Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-12-20
CORRESPONDENCE.
For the Green Mountain Freeman.

For the Green Mountain Freeman.
MEssRs. EDIToRs:-There is danger, that the
Liberty party should suffer from the whirlwind
and earthquake, which have swept through our
land. The tempest seems to be s~ubsiding, and we
had better try our soundings, and see that we have
not dragged our anchor. We must ever remem-
Der that we are the one idea party. that our prin-
ciples are proclaimed in our National Bill of
Rights, that our object is to defend the inalienable
rights Of man, and effect the destruction of slave
ry, that our measures are political, and that our
hope for success is in the rectitude of our course
and the blessing ofthe God of heaven. Hitherto
the Lord hath helped us, hath greatly increased
US, and COMPOUNDED our enemies. And we may
humbly hope for his blessing, while we plead the
cause of the oppressed, and seek guidance and d-
rection from him. Others may trust in a golden
calf; or a filthy coon, but let us trust in the name
OF the Lord, acknowledge him in all our ways, and
then he will guide us by his counsel. The en-
bodiment OF modern Whiggery has fallen, never
to rise again: but his supporters, grown desperate
by disappointment, may yet struggle in death; and
honest men should withdraw from them at once.
AAOU lnC Oub vi SidfSuOiueT VIII wear HS
honors, or how far his Democratic friends will folr
low him towards Texas we know not; but even
satan cannot 20 beyond the length of his chain
Should the south choose to connect herselfto Tex
as, s form a new confederacy, they must abide the
consequences. The North had better be free from
the slave power, than to be any longer controlled
by it. Honest Democrats will hardly go for Tex
as and perpetual slavery. They may be deceived
for a season, but they mean to support the great
principles of human rights, and We may reasona-
bly, hope, that they will spurn the idea of being
used as the allies of the slave power, and enlist un-
der the Liberty Standard. We invite them, and
all other honest men, who love Liberty more than
slavery, to join our ranks, and help US to extermi-
nate the ~blighting sin of slavery from our land
The hour is coming, when those, who join against
slavery will review their conduct with very differ
ent feelings, from those which will agitate the
minds of those, who bow to the slave power, and
unite their interests with ungodly oppressors. Wo
> unto the wicked. 1t shall be i'll with him; for the
reward of his hands shall be given him.
While the two great political parties are compo-
sed, as they now are, and governed by slavehold-
ers, they cannot and they will not do any thing
against slavery. They may in certain localities
make speeches and give pledges to effect a pur-
pose, but who believes, that they will attempt to
redeem those pledges, or dare to repeat those
a. speeches, when they meet their southern masters
in Congress? Who believes that northern wings
will dare to say, that new slave states, even Tex.
us, shall not be admitted into the Union, whene vel
the South shall so require? Let Southern Wing,
say, you must consent to the annexation of Texas
st OF we will leave you, and what leader in the Whis
ranks would dare to peep or mutter? Alas!I feaI
they would yield to southern dictation as readil!
as have the Democrats. They must do o sor give
up their party organization, and take an honorable
stand against their old masters. Will they do it
NJ We shall see. Happy should | be to see then
take an honorable stand, and dare to act in Con
Sc gress, as they have talked in their mass meetings
while trying to secure votes for Clay. Let Their
do this, and set their faces against Southern slave
nv, and Texas, and exert their influence to repet
these slave laws, by which slavery is m~aiutaine
Is in Florida, and Washington, and then | shall re
spect them as honest men; but until they will :
To- do, | can give them no such respect. A norther
cd man covering before slavehalders, lodging que
OF tons which involve human rights lest they shou'
The offend their masters. Shame on such men, uuwo
lch thy to represent freemen; they had better go sou
KS and learn to black their masters boots, and sho
that they deserve the honorable name of Viii
Slaves. AN OLD MAN.