Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-03-28
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BEAUTIES OF DEMocRAcY.-We like to see
things appropriate and in character, and so do
Democrats universally 1t was for this reason,
without doubt that when the newly elected slave
holding President reached Washington, the 9TH
er day, the Polk and Dallas flag was hoisted over
the slave penl
How significant Of our national character, and
especially of the position of the dominant party
Democracy and slave-pens!-stars stripes, man
acles and slave whips All hail to the Democ-
racy of the 10Th century, Let the world stand
aghast with wonder and admiration!
~ We hear good anecdote of Mr.. Polk,
the President elect, AS soon as visitor is in
troduced he commences the conversation forth
with, by informing the astonished stranger that
he has been delighted to find that since his ar
rival in Washington not one of his democratic
friends has had the ndelcacy to annoy him with
an application for Office, and that he is quite sure
the information must be as gratifying to the gen.
'teman listening to the narration, as it is accep-
table to his own views and feelings The visit
er listens in profound silence--hesitates a mo-
ment-makes his bow, and SlopeS.-Alerandria
Gazette.
A correspondent of the True Wesleyan says
that "three hundred New Africans or upwards
are imported annually through Texas into Louis
lana, &c, feloniously, according to United States
law
Fifty thousand native American citizens, some
of them whittier than their masters, land this class
eOf orthodox color is constantly increasingly have
been for number of years past bought and sold
like beasts in the States south of Pennsylvania
&loniously according to Gods law Of this in
eternal slave trade, Washington, to which you
send, Christian reader, representatives. is Che me-
tropolis !!
Elk GOVERNOR SEWARD.
The Abolitionists will soon have occasion to
rejoice in the accession of this great man to the
Liberty party. A correspondent of the Liberty
Press, writing from Auburn, says that he has re-
Gently visited him, and 'henceforward he is ours
He will soon stand forth disenthraIledp Hence
forward Mr.. Seward is the champion of Liberty.
He will make her his watchword, and the aboli-
ton of slavery the paramount question. speak
what know, and what will, doubtless, soon be
published We shall ere long witness wheel
ing into the Liberty Party in New York, that
will surprise even ourselves. This party is not
down-t cannot be broken down. The old
parties now understand this, and this is the Sc
cret of their present vindictiye opposition
:gor Gazette.
West Indies and Africa An interesting fact
lis to be recorded Of the emancipated Christian
negroes of the West Indies. They have resell
we'd to send missionary to the land from which
they were torn, and colored clergyman named
Waddle, who has been stationed at Montego Bay,
for the last fifteen years, has sailed for Africa
under the charge ofthe Presbytery of Jamaica.
MAGNIFICENT RAILWAY SCHEME. 1t is pro
posed to have railway from Cairo to Suez, up
on (which steamers with all their freight and pas
sengers, are to be transported on tracks by 10
.comotive from the Me to the Red Sea. A
the termini, inclined planes are to dip under wa
ter sufficiently to have large trucks, surmounte'
with proper cradles, run under the body of thu
steamer to be transported. 1t will require roa
considerably wider than the ordinary one, and
vessel of 800 tons. The cost of the plan is es
= timated to be less than that Of ship canal. 81
Nv. c. Harris is the protector, Boston ChrOn
A tunnel of Roman construction has recent
hbeen discovered and explored at Marseies.
connects the ancient Abbaye of st. Victorie-
running under an arm of the sea---with towe
of Fort St. Nicholas The tunnel, one fourt
longer than that under the Thames, is formed
single vault of so feet span, and has recent
been explored from end to end. The sum
100000 would, It's estimated, put it in con
plete repair and render it serviceable for mot
ern use
WASHING FOR THE MILLoN-They are abo
to establish in London, at the expense of $50
600, four public baths, for the especial accor
mediation and publication of the "great unwas
ed" as the conservatives call the lower classe
The price is to be penny for cold and tw
pence for warm bath, towels included. An e
cellent plan, if you can only get the "unwashet
aforesaid to avail themselves of tn. Y. EV
Mirror.
fs The presbytery of Chilicothe, Ohio Gold schoc
has adopted resolution by vote OF 20 to I, d
clarng that if the general assembly, at its next So
sion, shall refuse or neglect TO take such action
is calculated Immediately to free the church fro
the sin and scandal ofsIavehodiDg, then the pr.
bytery ought to cease all further ecclesiastical
lowship or connection with said assembly; II
they ought not thenceforth to acknowledge tn
authority by sending delegates to their meetln
or in any way support their pro slavery organ'
lions, with money which are intended to coun
nance o.. extend suvehodiug christianity, u
they exhibit all their power in expelling the gr'
sin and scandal from the church.
Cruelty 10 a Slaue.--A most nhuman sight p
scented itself to the citizens of Chestnut street
morning. negro boy was seen TO issue fir
near the corner Of Third and take down Ches
street at full speed, stripped to his waist, and
back cut and lacerated in most cruel manner
He took straight line for the river and plum
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