Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-06-27
LIBERTY
STATE CONVENTIONS.

Two State Conventions of the Liberty party,
one for Northern, and one for Southern vermont,
will he held as follows: at
MORRISVILLE, Tuesday & Wednesday, July
LIST & I'd; and at
LUDLOW, Wednesday & Thursday, July 9th
and 10th.
Two conventions are thus called for the pur-
pose of placing them within one days ride of our
friends at the extreme parts Of the State whereas
many of them would he unable to attend at this bu-
sy season were there but one, and that more CEN
trail The time is also fixed before the season Of
having shall have arrived, so that our hardhanded
and warm hearted farmers, thei wives, their sons
and daughters-al, Of every class: who have
hearts to feel and minds to DO for betrayed Lib
erty and crushed hnmanity-may come up and
mingle their sympathies and renew their VOWS in
the temple of Freedom.
MILTON CLARK, the eloquent Dhitc slave
from Kentucky, is pledged TO attend both these
conventions; ALANSON WORK, the escaped
victim of Missouri slavery, is confidently expected
10 be present; the Rev. Mr.. ASPENWALL has
returned from his visit to the refugees from Re
publican slavery, in deSpOtic Canada, and will in
erest the conventions with thrilling tales of Slave
nv and Freedom; and we pledge you full attend
ance of Liberty orators of domestic manufacture,
whose spirits are as free as the eagle of our own
Green Mountains; whose limbs have never known
the letters, or their mouths the gag; and who have
laid themselves on the altar OF human liberty, de-
termined to do or die.
The motives to induce general rally of all who
are unwilling to give their country, themselves
and their children, over to the tender mercies oil
slavery, are overwhelming. Within the past year
female, free by our laws and by universal ac-
acknowledgement has been Kidnapped upon our own
soil and consigned to lifelong toll in the southern
prison house, and her demoniac kidnapper goe:
unwhipt of justice: daughter of our OWL
| State has been doomed TO feOn'S home, on sus
picion of having done what we would all glory in
| 4 Torrey and Walker have shared an ignomn
Gus doom for a like offence: The fact has beer
established, by the action Of South Carolina, and
/ the silent acquescence of the Government that cit
| liens Of the free States may be seized upon and
sold into nterminable slavery at the pleasure Of
slave States: BY the action of the two great par
ties, slavery has been made perpetual in Florida
the balance in the U. S. Senate given to the Soutl
and everything done that could be done on ou
part, TO annex Texas to this country, and thu:
greatly augment the already controlling power Of
slavery in our own land Yes the history of
single year, and that the last, presents all Of these
and many more costly sacrifices to the bloody Mo
Ioch of slavery; and is il time for US, the sons
those worthy sires who set their seal, dipped il
their own blood to the the eternal truth of mani
equality and naIenable right to liberty; in whose
ears is yet ringing the jubilee of Freedom witt
which our fathers celebrated their deliveranct
from the yoke of oppression; is it a time for u
to
evoke in with marked and and branded SLAVES
And tremble at the drivers whp?-
Bend to the earth our plant knees,
4 And speak-but us our masters pleaseI
] Shall outraged nature cease to feel!
Shall mercy's tear no longer flow?
Shall lufan threats o(cord and steel
The dungeons gloom-th' assassin's blow,
Turn back the spirit reused to save
Our Truth-our Country-and the Slaue?
No-guIded by our country's laws,
For truth and right, and suffering man,
Be ours to to strive in freedoms cause,
As Christians may--aS Freemen CAMP
]. POLAND,
H.Y BARNES,
S. K. COLLINS,
R. KTLBOURN, Slate Committee.
r. V. MARSH,
L. BRAlNARD,
o. L. SHAFTER,
Montpelier, June 10, ls45