Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-08-16
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from ~ to $500 apiece in the shambles. Tho
banks loaned their entire resources, and private
men their boarded treasures to negro traders, and
cotton and land spectators; the South rum in debt
more than $500, 100000 to the North. States lent
their credit to get funds from Europe for the same
dark business and the nation rnjOiced in its pros
perity'-a bloated prosperity, based on the grOanS
and sweat aud tears and blood OF 100000 victims
Of the Internal traffic in mems bodies and souls,
and 800 900 more compelled to ceaseleSs toll i'll
the cotton and sugar fields Of the South. When
was avarice ever gutted2 Greedy of more gain
slavery stretched its credit to the utmost when, if
1887, the cottons of India, Egypt and Brazil began
to compete with American blood produce, the
price fell suddenly hundred per cent, the bubble
Of our prosperity burst, slavery swallowed up H
kiIs bankruptcies the resources of the nation, and
such desOation filled the land J5Gr, even, with
all its horrors, never wrought! Yet who Gid not
applaud the French treaty of 1881 So it is with
all our treaties all tariffs and other laws. Sla-
very the only gamer, free labor the only lOser.-~
Search aud see. Take few collected facts: The
largest and oldest bookseller now living, told me
that his average losses, in Southern trade for Az
years, have exceeded so per cent. on his sales.-
The loss on his Northern business, per cent
One of the oldest living importers and dealers III
dry goods stated his Southern losses at IS to so
per cent; his Northern and Western losses at s.
This is the experience Of all classes of business
men. The aggregate, in any ten years, thus plum
dered from the people of the free labor States il
no, less than $500, 100000, all of which goes to
make up the pauperism of slave labor. This is a
sample of only one or toCo of the many modes In
which slavery makes its control over the govern
neut blessing to ITSELF and n curse to the people
who live by honesty, by the sweat of their browSr,
and the labor of their own hands. "Democracy,%4
ever pratng of "human rights" and "Whigisn,"
ever loud in profession Of "more favorable" i'll re-
spect to the slave and his friends, combine in I'M
holy league with slavery, to plumber freemen Of
their hard earnings! The free States oil coun-
tries are made to contribute, in tears and bloody
sweat, to build up the bloody throne Of this Mo-
loch, to whom we and our children, our inter-
ests and our rights, the freedom of the press and
} of speech, our personal safety, and the purity OF
our churches, alike made the costly sacrifice. How
long shall it be so? Are you slave, son of New
England, son of ireland, son of Freedom, that you
will cling to proslavery that barter religion
in its TRUTH Christ in its members, for little OF
, the gold stolen from the slave! That you vote
!, for men, for public Office, who for power will bar
e ter your interests and your rights! Oh, cease b
r sacrifice yourself, your country, your religion, "
4 t.a yrants who have already made one half Of IhS
laboring men of the nation Ignorant sensual, bTu'
Z. fish slaves, and who exutlngly proclaim the COM
= ing of the day when the same accursed system
= shall spread all over the land Answer then with
S the might of freenan's power, the BALLoT-Box'