Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-05-31

BY the course it has commenced the Freeman is help
ing that accused plot [annexation and helping it more
efficiently TOO, than were it to Out open adyo-
cate oft BY keeping its readers in the dar-by leading
them oppose Mr. Clay upon whose election the defeat
of anr exation dependsby fomenng divisions, and thus
aiding at the north the supporters of Van Buren,, who is
pledged for annexation-his mis-calIed Green Mountain
Freeman is doing the work of the slaveocracy."
eft 1.-THE Liberty Partyl is politically the receptacle
of things lost upon earth the very place for dsappon
ed demagogues and unfortunate office seekers"
The above are extracted from the vaIs of wrath
which are empted out through the columns Of the
last Waterman upon the devoted heads of the Free
man and the Liberty Party. They are but spe-
cimcn oft weekly ebulilions since its editor has
hardened his heart, and resolved to support man
thief, robber and duest, for the Presdency-a
man whom that same paper once declared Pres-
dent Adams ought to have removed from a subor-
dinatc Office for attempting to imbrue his hands in
his brothers. blood And this abuse is to be eX-
peced for when man resolves upon course
which he knows to be subycrsye of the first prin-
ciples of justice and common humanity, his first
efforts will be to bring into rcproach and dsesteem
the true and the right way-hoping thereby to COW
er up his own enormties. Now the editor of the
Waterman knows, or ought to know, that the Lib
erty Party is neither designed Or adapted to afford
any permanent help to either of the pro-slavery
parties; that it originated in a conviction in the
minds of the friends of human liberty-a conviction
pressed home upon them by the alarming encroach-
mcnts Of the slave powcr-that nothing but de-
cided, onunct effort on the part of the whole free
States would save themselves and the country from
being engulfed in the whirlpool of slavery. The
members Of the Liberty Party are not without
their predictions OH the subj ect of banks tariffs
Sc, but these sink into utter insignficance when
thrown into the balance with the great question
whether Slavery shall rule the land and send it;
cold steel through the very heart of the republic
until freedom, with one terrific shriek shall wing
= its way from America forever. The question i;
not, whether banks and tariffs shall be established
or torn down; but whether the people of the North
as we'll as the poor and oppressedof the South
shall enjoy the fruit of their own abors, posses,
> their own wives and children-yea, their own sous
y and bodiesor whether these shall all be laid erin
- gingy at the feet of masters, and we left tC
kiss the tyrant's rod that drives to our daily toll
= And especially do we refuse to be divided upol
these minor points, so long as we see clearly tina
no present action Of ours can settle them definitely
for they may all etraced to the controlling pow
n er of slavery, and so long that uumphs, thes
is will be its victims We believe, too, that the sue
Of cess, in the approaching election, of the Wings
l. with their sIayeholding and slaverydictaed tick
lie et-with their bold advocacy of slavery at tn
to South, and their mealy -nouthed, don8h-faood ait
sc hypocrtcal COURSE on the ject at the North
/ or of the Democrats, with their habitual aud NOR
rs open avowal of Southern princp les-will be to al
as ntents and purposes triumph hottie Slave Powe
ID and thus, through the next four years. thi
J. boodthrsty monster will sit enthroned in the hg
o places of this government, and send its deadlies
H. fangs to the very vtas Of our national prosperity
to The editor of the Waterman is not insensible t
these things; and probably, if he is honest, he will
er admit--as will almost every member of his party
to in private conversation, that the "Liberty Part
occupies the only tenable ground for the peaceabI
t. and constitutional abolition of slavery, and the res
st toration of the government to its former purity an
prosperyj and, say they, before another presiden
re tial election we shall be with you; and we woul