Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-02-28

On every hand we are told that denuncatory
spirit is not that which is calculated to arouse the
best feelings of the heart and convert men to our
principles SO far as calling men by names that
they do not deserve, charging upon parties guilt that
they have never incurred & giving way to low vu-
gar epithets is concerned, we fully concur with the
most sensitive on this point But the telling of
the truth in strong language, showing up the by
pocracy of the times and exposing the shams and
scarc-crows that every where meet the eye, is not
denunciation, but the performance Of an impera-
tive duty binding upon every being who has the soul
of a man within him. We have been fed with
milk, and used baby talk long enough !; 1T is time to
use strong meat and assume the voice and cour-
age Of manhood. We have been towards too long
the enemy has reached our very door, and we
must fight or die, not with carna weapons how
ever, but with those which are Of ethereal temper
wrought in Heaven. God requires to breast
the fury of the current that is now carrying every
thing valuable on its bosom into the vortex OF
Slavery. Can we do this by acting with either oil
the leading parties that are now helping to swell
that current, by calling Slavery mild names and
bowling down TO the dicaton of Slaveholders-by
holding christian fellowship with those pious men
who live by robbng God of his image and making
merchandise of souIs-by being very much
alarmed lest some hard truths should be spoken
are now attached !?
Come up Oh to higher ground than this let the
truth come armed with the spirits power and let i
be spoken plainly and boldly though it slay us
How contemptaby mean has been the course pur
sued by the other parties in resortng to the bases
forgores and lowest party chcanery TO secure tht
object of their desires. Because wo have daret
TO expose their corruptiOns and brought to ligh
the real character of the candidates whose claim
they urge hard upon US, and refused to sacrifice
those principles we regard vital to the salvation
Of our country, our opponents and even some wh
profess to be Liberty men have called US sever
and denunciatory. Be it so. We had rather b
TOO severe than be guilty Of lowering the standar
of truth to pamper the passions and gain the ap
plause of the multitude. We cannot hold on
peace while
"Deeds are wrought that well might shame ex
tremest hell"
for friends or foes.
The crisis has come, and we are now to sa
not whether whiggery or so called democrac
shall triumph, but whether Slavery Or Liberty sha
rule the land, whether 100000 of our country
men shall be kept in Slavery and our whole natio
be under the dominion of the Slave power, o
whether we will now strike the blow that binds u
to this helIishsystem relgioudy or politically, ian
meet the enemy in open combat, at the balo
box, in the pulpit or wherever he dares to put hi
cloven foot or lift his Internal head. If the Texa
plot-if the imprisoning of our citzans,-if tn
aggressions of Slavery upon our rights, and tn
wailing of suffering millions, do not call upon u
with an imperative voice to lay aside our part
chickering's and personal feeling on minor points
and like our fathers pledge our lives, our fortune
and most sacred honor to the cause of Liberty
then nothing but the shri blast of the arch angel
triumph can awake us when we shall be called t
give an account how we have felt and. acted o
this subject.