Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-06-20
LIBE RTY
STATE CONVENTIONS.

OLA l ia OUN Y LIN I1UNO,
Two State Conventions of the Liberty party,
one for Northern, and one for Southern Vermont,
will he held as fot VS.: at
MORRIsvILLE, Tuesday & Wednesday, July
LIST & ID; and at
LUDLOW, wednesday & Thursday, July 9th
and 10th.
Two conventions are thus called for the pur-
pose of placing them within one days ride of our
friends at the extreme parts of the State, whereas
many ofthem would be unable to attend at this bu-
sy season were there but one, and that more cen
trial. The time is also fixed before the season Of
haying shall have arrived, so that our lard-handed
and warm hearted farmers theiI wives, their sons
and daughters-a, of every class, who have
hearts to feel and minds to Do for betrayed Lib
erly and crushed bumanity-may come up and
nringIe their sympath.es and renew their vows in
the temple of Freedom.
MILTON CLARK, the eloquent aChite slave
from Kentucky, is pledged 10 attend both these
conventions; ALANSON WORK, the escaped
victim of Missouri slavery, is confidently expected
10 be present; the Rev. Mr.. ASPENWALL has
publican slavery, in despoiic Canada, and will in
erest the conventions with thrilling tales of Slave
ny and Freedom; and we pledge you full attend
ance OF Liberty orators Of domestic manufacture,
whose spirits are as free as the eagle of our own
Green Mountains; whose limbs have never known
the letters, or their mouths the gag; and who have
laid themselves on The altar of human liberty, de-
termined to do or die.
The motives to induce general rally of all who
are unwilling to give their country, themselves
and their children, over to the tender merces of
slavery, are overwhelming. Within the past year,
female, free by our laws and by universal ac-
acknowledgement, has been kidnapped upon our own
soil and consigned to lifelong toll in the southern
prison house, aud her demoniac kdnapper goes
unwhipt Of justice: A daughter of our own
State has been doomed to eons home on sus-
pcion of having done what we would all glory in;
Gus doom for like offence: The fact has been
Established by the action Of South Carolina, and
The silent acquescence of tho Government that cit
liens of the free States may be seized upon and
sold into inlermDable slavery at the pleasure OF
slave States By the action Of the two great par
ties slavery has been made perpetual in Florida
the balance in The U. S. Senate given to the South
and everything done that could be done on our
part, to annex Texas to this country, and thus
greatly augment the already controlling power Of
slavery in our own land. Yes the history of n
single year, and that the last, presents all Of these
and many more costly sacrifices to the bloody Mo
Ioch of slavery; and is it time for US, the sons oil
those worthy sires who set their SEAL dipped in
their own blood, to the the eternal truth Of mans
equality and inaIienabe right to liberty; in whose
ears is yet ringing the jubilee of Freedom with
which our fathers celebrated their deverance
from the yoke of oppression; is it time for us
to
yoke in with marked aud and branded SLAVES,
And tremble at the drivers whip?-
Bend to the earth our plant knees,
And speak-but as our masters peaseI
| Shall outraged nature cease to feel?
Shall mercy's tear no longer flow?
Shall ruffan threats Of cord and steel
The dungeons gloom-th assassin's blow,
Turn back the spirit reused to save
Our Truth--our Country-and the SLAVE?
No-guided by our cOuntry'S laws,
For truth and right, and suffering man,
! Be ours to to strive in Freedoms cause,
As Christians may-as Freemen CAMP
J.POLAND,
HY. BARNES,
S. X. COLLINS,
r. KILBOURN. Slate Committee.
R. V. MARSH,
l.. BRAlNARD,
o. L. SHAFTER,
Montpelier, June 10, 1915.
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