Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-08-27

There have stood two great parties at the
north, who have often pretended, they were viii
ling to aid in launching the ship but the pirates
and buccaneers made such an outcry about the
story Of one of their number having heard one
of the old carpenters of Philadelphia say, it was
made to sail on the land, they have not dared to
do it. These two parties at the north have been
so anxious to carry out the intention of the franz
rrs, that they have waited seventy years for the
pirates to bring forward their proof that such
was the original understanding; the pirates have
made arguments through several thousand days,
while their witness was coming, who never came,
trying to prove by arguments most profound,
that it could never have been the intention of
sailing this ship except upon the land; for, say
they, sailing upon the sea would be at war with
our piratica business on the sea, which is older
than the framing the ship, and was in existence
on the 9TH of July, l776 therefore the ship
must be intended to sail on the land, or stand
upon the stocks. The northern two great par
ties have been overwhelmed with the good sense
as we'll as absoluteness of this prodigiOus argu-
Hent, and have been staggered, for seventy years,
by its weight, and have not yet made up their
mind as the character of the reply, or even of
its possibility. The argument is so consuming,
and wherewithal so reasonable, they fear it is I'M
answetable. Now the Liberty party Abolition
lists hold the Declaration of Independence to be
an elementary law, the law Of laws, the rock OF
first principles, to which the nation descended,
and on which it built in the honest hour Of its
agony and that every other institution or con-
Stitutlon contravenng its great essentials is null
and void for without that declaration, asserting
that all " men were created free and equal" our
independence could not have been achieved, and
but for that, we should this hour have been re-
volving as colonial satellites, around the sea-girt
isle, Had our declaration of Independence con-
tanned what many say the Constitution Of the
United States does, a proposition to support
slavery, (Which dehy,) and had the great dec
latation contained, what | admit is found in the
constitutions and laws of several States in the
south, to wit: slavery, or had the great declara-
ton contained the converse Of its own mighty
proposition, and asserted that some men we're
created to be free and some were created to be
slaves then the battles of Trenton, Saratoga and
Yorktown had never been fought the British
Court Gazette would on the LIST of January,
l777, have published an obituary Of our Revo-
luton in these words 1" Order reigns in the
Colonies Trans Atlantic freemen refused to
pour out their blood to sustain the abhorred prop
osition that some men were created to be slaves.
To attempt to ingraf slavery in our system, is a
direct fraud upon every drop of blood spilled in
the Revolution, every sacrifice endured, every
dollar SPENT or misery suffered. The north
have been periodically humbled, kicked and
trampled under foot, by the south. The just
punishment Of heaven has been poured upon the
north, for fortifying and propping slavery. The
north, in Church and State, has emascuated the
Christian religion, and constitutional law, to up
hold slavery. The north for its tameness, anC
hunting up arguments to quiet slaveholding con
sciences, and basely making briefs to aid slave
holding lawyers to undermine justice and over
throw liberty, is treated with supercillious con
tempt, by the south, the real wages Of mean
ness In Congress, the northern man does no
rise to the position of privileged serC Thi
is just; that men who go round the country SO
liciting posts in Congress and on the bench o
the Supreme Court ofthe United States, foreigl
ambassadorships, and seats in Presidential cabi
nets, should be obliged to earn their positions b
crushing slaves and sandering the declaration @
Independence and the venerable dead, VIII
fought for its adoption also by sneerlng at mel
who contend for freedom, Justice and law, mis-
naming them fanatics and enthusiasts TIL
south have inflicted on the groyeIing north pain
and penalties, as the instruments of heaven
vengeance Yes, ten-foJd more of real iudg
ments than every thing done, thought or at
tempted, by England which lit the torch of thu
Revolutionary war.
The shareholders are tantaized, by the sigh
of the prosperity of free labor The 10000
voting shareholders regard the free north and it:
institutions with maevolence and hatred, anC
God, for just and holy reasons, has used those
shareholders as a whip Of scorpions, to punish
the base bowling north, in property, character
and life, by war; taxation and debasng humili
ty, as Just retriDution, for unfolding slavery
and shareholders and for having forsaken the
scriptures of truth, and having perverted, b.
base Interpretation, the constitution of the Uni
ted States, from its high lreedom-protectng sense
to low and degrading piratical covenant, to b
employed for the destruction of human rights
rather than their support. The north bowed il
the college, pulpit and Congress, to the domin
ion of the man-stealer, and employed its brain
in the destruction of human liberty, by servil
yielding, to slavehodng construction of reigio
aud law. The southern slaveholding merchant
sought and obtained credit in the north, an
100000, 900 would not meet the losses of tn
north, in sixty years, which were cancelled
southern bankruptcy. Thus the north was JUS
ly, and in part, made slaves to work for tn
south, as just punishment on us, who woul
not see injustice in the position of the slave
The shareholders envied us, and hypocriticalI
became the advocates of the rights of impresse
seamen; yes, men whose own fields were worl
cd BY impressed and stolen black men. TT
war Of 1912 the south decreed, and 1877 mi