Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-08-21
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1t is almost universally admitted that the aboli-
ton ofslavery is within the reach ofhe free States,
provided they would make common CAUSE to Sc
cure that end; but the great parties hold tnat
the ''other great interests for which they arc con-
tending, more than overbaance the good that
would accrue from the abolition ofslavery. Now
we ask our Wing and Democratic friends, who
act upon this conviction, 10 pause a moment, and
consider the consequences Of this course Hold
up THAT VOTE which you intend to depose for
the continuance of slavery, in hopes to secure
some fancied good. Look at it, Ponder we'll the
consequences. Estimate the cost and the UGlue
of the Right of Sutfrage-and forget not your ac-
Icountability for its proper use. You decide, with
TAHT VOTE.
1st That the sacred barrier which our Declare
ton of Independence asserts the Creator has
thrown around the rights Of all men to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, shall be utterly de-
molshed and laid waste-that Man, who was Gre
ated but a little lower than the angels, in the i'm
age of God, may be put into the scale with the
ricn mans god-yea, that yourselves and your
children may rightfully become the property of
the oppressor, and the victims of his lash, when
circumstances make it CONVENIENT
3D. That that system of slavery which has in
creased its victims since the formation Of our gov
eminent from five hundred thousand to three mill
ions, shall go on multiplying its victims and swell
ing its enormties unt that happy era shall be
reached which was recently predicted by Mr.
Holmes of South Carolina, when the slaves of
this land would number twenty millions
3d. That another Louisiana or Florida pur-
chsae shall be made; another Florida war prosecut
cd-another Texas annexed-foreign ministers
sent out treaties made tariffs and banks made and
destroysd--as the slave power shall be pleased to
decree.
4th That slavery shall continue in the District
of Columba--that the treasure of the nation shall
be poured out to build and sustain save-prisons
within sight Of the nations capitol, in which the
offspring Of thirty thousand slaves, oncyAhs 4SIor
ed freemen of the north, can be placed, prephrato
ny to their sale into the Botany Bay of America
9Th. That four fiths of the Offices of honor and
profit in the General Government shall be filled
with shareholders.
9th That the Shareholders shall have a repre-
sentaton in Congress, voice in the Presidential
election, and a share in all public monies disribut.
ed for three ffths of of their property while the
property of northern freemen is wholly excluded.
7th. 10 continue in force those laws, which
make the free States the legal hunting ground OF
the kidnapper, and subject ourselves to fine and
imprisonment for harboring or feeding fugitive
slave!
9th. TO continue those awiess laws by which
Walker, Torrey, a Work, Thompson, a
Burr,a Fairbank, a Miss Webster were nhumnn-
ly branded and imprisoned for those acts of hu-
manity for which Christ has promised to reward
them at the day of Judgment!
9th. To perpeluate the slave trade between tho
states of the Union, by which, in the year 1885,
120,O 900 slaves were exported from the State of
Virginia alone; by which four Southern States in
the year 1886, imported 900 slaves from the
North; by which the single state Of Alabama in
four years, from 1888 to '97, imported from the
Northern Slave states 10, 00e 900 dollars worth of
slaves annually, amounting to $40,00000O in four
years, paid by one State alone for the bodies and
souls of men, women ana children. Those victims
are sold without regard to the ties that bind hus-
band and wife, parent and child. A Tennessee
paper speaking of this trade, says:-"That they
are driven with heavy CALLING chains riveted upon
their persons, their backs lacerated with the knot
ted whip, travelling to a region where their con-
dtion through time will lie second only to the
wretched creatures in hell; this depicting is not
visionary, would to God that it was.'
10th. To make heather of every sixth man, wo-
man and child in the Misunderstanding it an of
fence punishable with death to teach them to read
the story of the Cross, or the Declaration of A
merican independence
But time would fail US to enumerate the long
catalogue of denominations that, by your otOn Sd-
mission is written out as in the hrid flame Of the
pitt upon that single ballot which you are about
to deposite under your solemn oath. And is this
fit offering with which to come into freedoms
Temple, upon the approaching Sabbath Of the
freeman, and pay your vows to the God of liber-
ty and Rightf
! PROGRESSING CHRIsTIANl can you ask Gods
blessing upon THAT BALLOT as you send it forth to
execute your will
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