Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-06-06
TIE FIRE n N AN .
Plant as reeds where Freedoms waters glide
Firm as the hills to stem Oppresson's tide!"
MONTPELIER, VERMONT, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1915.
THE LIBERTY PARTY NOT A TEMPO
RARY EXPERIMENT.

THE LIBERTY PARTY NOT A TEMPO
RARY EXPERIMENT.
The Liberty party is the offspring Of stern ne
cessity, and having received most severe training
in the school Of adversely and trial, it has acquired
Il fixedness of purpose, an obstinucy of deternna-
ton thai nothing can overcome. Die it cannot,
for it was laid deep in the wants Of haInan nature,
and its principles find response in every emily ht
ened conscience-in every generous heart. 1t was
not The creature of moment, but the 0uthurstlng
cfnobIe feelings, that had long been pent up in the
Dosoms of few choice spirits, who had iUr years
prayed over the subject and waited anxicusIy for
Il fit time to bring out and embody those princ-
pies dearer to them than life. AT length that time
came; they saw that both parties had sold them
selges bond slaves to party and the slave power,
aud The slave had nothing to expect from either
1t was evident that so long as slave holders were
held up for Office by northern Freemen, the south
would compel both parties TO how at their dctation,
and require of them to sacrifice their own inter-
ests and the cause of freedom upon the bloody al
tar Of slavery. They saw the south uniting to n
man to protect and furty her peculiar institution,
while we at the north were divided into Two great
parties, contending with each other on minor
points and suffering the south to rule and control
the whole land. This state of things had long ex-
isted and bid fair to continue, unless something
could he done to unite the north, wrest the
sceplre FROM the hands of shareholders, and break
the last chain from the limbs Of the slave by the
same power that Ind rvitcd them on, viz. politica
action. Myron HoIey, aud Il few kindred spirits
saw that the real issue must be Slavery or Liber
IT, Neither ofthc parties made this an issue, MOI
was here prospect that they ever would. Hence
the necessity Of organizing a party on this plat
form. 1t was this necessity that called The Liber
" party into existence The lew who first laic
the corner stone, dug deep and laid it firmly upoE
the nmutahle foundation of principle and truth
With Them it was not ii mere experiment, but
living reality. They counted the cost, we'll know
. ing that 70 complete the supersirurture and tn-l
the work they had commenced, would require
years Of patient labor, bitter persecution, and tht
most self-drnyins effort.
The work has gone on slowly but powerfully
that God, no has always been the friend of TIT
oppressed and the helper of those who plead th
cause Of the poor aud the dumb is interchangeable
> The old parties have reached the acme Of thei
glory, aud are fast losing their strength an
power They have become large, corrupt, aud ia
hearted; the great mass Of the e'ple have no ron
fencc in the MORAL integrity Of ei her of the lead
ing parties, aud ser not enough difference between
them TO be worth contending about. The lihert
/ party is increasing in numbers and influence, AM
has already taken possession Of the conscience, un
has, at least, the silent approval Of nearly ever,
honest man. Who now denies the correctness o
our prnciplesi Many slave holders, even, dar
not do this. Our principles are sufficiently ex
Iensive, and the platform upon which the part!
is based is broad enough 10 embrace the who'll
north and the south, who love liberty better thai
: slavery. We expect there will be always ut leas
two parties, and our FIRST object u.s. to have som,
j test question by which we will be governed, AM
that should he the one thut most Sensibly affect
the interests OF our whole nation. Is that the ia
II riff, the bank internal improvements and lhe like
It nearly agreed that it is neatly npnssihle To get VI
! any great excitement? Is it not rather slave.
= that c0lors al Il contrnls banks tariffs Sc, and, il
, fact, holds the whole nation in lis giant gra>p?-
$ Believing this, we have made il a paramount ques
ton, and have refused To vote for any man or sup
: port any party That d 2es not first settle The ques
e ton whether slavery or freedom shall triumph
= The other parties have no foundation to rest upo
# that is enduring, for the Issue between them is i'm
: aginary and not real it is n contention abou
e measures and nor principles. Hence the old par
S ties, as they now organized, must he Thor
Y lived, and the moment this truth is fairly under
:, stood their race is run, for why should the mort
: he conending as wings and democrats, while thei
G interests are the same, and both are benefited o
injured alike by the same course of lesislation9
= The liberty party presents all issue that is tangi
It bic, and proposes TO hnrmonize our interests, b.
removing the great cause of our difficulties tn
real issue is between the north and the south--he
tween slave and free labor We go for purifying
/ the fountain, rather than dabblc forever in tn
streams that flow from it, and, like the old parties
4 never accomplish anything. Nor is the abolition
of slavery the only object Of the party for which
h was organized; for, while it makes this the mos
prominent object to he secured, yet every queStio