Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-12-03
THE FIR L Z M AN.
MONTPELIER, THURSDAY, DEC. 8, 1916.
Election TUESDAY, January 5.
For REPRESENTATIVES, TO CONGRESS-:
A. JUDSON R0WELL, 4th District,
Who Policy and Whig Gratitude.

W HlS L OllUJ anu HiS uIuClIHuO'
No man of intelligence who has watched the rseI
and progress of the Liberty Party will deny that the
greatest obstacle which it has hitherto encountered
has been the unweatied efforts of the wings through
out the free states to induce the belief that they and
they alone, are the "true Liberty Party" and may
with confidence be relied upon to do all that could
be accomplished by an anti-savery organization
Thousands upon thousands in the free states have thus
been kept in the wing ranks who had the wings at
the north been as honest as those at the SOUTH and
admitted that they chad no aim design at the -
ltion of American slavery would long since have
rallied under the banner Of impartial liberty. Prnci-
pies and measures, having local bearing, and Incl
dentally connected with the the an;-slayery cause
have been professedly espoused by the wings in
al Of the free states, and then most earnest appeal
made to liberty to Join with them in securing these
anti-slavery ends. These stratagems have been but
too successul and the sequel has shown in nearly Or
quite every instance, that liberty who have thus
been seduced from their integrity, have not only sig
naly failed of attaining the desired ends, but have
even been tainted and laughed to scorn by their be-
trayers Let US instance few cases.
In New York the wings protested to espouse the
cause of Free Suffrage, and demanded of the Lib
ery Party in that state that it join in aiding them to
secure that most righteous end. Abortion the liberty
men, more credulous than the rest, consented; and
many and grievous were the denunciations heaped
upon those who refused. Well, the election has been
held, and the suffrage question decided The liberty
vote has fallen off some 2,CCC-tho wings have
10000 or 10000 majorty--and yet the free suffrage
question is lost by over 100000 majority! And now,
instead of anything being gained to the cause of free
suffrage-of anti-slavery-the falling off the New
York liberty vote is rumpted through the whole land
as an evidence that the cause is "gong down"-"dy-
ing away"
In Ohio the wings generally advocated the repeal of
the cruel 'black laws" which disgrace the statute of
that state and liberty men were strongly importuned
to come to their aid accomplishing the work. Their
candidate for Governor denounced the black laws in
set terms, and made excellent anti-savery speeches
Many liberty men lent him their aid, "us this once;
but what is the result? The wing governor elect to
appeasc the pyoslavey faction nuows himself IN favo,
Of tcorse "bact lacs" than already eriS-and this with
out word of rcbuke from those whig presses which
had so zeaously advocated his claim to the support
liberty men. And the fact that the Liberty vote in
fl Ohio has increased no more than it has, is now SCI
down an evidence that it can never become ever
respectable in point Of numbers!
| In Massachusetts, the wings lay unbounded claims
to the confidence and support of abotonst, and the
public course of John Quincy Adams, and the anti
slavery resolves of their Legislature and state
tons, are appeaed to as conclusive evidence of the
validity of that claim. Their election is over the
| wings havean overwhelming maorlty-but is it ar
dnti-slduay triumph? The Boston Atlas, the organ Of
Fl the Massachusetts wings, thus speaks of it" Oul
wing brethren of the South and west will perceive
through the results of this election that the wings o.
the old Bay State are dcermnedto mqinain The integ
rity Of The whig party proper tn oughoM The county"
Several wing papers, in abiding to the Massachusetts
election, under the impression that the Liberty vote
had fallen off, (which is great misakeS howevcr have
exutngy heraded the fact as an evidence that this
"wicked and dangerous faction is dying away"
In this Congressional District, the wings have used
every device to induce the Liberty men to support
their candidate At the last trial for congressman the
llo7iy VoIe WIS cohslueidoIy less tudh III oeP
TENDER, tho none, to our knowledge, supported the
whg candidate. But the Liberty vote fell off and
what was the 'cAig inference from this fact? Here
it is:
"The Liberty party has also fallen off sadly. The
Green Mountain Freeman is in canniptik But Third
partylsm every where to be going seed Their
stock has fallen in Massachusetts, and in New York
has entirely below par not to be noticed in the
accounts Of the last state canvass That mischievous
organization has had its day. The mecenary spirit
exhibited by its leaders in 1914 ard the disastrous
suits of its operations from that day to ts have had
a salutary influence upon the minds of muttudes of
its members"
Now, can there be found Liberty utterly
destitute of seErespect to say nothing of principles
as to lay down and roll over for such men, and then
be kicked and spit upon into the bargain?