Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-06-18
From the True American.
10 the Massachusetts Senate.

Gtntlemcn We are not so green as to ap-
peal to You as men. Seeing that you are the
sons Of worldwide renowned sires,-that You
have, in times past, boosted Of being the cradle
of liberty that your eyes rest daily upon some
field of brave deeds some monument OF illustri-
Gus achievements and that you are not moved
bv the Ieast remorse of honorable shame, we
dare not fatter ourselves, that obscure and tram
pied upon as we are, anything which we might
say, would at all revive a sentiment of returning
honor! We do not ask your sympathy for the
eght millions of our suffering fellow citizens,
borne down with the unheard-of expressions Of
slavery; for, when your own Massachusetts men
are thrown, without crime, into Southern prs-
ons and sold into lifelong slavery, and your
hoary and venerable ambassador brutally expell-
ed from the STAKEHOLDER, contrary to the United
States Constitution, the laws of nations and OF
nature and no sense of wrong is felt at this, we
know cur case cannot touch you
We do not ask you to feel that you owe some
thing to us, as bound in common union, and a
common destiny, and entitled to common rights
of humanity,--for seeing that you mock at the
idea of oppression so long as you can buy and
sell, and your own bodies are not touched with
material stripes, we do not expect you to appTe-
ciate the sublime words Of your own Charming
The liberty cf ordinary politicians, v hich pro
tects mems outward rights, and removes re-
straints from the pursuits Of property and out
ward good, fell far shor: Of that for which Mil
ton lived and was ready to die. The tyranny
he hated most was that which broke the intel
ectual and moral power Of the community
The worst feature of the institutions which hi
assailed was, that they ttttcrtd the mind
Neither do we expect you to be influenced BY
the many repeated declarations of Massachusetts
that size never would submit TO the Texas usur
patton, the unconstitutional expansion of the
slave power, and unequal representation fol
seeing that this noble stand which she had as
sumed, as the leader of the friends of free insi
lutons, put mo money in her PURSE we did no
expect you to debar yourself of the possibility o
tasting some of the crumbs which fall from tho
shareholders table, which are distributed tC
those only who bend the supple hinges of the
knee, that thrift may follow fawnng! Oh no
we are not such an overt ass as to do any sue,
thing as this We read you at once, and there
fore we come straight at you.
You know no god but money! You say, l
we talk like men, the South will not like us; TIL
4 South is the source of power, and the SoutI
wants sIaUeS, not men. If we displease tn
| South, she will withdraw from us all hopes o
executive patronage and federal promotions sh'
will destroy the tariff, and make war upon on
banks! Now, with due Difference, we thin
f your reasoning as false as it is base, The Sout
f will say, these Massachusetts men are not TO b
trusted they have desecrated the names Of thei
Ooa great dead, they will not be, true to as tn
living We will not buy them, they are all a
(ready ours; we must save our money to purchas
:, the iatructibh; these Massachusetts men are a
ready contemptibly tame
$ Who haze warred upon your TARIFF III
South Who upon your monied institutions
The South If they conquered when you wer
men, will they not spit upon YOU now that 20
are sloves Senators (Fhe North al