Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-31
From the Boston Morning Chronicle.
CASSIUS NJ, CLAY.

The Atlas of yesterday contains letter from
this gentlemen, which we lose no time in pre-.
senting to our readers That so recent, not to
say imperfect convert to abolitionism as G. M.
Clay, should mistake the Wing cause for that Of
Liberty, is not very much to be wondered at.
But from the views he expresses, and the spirit
he manifests in the following letter, we are GER
tain the Wing party will have speedily to revolu-
tionize ITSELF or it cannot hold him. He DEM
onsrates in living light the necessity of Liber-
ty party. He fondly hopes, notwithstanding that
ill-starred 'disayowaP of his great kinsman, that
the Wing party will make itself that Liberty par
ty. He is destined, we forbode, to disappoiRt-
ment How long will he wait! Will he stand
a renewal of the 'temporizing policy!
LEXINGTON, KY, Jan. 6, l945-
TO the Editors of the Boston Aids
GENTLEMEN,-I have been favored by soma
unknown friend, with pamphlet entitled, An
appeal to the people of Massachusetts, on the an
nexation of Texas My long and uncompro-
missing opposition to the annexation ofTexas to
this Union is based, principally, upon my utter
hatred of sldUcry. There is therefore, something
in this appeal, which moves me, as common
inheritor Of American liberty, to give it the poor
appreciation of single individual south of Ma
son and Dixons line. knew full well, that the
election of James K Polk would be claimed by
the party as the verdict of the people in favor Of
Texas; and by the Slave power, in favor Of slaUc-
ry. The voluntary disavowal by Mr. Clay,
therefore, Of my opinions, as set forth in letter
to Mr.. Speed, of Ithica, New York, could not
compel me, through mortified pride at the awk-
ward position in which he placed me before the
American people, to desert the glorious standard
of human liberty, and national honor, and good
faith, which all now plainly see is struck down,
temporarily at least, in his person.
1t is far from my feelings and purpose, now, To-
reproach Mr. Clay-to whom am under many
Obligations which can never be cancelled, both
as man and as a statesman-yet believe the
: great Wing party north of the line is prepared
now to admit, that, in losing the moral power Of
: opposition to Texas, as a slavery question, we
lost ALL For, whilst the south, under Demo
cratic rule was prepared to sacrifice all thingsto
slavery, the Wings, Of necessity, were doomed to-
lose many votes in the North upon minor ques-
tions-thus enabling the consolidated votes OS
, the Sonth, aided by the office-seekers of the
North to carry the day Until, therefore, the
spirit of liberty in the free States shall become as
strong as the power Of slavery is here, all will
continue to be lost. Thus, and thus only, can
the unholy and disastrous alliance between slave
ry, utter despotism, and so-called democracy, be
: broken up. A temporizing policy can never
e again be renewed under as favorable circumsian-
: ces as have already witnessed our defeat Shall
be pardoned in saying, that if there is anything in
republlcanism worth preserving, it can be main
tanned only by an eternal and Incorporating
war against the criminal usurpations Of the slave
e power. This your ablest statesman, John GUM
cy Adams, has long since foreseen, and proclaim
e ed, in voice well worthy of his name, of glori-
y Gus revolutionary inheritance. tell you the
i time has now come, when the friends Of liberty
g and the craven slaves of despotism must stand
e apart Wide as the great Atlantic is the ground
which, henceforth, shall divide the advocates
It and the opponents of Texas-Union
J, Whatever may have been the difference Ct
d opinion about the constitutionality of taking
r Texas, by the treaty-making power, no honest
) man. in my opinion, can be SO blind as not to
n see that, in the proposed scheme of annexaticn.
by vote of the two houses of Congress, the Gen.
!, sttution is not only papaby violated, but utter
n ly destroyed, and the Union dissolved, As a
:. Kentuckian, avow, before all men, that owe
II no allegiance to any such new alliance as Team
o union When regard the Object Of the sacri-
h flee of that union which Washington deemed
J the palladium Of liberty to and our posterity,
$ feel that am a shameless recreant to the blood
e which inherit from the heroes Of '76, and al
n ready base degenerate repudiator of the immor-
tai Declaration of Rights, i'll am not fully prepar-
a ed to go with Massachusetts,, or any other pcr-
ton Of the old thirteen, in Uindicating IT, if need
t, be, bv the aoora I say, then, to the author q
h the appeal raise the standard Of Liberty and
a. Union, now and forever l shall no more ur-
III dertake to speak for others but there shall fol-
Of low its glorious destiny one of the defendants Of
De old Virginia, who will not in thought so damn his
native State, as to believe that there will be bur
IL one.
10 owe il to my own humble name to say, tn
OF did not, whilst in the North, lose time to vindl-
cate miself from the many misrepresentation
c. and unjust imputations which have not ceased tc
n follow me- even now. The Texas resolutions
al presented by me, in the Kentucky legislature
* in 1886, so generally published, are not AZ 81
lie contradictory ofmy subsequent opinions. wal
in in favor of Texas-union, them because ofmy low
on of "liberty," the flag under which she fought
Of but when she trampled under Root her waF-wesI