Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-06-20
PATRONIzE LIBERTY PAPERS.

Liberty party-that is, agree that slavery is the
great scourge Of the nation-lhat its direct support
is derived from the national sanction it receives ut
the ballot box, aud that this support should be i'm
nedately Withdrawn; but multitudes of them are
hndered from acting with US, and their influence
desroyed-yes more than destroyed-cast into
the scale with the oppressor-by the misrepresen-
latons, faIsehoods and forgNrics of pro-slavery
papers. Our principles are misrepresented; our
measures are falsely spoken of; the filth of the pit
EAST upon our prominent men: and mutudes
Of honest-hearted abolltlonists, who have lacked
the nerve TO discontinue their prO-savery papers,
and who were too poor to take liberty paper in
addition, have been led to hesitate to doubt--and
finally, to half believe, that " Birney is loeo
foco;" that call our leaders are whigs;" that we
Fam at violation of the constitutions" "seek the
destruction of the sabbath, church and ministry"
or Contemplate union of church and state:"
and thus they are lued in the lap of willing igno
rance-their money is poured out to reward these
pensoned libeers, to elevate oppressors to power,
to destroy our liberties, to crush humanity and dis
honor God. why is this? You would not patron
izc the rum-seller, the gambler, or the brotheI-
keeper, because it would he encouraging him tn
his iniquity. And why patronize those presses
that are in the service of the wholesale gamblers
and brothe-keepers of the south? Why not be-
stow your support upon those presses that need
your assistance in difusing light upon this al-lm-
porlant suhject-to arouse the nation to sense of
its danger and duty?
In less than two weeks the new postage law
goes into effect; and it has occurred to US that
some subscribers to Liberty papers might be in
duced to discontinue the same, and subscribe for
are, to save postage. We hope not. Why should
f you? The principles they advocate are wide as
the polls from what you believe to be right; aud
can you be innocent in assisting to disseminate
them, to save few cOppers? BY so doing, you
do an incalcuahle wrong-to YOURSELF by hiring a
jack O. lantern to misIead YOU to the press you
patronze, by encouraging it to scatter ialsehood
to the Liberty press, by Gripping its means to do
good; to The slave, by perpeuatng his thraldon
and to God, ty mbrutiDg his image.
TO THE READERS OF THE STANDARD.
Dear brethren: We have at least ten thousand
men in Maine, who agree in sentiment with the
: Liberty party. All these have not yet come to the
| polls but are ready TO vote 'n,r time" The
r. whole ten thousand do not take two thousand
anti-slnvery papers, Of every kind. EIGHT
ITHOUSAN abOlltlOnists Of this State either
read pro-savery papers, or none at all. And do
! we wonder thar many Of them stay away from
the polls? Think Oft, Liberty men Eight thou
sand OF liberty loving brethren without liberty
> paper! And do you believe, that at this moment
f The abnlitnniss of Maine read aud pay for more
anti sIa Tho I
dScloses our wickrdness. What! support pro-
slavery papers May we not as well buy aud
work and whip and sell slave, declaring the act
E to be out of kindness and benevolence, performed
for bis good, as papers that support the Whole
system of anti-Savery action while we profess to
be friends OF the slave? What can be more in
consistent, except it be to elect veholIingruers
or support pro-savery ministers or churches, or
fellowship slaveholding professionalism to sup
port papers whose Influence goes for slavery
Think of it as we may, the principal instrument
tulites now employed in sustaining the institution
of slavery the pro-Savery presses of the north
Individual opinions on this great subject de-
rived mostly from our circulating intelligence.
Many suppose that most of our popular senti-
ments are derived from the pulpit. But the fact
is, that ministers quite as often take their opinions
from the papers us the papers do from them, espe-
ciaIly on subjects of national character. If the
press is corrupt it must be reformed This can
not be done while reformerS pa1der 10 The cOrrup-
ton.
Withdraw support from licentlous presses and
their wunt0n attack upon moral enterprises will
cease at once. Let every temperance man in the
State order his paper to lie stopped at the first APP
penrauce of sympathy for the enemies Of temper
ance and opposition to The blessed cause, and the
squeamshncss and fears for the good effects of
wholesome LAW will no longer disgrace some of
our craven spirited political papers. And let ev-
cry abolitlonlst send home his Pro-savery paper
to the editor, with Stop my paper written upon
it, and that opposition would quail and expire un-
der such an indignant and combined frown of pub
lie opinion as speedily as the overseer's garb was
Torn from the humbIed and degraded Wise and
Marshall by the whitening rebuke of the venerable
Adams
know Of one town in this State that cast over
, fifty votes in 1S49 Unpaid lahorers from neigh
! boring towns had done the work. No liberty pa
per goes there, and, left their resources, in 1914,
their vote fell of more than one half Cause: they
read proslavcry papero-0nd may as well buy
and whip saves, for the purpose of abollshlng
t slavery.
/ know another town where there was an active
anti-slavery society Of, think, $50 members ten
years ago--und the number that pro ie.s those doc
D rnes has increased there, since, yearly. Sill,
t their strength lies comparatively dormant for the
want of supply Of Liberty papers to elicit and
concentrate it to the polls. Two Liberty Stan
i dards, believe, are taken in that town now-and
let ne ask those two good brethren-who will
4 know to whom reier--what are all your christian
anti-slavery neighbors with their large farms and
beautiful stock, and thousands at interest, doing
for the hapess save' You will answer, praying.
Good But faith only, is good for nothing. Add
u to it kn0wtedgR and WorkS that will praise you
Pray you tcU for the slave if you desire his free
$ don-but cork you must if he ever obtains it,
, Wake up, brethren stir round little and you
can get fifty subscribers to the Standard in single
- week-and stop a. least score Of prO-savery pa
}, pers. Let not B. wait for A. to start.
f know another town that had rs Liberty voters
in it last fall, and the question was sent TO them,
can you not do something more for the Standard?'
= AT first they said they could rot; as they were
h then taking IL or IA copies but little mutual
! effort increased the list in few days TO 25. One
- brother was asked why he took the Mirror pa
per that he knew was doing more against our
cause in this State Than the abest, warmeSt, bold
d esl open advocate Of slavery could possibly do
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