Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-02-07
H FIR NAN.
For The freeman.
Appeal from a NOn,SIavehOIder.

in your zeal, who appreciate your motives, and
pray for your success. Do you realize it? And
do you appreciate the embarrassmonts under which
we labor! Regard us not as a set of pOltroons.
The power that has for a time crushed yourWork,
3 Burr, Thompson, Walker, Torrey, Fairbank,
Webster and others, has, and is constantly crush
ing hundreds, yea, thousands Of us. Yours are her.
aided as martyrs; we are only known abroad as
felOns. Our names and memories are associated
only with horse thieves and negrO-steGlers. II our
papers are to be believed, there exists not a spark
of true benevoIence or Christian sympathy Mt the
South. The reverse is true. There exist now &
g then, a good Samaritan even here; to this many a
refugee in Canada can testify.
But the spirit that expelled Hoar, that murder
ed Lovejoy, that rOosts slaves alive, and brands
= and pillories New EnglanderS, keeps us in check.
= The Outrages that ~transpire in our midst, fill US
with apprehension, strange ~sighings and means
float through our forests, and our blood stained
soil reluctantly yields her increase, and soon will
absolutely refuse to feed the murderers of her chill
dren. Our sky gathers blackness and strange
gleamings of vengeance, hGy-hidden, flash upon
) our U%isiOn, and to our Imagination, hot thunder
DOllS Oh WTull, ike StceuS Vi wal SdTG ueIu DUCK ny
Il an Omnipotent arm.
{ Thousands of hearts who have felt the blessings
y of freedom, in the far off Canadas, are gathering
I bIackness, as they review their wrongs, and wish
: for wives, children and friends, (now doubly dear)
: who toll in hopeless servitude. Hundreds of men
d like Madison Washington are seeking in their
9 very midst, their relatives, who have been scatter
II od Iuhilo thou nronorinO n hntna in Gannda
e Whole families and sometimes plantatiG ms of Slaves
disappear in a night. Few are recovered. Toll
on friends of Freedom! The hope Of speedy
J. emancipation is the only safety valve of the
South! Take away that hope, and the more than
human courage, that now contents itself with defy
ing the Shareholders Iegions and abdu citing slaves
by hundreds, will begin to plot destruction. Can
v ada is educating a host for a blessing or n scourge
to the South. Gods vengeance will not sleep for
ever
re Violence and outrage is aroIsing us. Toll on
We are doing what we can. Our numbers are
rapidly increasing. Your influence stimulates lis.
- But we work under-current; we are compelled to
+ do so. In most places, an open avowal Of our
" sentiments would he as perilous, as for any of you
10 dttGlIlIl u SdIIC' io Cuoy " JOu " 'O pu'
'u where odiun and rotten eggs only oppose you,
'e Come South and try it, when you begin to narve
ne at our cowardicc. Nevertheless, ! am of opinion
re that any intelligent lecturer, knoCn 10 be a Neu
Ill England abOlftionist, would be cordially heard il
ne many parts of the South. Your recreant north
Ia erners are Freedoms worst foes. You are aware
"a Of our political insignificance. Fifty of us are nj
ny match for one STAKEHOLDER with one hundred slaves
u In solne-tafts, none but shareholders are eligible
ey to any important office by law, and the three fifth
tie; representation of slaves, gives all slave states tina
ed power, and it is a power too, that is generally i'm
he proved. No amount of property, no order of tai
ey ent, no degree of merit, will raise a man to tn
ed caste of the Stakeholder. 1t is an order of nobiIi
RS. w. A companion of thieves is looked upon wit
Sc suspicion until he becomes n thief himself; then b
'ur is in full fellowship. So with Oppressors. N
100 one is to be trusted until he becomes a slavehold
ted err. Hence the readiness with which northernei
the become so: accustomed to the 'best society
rn- home, they are not to be degraded here. So the
did brutalize men, to make themselves gentlemen
nsl- Toll on! We shall speak out. Our 'under Gu
IRA rent will soon burst forth to the oPpressors col
and sternation. 1t will be a quick work when open
the begun. Smothered Indignation is slowly smOu
dering and gathering force. You have lit Il fire
~ every hamlet, and the Shareholder is tanning
Your pro-slavery parties are smothering 1t; "
atn your religious bodies are throwing luke-wat
water upon it. We grOan under the influen
Ion. of your pro-slavery religious press and PreaC
ion. ers. Would to God they were either cold or he
we're But God will 'spew them OUT Their soul-sIckt
~ ing hypocrisy is i discovering itself. Their INF
ence is waning, and soon a southern rel'g'c
full voice, a eOiee of martyrs will.convince the wo
SUI of New England Jesuitism and Puritan aposta
able TL..h ca g.. Tho rohIo oxcan,ions, their int
3 of ence is redeeming.
g as At this moment your political influence attr'
= most attention. In this you show your faith
I bad your works. You was a laughing stock in le
S not but now you are feared. 1t has this influence
thelr on non -slaueholderS, to make them feel their we
ei' ness and their wrongs. We were not represer
e the in the formation of tho constitution, ana ne
carry have been since. We are the mere tools of st
'us"' holders, and SO are our brother Wings and De
f the Gratis of the North. If we vote at all, we must
gainst for shareholders, and so must they; at least
IoIge- President and Vice President. Some of us
ed Of w SO
' call not vote at all again. u"'' we u"0 " w,
from Freedom. Some Of Us have already openly
noused her cause. Go on then, for we are {
- % In ing to your aid
t lack "Onwardl though the faithful hear
ments Ridicule and scorn must share,
- Yet by these be nothing daunted,
truth But reprOGches meekIy bear.
-
the on""ru' 'nougn a'oU"u 70 '"s"H
nciples 0ppOsition's fierce array,
their Onward! for the light is dawning
,..d, Ola bright, u glorious day.
ID / am Vice begins to fear and tremhle,
~ ~ the he p, And his fires of tary light;
d Lib March, then, fearless to the battle
y can Trusting in The God Cfright.
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