Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-04-11

doing they could gain a wing advantage To
doubt this would be to call them fools, who
would sacrifice the end to the means. AS speak
ing on behalf of those who have labored early
and long, and earnestly for the abolition of slave
ry---as an end--we cannot Justify ourselves in en-
trusting that great interest of our country and of
humanity, to the keeping of those who merely
adopt it as an instrument, for the recovery of
their own political power
How should we look now, in the eyes of cur
impartial world, had we entrusted the anti-slavery
cause to the party which recognized as its lead
ers, such shareholders as Clay Mangum, Preston.
and Foster
We would not doubtthe sincerity of Middlesex
in making this proposal OF course, the object
oft is, to putthe wing party in position to alb
sorb and annihilate the Liberty party Half an
eye will enable any man to see, that the whg
party is helpless with the continuance and growth
of the Liberty party. But burnt children dread
the fire. We cannot shut our eyes, Middlesex
himself will not say that we ought to shut our
eyes to the fact, that these proposals are put
forth only by the wing papers that circulate in
sections where the Liberty party is comparatively
strong and that while the great majority ofthe
party papers maintain studied silence, sufi-
cent number Gercely protest against any union Of
the wings with abolitionists. 1t looks ust as if
it was all contrived.
Our doubts and jealousies are confirmed by
the inklings Of real intent which fall from some
other wing papers. Thus we find the Tribune
Lowell Courier, and nearly all such papers as are
most loud in anti-savery professions, loud still
in their praise of Dudley SeIden's speech at New
York, in which he says,
"Ifaboton ever should become formidable in
this country, | shall be found among the fore
most Of those who shall struggle for its overthrow
and final extinction"
This looks as if the real object was, to get alb
clifton out of the way, where it cannot interfere
as it has nterfered for ten years past, with wing
arrangements But a still palmer intmation
peeps out in the course of long and elaborate ar
ticle in the Western Site Journal, copied with
favor into the Albany Journal. In meeting the
very difficulty we first suggested above, to wit,
that for the whig party to profess ant-slavery,
would be as expressed by the Herkimer Journal,
ga base desertion and betrayal of the 100000
wings of the South, who have nobly fought by
our side during the late campaign" the other
Journal replies---''We do not so understand the
position of the wings at the South, l. e., as re-
curing any such separation---we conceive that
the very best and most acceptable service we
can rende them-the southern whigs,-'is to
beat our common enemies at home, THAT is, to
recover wing as,endercy by the help of abol;-
ton votes will be deemed good service to south
ern whigs--such as Mangum, Archer, Foster,
: Preston, Barrow, and the like.
They are quite willing their northern associa-
ties should make any professions that may be
found necessary, at home, because when they
e come together TO ACT, it will be at Washing
ton city, on the old wing platform, where abolit-
: on has not an inch Of ground, and never can
= have
+ We can make nothing less ofths than an a.
e vowa, that there is an understanding with the
h wings of the South, that offence is to be taxi
II en- at any professions, or even any action that
/ northern wings may find it necessary to put forth
Il at home, in their respective States And the
" only reason is that the talk is to end in nothing
IS being DONE under wing auspices, by the gen
= eral government, towards the abolition of slave
s ry as nothing has been done hitherto, under
II these auspices. Shall we trust them, Middlesexl
N We cannot.