Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-06-14
THE FIR E E NJ AN.
For the Green Mountain Freeman

For the Green Mountain Freeman.
BR. AsPENwALL:-My years labor ends this
week; therefore deem it right to send, for inser
ton in your paper, my account, with some re-
marks, which hope will attract attention.
have received monies as follows Bakersfield,
sl0,75; Enosburgh, 90; Cabot, 2,25; St. Johns
bury, O,5O Underh O,95; Essex, O,50; West
ford, $50; ST. Adams, rs; Walden, LIZ; Dan
vile, O,s2; Hardwck, 4,25; Berkshire, 9,75; Nor
risville, 90; Stowe, 20,64: Barton, 4,S4; Iras-
burgh, 2,25; Water bury, 200; Bloomington, {, so;
Glover, Ais; Craftsbury, 1918; Albany, 2,3l;
Greensboro $50; which, errors excepted, makes
an aggregate of $s7,2l.
| will now submit few remarks for the seri-
Gus consideration of our liberty friends, to which
must beg their most candid attention, for we
have great work to do and without means it
cannot be done.
l. | must correct a mistake into which some of
our liberty friends, find, have fallen, and the
correction will give information to Others Some
suppose that the State committee are responsible
to the lecturers for their salaries. An extract from
my Instructions will correct this, "You will be
ton for your services at the rate of four hundred
dollars per annum for all the time you may devote
to the interests of the liberty cause but the
mittee will incur no pecuniary responsibility on
your account"
do not blame the committee for taking this
ground, but then it places the lecturers in most
serious predicament. If the friends of liberty do
not pay them, their labors must be labors of love
and in this case, and if they are men of families
and poor men, what must become Of their families;
When | commenced my years labor, was as
sured that | should get my salary, but have
found it far otherwise. My abors entte me to
1856, of which l have received only $S7 ,l2; due
to me, $267,s7 and want every cent of it thi:
moment to procure food aud clothing for my large
family, and pay some few debts. Indeed, what
have received will about pay my wear and tear
AT first, got very little Cor my exertions; laterly
it has been better and better, because had to vsi
those towns that would help me, and avoid thost
where labor is not wanted; because | knew from
experience should get no support. do no
complain; | have confidence in the friends of liner
~, that they will see the labors whom the
sanction, paid. Let one thousand individual
band me over IS cents each and my wants will b
supplied, and my horse and wagon, also, will b
redeemed, for the law has taken from me all
can take, and all this for want Of attention to tn
Savour's rule, The laborer is worthy of h
hire" Our liberty friends must attend to thes
matters, else our good Wings and democrats wi
turn OIL them with eyes, you are pretty master
to censure and doom to blackness southern slav
holders tor not paying their, aborers; and yc
make your lecturers work for nothing" Sha
they say this?-no.
2. But l beg the attention Of our friends to
subject still more important than the above.
are doing great work: all that is dear and pr
cious to human nature and to our country is i
voIved in our object We want thorough sy
TEN of faithful and intelligent lecturing IN all OIL
counties, all our towns, all our districts Hithe
to our lecturing has been chiefly confined to o.
villages, among our arlstocrats and it has be-
too much labor lost. Candor and honesty and i
fuence, are in the districts; there we must labo
there we must kinde up the back fires, and the
we shall carry our towns and counties, and tn
our state. but now Is Lnis thorough syslcH ~
secured? Very easy. Get the means first frient
and then no doubt of the men; and will put "
into very easy way of raising the means. Ii
fall, at meeting in this county, a resolution W
passed to assess each liberty man in fifty cents
support lecturing through all the districts in
county. The amount was about $l75 This
cured nearly six months labor, and what has be
the effect? LamoiIle is the banner county. N
say, why cannot all our counties adopt the sa
plan! Suppose we have four thousand libe
men in this State; would they not, if applied
subscribe on an average fifty cents each, as tn
years subscription for lecturng3 This wo
procure two thousand dollars-bring at least
able men into the field-secure several months