Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-10-08
VOL III, NO, AL,
Anti-sIavery.
Facts in the Texas Iniquitv.
ET.4bStracted from The Esser Transc7IDt

earnestly their warning voices against It, 1hey
laid the facts of the case before the people, and
called upon them to resist this Infamous design
of the Slave Power
The Wing press was silent on the subject, or
if it spoke at all condemned the " agitation"
With the single exception of the Essex Gazette,
then edited by gentleman who is now an ac-
tive member of the Liberty Party, we can call
to mind no Wing paper in Massachusetts which
spoke out manlulIy and Gearlessly on the right
side
The Wing Governor of Massachusetts Ed
ward Everett in his message in 1885 misrep-
resented and abused the opponents of Slavery
and Texas annexation. defended the South apol-
ogscd for Slavery, and ended by suggesting that
abolltionists might be indicted at common law?
The next year the leading Wing editors lawyers
and merchants Of Boston held their great meet
ing IN FaneuiI Hall to put down aboIiton,' at
the very moment when the sIave-power was ex-
erting itself most strenuousIy for the annexation
of Texas Utterly disregarding the warning of
the venerable John @. Adams on this subject,
the talent, political influence and wealth of the
Wing party of Massachusetts,, were engaged in
mighty and imposing effort to crush down the
anti-slavery spirit of the North Close upon the
Faneuil Hall meeting came the great Boston mob
of " gentlemen of property and standing" Law
was Frustrated by the claw and order" party =
abotionists were hunted like wild beasts in the
great Wbg metropolis What was done in
Boston was done in New York and Philadelphia
and in all our principal towns and cities
Encouraged by these demonstrations Of North
ern servity and Gupidity the slave holders urged
on their Texas plot Legislature after Legsla-
ture in the South, demanded annexation, and
, called upon the government to effect it without
delay. The hunted and prescribed abolitonistsr
in the year 1886 and 81, toiled night and day
in the circulation of petitions against the iniqui--
ty. The Central Committee at New York un-
dertook the Herculean task of rousing the nation
against the extension Of Slavery, They sent
their letters and circulars into every nook and
corner Of the free States, urging in terms of in
tense energy the work Of circulating ant-Texas
memorials and through sun and storm, heat and
cold, men and women midst jeers, insults and
violence, went forth IN their patriotic errands,-
: They poured into Congress hundreds of names
against the plot They urged through cold I'M
willing Legislatures remonsrances against it
The result is known. They Texas plotters at
that time failed The array of anti-Texas me-
MORALS staggered Martin Van Buren, and com
= PEELED him to reject the oyertures Of the Slave
Power
i But the south persisted in demanding Texas
- At the next presidential election, the wings wera
successful Van Buren, was repudiated II.
> had refused to open .he door of the Union I,
p Texas, and the south abandoned him. The,
- therefore turned to " Harrison and Tyler too"
=, Gen. Harrison commenced his administration By
= declaring that the schemes of those who were
: seeking to legslate for the District of Coumbia
the great market for slavery, should "never be
rcaized' through his agency. In the same in
5 augural message, the wing president, so far from
, condemnng the Texas plot and encouraging the
north TO resist it, condemned the whole anti
slavery movement as the "certain harbinger of
dsunion, violence, and civil war;" and pronounc-
y ed the simple agitation Of the question product
i've of no other consequences than bitterness, al
= lenation and discord. The whig cabinet, unde
: Gen. HARRISON was composed of shareholders
. and proslaery men. In the case of the post
iHdSltI genera WHO, from HIS IOCdllOn ana dSSO-
Citations, was suspected of entertaining antislave-
ry views, the president required him to say that
he was no abolitionist, and that if he ever should
y become one, he should deem it sufficient
ground for his removal from office All this
the whig press of the north openly or tacy APP
Il proved. Well might the Texas plotlers take
e courage. The wings had now majority in
tb,, ,lJ
n ty to close the door against the extension of
Q slavery! MOI they had other work on hand
If They were engaged in electioneering for Henry
!, Clay-the worker Of the mighty mischief of The
l. Missouri compromise-the man who lad stolen
: from Liberty her boundless birthrght domain,
o stretching westward to the sunset, giving thereby
o to slavery loose rein and free course from the
c Atlantic to the Pacific In vain did the friends
of freedom knock at the doors of Wing Con-
Il gress thus occupied. The plot progressed I'M
l., der the auspcies of Tyer-that miserable Vir-
1t ginla negrotrader who had been placed upon the
o whig ticket for no other reason under heaven
than that he was a STAKEHOLDER and an enemy to
Y freedom.
/ The wing candidate for the presidency in
l. stead of repentng of his objectionable sin against
" humanity in the admission of Missouri as a slave
/ state, in public speech to the wings of Geor-
e gia, made at the very period when the south
e were vigorously moving for wider extension of
t, slavery, publicly avowed his agency in carrying
e that institution across the Mississippi, and actu-
d ally gloried in the infamous transaction. On
e the subject Of Texas he at first expressed him
of self in a guarded manner as opposed to annexa-
n ton But in few months, after the democrats
a. of the south had defeated Van Burens renomina-
w ton, and dictated terms to the vanquished de-
to mocracy of the north on this question, he de-
clared, in letter to gentleman in Alabama.
-, that he should be governed if elected, by the
" state of facts and he state OF public opinion ex-
n isting at the time he might be called upon 10 act