Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-08-27
10 the Liberty Party Of the U. States.

us move, in the solid column, upon the ranks of
slavery. Let us lock our arms, by the power of
united political action Let every mans name
be enrolled who has fired the bullet of his Bal
lot against Slavery. Let every name be regis
tered by the middle of September. Sxty-fve
thousand men were found on the ides of No
vember, 1874, inscribed ON the muster-roll of
Human Freedom. You are the moral army of
Liberation. 1t is not an enlistment for one year,
but during the war This army, with its add-
tons, fight for glory in its most exalted sense
TO deliver three millions of slaves to seli-own-
ershP, and give them the right to do every thing,
which IS not wrong, are the passwords of the
army of deEerdnce. The army of Liberation
will remove the letters from mind and body of
enslaver and ensaved of fifteen States, double
the agricultural and treble the manufacturing
and mechanical products Another part Of
their mission is, to establish $4,000 Common
Schools, those nurseries Of truth and knowl-
edge, the elements of selfgoyenment, in those
5 States. This army Of Liberation will carry
500 printing presses, and one million of Bibles,
and 10000 school-masters and mistresses, as
lrCewiIl offering, in the day of most glorious
emancipation, to these States. This army is
charged with the high duty of bloting out Ma
son g. Dixons line, the line of eternal discord
This army is to collect the bowie-knives and
revolving, har-trggered pistols of these States,
and place them in the bottom of the lathomless
sea This army is to make labor honorable, in
these Is States. This army is to remove all
northern eaousies, and unite North and South,
East and West, in eternal bonds of fraternity.
This army is charged with the modification of
Southern and Northern opinions, as to the COLI
stitutona powers of the Federal Government,
on the subject of Tariffs for revenue or Tariffs
for protection or Free Trade and direct taxation,
believing the extremes left and right, will see
eye to eye, and walk hand in hand when a COM
mon interest controls, and common instrumental
tiles are employed, to obtain subsistence. This
army is also charged with the publication and
exaItaon Of American character, by creating a
bond Of union between the distractions of hui
man freedom and the living practcaIlties-by
7 bridging that hitherto yawning gulf and this
army is charged with the utter exlirpation of
that desoating hypocrisy, which so long in
Church and State, destroyed the use of language,
in suffering holy abstraction, IN religion or
f politics standing as our creed, to be a license
practically, to act out all manner of abomina-
tiOns; the purity of the creed making atonement
for the prcAgacy of the conduct under it.
This army of freedom is charged with rescuing
the character of this great nation from the burn
ing sneers and unanswerable arctocisms of old
Europe, who declared that as hope for man as
cended high, reality dug dungeons deep and low,
in which to hide our shame.
This army is charged with the faithful exc
cution of the Declaration of independence the
great Nnperformed, the CRAFTY admjred, but M
available. For seventy years the nation has
been so overwhelmed, with the truthfulncss and
grandeur of its conception, that they have been
content to stand all of this time and shout their
admiration, before an asonished world, and an
nualIy arrest the very wheels of human affairs,
while on the 4th Of July, we stretched the ut
most power Of human genius for the strongest
conceptions of intellect, and for the most con-
Stunning thoughts, to lie delivered in the most
beautiful robes of language, to stamp that i'm
preston Of veneration Oh the mind of others, as
deeply, as it had sunk in our own. We stand
looking at this splendid ship of State, yet on the
stocks, her masts raised, yards trimmed, canvass
spread, and ballast in and provsioned for cir
COMMUNICATION of the whole circle Of human ne
cesstes, with orders to call at every port, island
and country in her course; carrying Justice,
law, equal rights to. all men, furnishing them
with remedy for the wrongs inflicted Tor ages
possessing the sure and certain power of strik-
ing letters and bonds from the legs and arms of
men, with the power of opening prison doors and
the placing the victims on the great platform of
! equal and eternal rights, and giving them power
to make the laws they are required to honor, and
in future, the obligations they are bound to
obey.
The Liberty party is charged with the high
duty Of launching and navigating the old ship
of American Independence, which has stood for
a launch from the 4h of July, l776, while the
seas have swarmed with pirates, and buccaneers,
who have even come upon her deck and sworn
by her stripes and colors that she never shall be
launched as long as wood grows and water runs.
These pirates and lreebooters have sucked the
free blood of the nation from its veins, and now
threaten the lives of those who may endeavor to
launch this ship, and declare that she was never
made to 90 to sea; she was only made to stand
externally on the stocks as an object of unex-
planable admiration, as an abstract ship, to be
deifed on the stocks, on the fourth of July, and
point the oratons Of Juniors and Sophomores, at
College commencement; and in fact they say, if
You do launch her, they will bore holes in her
bottom, and sink her and all her glorious freight,
as she was meant to be ship only on land and
not on the water and these pirates are ready to
prove, that one of the old ship carpenters who
built her at Philadelphia, was heard by one of
the pirates to say, that the ship was not made to
go on the water. but was intended solely for the
land. And many say, who are not pirates, that
we must search for the intention of the old