Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-02-14

the guilt of slavehodng DR.. Nelson, J. G. Bir-
ney Dr.. Brisbane, and more recently, C. NJ. Clay
all in favor of the Liberty Party.
tits false that we have "openly assaulted the
constitutional rights of the slave states !"
We glory in the ''ostracsm of Henry Clay,"I
Just in proportion as he has 'ostracised" the liber-
ties of the, country and the rights of man and in
so doing we shall be upheld by the right minded
men Of the Southland we crave the appreciation
of none else.
1t is false that the L berry Party threaten war
against the shareholders soon as they get in pow
er they are pledged TO the use of peaceful means
for the abolition of that system of oppression,
which, unless thus speedily destroyed, will newt
ably wipe itself ont in blood. But why is the
Waterman editor thus Mortified at the bare thought
of II war to "secure the blessings of Liberty" Has
the story Of the Revolution been eiiaced from his
memory and is he not now reveng in the en-
joyment of privileges purchased with the blood
of his fathers And is it not true, that Gone hour"
of American oppression is worse than ages of that
sour fathers rose to suppress 7" Besides-our
nation has been plunged in fifty million war for
the support of southern slavery, without exciting
the least alarm in the heart of this leading editor
in the "true Liberty Party !"
| Neither is it true that we "scorn the aid of the
friends offreedom in the South" we cordially in
gite, and are receiUing the prayers and co-opera-
ton of multitudes there so far as they dare speak
out-while at the north our cause must be contest
ell inch by inch against those who would not only
eternize the enslavement of the blacks, but the lit
tie less severe bondage of the non-slaveholding
whites of the south, for the miserable ptance of
party supremacy. But we do scorn the "aid of the
wings aud Ioco(ocos of the north" as Wings
and locofocos;" for the history of those parties
shows their business to have been to build up just
what we wish to pull down and should they now
enlist for the overthrow of slavery they would no
longer be "whigs and Iocofocos," but Liber!v
men.
But this organ of the " true Liberty party" de-
fines the duty of anti-slavery men as follows:
" 1t becomes serious question, them for anti
slavery men-H0w can The mass of anti sLareru
men, north and SOUTH he brought into harmonious
Gction?-and we suggest, LIST, that it is mt to be
done by third party; because, by requiring the
SuClluCt Ol IODH tHtIISItu ITIllCIpeS, UIedSuTGS
and opinions, it will repel NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the
acerbity at this moment between anti slavery men
in the third party and those in the other parties;
Oh, that it may be done lrithOW a third party
witness the rapid growth Of anti slavery sentiments
both in Congress and in the state legislatures es-
pecalIy in the wing party 3D. that it is not to be
done by insisting upon unconstitutional doctrines,
upon force of arms, or compuIsion of any sort;
and 4th, that it MAY be done upon the platform of
RI ln,ri.I ,t or nj =,
sisting upon what is constltutionay and clearly
right in reference to this subj ct."
1. The " third party" cannot unite the anti
slavery men, because it requires the sacrifice of
long cherished opinions What can unste' them,
so long as they keep divided upon questions of
minor Importance? By remaining in the old par
tics, they neutraze the efforts Of each other, as
both must do the work of the slaveholers-for
should either party attempt to do ont-savery ser
vice, it would be left in hopeless minority.
2, " 1t may be done without third party"-
Tire devil may become minister Of peace-but
we shall call for the evidence before believing it.
g. The Liberty party relies upon no such means.
a. 1t may be done upon the platform of the leg
isature of Vermont aud Massachusetts, Again
we call for the evidence. For years our legisIa-
ture has been nearly unanimous in favor of anti
slavery resolutions, and what has it effected? For
years they have called upon our senators and rep
resentatves in Congress, aud they have ms often
turned their backs upon US well knowing that it
was all party freak, and meant nothing In the
emphatic language of one Of our senator's last
summer, after having made flaming ant-savery
speech, cit is very different thing to advocate
abolition at Washington from what it is in Yer
mont!" And, last winter, every member from
Vermont virtually admitted that they had no right
or desire to interfere with the subject of slavery
any where-whle they were then under instruc-
tons to do every thing in their power for its nbol
iton in the District and to break up the trade be-
tween The States Why was this? Because the
sulety Of their pro-savery party required it, PARTY
is The alpha and omega of all their movements
and let the platform of the legislature" be what
it will, the " platlorm of their hopes consists in
promoting the interests Of the party, while human
ty groanS, and
Liberty flies bleeding away"
We have no room to pursue this subject farther
at this time, but leave it for honest men to Judge
g hoto the mass of anti-slavery can be brought
into harmonious action"
0FWe deeply regret that the edict of party