Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-08-28
For The Freeman


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History informs us of some subjects OF an aris-
tocratic government, who were dissatisfied with
their laws, which forbade the privilege of worship
ping God in their own way, and they chose to suf-
fer privations in the wilderness rather than live
under such rulO.
Like sincere friends oftruth they steered their
course toward land OF red men and wild beasts,
Drawing the Oceans storms, relying on their own
exertiOns and the care of a common Parent for
success. They reached the place oflheir destina-
ton and planted there colony Of Relormers. In
short time sickness annoyed them and death
swept off half their number in six months. yet they
persevered& chose to tax their exerton & ingenu-
ity rather than be taxed by the Priests for doc
trne to which they could not subscribe.
They demonstrated with their oppressors, but
in vain--the evil grew until forbearance ceas-
ed to be a virtue; they then published to the
ten, setting forth their wrongs and asserting their
rights and to maintain those rights, pledged to
each other their Elves, their fortunes and iheir sn-
cred honor declared their independence, and war
was the result.
Their enemies fell before their instruments of
death by thousands they conquered-and the con-
ductors of this work of death have been appaudod
for their bravery and love of Liberty by tho whole
world
An obscure individual volunteered as a soldier
of the revolution in the struggle for liberty, fought
in all the battles through the war-at its close,
married n Wifi from, nn,oD, Tho Jaunb,or, al =.
colonists, reared nine sons and daughter, who
have often been seen gathered around the cold
arm chair" listening TO their fathers story Of the
war for Liberty, which always closed with the in
junction upon the sous, to maintain and defend to
the latest day of their lives, the rich inheritance SO
dearly bought with the blood of their father.
The Patrarchs of Liberty framed n new gov
ernment perfectly free in all its parts; it was the
united wisdom of the best men ofthe age applaud
ed at home aud abroad, as the cradle of Freedom,
the Asy Ium of the oppressed, and the homo Of the
brave and free.
Under this government, our old soldier received
nnety-six dollars year, after the war, until his
death. Now the father being dead, the mother
with nine children are claimed as slaves, and sold
al auctou,to the highest bidder in the market! The
sons, taught to love freedom, soon began to give
evidence that "as the tWg is bent the trees ncin-
ed" and for Il peacabe attempt to become free
men, they were punished with two hundred lashes
of the whip-yet the fathers last words of Liber-
Ity kept sounding in their ears, and after twenty
years of slavery, two succeeded in escaping TO
that tyrannous government their father had left
many years before, and gained their Liberty.
The man who assisted the "fugitives" to cross
river in his flight, now lies in oathsome dun,
geon, awaiting the end Of twelve long years to
atone for the crime.
The father received ninety-six dollars year for
fighting for his Liberty. -The sons received each,
TWO hundred l0shes on their naked backs, for pre-
Stunning to DO lree--und tho man who dared to say
they wero freomen, now lies in dungeon for the
crime.
| Do you ask where this outrage is practcedi-
answer in these Unighted States
Was it right for our fathers to FIGHT for their
freedom and wrong for their sons PEACEABLY
to seek freedom?
Must American citizens fee TO Canada to find a
refuge from Slavery?
Is that FREE government, where men, wo-
men and children, are sold at public auction in the
street?
Sons of New England, in behalf of three mil,
lions ofbond-men-for humauitY's sake, and ;ht
dying request of our Revolutionary fathers, vii
Iyoupermt these abuses to exist?
besseeh you to act like true sons Of those Rev
olutionary Fathers, and answer these questions a
the BALLOT Box. LIBERTY.
E'sentish cfG thorough Liberty Man. -Ther'
are two principles, says tho Emancipator, essen
tiaI to a thorough going Liberty man. These two
arc. Is A fixed conviction that we are not to mix