Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-08-27
Congressional EleCtiOn"~0ur Candidates

change IN our Congressional delegation II we Woulu
accomplish anything for the deiverance of our land
from the iron heel of the slave-power This week we
shall allude briefly to the candidates proposed by the
Liberty party for that important post.
OSCAR L. SKATER, Esq, of Wilmington, our con-
gressona candidate in the First District, is son OF
Hon. William R. Shater Of Townshend our former
excellent candidate for Governor and brother OF our
present Secretary of State. Mr. Skater is comPar
atively young mana lawyer by profession, but for
some years, if mistake not, has devoted no small
share ohis attention to cultvatng the EARTH He has
been member Of the Liberty Party, we believe from
its first organization and for many years previous had
been so disguised with the servily and unprnc?led
character of both the old parties never to have den-
tilted himself with either. Mr.. Skaters abilities as
public speaker and writer are second to but very few
in the State while his unbemished moral character
secures for him the entire confidence of all who know
HIM. 1t is with no ordinary feelings OF pleasure that
we support such for the responsible post of rep
resentatve to Congress at this important crisis be-
evng him possessed of the requisite qualifications to
represent that plain unvarnshed interrupted, uncom
promising spirit of republican simplicity which alone
can avail to cleanse that refuge of Corruption and OPP
presson--,he American Congress. And we cannot
doubt that the freemen of the First Congressional Dis
trict will yet do Mr.. Shafter the justice, and them
selves the honor to elect him to the office for which he
is in nomination
Hon. TITUs HUTcHINsoN of Woodstock our
didate in the Second District has been too long and
too favorably known to the people of Vermont,
nected with the POLITICAL judicial religious and be-
nevoent institutions of the state and nation to need
word of Recommendation from our PEN AS patriot a
statesman, christian, phianthropst, and a man,
Judge Hutchinson would dohonor to the nobes cause
and the most exalted station With heartfelt pride
did we listen to the richly merted eulogy upon this
venerable man, pronounced by Gen. Fessenden, of
Msine before the great Eastern Convention holden at
Boston in October last while presenting Judge Hutch
inson, with whose history he had been familiar from
early life to that vast assembage as one of the Vice
Presidents. Himself an eminent lawyer, christian
and phanthropst his testimony to the superior ability
of Judge Hutchinson, while for many years at the head
of the Supreme Court of Vermont and in the numer
GUS minor stations of trust to which he had beer
Called as we'll as to his spotless purity Of heart ant
life and his faithful devotion to the cause of freedom
was most abundant and conclusive; and we could bu
rejoice that the friends of Liberty in Vermont coult
claim such man as of their early and faithful
: champions. The labors of Judge Hutchinson in be
~ half Of the Liberty have been diversified anc
. abundant His Constitutional Argument published il
the Freeman of last week, and to which we designed
then to have called attenon is a most riumphan
!, in d,;o, sc tho. s+-,,,ort f, tho h,.,.o, &c co.
md. .ofo c.. .,.o., .n1 oo11o1 I'll, 1885,
this ,,ordator, oot;oos fo, sou,oo &c ,,o h1ou. .,
tona lawyers in the land Itwould be superuous 70
leS to say, that such is deserving of an eecto
'hal to Congress by the freemen of his district
li0n Rev. NORRIS DAY. of Ferrlsburgh, the candidate
give the Third District, has been extensively known fc
lure some years able and highly successful evange
efh st and especially for the last two three years.
WI" one of the few ministers who have opened their mout
for the dumb, and labored to arouse slumbern
church and ministry to the awful responsibilities osu
of tainnr tho denominations of ,o,or AS r,bl;c IL
ury batter and close logical reasoner Mr. Dav has prob
io bly, superior in the State. His pamphlet upon "B
BILE Politics" is the ablest argument of the kind thu
we have read, and its general circulation wou
greatly adm correcting vitated public sentmel
q u upon this subject. We think Mr.. Day has superb
claims upon all such as seek to work thorough r.
'PoN form, both in Church and State.
ru- A. J. RowELL, Esq, Of Troy, our candidate in ii
lid Fourth and last District is the youngest by sever
years of our candidates. being in his 29th year. b.
ends H., ,,o,,ra NJ. D1..n $50 :. a
- Liberty cause, having been identified with the Lber
party since its organization, and never we b
=. leve, cast vote with any other party. Mr. R. is Ell
gagged in the mercantile business and connected, to
considerable extent with the agricultural interest,"
Of Mr. Rowe'Is abilities a public speaker, and a
writer, to say that he has few, if any, supero
in the State of his age, would be but faint pras
in the minds of such have listened to his eoque
side, ,,ood;ru, &C h,,ro ,1 II. c,itGi, a.
@ posures and whitening rebukes of the pro-savers
D and corruption of the old parties. We have been ST
cted from several sources but at late day as
vi" render compliance mpractcabe, to republish til
able speech of this gentleman, delivered at the Rocl
:" ester (Stae convention in January of 1884, and put
u 10 lished in the Freeman soon after. Mr.. Rowe ha
'u'e given much attention to the financial bearings of tn
an slavery question: and the result has been the coeco
ue of overwhelming of evidence such as cannc
'S fail to carry conviction to every honest mind, povn
rSof that the first duty of the free north to band togehe
for the destruction of the slave power the create;
dP enemy to rights and interests with which we hay
to contend Mr. RS moral and christian character
'aO considered above reproach In our opinion the free
de- mon Of the Fourth District cannot better make amend
tells for the spDort which thew have for the last two veor
given through their basey recreant representative,
i OF the efforts of the South to crush Northern rights
hch interests and perpetuate American Slavery than
les giving Mr.. Rowel triumphant eecton-thus teach
and ing Southern that we know our rights an
hch are determined to maintain them.
long Such Freemen of Vermont, che men, as we be
al eve them to be, whom offer as candidates fc
Congress. Are they not worthy of your support? D
you not DESIRE through your representatives. to max
"a as stand against the further entertainments of the sav
Az power? Yea-wi you not take the AGGRESSIVE, an