Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-12-06


8. Established the home squadron to guard
against the escape of slaves, and otherwise protect
slavery as IN the case of the Creole of Walker,
and of the Florida slaves, Sc.
a. Provided an armed patrol for the city off
Washington, at the expense Of the nation, to exc
cute the monstrous police laws of that city, and
watch the slaves lest they should get to the under
ground railroad"
5. Passed the distribution bill, giving to slave
holder with five slaySs, as much money as to four
freemen in Massachusetts,
6. In the appornonment BILL adopted the large
ratio of seventy thousand as the representative
number, at the dctation of the stockholders, be-
cause small House can be more easily overseer-
lied than large one, and then add one hundred
and seventy eight to the number, for the porpose
of depriving four free States, Massachusetts, N.
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, of one representa-
tive each.
7. Laid an enormous duty on sugar for the pur-
pose Of raising the price of slaves and stimulating
The domestic slave trae and to take three millions
of dollars out of the pockets of the people, to give
to six or sevep,huHslFsdsngar planters in LOulsia-
ma.
8. Gave ial - to the laws of Florida,
Iby which Massachusetts, going to
that province ed ard sold as a slave.
8. Passed ai E1ble the slave-owners Of
the Comet Qlld 8ii5H to recover the money
sagtndied out 0t lac British government by Mr..
Van Buren, andsllrs Sc yensou, in the face of Mr..
Giddng's elabo AHuinent that Congress has
no power TO Lee ut slavery.
10, The Vino E,stksse chose Mr.. Mangum,
slayehoder ffasidentlu -tempore of the Senate,
although heSlad no9 dzpeTienCe in any such Office,
and there Wal alsS uAFthern senators far his SUI
periors ip e4As being hesiXty-frst cleo
ton of slaf bat office, while only six
teen nohhefh sA6i zen chosen.
IL. Passed an Act for the Armed settlement Of
Florida, after tho war was all over, and for no
earthly reason but in the vain hope to swell the
population of East Florida, sc that two States
could be made, TO balance Wisconsin and Iowa.
1g. Censured j. r. Giddings for presenting his
resolutions on the constitutional relations Of slave
ry, and when lie resigned aud appealed to his con-
stituenls, even his own colleagues never lifted Il
finger t. promote his reelection.
The Senate of the United States, being Wing by
majority of one-eighth of the whole, & elected by
the party legislatures are more strictly the repre-
sentative ofthe party as whole, than the other
house, where local influences and individual pre-
objections have more scope. To the Senate we
are to look for the party action in allappointments
to office. How have the Wing Senate acted here?
1t is the duty Of the Senate to keep a check up
on the President and see that all public consider
atoms are Only regarded, and all public interests
duly secured. Now look at some of the appoint
ments ratified by the Senate.
Out of the eleven Charge D'Ah7aires in 1912, all
but one, George w. Lay, ofN. York; were citi-
zens of the slave states.
CABINET, 1914,
Secretary of State, John G. Calhoun, Of S. c.
Treasury Geo. M. Bib, Ken.
War, Wilkins, Of Pennsylvania.
Navy, j. Y. Mason, Of Virginia.
Postmaster General, G. A. Wickliffe, of Ken.
Attorney General, John Nelson, of Maryland.
All but one, again, citizens of slave States
And the one is a strenuous advocate of Texas AL
: confirmed by Wing Senate, and nearly all con-
, firmed unanimously! and some of them withou
the formality of deliberation!
These are some of the fruits of abolition, gain
ed by the great wing victory of 1910; and nigh
e have expected sn7aS results if the party had sue
G ceeded this year in obtaining triumph as grea
as its most ardent friends could have even antci
V pated. Have not the friends of the slave reason
: to rejoice rather than mourN over the fall of
= party SO hollowhearted in its professions, subser
Went to slavery in all its acts, and so desperate
6 unchrstian in the use of means to accomplish it
o object? These, and many similar reasons have in
? duced us to leave the wing party and cast our lc
e with the gathering host of true liberty men. Blu
n In doing this, forsooth, we are told that we ar
: helping the locos" and have, in fact, electe
James K. Polk, that enemy of God aud man.
i little sympathy as we may manifest for the viii
:, party, we have less, if possible, for the so-cae
democratic party If The charge is true, it Is sure
ly serious one, and deserves our candid consider
Y ation
5 In 1910, we saw the position of both parties
n their connection with NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. iaabs6t
: to do any thing for the slave if they would, an
their un,clSngnsSs to do any thing if they had tn
y power few saw the dilemma in which W
g were paced-that so long as the parties must de
pend on the support of the south for an existence
= her wishes must be regarded and her interests pro
n tected in preference to our own-that there wer
n two destroying forces at work-one destroying
: whatever the other might attempt to secure an
= protect, and that it was impossible to harmonic
5 these two antagonstical principles by acting wit
It either of the leading parties, long as they wer
d willing to elevate Shareholders whose motto is t
n rule or ruin" to high offices of trust and h
v they could not avoid without the entire destructo
II of the party. Hence the necessity of Il separat
IS organization, based nthe principles fjustice an
v freedom, making Slavery and Liberty the true is
9 sue We nominated our candidates. and than
e God, some Oft had moral courage sufficient
Y support them. But, owingto the fewness of OF
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