Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-08-28

Freegpgem Of Vermont !!

The day of our annual election il at hand. One
week more and it will have passed. Are you pre-
pared for the decisions then to he made? Have
you carefully balanced the questions then to be
passed upon, in the light of truth, of universal
benevolence, and human accountability: Think
not that the great question is, whether Wings or
Democrats shall fill the State offices; or whether
banks or tariffs shall be created or destroyed !;
these are not even a dust in tho balance. There
is a question now before the American people, up
on which your voice is demanded, and will be
given next Tuesday, that is as enduring as the
pillars of The eternal throne; and as vital TO the
we'll being ofman as IS the smile Of the Father of
Mercics. You need not be told that that question
is, Shall American Slavery BE destroyed? A voice
in the affirmative, will swell the song Of the an
gels II. on the plains of Bethlehem, "Peace on
ear.h, and good will to NM" while a voice in
the negative goes to perpetuate that system of OPP
preston, violence and blood with which the earth
is cursed, and which is exceeded only by that in
which it ends--the miseries of the second death!
American Slavery has reached a point in its his.
tory when, 10 the language of John Quincy Adj
ans, "the Union must fall before it, unless it fall
before the Union" BY constitutional and uncon-
stitutionaI advantages, it has cntrenched itself in
the Legislative halls Of the nation; and by a strict
adherence to the one-idca Of self preservation, it
has brought both the political parties Of the coun-
try to do its bidding, for fear Of losing its support.
Is this denied; Who srstains slavery to-day in
the District Of Columbia, and appropriatcs the
hard earnings of Northern freemen to build pris-
ons where its victims may be marketed? Wings
and Democrats. Who sustains those laws by which
slave breeding and selling in the northern slave
States, and slave buying and killing in the South
ern slave States, is made so profitable? Wings
and Democrats. Who extends the laws of slave
ry over the nominally free States, so far as 10 re-
cover fugitive slaves, and punish those who feed
or clotho them? Wings and Democrats. Who
peaceably submit to the imprisonment and sale
into slavery, of the free colored citizens of the
Of the North, upon their visiting the southern
States? Wings and Democrats. Who are silent
under the Kidnapping of three white citizens of
Ohio. upon their own soil and transportation in
to Virginia for trial, on a charge of having assist
ed fugitive slaves in Ohio-when the U. S. Con-
%stitution expressly says, any man charged with
crime shall be tried under the laws Of the State
in which the crime was committed? Wings and
Democrats. Who have admitted eight new Slave
States into the Union? Wings and democrats.
Who hold up shareholders as the men whom they
delight to honOr-the embodiment Of their prIn-
ciples-and seek to place them over the nation as
rulers? Wings and Democrats.
In view of these alarming facts, the Liberty
party has been formed for the abolition of slavery,
and has now reached the fifth year of its progress.
Its supporters have increased from one to seventy
thousand. Its organization extends over the free
States, and into several of the slave States. The
slave power is preparing itself for the conflict
We implore the aid of those who love human
freedom. A vote in favor ofthe Liberty organi-
cation, is a voice in favor of the only peaceful
mode of saving our whole land from the curse of
oppression; while a vote against it, is a welcome
will the freemen of Vermont be found? Shall we
be engrossed and divided with the State debt, the
license law, or coarse wool, while the Goths and
Vandals are at the door to make slaves of US and
our children? Our fathers so highly priced their
liberties that they pledged, yea, freely offered up,
their 'lives, their fortunes, and sacred honors,' to
secure them; and shall we, their sons, who stand
above the graves Of the hOnored dead, be SO base