Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-07-17
TExAs-.-wHAT IS TO RE DONE 2

Texas IS not yet 10 the Union. The TACT that
ler congress has consented to the annexation plan
by our government, does not complete
he scheme Further action on the part of Texas,
and deeper disgrace our part, if possible, must
be had before the work is perfected
The Congress of Texas has consented to come
into the Union on the terms proposed by our gov
ernment The next step will be, for the people of
Texas to call convention to prepare consttu-
ton for their State, which must be submitted to
vote of the people if approved, then she will knock
at the door of our Congress for admission as a
State, where final action in the case will be taken
There is little ground to hope that the Infamous
scheme will be arrested at any of these stages,
considering the humiliatins and disgraceiul eX-
tremties to which the government party have gone
to secure this end-and especially, considering
the unanimity with which both wings and demo-
Gratis, at the last session of Congress inscribed the
bloody star Of Florida upon our national flag. In
deed, the opposition OF the wings appears to be
subsiding. The Boston Atlas, and other kindred
papers, which last summer clamored the oudest
for dissolution of the Union in case of amexa-
ton, announced the passage Of annexation rcsolu
lions by the Texan Congress without word of
remonstrancc or regret. The Hon r. c. Winthrop,
a wing representative in Congress from Boston,of
the Atlas stamp, in speech upon the 4th inst,
said
CAT this moment there is now assembled a con-
yention in Texas which will this day, in all prob
ability, add another star to the Union. He could
not say he was prepared to rejoice very warmly in
such an event, but if it occurred, he would receive
the new State with the feelings of an American
Citizen whose duty it is not only to stand by his
country as it is now, but to stand by his country
as it hereafter may be. This was the feeling
he would cherish and incucate with regard
to Texas, Oregon, or other accessions Of new
States, and he concluded with the following
Our Counry--Bounded by the St. Johns and
the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded, or de-
scrihod, and be the measurement more or less
still our country; to be cherished by all our hearts,
and defended by all our hands,
This, we apprehend, will be the wing doctrine
generally. Their opposition has all been spent
upon the question of anneXation-and when this
is accomplished, their opposition ceases They
have no antj-slaOery power. 1t would be destruct-
i've of the vital principles gifts existence, for the
wing party to wage a W3r against Texas Slavery
Texas once admitted, the wings are as much
bound to fellowship her slavery, as the slavery of
Kentucky. And there is nothing in the principles
or practice OF the wing party to prevent its bring
ing out the bIoodest wing slave holder in all Tex
as, as a candidate for the next Presidency, and
trumpeting him through the land as the "enbodi-
men of its principles"
Not so with the Liberty Party We are ready
to wage an eXterminating war against the bloody
beast of American slavery, with or without the
''lue horn" of Texan oppression engralted upon
it-ond as sure as there is potency in the weapons
of Truth and Righteousness, we 1vW achieve The
uictorY We have the moral power to accomplish
this hrrculean task, and can undertake the work
with clean hands. Had we listened to the Deilah-
song of the wings during the late Presidential
campaign-hugged American slavery to our bo-
soms for the faint hope of keeping out Texas
which hope, as the sequel has shown, would have
been as a SPIDERS web; what would have been our
present position !! PROSTATE before the throne of
slavery, our garments saturated with the blood Of
its victims, how could we have arisen and taken
hold Of those immutable truths which are mighty
to the pulling down of the strong holds of cruelty
our integrity, and turned not to the right hand or
left; and arc now readyas feeble instrnmentaIlties
to 'make even the wrath of man to praise Him. .
If cruel and wicked men have sought to extend thu
bloody mantle of slavery over the vast territory Of
Texas, we will seXtend the area of freedom b,
procaiming a jubilee emancipation Throughout
all her borders, and causing her broad fields t,
blossom as the rose at touch Of the wand of free
labor industry. Ifthey have sought, by the acqusl
ton of Texas, to strengthen the vile system of A
mcrican slavery,we will welcome the hydra-head
ed monster to the certain encounter of Truth ant
Fasehood, and will level to the earth her doubl.
: fortified throne of human skulls
Do not be disheartened if Texas is brought int
; the Unicn. The more need of frmness. Do no
, think of giving up. Giving up? What would
be to GIVE UP! What is the alternative of per
seyerng in the Liberty cause? SLAVERY; if no
for ourselves, for our posterity If Texas is ad
mted, and represented in our Congress, the FIRE
Il States will still have controlling majority in tina
+ body; and the popular vote Of Texas is more tina
equalled by single years increase of the Llbert
Il Party. Look at the rapid progress our principle
+, are making in Kentucky, Virginia, North Carroll
ma and Tennessee: are we not gaining more tha
I we are Ioosing? And remember, too, that the ad
dtion of Texas to the slayeocracy, is but an add
d ton to the Thousand that can be chased by 'oNE,
and the ten thousand that can be put 10 fight b.
two Courage, then, friends
MAINE.--The Liberty State Convention a
Portland on the Sd and 4th inst, was well attend
Il ed, and 'most harmonious, efficient, powerful
: conventions Gen. Appleton declined the nomn
: alton of Governor, and Gen. Samuel Fessende
o was unanimously nominated. The Boston Chron
y ice says:
c "No more worthy nomination could be mad
IS than that of Gen. Fessenden. At the head of tn
bar in his State, an exemplary Christian deyo'
. ed philanthropis fearless advocate of all the OF
pressed, from the beginning identified with the al
+ slavery cause, we agree with the Liberty Stanc
y ard, that sit is an honor to our cause and to tn
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