty enel
. ges of his mind to the support of this scourge
the nation, and roting upon the dearest nteres
Il of humanity! And all this because the time of OF
~ national worship is at hand and the good ofpat
an REQUIRES that this worship should be offered in tt
s. idol-temple of slavery! Now, which is the mo
he to blame. the Shareholder, blinded by educatiC
~, and interest, or the treacherous and dcgencra
v freeman?
lat But notice the consummatc folly of botht
u, u' delegate and Mr.. Clay, in coming to the "mc
70 lame and impotent conclusion" that the Liber
Party aims to promote 'locofocosm,' when t
lr. Liberty organization, as they well know, eXten
IDS through all the free States, and increases quite
III rapidly, and threatens much to the DONNA
en- party, in those States where 'locofocosm' is in
ascendancy, as where the wing party bear rule.
nit Truly, the old adage holds good" whom the go
ler will to destroy, they first make mad FOOLISH
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