Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-07-23
When and How shall i be Done Z

We would seriously inquire of those who constantly
affirm that the whg party is laboring in good faith to
accomplish the abolition of slavery ohen and how they
propose to effect the work? Why surely through the
action of the general government so far as the system
can be reached by that means. Very well; when 40
YOU propose to commence the work. Or at least to take
the incpent steps? If the wing party really had any
aim or design at the abolition of slavery, no more ia
vorabe opportunity could occur to develope that design
than Immediately upon the signal triumph OF lo4O'-
With strong popular current setting IN favor OF the
administration, and with a high-wrought expectation
on the part of mutudes OF its supporters at the north
that something would be undertaken towards the de-
sruction of this great evil expectation created by
strong assurances to that effect from those supposed TO
be in the councils of the incoming administrations
when could the work be commenced under more au-
spicous circumstances? But what did the sequel show!
Alas the truth was, that Gen. HARRISON only secured
to himself the votes of the south, in that election, by
assurance that as he native OF the SOUTH his
sympathies and feelings were with them, and their In
stutiuns should be held sacred under his adminisra-
ton And, accordingly among the first official acts
of President HARRISON find it proclaimed III his In
augural Address, that any attempt on the part OF
the people of one section of the Union to interfere
with the domestic Institutions of another section, or
in the District Of Columbia, should receive no sanction
from his administration. Thus the same declaration,
VIRTUALLY which had been used with such tremendous
effect, against Mr.. Van Buren, throughout the free
States was proclaimed by the chosen chief of the
wings and did they demur at the sentiment? Not in
a single instance to our knowledge, from Maine to
Georgia And this was the reward of those who had
stifed their scuples and suppressed their sense OF
right, to vote for "Tppecanoe and Tyler too," hoping
that something would thereby be gained for the dev-
erence of the captve Nor was the dark spirit Of
: slavery content with thus procaimng its triumph in
advance; it reigned supreme in the formation of Gen
Harrson's cabinet Every anti slavery man, at least
mu 1t remember, with Indignation the anxious suspense
in which Francis Granger and Daniel Webster were
long held, account of their supposed anti slavery
sentiments; and it not until their faithful alleg
ance to the bloody monster was fully established, that
: they could be confirmed by wing senate The op
position to Mr. Everett, as minister to England, pre-
ccely similar grounds, was even stronger proof
the inability of wing congress to appoint any man tt
important office until he had first done homage at the
G shrine of this modern Moloch.
But say the VIII gs our President died, and the scep
ire of power passed into the hands of our enemies be
# fore we could develope our plans for curtaing thu
;, power of slavery True, President Harrison died il
" the opening of his administrations but we cannot SCI
how, after the pledge he had given, and the influence
with which he had surrounded HIMSELF had he remain
ed in power full term any deviation could have beef
= made from the beaten track of subserviency to thu
u slave power.
+ Again, the wings rallied in 1874 to retrieve thei
y lost power; but under what banner did they ARA
+ themselves? and who and what to be the rulin
spirit of their administration, should they succeed?
al Henry lay their chosen leader, whose deberat
IN avowal is before the world that t is much the du
Of the general government to protect the interest
slavery as any other interest in the nation" who re
oces that neither party in the country aims at the al
III clifton of slavery" and even denies to the north tn
y right to discuss the subject of slavery as discusso
IL will lead to action! Had the wings succeeded in
I'll Letting Mr. Clay to the presidency, is any foo
luluy % W loNoA Cuulu H"NO uCOH %
y pected from his administration to the cause of mpa
u tal freedom?
And what does this party propose to undertake
re the next election for the accomplishment oths obec
" Nothing absolutely nothing. No intelligent memb
" of the party expects or hopes for it The bare avow
so of such design would be total dismemberment, di
OF ruption, and hopeless defeat of the party.
Isl A word to wing abolitionists of Vermont For nea
ID ten years our legislature has passed resolutions
III favor of the immediate abolition of slavery in the Di
a' trict of Columbia, the prohibition of the slave traC
between the States and against the admission of ar
S new slaveholding State into the Union and our repr
e senatves in congress have been requested to
" possible means to the ends Of these resolution
" And these resolutions have been sovereign balm
I'll the troubled consciences of those who have trembl
" in view Of their responsibility upon the subject
" slavery But what have these resolutions avallet
!" Which one of our representatives of who
could make anti slavery speeches while their Eclectic
was pending-has ever given any attention to the su
Vi ject further than present them and silently give the
over to that contempt which the slave power doomC
~ them to receive? Indeed, upon the only questiC
which has been before congress for the last two year
20 in which the right of the north to seek the abolition
N slavery in the District invoved-and that questic
nd brought up by the champions of SLAVERY, of eedo,
OF every one ofte VermOn delegation lodged The question
C. And have they been called to account by their col
e. sttuens, who have for years been solemny passr
We the resolutions above referred to? Not at all NOV
he we ask in all honesty have the friends of the slave
all Vermont anything to lope from such representative
re or from party that sustain such delegates in Co
gess, and thus Ae with the great question of huna
IS rights and American Liberty?
dnI
IT. THE CLOVEN FOOT.
nd We notice that the true Liberty party" of Caled(
of MIA County, at their late Senatorial Convention, dro
ped the name of Hon. William Sas, of Danville, fro
bo their Senatorial ticket substituting therefor that