Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-03-30

1e asks Tor office, and if you reject him, you have
oohe a horrible deed-yOu are a %perjured mar, you
are a vlolator of the Constitution!
we are slck-sick at this loathsome adulation
paid to the stakeholder. 1t would really seem as
If the American people were so in love with some
sort OF an arlstocracy, on which to lavish their rev.
erence, that they had virtually constituted the ne
gro-holders, the Lords Temporal of the nation;
and by and by, we shall expect to see Patriarch
McDufhle, who led the way in an Abrahamic ar
gument in behalf Of slavery, and the whole batch
of Doctors of Divinity who have prostituted them
selves to the defence Of s-detesrGble system of op-
preston, constituted the Lords Spiritual-in which
case, we suppose, it wilLbe field to be grossly I'M
constitutional not to do Wtiatsoever these two Su-
perjor Estates Of the. realm may may.direct. =
Unconstitutional MOTTO vote. fora STAKEHOLDER!
Who buttbe men with their necks under the yoke
would ever. whisper SO degrading "a sentiment?
Doubtless, were we'at the North to resolve never
fto -ive our support TO a S5uthern man for Office;
we should be violating the spirit ofthe Union, tho
not the Constitution. But this is not the point in
question. Liberty men have no sectional feelings,
or ought to have none. Give us a Southern
man Of sound principles who is not a Shareholder,
and we will vote for him. Have we not such ii
man on our ticket? The selection of Mr.. Birney
as our candidate, shows that we care nothing about
geographical distinctions. The shareholders are
not the South. There are thousands and hundreds
VI th'HSuiluS ii WOTlHy ClllZ0:lS Ill the DIaVc states
who are not Shareholders. 70 them we make no
objections. But shareholders are habitual viola
tors ot.every fundamental principle of our Gov
eminent, and therefore W. oppose them.
What are these principles? Every man has a
right to property, to himself, his wife, his children
and his earnings. This is one principle. Does
not the Shareholder violate it every day? Every
man has a right to liberty-to free thought and
free action.-This is another principle. Does the
STAKEHOLDER recognize it? Every man has a right
to I" pursue happiness" This is a third princi-
pie. Does the stakeholder allow the slave to pur-
sue his own happiness? The Constitution was
framed to establish j~ustice.' This is the fourth
principle. Is it just for two hundred and fifty
thousand men to reduce to the condition ofbrutes
and keep there, two millions and a halt of other
men, and to use the government for the support Of
this system Of gross injustice?
Every fundamental system then, of civil govern
ment-of our government, do they violate, and
yet to refuse to support them for office would be "a
violation of the constitution! | may vote against
a Wing, because he holds improper doctrines, or
a Democrat, because his views are &C destructive, -
or an Abolitionist, because he would carry out the
principles of the Declaration of independence in
application to slavery, all this | may do, and not
violate the constitutions; but to refuse to vote for the
Shareholder, Il gross v~iolator of every principle of
the Declaration of independence, aud every prin-
ciple of the Constitution,-''O O, my offence is rank,
it smells to heaven"