Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-10-09
Great Eastern Convention.

This great convocaton of the friends of freedom has
passed-and noble gathering of the clans it was!-
More than THREE THOUSAND of the SONS and
daughters of Human Liberty, it was estimated
the Penobsco to the Mississippi, and from the Lakes
to Mason and Dixons line--yea even from the dark
land of savery-there met and held sweet counsel to-
gether and baptized anew their hearts and hands in
the holy cause of Freedom. Every free State and
Territory in the Union unless 1t be Indiana together
with the District of Columbia and State of Kentucky
were there represented by those who have laid their all
upon the altar of emancipation, and looking for
the redemption of Israel" Oh we felt it to be good to
sit down in the simplicity of child at the feet of such
an assembage, and be taught by the counsel fred with
the eloquence and patriotic ZEAL filled with the hui
many and rebaptzed with the christian devotion and
heavenly wisdom that were manifested on that occa
sion There the foot of Bunker's Monument whose
naked shaft its head to heaven intended to per-
petuate the memory of our fathers but really proclaim
ing to the universe the degenecy ofeir sons:there,
where the atmosphere is yet laden with the eluvum
from the Wondering bodies of those who seventy years
since, bore testimony in favor of DEATH as the alter
native of LIBERTY and sealed it with their blood there
in the presence Of multitude of men and women who
had, years since, forfeited their fortunes, their good
names and high standing in both church and State by
epousng the cause of the slave and of eopardized re-
publican liberty and bible chrisanity-but who had
now come together to congratulate each other upon
the rapid progress, and prospective glorious success
their principles-we say, with all these considerations
rms thn ind ,bo
heaven in grateful emotion, make new VOWS of fidelity
and self denial and be clothedupon with new strength
for the future conflict? We could not!
We had the pleasure on this OCCASION of seeing the
faces and hearing the voices of he fathers" in the
Liberty cause-those who have long been "known anC
read of all men" in ranks, and by whose mighty
energies and strict adherence to principle, the Liberty
bark has thus far been guided safely through the mds
of her enemies. Genit Smith, William Goodell, an,
Lewis Tappan, of N. York; Drs. Lemoyne and Elder
of Pa; Leavit Whittier, Cover, Stanton, Loveoy Bur
rift, Bradburn and Wright, of Mass; Fessenden an
Brown, of Me-; Hutchinson, Miller and Shaw, of VI
were there, and by their diversified gifts, the Conven
ton instructed, edited, amused and made better
The deliberations and results of this convention
must have an important bearing upon the great caus
of emancipation. 1t must prove, like the Cincinnati
Convention effective in giving national character
the organization and principles of the Liberty cause
and powerful mean of uniting the entire north upo
the ground now occupied by the Liberty Party. TIL
Address from the pen of Genit Smith, the special Ad
dress upon the subject of Texas annexation, and tn
resolutions, all of which were worthy of our cause an
the convention that adopted them, will be publishe
next week.
*We visited Bunker IIi and in excavation recently made
were found the hadecayed bodies of Revolutionary Soldiers wit
remains of clothing and ammunon and quantity of BRAINS,
THEIR STATE filling the atmosphere with highly Offer
sive Odor.