Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-04-09
THE FREE NJ A N j.
MONTPELIER, THURSDAY, april 9, 1916
Is the Wing party an AnttSlavery party?


position of any party except by the general course
pursued by the ,0o,e party In settling the question
whether the Wings are an anti-savery party or not
we shall first take their own witnesses, and we begin
by introducing the testimony of the "embodment off
their principles" the exponent of the party. Mr.. Clay
in his famous speech of 49, says, 1T is not true, and
should deeply regret if it were true, that either of
the great parties have any aim or design at enamel
PATTON" 1t said Wing papers never lie, and on their
own testimony the case is clearly proved.
The Springfield Republican, (Whg) says:
"Is the Wing party the anti-savery party of the
country? We trust that Wing editors have better
Judgment than to be lured into defence Of any such
affirmative position as that"
The editor of the Ohio Portsmouth Clipper, (Whig)
says
The Black LaicS.-Our readers will observe by
reference to our Legislative geanings that Mr.. Stan
ley the member of the House from this district oppo-
sed the repeal Of the law of 1904 relating to coored
people, Mr.. S. in this measure, well as most others
that have come before the House this winter has pur
sued that will be approved Of by his constit
uents. The motion was indefinitely postponed, and
we hope our opponent will now cease to call the Wings
abotionists; it was in their power to repeal the law
Is they have almost two thirds Of the House, and three
fhhs of the Senate"
The Madison IN. W Whig says
GAS for us, we do not see how the question of c.
Emancipation belongs to the Wing party at all. Some
anti-savery work the wings have doe because it was
both natural and proper they should do it, and under
like circumstances they would be found doing the
work again. But we desire to hear no more express
ions of sympathy with aboltioniss, of our cause
being in any way identified. The Wing party as
such, has no more to do with the of emancipa
ton than it has with the spread eff the gospel with
anyof the other benevolent operations of the day and
the sooner every Wing finds this strong old fighting
ground, the will the party be in a condition to
accomplish its long cherished objects"
The editor of the New York Express speaking of
the aboltonists says
"Cowards, poltroons too, that ye are, to stand howl
ing on this side of the Potomac, when if ye mis-
sonares would be martyrs to SOW the seeds Of good
elsewhere We would cross that river, and speak out
III the land of slaves, Go there, we madmen fools
90! The blacklist negro from the Susquehanna to
the Mississippi now knows, understands, and despises
you"
The above is all Northern testimony, and is only a
fragment Of what might be presented.
We will now turn to the State and National acts Of
the party In their State legislation they have given
no proof that they possess anti-savery character
In Ohio where there laws as black and disgrace
full in full force against the coored people, as any thai
can be found at the South, and though the Wing:
have Is the majority in the House yet there were only
25 votes in favor of repeating those laws, and 81
ganst In Connecticut though the Wings have the
: majority in the House, and in the Senate yet laws
most destructive to the interests of coored men, dis
grace their statute books and no efectua effort ha
been made to abolish them In Pennsylvania, though
: the Democrats have the majority, yet the Wings have
: a large number of members in the House, and at
late attempt to give colored men the right of suffrage
only l3 voted in favor of it. In N. Y. in $780, thu
+ Wings carried the State by an overwhelming aory
yet no effort was made and not word said in favo
of free suffrage but now since it has become nearly
:, party question: and some capital could be made out
: it, they have espoused this cause and are claiming
G be the friends of freedom. In Massachusetts, whc
her ambassadors IIoar and Hubbard were driven lik
elons from the South, her rights trampled upon, ant
5, her authority dsregarded, what did the Wings do t
IS show their opposition such injustice and Oppression
= They passed few resolutions condemning that par
II tcular act but they have never dared to put forth
= single effort to protect the State from further agrees
ions from the slave power and have never attempte
e to take any action upon the above referred tC
that would dispease the South In this State, with a
their boosted anslavery what have the Wings don
1t to show their opposition to the system? They hay
passed resolutions requiring their Senators and request
ing their Representatives go against slavery in tn
a. District of Columbia, &C.. and the democrats hay
nearly all helped them, they have then voted for ma
le forthe Presidency, who declared In letter to NJ
D. Wise that he would suffer the tortures of the Inqus
8 ton before he would sign bill to abolish slavery
x the District They have made loud professions of a
W tachment to freedom, but have used all their If
e uenco to crush the few who have boldly stood up
rs the uncompfomsing friends of the slave The Whie
j. have taken great praise to themselves for being avo
able to giving the coored people in the free States tn
right of saage, but at this moment there are but tw
Wing States in the nation, Massachusetts and Vel
Is mont where they enjoy this privilege. But provide
they were all in favor of giving them this right the
are entitled to no credit the score of ant-slaver,
torit has nothing to do with the question of abolition
Again the wings predicate their anti-savery fee
ngs upon the fact that they have, at the north bee
opposed to the annexation of Texas; but it was not
n pure anti slavery ground that they opposed thi
If scheme, for they voted for Mr. Clay with the declara
ton, warm from his lips, that he "should be glad
It see DONE" and that slavery had nothing to do wit
the question: one way Or the other" Since the infe
nal deed has been consummated, nearly every viii
press in the land has been more active in opposing tn
u, Liberty party than in exposing the diabolca system
slavery, and done in attempting to fasten til
stigma of annexng Texas upon those who have, b
70 consistent action, eXered their whole influence to or
pose it than in arousng the people to the dangers an
:. influence of the slave power.
.s But, again. What have the wings done at Wash
ingon, or in their national conventions to merit tn
title of an anti slavery party? They have met ever
four years in convention, where they have readopte
their creed and Reimbursed their political principle,
but they have never even passed resolution or utter
ed word against slavery or the annexation of Texa,