Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-04-11
CORRESPONDENCE.
For The Freeman.
SOME sTRANGE INNINGS.

1. IL Is SLIdlSGs lHdL tue luudOdnt5 OF the Tree
States being more than two-thirls of the free pop
ulation of the United States, aud paying more than
two thirds of all the expenditures of Government,
should patiently suffer the people of the slave
states to rule the reost.
g. 1t is strange that we talk of free states and
imagine ourselves free, while we are in bondage
to the slave power!
s. 1t is strange that the free states have not kept
themselves free, as they might have done; but
have permitted eight slave States to be added to
the Unon
A. 1t is strange that the democrats of the free
states should have submitted to have slavehold-
, ing minority control the nomination of candidates
for President and Vice President of the United
States
5. 1t is strange that the honest lreemen OF that
party should obey the dictation of the shareholders
in convention, by voting the annexation of Texas
to the Union, when they knew it was plan to ex-
tend and perpeluate slavery!
f G. 1t is strange, that people of the free states
will remain owners of plantations and slave prop
erty in the South, and thereby keep themselves in
terested in the support ofslavery!
II - 1t Stlhl5Sj tuot Nv way ySb "NCh uCfSCh3
to discover to the full extent who thus remain own
ers of plantations and slave property in the South,
and thus support slavery from sordid interest,
while probaby they profess TO he opposed to slave
$ ry.
8. 1t is strange, that the wings should ever even
hoped much more expected, the liberty party to
\ desert their principles and their candidates, and
help elect president who was slaVeholderl
> 9. 1t is strange they should overlook other caus-
: es opposed to their success, such as Mr.. Clay
dueng, and his doing, as it were, the whole work
Of getting in Missouri and Arkansas, and charge
the liberty party with having elected Mr.. Polk,
when not probably one of that party voted for
= him!
10. 1t is strange, that many of the wings, and
wing editors, should appear almost willing Texas
, should come in, if they can throw the blame on
the liberty party, if destroying the liberty party
was favorite object
II. 1t i; strange, that all parties do not that
Texas is not annexed to the Union, and never can
be thus annexed, unless people of the free states
Join the shareholders in future action to produce
such u result!
~ - lHdl liiC pcOS III IlSO St1tC
cannot be perfectly united in opposing every pro-
jet to extend and perpetuao slavery, just as the
people in the slave states uniformly united in
promoting every such object!
IS. 1t is strange, that those who are opposed to
the annexation of Texas, do not see, that, what is
, done towards it has been done by the late admin
r islraon, with slavehoding president, elected by
|, the whigs-elected, TO be sure, as Vice President
70 but liable to climb to the grade he has been occu
plying
Ia. 1t is strange, that President Polk, should
It succeed we'll in procuring President Tyler to dc
) their dirty work
Is, 1t is strange, that the wings do not see [per.
u haps some of them do that their failing to cleo
Z their most able and most popular slave holding
" candidate, renders it morally certain that they
If never elect Shareholder for president, against TIN
/ democratic party aided by the Presidents patron
age, and against the Liberty party gaining strength
/, as people become acquainted with the evils o
slavery, and Its aggressions upon their rights
Is. ltis strange that the people of the free state
do not see, that slavery receives its support thu
\. ballot-box, and there if any where, it must NEE
ID its overthrow!
II. 1t is strange, that the people Of the fret
states do not sec and realize, that the slave state
have now twenty members of Congress, as mere
representatives Of slave property, and have gIve
twenty electoral votes for President, on account O
,r such property; and that the article in the constitu
ton which confers that privilege will remain ii
force till the extinction of slavery in The United
~ States while the free states now enjoy no priyil
10 ege as an equivalent!
10. 1t is strange, that the people of the fret
10 states do not realize that nearly half of all thu
money they pay into the post Office department
u goes to pay for carrying the mail to accommodate
the people of the slave states and that this will b
J. while slavery remains curse to the slaves and t.
e the country!
T. 10. 1t is strange, that the people Of the FREE
u states indulge the notion that the constitution sane
s tons slavery, when, in its very terms, it declare
Y, that it is formed to the blessings of liberty
IS and that person shall be deprived of his liber
=" but by due process Of law
# 90. 1t is strange, that any should suppose Con
gress destitute of power to abolish slavery, where
as, if they would repeal their own laws which sup
n port it, the institution of slavery in the United
v States would soon wther and expire
!. 81 1t is strange that any should suppose slave
q holders entitled to compensation for their slave
ID in the event of abolition; wholly forgetting, HOY
81 many times over, slaves, upon an average, hav
:, paid for themselves
lie %. 1t is strange. since the free states have al
Of ways been able to resist successfully, in Congress
< every measure for the support of slavery, no gen
l. eratonof politicians has yet arisen with courag
T. to exercise their power and defeat such measure
a %. 1t is strange, that our revolutionary father
J. should have rested satisfied with half conquest
aud left slavery, the other half, to remain curs
to after generations!
"a. 1t is strange that so many professors of rell
A gion, and ministers of the gospel should lift vi
lie their voce AGAINST other evils in society," and fea