Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-10-30

must die, but actually claim the merit of being them
selves at work to kill him. WE'LL indeed may he laugh
at zach preachers and politicians whilst he can oppose
to their predictions of his death the fact that during
about every twenty years of their preaching and
ting and egisating he doubles the number of his VIC
tins.
The Liberty party is the only political party in the
Nation, whose purpose is to overthrow slavery. No
parymade up, as is the Wing and Democratic party,
slave owners as well as non-slaye-owners, have
this purpose for save-owners, making they all do
slavery their paramount interest," and ready as they all
are at all times to sacrifice every other interest to it.
will not abide nwill not come nto-a party that aims
at 5he destruction of slavery.
We ask for your help to overthrow the system of
American oppression. Give it to us, we entreat you.
Give it to us in all practicable ways and let your CON
Iaesa4 with the Liberty party be of those ways.
Is not high time for you to cease from parties, which
are unpledged, unprepared and unwilling, to attack
slavery and is it not high time for you to Join par
ty which, called into being for the express purpose of
destroying slavery, has never set aside for the sake of
other interests, and never compromise, the declared
object of its existence? Why should you not Join it?
1t is not as you are every where told it u.s. fanciful
party. Its object as worthy ever appealed to the
heart of philanthropy, and its means to compass it. the
peaceful means OF the peaceful baot-box are both APP
proved of reason and religion. Nor is it. you are
everywhere told it is, party in opposition to the Con-
stution. The Constitution being an anti-savery in
strument, and giving to Congress, as has been well
said no more power nor sembance of power, to make
a slave than to make king-what motive could the
Liberty party have to set itself in opposition to it? The
Constitution, being the friend of the Liberty party
shall mol find in that party foe The Liberty party in
power would prove its trueness to the Constitution, by
promptly Withdrawing from slavery the protection of the
National fag by promptly aboishing the curse in the
d Erct Of Columbia; and wherever also, beyond the
rgnal limits of the Nation, Congress has been so
REASONABLE to the Constitution to set up slavery
suffer it to be set up And if the Liberty party on Ia
king the reins Government shall not sweep slavery
from the original thirteen States, well as from the
other part Of the Nation, the omission will be owing
not to its want Of fidelity to the Constitution but alone
its want of the conviction that had the rghtul pow
ertO do so. The present indications, however are, that
even this conviction may not be wanting for the pres
ent indications are, that the arguments of Goodell
and Spooner to prove that slavery has no Constitu-
tlonal nor legal existence in any part of the Nation,
remain unanswered, because they are unanswerable.
We asked, whether it is not high time for you to join
theLberty party. How different, had you joined it
years ago. would be the present character of
try Now, it is branded with nfamy for having robbed
neighborng Nation of a large share of its territory.
How different to, had you joined it years ago, would
be the present condition of our country Now, it is
threatened with war, which, strong as we are, and
weak as our fees nevertheless result in its ruin:
for whatever supremacy we may claim, the injustice Of
cause should inspire the apprehension Of its defeat
Had you Joined the Liberty party years ago, neither
would this disgrace be upon the character, nor this
danger be in the condition of our country. Had but
enough of you joined in last fall to swell its vote to
hundred thousand, the danger and disgrace, of which
wetfeak, -yvodld have been uvertedf Not a few Of
those members of Congress- who, on the Texas ques-
ton, bowed down to the savepower, would have been
able to stand erect had there been so ncreaseda Lib
ey vote to appeal to their hopes and fears But you
could not be induced to Join the Liberty party. You
would cling to your Democratic party Notwithstanding
it had, openly, and shameessly and fully, identified
itself with agtious scheme of robbery, as ever
one nation practised another You would cling to
your Wing party Notwithstanding it had called to the
Office of Secretary of State the two men, who in this
office, had committed the Nation to this pre-eminenty
guilty scheme; the one of whom, as long ago as the
year 1929, entertained the Virginia Convention with
calculation of the profits, which Virginia slave-bree
ders would realize "should it," to use his own words
be our lot as trust it will be, to acquire the coun-
try of Texas and the other of whom was so bent
on reconcing the world to the extension of slavery
Texas that to make up the necessary number of
arguments for it. he advanced the doctrine, that, to
give freedom to the black slave Or in other and more
heart-rendlng words, to give freedom to whomsoeyer
we desire to retain in slavery, is to make him crazy
That party furnishing us, at such time with such
Secretaries should Notwithstanding its fatterng cry
In the of abotioniss against annexation was as
loud as its atterng cry for annexation in the
saVeholders that this party should, when the scheme
OF annexation came to be acted on by Congress- sup
pyfhe lack Of Democratic strength to carry it. is no
at all surprising.
But is it even now, too late to keep Texas out Of
the Nation? Or, if some construe it, Texas is al
ready in the Nation may not be saved from the curse
OF slavery? The preliminary point, that Texas shall
not be saveholding country, once rightly settled
and might not be very difficult to re-establish amty
between Mexico and this Nation Mexico might even
consent to give up Texas to this Nation. The point
of honor fno of principle with her. is not to give it
mp to slavery. Who can doubt that were the Liberty
party to double its vote the present year. Congress
would hesitate to receive Texas into our family of
States, were she to come with q savehodng Constitu-
ton in her hands? Who can doubt that should Mas
fsachuses elect the liberty ticket at her approaching
election all, or nearly ALL of the Northern members Of
Congress would refuse to bow down. any longer to the
dark spirit of slavery would turn to worship the go-
rious rising sun of Freedom; and would tell Texas,
that she also must turn thher or give up her hone of
place in siserhood of States Make the exper-
inont Old Massachusetts, Glorious Old AIassachu-
sets 1t VIII give you better fame with liberty
loving posterlty than can your and
battle fields. 1t is your honor that you were the first
to resist the British oppression But thousand fold
greater honor awaits the State which shall be first to
turn the tide Of American oppression.
That no such happy effect on the Texas ques-
tion and on the cause of liberty would follow a
however greatly increased vote either of the
Wing or Democratic party, is certain; for who
could be so simple, as to see in the increase a
denomination of hostility to slavery With what
face, then, can those Wings and Democrats a.
mongst us, who have, all along, proGessed to be
abolnonists, and to be opposed to the annexa-
ton of Texas-with what face then can they
continue to make these professions, if they shall
cling, and even at this crisis to their pro-slavery
parties
Fellow citizens it is not enough to say, that
justice to Mexico and to our own character re-
quires us to relax our grasp on Texas, and to
relax our purpose of overspreading it with the
horrors Of slavery. The suppostion that it is
for the very life of our Nation, that we relax