The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-08-22
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the country and to man This ground of
5 associated actions, unoccupied no longer.
| In l840-at time when INSCRIPTIONS
t devotion 10 party was regarded as the
9 highest political virtue, and when the
: power of motives to induce fidelity to
partyEwas greater than at any former
: period of our history-a few earnest and
determined men were seen to withdraw
themselves from the fight of taction-they
took counsel one with ano:her-they saw
that all the settled maxims of enlarged,
general policy, and the requirements OF
fundamental and eternal truth, were lost
sight of by parties who were providing
for nothing, and would contemplate moth
ing, beyond the contingencies OF the hour.
They saw power in the State exalting
itself above the State, and above all that is
calledGod, which not on y threatened an
eternity of thraldom to the slave, but to
subvert and annihila.e the freedom of the
free. They resolved to correct the wrong,
and avert the danger. They formed
league, and made its sole and distinctive
object the realization in the Legislation Of
hescountry, the great idea of universal
freedom. They gave to their association
a name that indicates the end to which il
is devoted. Weak in numbers, though
daily adding to its strength-unskilled in
the arts of parlizan chicanery, and always
disdaning to use lhem-the Liberty Party
makes It's appeals TO the higher nature Of
man, and places MS reliance for success
on God and Truth, and It's own spirit of
devotedness and sacrifice. |! was not
formed to be used as an fundamentally
for the qualification ofmercenary ambition
nor as means by which hungry idlers
and their posterily after them could be
quartered upon the government; nor yet
for the purpose of bootless and Improbable
broi. Before The Liberty party entered
the field, all the ambition in the country
that aspired to political distinction for the
sake of it, and all The mendacily in the
land that clamored for spois, that its
emptiness might be filled, was possessed
of every means and appliance necessary
to success. This organization sprang
from The necessities OF the times-from the
e&igences of affairs. 1t was the offspring
of occasion. The formation Of this party
could not have been longer delayed in a
community where the citizen is left free
TO act upon his own convictions of public
duty-and as in most cases where the
remedy is fashioned in view of the evil to
be corrected,t supplies means appropri-
ate to the end to be secured-lo bring back
the country, torn by contending factions,
to the love and practice oftrue Democra>
|cy.
It has been urged that, however wrong
slavery may be n principle or in practice,
there are other Interests" beside emanci-
patton, which challenge the watchfnl
support of our citizens. To this We have
10 saw that if the efforts OF the Liberty
Party were calculated only to restore to
two millions and seven hundred thousand
of our countrymen their birlh-right OF
freedom, this single object woaId be worthy
10 summon every true-souled American
to its standard. The first care OF a US,
Government should be TO throw around
eyerv one OF its citizens the shield of its
protection. The primary duty of repub-
iican government is, not TO create rights,
but 10 guard & defend such as already
exist. Ift fails or refuses to do this, as
well in respect 10 the weak as the strong,
it practically bellies its profession. There
can be no !" interest" paramount TO that
which every citizen OF the government
has IN the pratical application of this
furdameuta principle. But the question
of emancipation is by no means 10 be re-
earded in The narrow light which the OBJ
lection supposes,-It is national question,
vitality affecting the general welfare, the !
pecuniary, and political rights and inter-
ests of the people. As question of po-
lticaI economy merely, we hazard nothing
in affirming that it towers heaven.hlgh
above the topics of party pickering which
are periodically served up by the party
press OF the country.
The entertainments oil slavery upon the
ri hts of the free states on the one hand,
and the spirit of servility displayed by
northern partizans on the other,shouId adj
monish US TO use the lawful weapons of
defence which are We! unsurreneered.
To show with what facility the interests
of free labor can be set aside when slave
holders pronounce their mandates, we
have need ONLY 10 adver. TO facts which
are fresh in the recollection of all, upon
The subject of tariff The Wings Of
Vermont SO lately as l940 and l84l, gave
the world to understand that nothing
short of protection for the sake OF pro-
lection" or protection for its own sake W
could possibly be recognized as politically
orthodox in the canons of WhigIsm,-
This ground was generally assumed in
their journals, and was moreover fortified
by the authoritative sanction of legislative
resolves. Where are the Wings OF Yer
mont 2-Verly procaiming the
,ha ea ma creed for substance. which thew