The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-03-21
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The last "Grccn Mountain Freeman comes
out upon the Calcdonian in connection with
some other true Anti slavery Wing papers Of
the State, and assails as with n moroscn ness of
disposition and spirit plainly evincing that
it does ii under the influence of the lashcs Of
guilty conscience, in spirit and manner like
its late attack upon large class of the best &
most intelligent clergymen oft the State because
they have too much piety and philanthropy TO
countcnance the schemes ofthe Sd party lead
crs for disturbing religious communities and
fleeing the people. For its hard words we
care MS much as we should for the loquacious-
ness of any common street slanderer.
But there il an allusion to the Cnledonian
as among the "serriio tools Of the STARE po'rcr,
which we viii briefly notice II 10 a libcl,and
we place il upon the forehead ofits authors q
it will stick there till they repent of and re-
tract IT, An who know us, and all readers of
the Caledonian know, we never uttered n
word or pull lishcd line in support Of slavery
or the slave power, but on the contrary have
maintained on all occasions principles of lib
cr,y and abolition. Among the first Of our
acts in any WISE of public nature was the
cooperation with others in the formation of an
anti.slavcry society for the purpose of pro-
noting and keeping alive in community sen
tmcnts hostile 10 slavery and its increase
and for its abolition so far it could he effect
ed by the action ofthe free States. In defence
of this Society and in propagatng its princi-
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fury Of mob-frccly and without Price-and
since then we have constantly (and ever shall
as occasion rcquircs) sought TO do the same
We contributed our might too on all occasions
for the same object, and cease not to do so now
when proper objects present themselves. But
we have learned that all professionals not true.
We have seen mcn rise up with new tests in
abolition, and setting themselves up as agents
and lecturers in behalf of these new tests
going about with open mouths and with hat in
hand and dcnouncing all who will not gire.-
Some of these agents are cN-clergymcn whose
characters do not commend them to any peo-
plc--others ambitious, broken down poll
ticians-too lazy to work-and who adopt this
course to live aud get money, & thereby fleece
the people Their course of proceedings is TO
lecture in one place till the people get tired of
and find out their true characters and the
hat returns empty--then they 90 TO another
State One gocs from Vermont to \. H., Me.
and n. York, and others from those States
come to this-and many of them have made
money out of it-not excepting even J. u
Birney, unless those who ought to know speak
wrongiully of him, and they give the figures in
proof Will any deny this is not the routine
corporations practiscd upon by most of those
lecturers of and in Vermont: We take 1t not.
But the warning of the public against imposi-
tons of this sort is no doubt the secret of the
Frecman's ire against us. Their craft ise
daugcrad by exposure, And as to the result OF
Conventions got up by these men, what do we
see? Some some dollar plan" hatched out
and the people under some prctencc or other
are ''bored" to hand over the dollar, or, retus-
ing, are denounced as stools of the slave pow
cr!" We confess our anti-slavcry does not
run in this channel, although it has abatcd not
one whit. And such measures, u the measures
of the Sd party leaders generally, so long as
they are inconsistent with duty to the "poor
slave" and the cause of genuine abolition-re-
fusing to act against slavery when opportuni-
ty occurs, and will not join, as Sd partyism
generally refuses now to do with others in N.
York, to give the elective franchise to thou
sands of native colorcd men-till such things
and some others equally hostile to the promo
ton ofliberty, are done away, we shall not
"come into their secrets"
The Wings of the free States for the last 10
years have presented an almost unbroken
front in favor of free discussion, of abolition
where the Constitution will allow of it, and
rainst any and every measure for the extern
sion of Slavery. No other party can go FUR
Their than this They are far in advance of
the Sd party nbolitionists in practical abolition
Thew act consistently, firmly, and without
helping Polk Texas men into office-and help
none but anti-Texas men and opponents OF the
extension ofslavery. They do this without
schemes for .feGcing the people OF money
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