Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-05-02
For the Freeman
WING ABOL ITION.

For the Freeman.
WING LITION.
Our Wing friends often tell us, that if we
would secure the success of the antislavery en-
terprise, we should entrust it to the tender mer-
cies of the great wing party, to be disposed of in
due season; that is, when they shall succeed in
obtaining the control of the General Government,
and accomplish their darling object, viz the e.
lection ofthe " embodiment of wing principles"
the great Ashland Shareholder to the Presidential
chair Now all we ask as Liberty men, is to
see our way clear. And if the wings wish us to
commit our Liberty principles into their hands,
and abandon our organization as a Liberty party,
it is but just and reasonable in US to demand of
them some proof of their sincerity The expe-
rience of the past certainly furnishes no evidence
upon which to rest hope for the future; but on
the contrary, while nothing has been done for
the abolition of slavery, much has been done to
rvet its chains and extend its dominion one
slave state after another has been admitted into
the Union in rapid succession; the internal
slave trade has been permitted to exist with all
its horrors the act authorizing the recapture of
trict of Columbia and Territories sanctioned by
Congress; the disgraceful gag permitted to re-
main on the statute book; the Slave Power has
continued to monopolize the Offices ofthe nation
and all this with clear aOhig majority in the
Congress of the United States And, as if not
satisfied with this, they have capped the climax
of their subserviency by admitting Florida into
the Union, with a constitution ,torcUcr prohibit
ing the abolition Of slavery 1t certainly is fol-
ly to undertake to wheedle abolitionists into the
wing ranks, so long as their actions stand out in
bold contradiction to their professions If the
whig party has repented, as we are sometimes
told let it bring forth fruit meet for repentance
Until then, Liberty men can have no confidence
in wing professions. Many conscientious aboi
tionsts no doubt, have been induced to stay il
the wing ranks by their everlasting Professions
of antisIavery In fact, while they have beer
using every means in their power, to thwart eve
ny measure advanced by the abolitonists the,
have contrived to retain share of their supper
by promises, which, alas! have never been fulfill
ed but, on the contrary, the great mass of thu
wing party have always planted themselves il
determined opposition to the progress of the anti
slavery cause; and the handful of daring spirit
who have faced public opinion, labored hard AM
long, shoulder to shoulder in the strife have bee
met at every step by circumstances, threats, de
nunciations, rdcule and personal violence, fror
leading wAigs as well as democrats Every e
fort which has been made by them to arous
the northern freemen and churches to a sens
of their duty to the slave, has had to encounte
a torrent of abuse and SANDER from large POI
ton of the members of the wing party. If tn
shafts aimed at them from the democrats hay
been unceasing and poisonous, those from ii
wings have been cloaked, but none the le
deadly. The spirit of bitter opposition to evel
measure proposed, manifests itself every day. al
is familiar to all. If speaker is procured
visit the towns and talk to the people, for Il
purpose of rousing them to action on this subjec
bitter and deadly spirit of persecution is at on
aroused and put in motion by leading membe
of both the parties, his personal character is a
sailed his name backened, suspicious rumou
thrown upon the wings of SANDER, Investigate,
shut out, and every possible means taken to re
der the subject unpopular, and keep the ma
ofpeople ignorant. Likewise if leading VIII
newspaper dares to utter sentiments which a
considered dangerous to the interests Of the pt
ty south Of Mason's and Dixon's line, he is
once threatened with the "party bull of exec
muncaton," and dashed back into allegiance
the slave power. AS an illustration some al
cles have lately appeared in the N Y. Tribu
and Albany Evening Journal, which are l
quite so palatable to southern wings as usu
what is the result! Southern prints copy a
cry, treason northern wing papers are offend'
and Mr. Greeley quietly puts the matter to r
by saying in his paper of April 10, As to
clifton and annexation, on which the Cour
vents its spleen, it is untrue that any party
journal here has ever sought to engrah them
the principles of the wing party, though host
y 70 the extension of slave territory and ncre
OF Slaveholding power in our country is ser
ment which very generally prevails in the
states and ought to prevail. Ii cannot be ms
the pretext for fsud in the Wing party" HI