Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-17
The Dnties Of American Frcemen.

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TEEN that the government is organized to give
force and relief to this truth, and create and fash
ion for it such securities it may need. The |
equal natural rights of men to freedom is moi only |
great truth, but it is fundamental principle OF
our institutions.
propose to list That SLAVERY IS
SYSTEM WHICH Is THE IMPLAcABLE FOE OF DA-
NoCRATIc INSTITUTIONS.
The fundamental principle of the save-holdng
creed is, that man can be the property ofhls fellow
slave is one who is in the power of master
to whom he belongs. The master may sell him,
dispose Of his person, his industry, his labor he
can do nothing possess nothing, nor acquire any
thing, but what must belong to bis mHser"-CivlI
Cole of Louisiana, art 35. The codes OF DINER
States are similar One can easily perceive thai
the power which the master claims over LIS slave
is absolute, and aHnihllates, in the contemplation
ofthe conferred, the personal rights OF the slave
But the conferrer Of the absolute title is the LAW
1t takes up with as mnch thoughtessness as you
would eat your breakfast, one mans rights, ana
gives them absolutely to another man, with all
the appurtenances thereunto belonging" such as
eyes, cars, mouth, teeth, arms, legs, feet muscles,
and nerves to match. One can also perceive that
his despotiC dealer in human liberty not only
strips man of his personal lights hut also trans
fers along with them The property rights OF a hu-
man being. Now, want to put Il questionto you,
IT you are brave man, you VIII answer 1t at me
ballot box,-Can government: OF statute OF
legislature, which rohs the innocent weak man OF
his rights, to gve1 additional strength to the lD'cf-
ed strong man, be, with propreIy, called demo-
cratic government, or republican law +? What say
you Yet such is slavery and sIave-holdns legiS-
laton; and such Is our government, ms 1t has beeR
administered
If understand rightly the object of democratic
or republican goYernment,-such as poor and Ia
boring men want, and shall yet have, in this land,
it is, in chief, to project men in kerr righlS.-
Rights come from God, and precede all conAitu-
Of how
the moral nature ofnan. God has iven 10 man
moral faculties, and insists upon a moral charac-
ter. To answer the demand, man must have the
right to action Co-eXtensiVe with tile claim to obe-
dience The interference of governments can law
fully extend no further than to simple projections
and thus far it for while il is true that G cd
has given to all menequa natural rights, he has
furnished no one with adequate individual securl-
ties, but has made each dependent upon his iel-
lows; thus laying the foundation of democratic
government in individual bel plessness and mutual
wants.
In tho next place, as men do not derive their
RIGHTS from government, but it derives its au-
thory from them, it follows that government
cannot he democratic, but must be Hrlsocratlc,
which expends its tayors, or dshurses its proter-
ton, with reference to any qualities which in their
nature are extrinsic to the MAN. AS for instance,
riches or poverty beauty or ugness, education or
iteracy, equivocal parentage or iustrious anccs-
try, birth in America or in Ireland, wilderness or
bluckness of skin, can form reason for draw
ing distinctions in constitutional rights, political
privileges, orlegal protection. If distinctions are
drawn aud sanctioned by government, it is arts
tocratc to the degree it does so if 1t extends its
principles of castles to the destruction of personal
rights, il IS despotic Now, slavery sweeps the
whoIecrcle, destroys personal rights and political
existence and ,Fas far as it has power, wages I'M
rclenting war with republican freedom.
Proposition ed. THAT SLAVERY is POLITICAL
1T.
NATURE, WELDING THE POLITICAL POWER OF THE
COUNTRY TO ITS ADVANTAGE, AND USING, AS ITS
TWO GREAT AGENTS, THE Wing AND DEMOCRATIC
PARTIES
In illustration of this propositions shall oflt
two classes of tactS-one class;of legal character
the other class of monetary character.
|. AT the formation Of the Constitution, lht
shareholders obtained monopoly of the traffic il
slaves for nineteen years During this period
from 1889 to 1908, the trade was carried on more
hrskIy than BEFORE in order that the slaye-holdinI
States might be able to set up business at home
thus transferring the Guinea coast from Africa tt
the District of Columbia, and the trade in pure
negroes to their own sons and daughters.
@ The shareholders obtained, under plea o
offset to the advantage derived by the North il
the Senate, from the smaIIncss of their States,
representation of their slave population, by whicl
under the first appointment of representatives
which lasted from 1889 to 1898, they secured sevc
congressman more than they would have been en-
titled to underan equal representation, based upo
white population alone. Under the second whic
lasted from 1908 till 1918, they had sixteen con
gressmen more than an equal representation, foun
ded upon white population, would have given them
Under the third which went to 1928, they gaine
twenty two congress Under the fourth
which went to 1893, they had twcnty-four con
gress men. Under the fifth, which went to l84S
they had twenty-five congress men more than the
would have had under an equal representation has
cd On W spp he 81
holders have welded upon the floor Of Congress
an enormous political force since the commence
ment of the government
8. In the earlier part Of the government, II
slaves were mostly coIored FREE coored me
were, therefore, the especial objects Of hatred
shareholders (; so in 1870, they pushed Congre'
into most barbarous policy list III cXcludr
all coored foreigners from ever being nuturall.
ed; 2a In 1892, passing an act by which all co
ored men were prohibited from being enrolled
the militia Sd. In 1793 in passing the horrib
law, by which every foot of soil at the North, WI
made legitimate race ground for the hume
lood-hound and making it the duty every sta
officer to help when called upon 18th. 1910,
passing an act by which no cotored man can carr
the mall or be employed as drieer on coat
that carries it under penalty of fifty dollars.
4. In 1903, the shareholders took MIR JeferSt
in hand, and under ii preteXt of securing FRI
navigation ofthe Mississippi, made him violate b
principles of constitutional constructon-and pu
chase from Bonaparte The territory which Fran
had acquired from Spain in 1900, known under Il
name of the Territory of Louisiana. Wheth
political sc snags " would have been found in Il
Mississippi, had Banaparte retained the terrtor
is unknown. But by the purchase, we have g
saddIed on to us four States, with power in co
gress of eight in the Senate, and fourteen IN L
House, which, added to the twenty four now the
as the peculiar representatives of the slave powt
makes a power Of one sirth the Nhole power
Congress in both Houses,
5,In 1921, in defiance of their own doctrine
''imped faith" they secured the admission
Missouri as a SIGue State into the confederac
under threat of dissolution Of the Union.
have thus grouped together facts sufficient
satisfy any candid man that the slave power is
political powor, welding the national goyernne
for its own purposes, now propose TO brinI fc