Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-10-23


spirit, as if the outrage were upon ourselves
g. Slavery controls and shapes the policy Of the Coz
ernen That it does So is accounted for both by the
graspng and aggressive disposition of slavery and by
the fact, that however much shareholders may divide
on other questions, they promptly and perfectly unite
when summoned to the service of their "pecuiar in
stitution." This power to unite its uphoders makes
slavery an overmatch for the far greater numerical
strength of the North-that strength being divided
amongst various interests and those interests instead
of identifying themselves their schemes and hopes of
prosperity with truth and righteousness being busy in
counting the slave power Hence Is it. that those in
teress, whether commercial, manufacturing agricultu
rail- political, or ecclesasica-and especially such of
them as the free labor of the free North is most con-
cerned n-a lie at the mercy of slavery. The North
in word has sunk herself into the servant of the
SOuth-a servant of how base spirit may be judged
from the fact that when her eminent citizens are, for
no crime expelled from the South, she murmurs but
family and briefly: and that when her ever amented,
aye4~elnembered. and ever prayed for, Fouey, and
other OF her phanthropsts, are for no crime, cast IN
to the dungeons of the South she murmnrs not at ALL
Whether of Presidents, Heads Of Departments, Fed
eral Judges Representatives at Foreign Courts, or
whether Of Military and Naval officers, the South,
Notwithstanding her very inferior numbers claims, and
gets the Lions share The South, coyeting the lands
ofthe Cherokee and other aboriginal tribes, makes the
North join her in driving them, at the point of the bay
onet, from much loved homes and still more loved
graves. The South, determined to cut off from her
oppressed children every refuge, makes the North join
in the bloody work of cxpellng and eXterminatng the
Florida Indians. And after all the additional territory
that had been given up to the dominion of slaves by
the purchase of Louisiana and Florida; and after
all the superatively guilty violence done to the Con-
stuton, to humanity and religion, by subectng that
territory to that cruel and murderous dominion; the
South has just now succeeded in making the North
believe, that slavery must be kept alve-and, that
to keep it alive it must be suffered to spread itself over
all Texas, and much more of Mexico as the South
may choose to call Texas For all this increased room
demanded by slavery the North must pay, and when
required, must fight
4. Our hope IS, that this nation may evT enOy and
far perfectly H2a noe republican forms ofgovcr1l
ment But, this hope will not be realized, if slavery
shall much longer hinder the growth and spread of
intelligence. 1t has already come to pass that, in the
Southern half of this Nation, more than half of the
adults cannot read. So far too are the upholders of
slavery from being alarmed at this ignorance that they
rejoice in it. the most essential prop of the SYSTEM
which prefers darkness rather than light few years
ago, the boast made on the floor of Congress, that
there was not one newspaper printed in all that part
of proud Virginia, which the boaster represented
s. This Nation, to lag the Foundations Of rhich cost
our fathers much blood and treasure; and for the pros
parH Of tchich many good Of Successve genera
UOIS HUe OlteU anu Tuyeu, ICE COuu HUe pelctuuteu
But Shareholders men of robbery, and violence
and blood and therefore, whilst this nation Cherishes
in her bosom hundreds of thousands Of them it will be
impossible for her to enjoy the respect Of the other
nations Of the earth, and difficult to maintain peace
with them. If too, she should be left to struggle in
war for her continued existence what clog upon her
energies, what an enemy in her camp, would she find
her slavery If, in the American Revolution, and
when American slavery comparatively in its nfan-
rl,11oG NtnE1 Ill
for the assigned reason that they were required at
home to prevent the revolt of her slaves if at such
time and in such circumstances slavery could be the
occasion of so much peril to National existence,
what might it not prove to be now when the number
Of our slaves has increased five fold, and when our
shareholders care much less to preserve the Nation
than to preserve slavery
OBTAINING you no longer with reasons, why slavery
should be abolished, and why you should help abolish
it. we proceed to another branch of our subject and
assert, that it right to begin at the North the work
of overthrowng Southern slavery.
We will, in this connection, show how entirely I'M
founded the objections to the Nohh's concerning
herself with slavery. These objections are
1st IHot The South needs no aid in The ,cork ordding
herself Of Saue-tm her o,en ,esdom md justice and
mercy sufficient for this great tpOh The subjects Of
vice not the first to assa it. If drunkards shall
take up and consummate the temperance reformation,
they who are not already benghted and corrupted by
slavery, must make the first movement towards its
overthrow. But why hope that the south would make
such movement? Such movement has already
been made;-and so far is the south from falling in
with it, that she is still at work, not to contract but to
extend slaverynot to throw it down, but to build it
up. The first step towards destroying slavery is the
discussion Of its character and remedy; and not even
this step will the south consent to have TAKEN 1t has
been conended, that they object to such discussion
only when carried on by other than their own citizens
But, we have recent and very signal instance, IN
which the right of such discussion is denied by them
to Of their own ctizens-and this, too, n0twlth-
standing, that he, to whom it is Denied has all the in
huence which wealth and talents and fame confer; and
Notwithstanding also that this denial takes place in
State where slavery is said to be rejected and explr
ing rather than cherished institution Moreover il
is noteworthy, that many distinguished men were Of
the mob which enforced this denial and that wings
were as numerous democrats in it, although the OBJ
iect Of its vengeance is whig-a whlg, too, who has
rendered unwearled magnanimous, and effective ser
vice to his party-and although the Whig doctrine al
the north is that wings every where are lawabiding
that wings at the north anti slavery and wings at
the south but slightly pro-savery.
The other, and only other material objection to the
norh's concerning itself with slavery s-that the NORTH
is already sound on the subject Of Slavery But not tc
say that the more sound on this subject, the
more are our abors against slavery needed, we will
present few facts to show that the north is exceed
ingy unsound on it,
The people of the north should not be regarded as
deeply hostile to slavery long they uote for slave
holders 1t would be very wrong to say that they who
vote for sheep thieves and horse thieves abhor sheer
stealing and horse stealing But clearly it is not les:
wrong to say that they abhor man-stealing who vote
for man thieves And why should the people of the
north be regarded as thorough haters Of slavery, SC
long as they form parties either ecclesiastical pot
ca, with shareholders; or so long as they welcome
shareholders to their pulpts? Why, indeed, should {
strong anti slavery sentiment be ascrbed to the north
em States so long slavery fingers in some of them
and so long too these relics Of slavery call forth NJ
rebuke from the other States of the north? How little
sympathy is manifested, even in the northern States
with the vigorous and praisewothy efforts of our dis
tinguished fellow citizen to make New Jersey fret
State? How deeply disgraceful to her, and to thu
whole north, that she should remain slave State!
In its various prosecutions and expressions of thu
free people Of color have another and not less con
elusive reason for saying, that the north chershes nj
deep hatred of slavery. The south has two doctrines