Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-05-23
THE WIG AND DEMOCRATIC PARrIE.


We group these two parties together in the
same article. 1t is worth while to look at them
together, to see how they stand related to liber-
ty, to us, and to each other, and to the country.
One day the Wing party is up, and then it falls,
and then the Democratic party take their turn,
both alternately rising and falling without any
seeming hope of resurrection, and each losing in
numbers with every revolution of the political
year, and neither accomplishing any public pur-
pose, unless it is to show how impotent each is
to befrlend the slave or free aborer.
When the Liberty party begun with these par
ties, they were both equally head and cars in
the slough and filth of slavery, There was not
aparticle of either of them that was visible above
the surface Of the putrid bloody aty Both of
these parties at that time were equally disposed
to prove their seryility to slavery and rushed
unitedIy upon our unolfendlng meetings with
clubs and brickbats and other missiles. WHO'S
and democrats united to burn our houses our
temples, and abuse and insult our brethren with
every demonstration of insult outrage and MUIR
der. But change has occurred in the stun
ton of those parties. 1t has become convenient
now in the opinion of some wings, to hold up,
for the sake of their party, and profess some APP
probation of a part of our principles and mea-
sures. 1t has become equally convenient for
the democrats for the sake of their party, to at
,tach themselves still closer, body and soul, to
the sinking embodiment of slavery, and there
they lie exposed to the sun, besmeared with all
the filth and pollution and crimes of its carbon
embrace. Some portion of the wings have been
trying to get up out of the slough, but they have
found that their biggest half is dead and rotten,
and they cannot rise. Poor Seward! we pity
him. He has long been grooming at the "sidc-
way movement of his party, and now, when he
sees Horace Greedy and the better part of his CO.
adjutors entirely sank, he seems to be DESTROYS
to stink out of sight and be forgotten Yet We
pity him for lack Of moral courage to break
away from them entirely, and fact the man.
The Courier and Enquirer, the northern oyerseel
of Southern whiggery, comes out upon the sount
and living part of the northern whig press, ano
its muscles shrink, culver and cover before The
lash. The Courier says:
"What we have charged upon the Tribune
and its aflianCed presses, is the purpose to in
scribe abolition principles upon the wAig bannc
"a design reasonable to the party and to tn,
Union"
And then again the echo comes from Contra
New-York, The Oneida Wing breaks out il
fury, and other Wing presses yell upon the track
Says the Oneida Wing
GEWhy IN eortb ebouId Nortborp Wb;os r,;,
the standard of emancipation, when they hav
nothing to emancpate, and drive from us on
noble Southern brethren! Shall we sacrifice thu
400, 900 Wings at the South, intelligent, philan
thropic,. patriotic men, for 10000 conccited
obstinate men?" (meaning Liberty men.)
These are but specimens of the oversee
movements of a large portion Of the Wing pres
in the Empire state And what says the Tri
bune to all this wing denuncation of his "side
ways and careful advance towards Libertyl"-
Here you have it in his own words
"Whe therefore we expect ever to be as W
ever hove been, hostile to slavery and anxiousl
DESTROYS for its extinction, ,Oc cannot engage i
anu poEicicaI crusade against it, aohich wiH IN
.pOIce the cOncmring actiOn Of the general go,
.ernment"
There you have it from Horace Greedy hin
self He is brought down to his marrow bone
and obliged to pledge himself that he would ne
have the general government take ground again
slavery, and that his party would not. The owe
seers have brought his nose to the grindstont
and he consents to leave slavery as it is. N
wonder Governor Seward is anxious to lay "
peace offering" on the altar and retire. Thes
liberty wings are careful that nothing shall I
done that shall "sacrfce 100000 wings
Southern states" This union between nortl
srn and southern wings must be " one and ind
visibIe'-Oh! such parties! Would we ne
have been in beautiful condition if we ha
$hyown away our liberty party, and joined tn