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


The following extract is from long and inter-
esting letter from Rev. Mr.. Shipman, which we
should publish entire, but for want Of room.
True it is, that grand national work Of re-
form has nobly commenced, and nobly progressed,
and must be encouraged onward. No matter
what toll it may cost, slavery must cease or free
dom dies in the contest But reason teaches that
the "peculiar edifce" we seek to overthrow,
cannot long exist on the American soil, when ex-
posed to the waves Of free discussion, Religious
and political investigation, is exposing to view a
worse than Egyptian darkness, while freedom Of
speech and of the press, are pouring upon it Il
blaze oflght which smites with fsar and trembling
the conscience of the oppressors.
But public opinion, and political action, like the
Irresistible moving Of the mighty Gulf Stream
shall ere long wash away, and oYerwhem slave
ny and her bloody code forever. Let them perish.
Let their name and portion be boted from the
world. But what work is before the christian
and Philanhropist in our notion? L thirteen slave
states in twenty six. Three millions of our coun-
trymen legally held, and used, and disposed of as
chattel property. The Government counting and
negotiating for the annexation Of Texas. nigh
ty but defeated party in the field, snuffng for the
spoils of office, and seeking elevation to power,
by bold and reckless scheme of ambitious grasp
ing for territory robbed and torn from Mexico, and
branded as the ''Valey of RascaIs!" But is this
all? No. We have perhaps equal if not a
more dangerous foe to meet. Call to mind a man
standing on the necks of sixty human beings, and
you have the ''idol" of that army s, an army thai
has forever crooked the ''pliant hinges of the
knees" to the idolatry of slavery. This combine
ton now busy in the field, seeks by its double
tongued duplicity the enlistment of the freemen o
the North You and |, and all Of US Liberty mel
profess to be of this latter number. And | hop
we shall scout their Vaccinations. | shall ente
into no comparison of these hosts They mus
soon hoist true colors and openly be identified eli
Their with slavery or freedom. They are fast has
tening to this last eventfu issue. And without re
serve shall now, with you and all who hay
pledged themselves, resoluteIy interpose the Nigh
~ barrier of Truth, and Justice and suffrage; all
even against their brief success.
Holding these views, shall assert them in tn
Sanctuary and record them in the Ballot Box
Joyously, and with renewed ardor, snail labC
to push the battle to the gate. And here allow IN
to say, at the earnest solicitation Of the friends
the slave, | shall hope soon to enter the Countit
of Rutland, Addison, and Chittenden, to again pr
my shoulder with theirs to the wheels Of the mig
ty work before us. And Vermont, unitcdIy t
the strength Of her towns and counties, doL
not will be among the first, by her Pupts, hi
Legislature, her Congressional representations
proclaim the declaration, that every human beir
who refuses to declare his protest against Siarel
in the name of his own outraged nature, is {
apostate to HUMANITY. And confidently and il
suredly believe that by an increase to our rank
proportlonate to that of the last four years,
may unhestatlngly anticipate in this state with
the brief period ofiour years to come, noble Il
umph of our glorious enerprize."
ORREN SHIPMAN.