Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-08-23

spirit and letter has allowed slavery TO remain in
the States where it originally existed, s. extended
its curses over seven new States admitted into the
Union We beve that Congress, possessing 'er
ctusiUe' power over the District and Territories,
and over the trade between the several States of
this Union, is alone responsible for the existence
and extension of this curse and that the Free
States, holding large majority in that body,
stand out before the world as the guilty respon-
dents to the charge of supporting slavery We
are fully purSuaded also, that no ''other interest"
of this nation, even in pecuniary point of view,
can compare with the abolition of slavery-a sys-
tenn of pauperism, which can only exist by monop-
olIzlng the patronage and the fostering of the
General Government, and by fching millions an
nuaIIy from the pockets of free labor industry.
Our only security for national freedom also con-
sists in speedily destroying this very foundation
principles of despotism-thls revolutionary germ
which if cherished must sooner or later, as
said Thomas Jefferson, "from nature and nat
ura means alone," spring up to subvert our liber
ties, aud in such a contest, the "Almighty has no
attribute which can take sides with the oppressor."
Let these millions of our worst enemies be trans
formed into friends, having common interest in
the protection ofthe Government, and we are as
secure from internal revolution as invulnerable to
foreign invasion.
Sad experience has also taught us, that neither
Of the great political parties Of the country "have
any aim or design at the abolition of slavery"
By the united and alternate action of these parties
has slavery been extended over the seven new
States of this Union, over the District of Column
bia and the Territory of Florida, the interstate
and coasting slaye-trade fostered and protected;
the treasures of the nation, poured out like water,
in the Florida war, in Indian treaties and in trea-
ties with foreign nations to fugitive slaves
TO suit the purposes ofslavery, these parties have
alternately applied and kept in force, the gag to
the mouths of freemen in Congress; they have
forged letters for our limbs, in the law of 1898,
by which we are bound to kdnap and return flu
gtiye slaves to the scpuchre Of all their rights and
hopes, and are forbidden, under penalty of i'm
prisonmcnt and heavy fine, to obey the pIainest
injunction of our Saviour, in mnsterng to the
wants Of the suffering fugitive. During the last
session of Congress, these parties united in passing
resolutions cOndemning call efforts of abolition
lists or others, to induce Congress to interfere Dih
questions Of StaUery or TAKE THE INClPIENT sYEPs
in relation Mereto." NOT A VOICE FROM
VERMONT WAS HEARD AGAINST THIS
INFAMOUS RESOLUTION! And both these
parties are now doing their utmost to elect to the
highest offices in the nation, men, pledged against
all attempts to abolish slavery, and in favor of
prostituting the energies Of the general govern
ment to its support and defence.
Under this state of things, the Liberty party has
sprung up, based upon the equal and inaenabo
rights of all men 90 life Liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness, and determined to know nothing" Save
the carrying out of these principles in the lagsIa-
ton of the country. Not that these "other inter
ests' about which so much is said are lost sight Of
but they are held as only the dust in the balance
when compared with natural rights; and it is held
as the height Of abSurdty to attempt to patch up
and render secure those minor Interests, when the
very foundation and occasion for them is utterly
subverted.
The organization of the liberty party is now
menced in two or three of the slave States; We
have our candidates for NATIONAL State and
county officers, and the friends of freedom arc
1ocklng to our ranks as fast our principles be-
come understood. Every inch of gound has beer
holly contested by the pro slavery parties but the
truth is mighty and it will prevail. Every one O.
our positions are acknowledged, every hope o
breaking up our organization has been abandoned
and the old parties stand on either hand, will
trembling in their JOINTS expecting, that after thu
present election, there will be breaking up o
the old parties, and new organization upon thu
principles of the Liberty Party. Did we say al
hope of breaking up our party was abandoned!-
We mistake: as a last resort, the northern wing
have seized upon the Texas question, andby max
ing false issue, are endeavoring to take advan
tage of the prevailing anti-slavery sentiment t.
elect Henry Clay, and consummate their pro
slavery designs. How far they will succeed, tim
will show. Let us look at this subject momen
in this connexon
The wings are not, as a party, pledged agains
anne xation. We have from week to wee
given abundant proof that Southern Wings wer
in favor of annexation, and we challenge our viii
friends to dsprove it. The wing Governor an
state officers recently elected in North Carolina
the successful wing candidates in Louisiana an,
Alabama, over which our wing papers are CROWN
so Justify are in favor of immediate annexation