Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-03-28
CORRESPONDENCE.
DIALOGUE ON ANNExAr1nM

conversation between a wing and Liberty man
will be interesting to your readers, you are at lib.
erty to publish it. Probably most of them have
heard the substance of it, in repeated instances.
J.C.A.
Nhlg. Well, Liberals, have you heard that we
have got Texas hitched to us?
Libertas. Has that resolution passed the Sen
ate?
". Yes, and am glad oft. l hope now the
tariff will be repealed and all the loco foco meas
ures carried straight through.
/. Why do you hope so? thought you was
in favor ola tariff, and opposed to annexation
". was opposed to annexation, and so was
Mr.. Clay; but you Liberty men, as you call your
selves, have defeated his election and been the
means of annexng Texas to US; and now hope
you will have enough of it to bring you TO your
senses. The whole responsibility of that business
rests on that party.
L. But neghbor Wing, am neither satisfied
that the Liberty Party defeated Mr.. Clay or that
they would have been responsible for annexation,
if they had done it.
". thought every body knew that they were
tH0 HleduS VI CleCtlIS IuiHi duu you CduUOt ueuy
that they gave the State of New York to him.
L. Indeed do deny it. Had the Liberty par
ty in that State disbunded and gone back into their
old parties, Polk would have carried the Stute by
n majority, instead of a mere plurality.
". should like to know how you can make
that out believe Clay would have carried that
STATE, aud been elected, had it not been for the
niger party.
L. 1t seems to me that you believe not only
without evidence, but in direct opposition to it,
Polk had almost six thousand more votes in New
York, than Clay and fifteen thousand were cast for
Brncy. Had nine thousand and half of the
Liberty party voted for Clay, and only five thou
sand and a half for Polk, he would have been e.
lccted by majority. And no man who knows
anything about the situation of New York, believes
that so large part as even thai, of the Liberty
party, came from the wings.
W. Bat supposed the Liberty Party came
from the Wings, and that 1t is all loco foco trick
H. Yes, and the loco focos affirm, with great
confidence, that nearly all who stuck to their text
and really voted that ticket, came from their party
and that it is all wing trick. But the fact is, we
are equally opposed TO both your proslavery par
ties, and voted against them both and all your
complaint is because you think the wings bid it,
tie higher for us than the democrats, but we would
not put ourselves into the market to be bid off by
either party Do you remember that the Wing
papers accused us, last summer, that all the Liber-
ty men who had formerly voted with the wings,
were coming back and would certainly vote with
their old party'
w. 1t seems to me that DO remember some
, thing about Mr. Blanchard's letter, and some 9th
or things of that sort, but do not suppose all
those statements were correct.
l.. No doubt most OF them were Wing lies; for
if they were half true, scarcely five hundred of the
Liberty votes in that State were from the whig
ranks We know that large numbers of the dem
ocrats voted with us,ast fall for the first time. Ii
Madison county one hundred came out together
and left their old party; and the Garland forgery
no doubt helped the wings to several thousonC
5 votes. So it is not true that we defeated Clay il
that state. But what reason had we to suppose
| that Mr. Cay's election would defeat the annexa
> ton scheme?
". Why, every reason in the world. Mr.
: Clay was opposed to it, and so was the wing par
" y
L. If the wing party was opposed to it, VIII!
did they not defeat it. They had majority il
the senate, and far stronger motives to go agains
y it than though Mr.. Clay had been elected
! W. They did all vote against it but three, AM
it is not fair to charge the doings of few men
c the whole party
e L. Yes, but the thing was done just as effectu
6 ally as though they had all voted for it, and n
y doubt the slave power was better pleased tina
though they had. The Shareholders wish to kee
: up the appearance Of a division among themselves
J. and thereby keep up real division in the north
: but when any party measure, which is cacuIate
II to promote the interests of slavery is finally decd
y eds just Shareholders enough from the other part
! will go for it to carry it. This has been thei
course in all their desperate acts TO strengthen an
! enlarge slavery.
y w. Well, it is not reasonable to expect tina
shareholders will go against their own interests
-" and vote against measures which are calculated t
u promote them.
IT L, That is true, and this is the reason VIII
~
any thing against slavery. This fact renders an
other party Indispensable in order to oppose slave
ny politically.
u ". know there is difficulty there that W
cannot get along with very WE'LL but if it had nc
been for the Vaccinations of the third party, in re
I fusng to vote for Mr.. Clay, Texas could not hav
got in, but now the slave power has got the bal
y I 4,
know what good your petitions will do.
l.. Just as much good rs they ever have done
When the Wings were in full power, and had
majority of forty in the House, they threw our pc
u ttons back into our faces, and refused to ALLOW
u them to be received read or referred. And slave
! ry has always had the controlling power in tn
! Senate, for, when it was equally divided betwee
10 tho G,ao and sl,va Ct,tes rha Vice Preadent VIII