Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-09-27
Inquirer and Friend.


The communication of this gentleman was re-
ceived so late that we have time and room for on
ly Il few words in reply this week 1t will be seen
that he admits that the Liberty Party, should it
prevail as it now seems destined to do, might with
out any 'great difficulty' abolish that stupendous
fabric of wrong and blood in the District of CO.
lumba" 1t could also ''abolish the slave trade
coast-wse, cooperate more heartily and efficient
ly by treaties in aboshing the foreign trade thro'-
out the world" prevent the admission of any new
slave holding state, and WELD ''the power and pat
ronage of the general government" that is, the
"President, Vice President, Cabinet, Houses of
Congress, and subordinate offices, against slavery"
And he might have added with equal propriety,
that they could repeal the law of 1893, by which
every slave would become freeman the moment
he crossed Mason's & Dixon's line All this could
be done without any violation of the principles of
''moral suason,'' which ''was our main depend
ance" at the commencement of this enterprises
This done, and how long does enquirer" suppose
slavery could've i'll the .sla%e,-
those that border on the line of the free states?
Inquirer also admits, that we might "enact law
ud1
says, "perhaps we should agree in passing law
! to abolish the internal slave trade between the
States" but thinks we could not erecute such laws
without employing the U. S. Army, which he APP
prehends would "entrey defeat and counterfeit
our moral influence for the abolition of slavery in
the several states, by exciting Instruction among
the shareholders, dissolying the Union and invol-
tb o;.,:I
that enquirer is voting man-that he has hith-
erto voted with of the pro slavery parties, and
still intends to. He is cOuntenancing and uphold
ing party that has welded the power of the IT,
S. Army to sustain slavery in Florida, and to as
sst shareholders in the independent states in re-
capturing their slaves, who had fled there, and it
stands ready to do so again. The whole object of
the Florida war, which cost the U. S. Army seve-
raj thousand lives, and its Treasury from forty to
sixty millions ofdolars, was to break up an assy-
um for runaway slaves, which they found among
the Seminole Indians Now if Inquirer thinks that
we should destroy our moral influence by voting
with party, who would WELD the power of the
U. S. Army if they possessed it, to defend the
slave, instead of the slave holder, what in the name
of reason must be has "moral influence" while
acting with party that Yields the power of the
U. S. Army to assist the stakeholder in hunting
down and crushing the slave? Yes, is ready the
more etectualIy to trail out and secure its victims,
to strengthen the army at the expense of the u.
S. Treasury, by the importation of Cuban blood
hounds!! The great alarm of such men for the
moral suason influence of abolitonists, reminds
us of the fears of rum Sellers lest temperance men
should ruin the good cause by making it politi-
cal thing, that is, by Withholding from them IL
cense to make drunkards.
Inquirer must be sadly beated in his abolition.
ism ifhe is not yet aware that the power of the
general government as it has been employed for
the last forty years. is of the greatest supports
of slavery through this nation, and that if its sup
port was wiIhhed lnot to say welded against it)
slavery would fall in a very short time.
His alarm about an Instruction among the slave
holders after slavery is abolished in the District
of Columbia, and the coast-wise trade done away,
and the power of the general government with its
hundred and fifty thousand subordinate officers,
united against it, is really amusing, Suppose the
slave holders ,wh ch in all probability do not amount
to quarter of million, should secede, and set up
an independent government, for the purpose Of
keeping three millions of slaves in subsection, how
would they succeed? Could one man control
twelveH especially while there are eight hundred
thousand emancipated slaves in the West Indies,
within few days sail of the Southern Goa rs ready
to assist this three millions, and the coe,tlrated
frown ofthe whole civilized world, and more than