Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-03
THE PR L Z NJ n.
The liberty Party and the Whigs.
For the Freeman

serves passing notice; especially as it contains
the, +" embodimsnt'' of many other charges against
the Liberty pary made by other uminaries of less
notoriety, which advocate the cause OF the wing !
party. ,r.. ...e. ...... ......
The article alluded to is headed " LIBERTY
PARTY" " What IL has done" Tho vrtor goes
state that ''It has given the Sc electoral votes
of New York to Polk and Dallas, Texas, Free
Trade and the extension and perpetuation of
slavery. 1t has done the same with the 26 eIecto-
raj votes of Pennsylvania, and probably the 9 of
Maine" as = "It has, in all probability
made James K Polk President of the United
States;" together with many other charges of sim
liar character
If these charges are true, it surely becomes the
Liberty Party to look about then--to confess their
sins, and to "repent in dust and ashes"
The Liberty Party plead " not guilty." and
"put themselves on the country" for trial. Since
the smoke and dust of the political campaign has,
in degree, blown over, and the excited passions
oil the combatants have, in some measure, become
calm, it may be well for all parties to take retro
spectve view of the late political canvass, and
endeavor to ascertain, Git the election of James X,
what influences, the "deed has been done"
That we may have full understanding Of The
case it will be necessary to to the origin of
the Liberty Party-its obects-and the measures
pursued to accomplish those objects.
From the commencement of the present United
States, many phiIanthropsts were much panied
that government prolessedly founded on purely
republican principles, should yet cherish in its bo
som system of absolute and unconditional slave
ny, by the operation of which about one sixth of
the whole population was claimed to he the abso-
lutte property of small portion of the other five
sxths.
These phanthropstS, such as Franklin, Wash
ingon, Jefferson, and other distinguished indiyid-
uals, both in the free and slave States expressed
much alarm at the existence of this system in our
land of freedom. und many measures were talked
ola remedies for this acknowledged political and
religious evil. But the Fathers and Patriots died
of, one after another and The public mind having
become more accustomed to the evil like other
sins common in a community, il ronsnd to attract
that attonsiou lor while, which its enornity de-
mandrd from professedly republican aud religious
people,
True, there may have been, and prot ably were,
during all the apparent apathy on this subject, soil
tary individuals, who, like Elijah of old, were
uery jealous for The Lord God Of hosts,' who,
like him might have thought, that "they only
are lett," and that, should they exercise the bold
ness ofthis ancient servant of God in declaimng
against this sin, their lives might, and probably
would be the forfeit of their tcmerily. Yet we
may reasonably hope that, during all this time,
there may have been not less than "seven thousand
in curl Israel, all the knees which have not bow
ed unto [ths modern7 BauI''
The first political action (of which have any
knowedge) intended as system of operations, to
do away this enormous niquity the organiza-
tlon in 1910, ola very few individuals in several
ofthe free States of the Union, as a LIBERTY
PARTY, who presented independent ticket fol
candidates for the office of electors of Presiden
and Vice President Of the United States. SO few
were the pioneers in this warfare for human liber
ty, that in Vermont the whole number of votes cas-
amounted to only 9l9l-and TIN oughout the free
States to only some five to seven thousand. Ii
justice to the friends of humanity it should be re-
marked, THAI the vote would undoubtedly have
been much greater but for the fact that the whia
candidate for President, (Gen. Harrison was {
resident of free State, and not known by man,
to be committed to the friends of slavery but de
clared by his friends to he an aboltonist Th
wrerof this has to confess, that although at tina
time he was professed abolitonist, he sustainet
the wing nominee.
In the year 1871 the friends of the slave, fndin
al had I,ao III, H.
sons character respecting slavery, began to max
regular organizations to accomplish their Object
These were commenced at this time in many O
the free States. In this State the party held
ConVentionin May, previous to the convention O
either of the old parties; and as the Liberty Part
was composed of some who had formerly bee
members of each of the other parties, they nomin
ated candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Gov
.ernor onIy--one from the former wing, and th
other from the former democratic party,-eac
gentlemen ofthe highest reputauon--ol distinguish
ed ability and moral worth. That no seeming paI
TALLY might be thought to exist with respect t
the other parties, the convention made no nomir
aton of candidate for Treasurer Had the
done so, one of the old parties would have ha
two candidates from their former ranks, and til
other but one.
i may be well now to consider the spirit
which these nominations was met by those fror
whom they had seeded
4 Each of the other parties, soon after the al
nouncement Of the liberty candidates held CONVEX
Sons Many Of the wing party were in favor
Noptng the Liberty candidate, (Judge Williams
Retr candidate for Gov; but other counse
JAILED. and Col. Paine was adopted as the viii
date for that Office. This nomination wa
~ ohnox inns In MANY vhirs aud ;,,r,.d a n Al