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

country, through the instrumentality of parties,
in any way connected with or interested in sus-
tanning it, Both Of the great political parties
have increasingly professed their attachment to
the principles ofthe Declaration of Independence,
and of the constitution, their love of freedom, and
their regard for justice yet neither have done
anything towards the abolition of Slavery neither
have at any time stood forth as the champions of
human rights but on the contrary, have seemed
to vie, each with the other, which should do
most to perpetuate, and to identify with the ma
tional character, that disgraceful institution
that black and blighting curse. However attach
cd to the principles of freedom individual mem
bers of those parties might once have been, they
have generally sacrificed them, whenever those
principles came in conflict with party policy.
The shareholders have always been " men of
one idea" The support of Slavery has been
the great end of all their public acts. They have
been jealous Democrats, and jealous Wings but
never so zeaous-never so attached to their re-
spectve parties as for moment to allow their
party preferences to interfere with their primary
object-their " one idea" Let but the remotest
symptom of an intention to disturb their favorite
institution be manifested by members from the
free States, and instantly their party feelings were
suppressed their partisan obligations set aside
and ALL as one man, were found arranged on the
side of Slavery. The shareholders being thus
united and holding the balance between parties
at the North, by threats of throwing their own
tIo
excel in efforts to do the bidding of their South
ern masters-the ascendancy of Southern influ-
encc in the General Government has been con-
stantly maintained. And thus about three-fourths
of all the offices have been held by shareholders,
and consequently the diplomacy and legislation
of the country has been controlled by them, and
generally made to conform to their peculiar in
terests regardless of the wishes and welfare OF
the North
Had the Representatives Of the Northern
States labored as faithfully in behalf of Freedom
as those Of the Southern States have for Slavery
or even as themselves have labored for it, that
dabolical institution would long since have been
known only in history; but with few exceptions
sacrificed the cause Of Freedom to party policy
and the result thus far has been, the increase of
negro slavery, and the subsection of the millions
of the free and intelligent citizens of the North
to the base purposes of the Southern aristocracy-
the two hundred and fifty thousand traffickers in
human souls and bodies
The old parties having been thus manifestly
unfathful to the true principles of the Govern
ment and to the highest interests of the people,
it would seem that there could be no more GER
tain means of deverance from the evils which
they have brought upon the nation, than the or.
ganization of party founded on the principles
of Divine Truth, and the doctrines of the Amer
lean Declaration Of Independence. Such an or.
ganization is the Liberty party. 1t seeks among
other great objects, by constitutional and just
means to promote the abolition of Slavery in ouI
country, and to secure the inalenable rights o
freedom to every individual in the nation Anc
believing in the wisdom of using means cores
ponding to ends, it confines its support to candi
dates for public Office, who are unequivocally
friendly to its fundamental objects.