Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-10
MONTPELIER, VERMONT, FRIDAY, JAM 10, 1916.
Rally 10 The State Convention!

As this is our last issue previous to the State
Convention on the 1 9TH and 10th insts, we wish
to urge the Importance of general rally of the
Liberty men and women throughout the State.
The present is emphaticaly turning point in
our cause. We have been told by the leading
politicians of the old parties, that we could not
keep up our organization after the great Presi-
dental election was decided; that other ques-
tons than that ofslavery would divide our ranks;
and we should find ourselves again merged in
the old parties Is this SO! Are we to abandon
our One Idea, of salvation to American Liberty
and redemption to the slave, just as the secret Of
our power is beginning to be made known-just
as the outposts to the enemy's camp have fallen,
and the dawning of the glorious day of triumph
begins to light up the horizon Of Freedoml And
shall we again espouse the wanning cause Of the
old parties, when the Developments of every day
furnish new evidence that they are contending
about infinitely less than nothing when compa-
red with the universal and inalienable rights Of
mani And especially, shall we abandon our or
ganization, when the increasing and unparalleled
denominations and barbarites of slavery are pro-
ducing the universal conviction, that the abolition
of American slavery is the great question before
the nation, and all others must bow before it! 1t
would seem that it had been reserved for the
present period to develope, not only the inhuman
outrageous character of slavery, but also the ma
tonal responsibility for its existence Who has
not shuddered and covered his face at the barba.
rous branding of Walker in Florida-an act that
would disgrace the days of the Spanish inquisi-
ton? And who established, and who keeps III
force the laws which required the branding Of
Walker for an act of common humanity! Not
the sovereign State ofSouth Carolina, or any 9th.
er State, but the Congress ofthe United States
the Free North! Who established slavery in
Missouri, for an alleged violation Of whose laws
son of our own Green Mountains Work. has
been torn from the bosom of his family, and con
signed to hard labor in the penitentary for twelve
long years The Congress of the United State;
the Free North Who established slavery il
Kentucky, for supposed violation Of the laws
of which DAUGHTER Of our own State, (Mis!
Webstcr) has been sentenced to the penitentary
for two yearsl The Congress of the United
States-the Free North! Who established anC
sustans slavery in the District of Columbia
builds and repairs prisons for the use of slave ira
ders at the "Natioaal Man Mwkd?" The Con
gress of the United States-the free Morrill,
And if the Nation has done so much to establish
slavery, who can escape the conclusion, that she
can do equally as much to destroy it-and tina
when the Nationality of slavery is taken away
slavery itself must fall of its own weight!
In view of these astounding facts-the abom
nations of slavery, and the responsibility of thu
North,-who can help excaiming,-
"The time for 'oords has passed,
AcTIoNs alone sufice!"
Come, then, to the Convention-''prayer
strengthened for the trial, land let the men ant
women of Vermont prove themselves worthy de
scendants of those whose deathess hatred of op
preston is indellibly recorded in the history o
the time that tried mems souls, Let us show t.
the South-yea to the pro slavery of the North
that we are alive to the usurpatons and crueltie
of slavery, and that we are resolved, God helping
us, to wage an unceasing war against the Who'll
system, till it shall be driven back to its nativ
hell