Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-09-03
CORRESPONDENCE.
For the Green Mountain Freeman.
"Are the Leaders Of the Old Parties
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Mr. EDIToR,-I noticed, in arecent number OF your
valuable paper, able article from our friend oil west
Topsham, under the above caption
am not disposed to doubt the correctness OF " A.
NJ DIS" conclusions, so far as regards the Leaders
in this section of the Union. But am not prepared
to defend the negative Of this question: when it is APP
Piled to Southern Statesmen, Vho rule This nation
believe that the bodest advocates slavery in the slave
States are honest" The following language of Mr.
Jefferson speaks volumes to every lover of freedom in
this nation:
~The whole commerce between master and slave Is
perpetua exercise of the most bOsterous passions
tbe most unremtnp desposm on the one part and de-
grading submissions on the other Our children see
this and learn to initiate it, for man is an Initiative an
ima This quality is the germ OF alt education IN hlnl
The parent storms the child looks on catches the Inca
ments of wrath puts on the same airs in the circle OF
smaller slaves gives loose to his worst passions and
thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny
cannot but be stamped by it with oDIoUs PEcUMAR-
TIES"
Did not Mr.. Jefferson speak of such men as now
rule this republic Like honest men, the strongest adj
vocatos of slavery speak out boldly in its defence
We regard sauc,y as the most safe and stable basis
for free Institutions IN the ,corld" j. c. Calhoun m The
| U. S. Senate, Jan. 10, 184O.
"Slaucry is the corner stone of our Republican Ed
fcc." G. AcDgGe, U. S. Senator
Again, the same Senator says that,
g. No humane institution in ny opinion is more man
iJeSty consistent Nth the ,nH Of God than domestic
Slavery"
Volumes might be filled with extracts of the same
character the language and sentiments of shareholders
and pro-slavery men. | cannot charge Southern men
with dishonesty when they plead that slavery is right
Their error is not merely an error of the head but
an err or Of the heart, too. They have been nmseo
and educated" IN this vile system of oppression But
what is the duty of the people of the free States?
is only to be energetic, as untirng in advocating
the doctrine of Mr. Jefferson, "Mans inollenablt
rights" as the shareholders are in advocating the OPP
posite doctrine the justice Of human sIa0cy The time
will soon come when the Genius of liberty will gathe
few faithful sons in our national Legislature, whc
will promptly join issue with pro-slavery men, on the
subject of Tyranny. The broad platform that was oc
cuped in 76 will be uped again. The result will
be glorious Who can doubt it Jefferson says, tina
Nothing is more certainly ,uiHen IN The book Of tate
than that these people slaves are TO be free" Is there
Wing or a Democrat i'll Vermont who disbelieves th
assertion? All acknowledge that slavery is wrong al
hate it, despise IT," &c. &c. But should we be at
ached to- or vote for those who advocate the system
of oppression, which is growing upon the vi
tails of the nation? Let every Freeman speak the hon
est sentiments of Freeman's heart.
Il NJ. NJ. D.
Norwich Aug. "a, 1916.