Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-08-28
From the Boston Morning Chronicle.

THE GREAT LIBERTY CONVENTION.
In to-day's paper will be found the call or in
vitation for IA liberty Convention, to be compos-
ed Of delegates from New England, New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, to meet in Bos-
ton, on Wednesday, the first day Of October
next. The expediency of holding convention
and the time and place for its assemblage, have
been determined upon after a comparison of all
the opinions drawn from an extensive correspon-
dence with many leading friends of Liberty in
Ohio, and other States These questions being
settled, it only remains to ask, Shall we have a
Convention worthy of the Crisis and the Cause
The Liberty party was formed to promote the
prime object announced in the declaration Of
sentiments adopted by the convention which Or
gained the American Anti Slavery society; the
sholition of slavery by moral and political ac-
as This Is It's ayowed, its real object. 1t
IS party of zone idea'-sn idea whose scope is
too large to be grasped by any other existing po-
litical party in the nation. This idea is the
bond Of its union, the secret of its strength
To abandon it, to comminge it with other ideas
would dissolve the uniting tie of the tried and
determined band, which, in a dark hour, staked
their ill upon the delverance Of three millions
of American slaves from cruel bondage, and
the whole American people from their foulest
shame, their deadliest curse
The object to be secured and the mode a
dopted by the Liberty party for its accomplish
ment may challenge the loftiest reach ofphllan-
thropy, the broadcast scope of craftsmanship. The
basisDf that party furnishes platform on which
all true friends of the slave, who have faith in
human agency for the attainment ofhuman ends,
mustrally. Those protested enemies Of slavery
whocann stand on this basis, possess few ele-
ments, mental or moral, which can be made a.
vailable for ultimate success in our undertaking,
AS they may regard this basis as too narrow or
| too broad, too exclusive or too general, SO will
their principles and measures be found in prac-
tce either too ETHEREAL for mortal use, or too
temporzing to endure the trials which the re-
form will encounter at every step of its progress
To its zone idea, then, etthe Liberty party adj
here Cling to II, and the cause is safe-aban-
don it, and all is lost Though our immediate
progress will be apparently slow, our final tri-
umph will be certain and complete, Nor is the
horizon of the Liberty movements even now des'
titute of bright signs of promise, Never has the
anti-savery sentiment had so strong hold upon
the public conscience, as at this hour Directly
and Indirectly, in the church and in the state, st
the North and at the South, by the fleeing ofthe
fugitive and the trembling of the opprcssor, We
dsco9er pregnant indications that the day of the
Slaves redemption draweth nigh. And is this
the time to falter, in the attack-ths the spot tc
change the order of battel Mol Our party re-
Gently passed through the ordeal which tried it:
principles and tested its policy. The trial Qnt
the test compacted its ranks and inspired its
courage. Its heart is sound, purpose mistaken.
The campaign of I84S has been opened with
series of conventions distinguished for theil
wisdom, ability and enthusiasm. To give al
impulse to movement so noby begun, grea
convention for the eastern and middle States wal
projected, and is now formally invoked. The
names appended to the invitation, have long beer
familiar to the aboitionists of the Union. W.
speak but the unanimous sentiment Of our friends
when we say, that their call will be as cheerful
ly responded to, as it is heartily uttered Maine
| the vanguard State, bordering on those domin
ions whose soil will not bear the foot print of
save--she will come. New Hampshire, though
disgraced by the rule of politicians whose prof
legacy will hardly find aparalle in the annals o
party, yet the banner State--she will come.--
Vermont, whose Independent sons are as free a
their own mountain air, and whose laws neye
recognized the relation Of master and slave---sht
will come. Rhode Island, where civil feud
have too long stAed the cry of crushed millions
will send her aboitionists of by-gone days to re
new their pledges at the altar of humanity---sh
will come. Connecticut, the land of stead
habits, slow to change even from wrong to right
furnishing some of the choicest spirits in tn
Liberty host---she will come New York, from
the quays of her commercial emporium, and tn
banks of her Hudson, from the meanderng line
of her canals and the fertile plains which bord
er her lakes---New York, ever foremost in tn
conhct---she will come. New Jersey, protest
ing against that broad seal which covers thou
sand slaves, and those Judicial Pharaohs VIII,
will not let the oppressed 90 free--she will come
Pennsylvania, repudiating the domination OF rul
ers who cant of democracy and practice tyran
ny, and emulating the prccepts and example 0
her great founder---she will come. So, too, w
hope that Ohio, Michigan and the States still
beyond, will not stay behind. As to the Libert
men of our own Massachusetts, we will pledg
our faith that they will be present in large mum
bers, and with an open hand and CLOWN
heart, welcome to their world-renowned Fan
euil Hall their brethren from the other States @
the Union.