Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-07-26


port of Polk and Dallas, contains the following ex
preston of the feeling Of shareholders with regard
to this nomination, to witt
'The late Congress which has just risen, we be-
lieve, will be considered one of the most evenuul
which has sat since the revolution. Three great
questions have been before it--Aboition agitation
on the floor of Congress, the Tariff, and Texas
annexation. They have all been decided against
the South and against the true interests of the u
Mon; but if she arouses her energies and moves
she did in the late Baltimore Convention all with
her will yet be well. Never was there more
remarkable proof Of her power when united than
in controlling the nomination Of that Convention.
The man, in whose favor the whole North and
West had declared-came out against policy es-
sential to her peace and safety. She made one
brave rally and swept ak opposition before her
And so it will be in the approaching presidential
election. Texas defeated Mr.. Van Buren,, and it
will destroy Clay and Benton"
The honest freemen of the wing and democratic
parties now have exhibited before them, in bold
relief the strange unpatrotic position, into which
their leaders have drawn them. They differ wide
Iy about many things, and fill their gazettes with
many things unfavorable to each others candid
ates, yet their respective leaders will march their
whole armies, side by side through a very narrow
defe to place the crown upon the head of the
monster slavery. The main contest seems to be,
which general shall actually put the crown upon
the monsters head and receive the reward OF pres
idental patronage. Those parties engage in no
contest about any constitutional principle. All
pretensions of disagreement extend only to the eX-
pedency of measures which may take different
direction for the time being as one or the other of
those parties shall succeed in the presidential cleo
ton, and remain like source OF controversy when
any future election approaches. Whether this
can be right, let me appeal to the good senso-the
philanthropy, the patriotism, and the moral virtue
of the members of each of those parties. Can it
be right for a people under one government, and
that the best on earth, if rightly administered and
having one common interest, as the people of the
free states surely have, can it be right for such a
people, to let their views of expedency merely,
with regard to men and measures, keep the coun-
try in commotion, and build up an interest as OPP
posite to their own as slave labor is to free labor;
as the South is to the North; as darkness is to
light? Again, would ashland ask men profess
sing piety, too,-can you satisfy your consciences,
years in succession, the most important Office in
the known world? Is it morally right for you to
thus encourage the perpeuy Of slavery in this
land Of liberty, as we long have boosted? Is it
morally right for you TO approve and reward, by
your surages, the spirit and practice of duelling!
Ought you not to let the leaders in those respect
i've parties know, that you will not support them
cb han, tb inv Oi
presenting candidates who are opposed to slavery
and whose>characters have never been stained by
crimes which, in this State, would doom them to
the states prison.
You are not yet so poverty-strcken as to be o.
bliged to vote for-such candidates. The Lord has
raised up, in the person of James G. Birney o.
Michigan, Moses to lead his people out of E
egyptian bondage, to lead US ofthc north out of oul
bondage to the slave power, paying tribute at hel
will He dwelt in modern Egypt He adopted
their customs. He became the owner of slaves
and was great among the great men of that coun
try. But the Lord caused him to see the sinful
ness of slavery, and to feel for human beings il
bondage, and to renounce slavery altogether And
instead of selling his slaves in Alabama, where h
lived, for twenty or thirty thousand dollars, h
took them to the north, and gave them their free
dom. Such a crime, in modern Egypt, was hi
lberating his slaves, that threatened persecution
led him to flee TO the land of indian michigan
where he now lives, ready to become the leade
of the Lords host, at the call Of the people, an
conduct them to that liberty which has long bee
our empty boast. Let the people Of the fire
States, who have one common interest in our pc
llical affairs, turn their eyes upon James G. Biz
ney, and take hold of the work, and all is soon &C
cQmpished. know your leaders will try to dis
courage you. They will tell you that if you TAX
your abors will be lost. SO Tobiah and Sandal
lot endeavored to discourage Nehemiah; but h
persevered in his own duty and succeeded in built
ing the walls of Jerusalem. Are you not full
convinced that it is the duty of all the (reemen
the free States, to cease voting for slaveholdin
presidents, and elect such rs have a common il
terest with ourselves? Undoubtedly you are
convinced. You perceive this to be the only Wa
TO stop the extension and growth of slavery, an
the exercise of the slave power over U.S. the fret
men of the north WHY then hesitate to belies
that the same facts and considerations which ha,
convinced you will convince others, also, Of Il
propriety and necessity of this course9 At al
rate, your acting boldly in the line of your du
will free your own conscience from the sin Of d