Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-04-06
Extract Of an Address

To the Wings and Democrats Of Esser and Chn-
ton Counties, N. Y
Slavery should be banished from this world if
it had done other injury than that of prostitut-
ing these three noble and superior minds, (Cal-
houn, Clay and Van Buren)
Only behold how cruelty slavery has degraded
us in the eyes of the world by compelling distn-
guished men to fall down and embrace this vile,
wrnkled, old, iron toothed hag-whose mouth is
full of bloody foam and poison--whose head is
covered with spiders aud every haira Kissing adj
der-whose hands are filled with deadly weapons,
and from each finger runs the blood of the murder
ed and the wonderland who daily bathes her
self in reservoir of tears, and sweat and blood,
forever flowing therein from the bleeding, unpaid
laborers and the broken hearted slave. Rags COW
err this vile monster-serlity surrounds her.
The earth abhors her on which she treads, and the
very wilderness asserts its principal right through
ont her oldest possessions. The marriage rite
she despises-promiscuous RIGHTEOUSNESS is her
rule. All knowledge of books, bibles and reading,
she forlhds and abhors. She is willing to destroy
the slaves soul to make his body more profitable
Unless each of your candidates promises to do
all in their power for the perpetuty of all that is
the most dreadful in thought, the most revolving
in practice, and the most shocking in execution :
yes, unless they will pledge themselves before this
nation and the world to sustain an institution by
which no day goes by without the preparation of
an UNPUBLISHED murder, robbery, kidnapping and
adultery ,
No day comes in which father does not sell
one of his own children by his bondwoman,-
No day goes in which the bloody lash is not APP
piled by the drunken, the terorous, and the cruel
to extort unpaid labor from the quivering hesh,-
No day departs in which thousands Of sensitive
spirits are not condemned to hear themselves, with
awful oaths, called every horrid name, by the in
science of unbrded power
No day passes in which the rifle gun is not
pointed to the head or breast ofthe defenceess,-
No day in which the bloodhound is not put on
the track Of the fugtves and no day in which that
fugitive has not to combat with the murderouS
dogs and die alone in the dark swamp and NOR
ass
No day in which husbands, wives and children
are not called to part to meet more this side
Of the eternal Judgment to suit the avarice and
convenience of their owners
Unless, we again repeat to you, these indvdu-
ais thus pledge themselves, they will be Kissed at
and opposed by the miserable creature we have
described, and who is the guilty author of all the
Noes and horrors we have detailed to YOU We
cannot vote for these men without taking the guilt
of all the complicated crimes Of slavery upon our
souls. We know, and you know, by giving these
men our votes instead of disappearing the crime
of slavery, we approve of it, and we do not wish
to be responsible, individually or collectively, for
any of the evil consequences which will certainly
ensue from the elevation to high and important
trusts of any of the candidates of the pro Slavery
parties striving for the mastery in this Republic.
Can we ever overthrow slavery by giving the
highest office in this vast empire TO men who are
daily practlcing the robbery of these poo people,
apolog2lng for it, making speeches and writing
letters in its tavor?-N. Y. Freeman.