Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-04-25
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joy the spoils of victory with some degree Of pa
tience, while the wing papers indicate much un-
easiness in that party for the loss Of victory
They seem, for the present at least, " doomed
to see pleasures they cannot enjoy" In giving
vent to their disappointment, and in their disre-
gard of facts, and of all fair differences from facts,
some of their editors must suppose that their
readers read nothing but their papers, and know
nothing but what they find there. They expect
their readers will swallow whatever they send
them. One of their papers has been collecting
from others some statistics connected with the
biography of the Liberty party. Its birth is not
mentioned, but it records its death with some
particularly, and mentions some Of its most re-
nowned deeds In this is committed an error,
not very uncommon in eulogies upon the dead.
The writers do not content themselves with dull
matter of fact, but give loose to an uncontrolla-
BILE imagination. Full credit is given to the
Liberty party in its lifetime but near its exit, Of
getting Texas into the Union, and voting in
Florida as a slave State, with the most daboli-
cal and unconstitutional provisions for the sup
port of slavery and the destruction of human
HCCuOlH W ny wv lHCoC NllISo SupPOSC IhC lLlD-
erty party dead? Do they suppose they had
bruised it enough to kill it? 1t is probable they
have somewhere read the idea " smite the shop
herd and the sheep shall be scattered = and they
knew what groundless and murderous attack
the wing papers in general made, just previous
to the presidential election, upon the character
of James G. Birney, the presidential candidate
of the Liberty party. These wings may have
taken it for granted, that they had entirely kill
ed him, and that the whole party died with him.
This may turn out to be mistake. Such mis-
takes have occurred before The mob that
once attacked St. Paul. mauled him till they
supposed him dead, and then left him But he
revived, and lived to be the untiring herald of
the glorious principles of the Christian religion
which now bless mankind That unprncipled
attack upon Paul showed no wickedness at all
in him, but showed the basest wickedness in his
assailants SO this attack upon Mr. Birney,
made Just before election and unquestionably
made to Last his moral and political character,
and induce his friends to desert him, and vote
for Henry Clay now, since the election is over
and the whole is proved by evidence, under oath
now before the public, to be gross SANDER, sup
ported by the basest forgery, does not show Mr.
, Birney lacking in moral or political integrity
nor in any sense in fault in any thing alleged a
gainst him but it shows the most base iniquitl
7 in his assaants. And we fondly hope Mr. Biz
, ney may live many years, laboring in the cause
of human freedom and laborng successfully il
procuring the emancipation of three millions o
American slaves, and relieving what we tern
free States from the sin and reproach, and pecu
:, mary burdens, of slavery in the United States
), But which of all the wing papers has ever, il
any way, retracted the slanderous forgeries the
l. published against Mr.. Brney? One there is
paper published in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cleve
:, land Herald, if its title is recolected, manful
Is acknowledged the injustice done to Mr.. Birney
). and expressed sincere regret that the forgere
# found place III the paper. Some two or tire
!. wIig editors refused to publish these torgoria.
n while others generally published them and lie
u them 90 for reality and TRUTH to this day, thong
=, they must all have seen, before this time, thSe'
II idence, ul,der oath, proving them all to be 70
geries.
~ Can any one conjecture under what pretenc
n or on what grounds, the wing papers charge ii
5 coming in of Texas upon the Liberty party
os The most plausible pretence we have ever hear
10 of or thought Of is, the cunning artfce to hro
ID the blame off of themselves. Surely all that h;
to been done to get in Texas, has been done
tn such an administration as the wings elected; an
81 that administration hurried the business along
a. great rate, through fear that such disastrol
ct measure could find no adequate support fro
u any new administration. Possibly these viii
err writer's, when at school, learnt something abol
Id negative electricity or in philosophy, somethin
ny about the Uis iaertie of matter, and mean t
- honor us with the idea, that we did not prevel
ny Texas from coming ill., If thus intended, "
s. do not merit the honor half as much as the whig
- themselves do, for we labored as hardly and
industriously, and as honestly, to keep Tex;
out as the wings did; and their administration
O. not ours carried it along thus far;--and as II
lg Liberty party are not very tenacious of empt
1t unmerited honors, we wholly repudiate the hol
g. or tie wings seem disposed thus to cast off frol
It. their own party and confer upon us: and what
We more, as Texas is not yet admitted to the Unite
I'd States, and never can be, unless by the iutur
at action of government, we will unite with tn
wings in any measure calculated to prevent tn
e; annexation, which will not require us to vote ft
a shareholders, or supporters of the slavery system
an for office. While these wing papers are dispo'
ed to honor the Liberty party with having take
in Florida, as slave State with its diaboc;
of slavery constitution, it may not be best to col
a tend about it. We of the Liberty party, VIII
Id were at home, and not in Congress, to vote W
I'd on the subject, were all horror struck at ii
: event Those who were there, and either vote
s, for it, or set silent without voting against
OF ought to be hurled from their seats, and new
IS again receive the support of any member of IL
. Liberty party SOLON.
co For the Freeman
A ID NJ IL