Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-02-19

sermon, answered hundreds OF triflng obIec-
tions, and related anecdotes of deep interest
and have left pamphlets and papers at each
house, which the So he spent in going to the
convention, would have paid for And this
convention calling out, for two or three days,
$50 of the best anti-slayery men in the neigh |
borhood, with all the expense of speakers and
other things, will not have done half the good
the farmer would by visiting his go families, du-
ring the same time, as aforesaid But the eX-
element of the convention is preferred to the
solid cross-bearing labor OF going from house to
house. on an errand higher, in more dignity,
than that of every ambassador from the court OF
st. Cloud or ST. James to our land, in our
time. The man who goes from house to house,
revealing the indignity done to the rights of
man and laws of God, by American slavery,
who asserts the claims of the helpless, who vim
dictates mans right to himself, who lifts the
long lost sons of Africa from the dungeons of
their degradation upon the great platform of
equal rights; who strips cruelty of It's trappngs,
and leaves it to shock the spectator, by its de-
| formity; who makes assurance strong as the
bonds of fate, that the STAKEHOLDER and his north
ern apologist, stand blocking up the track OF
civilization, religion, mercy, justice and the adj
vancng glories of selfgovernment, and that
they are in league with all that is horrible, and
co-partners with all the injustice of antiquity aud
villanies of modern times To persuade one
man to step over from the wrong to the right
side of the question: question stretching it.
self into eternity, big with more happiness or
woe, than could be comprehended by all of the
angels, who ever worshiped before the Almighty's
throne is position of transcendlng moral go-
ny, dealing with time and immortality, acting on
the desinies of millions, after the books OF time
are closed and curses of the oppressor and the
groans Of the oppressed shall no longer be heard
in transit over this sn-stained and blood-spot-
ted globe do not wish to be understood as
being opposed to onvcntions-County, District
State or National but these conventions should
rather be regarded as those Of business, where
the field marshals consult and the campaign is
4 planned, than one for the enlistment of soldiers
and teaching the manual exercise. We could
! not afford to hunt deer by dragging As pound
er over hill and dale through the wilderness, by
the aid of 800 or 400 men, because it was pos
sibIe for an engineer to level this cannon and
take sight and shoot a deer. This Cause has
, never made much progress, where dependence
was made on conventions and great public dis
play No, the still small voice in the school
district and neighborhood, and visiting from
house to house, or the unceasing exerton Of one
human being upon another, have been the nigh
ty potcntalites i'll this cause
: Let each anti-slavery man, woman or youth
take it upon him or her to bring one person into
S the kingdom of truth who is now ont. What {
= change there would be!
The great fault has been prodigious amount
: Of instructed energy, money and time wasted
/, yes, wasted! Our friends have not had suficen
u confidence in simple unadorned truth. Blu
have supposed Unnecessary to got great expense
), get up convention, send so to 300 miles fol-
speakers, in order to convince their mocking
e hard hearted neighbors, who had cried 'niggers,
l. 'amalgamaion, that the abotionists were abl'
and talented men, who could sustain their posi-
If ton with truth and ability, We erred in Thu
1t matter. In fact, each anti-savery man snoult
II consider himself as proprietor, yes owner of tn
antl-sayery reformation responsible for it, an'
Il that they have no business to be discouraged
y and have moro right, because we are in tn
e minority, TO refuse to go and deposit Lbert
vote Tor the slave, at each election, because it
n wet, cold, or snowy, or we are 5 or 6 mile
D. from the polls, than if we should hear, on
y winters night, our brothers and sisters beain
a. at our door, and with great suffering, asking ad
'r mission, and should say to them, were up an
u fires lighted, might let you in, 'but as now
am in bed and comfortable do not wish t
e. forego my position-it is rather cold thin
ID had better lie still, and try to get my rest
Do not abolitonsts know that they did our caus
great injury last fall by laziIy staying at HON
= and not voting! BY voting the year before, the
lie created an expectation, in the mind of the slave
friend, which it was cruel to disappoint last fal
Better not have voted and OF excited hope tina
ST. to crush it the year after.
You can do as much to break the bonds at a
election n0w, as you will when you have M
:" ority, for if you do not vote ght nO,o in the m
nority you can never have majority, as MAORI
is the child of many organizations, and vote ca
w uOw, in this cause, is as indispensable to fin
" success as the vote will be then, which establis
es it, Each election is like the successive rount
no of ladder-our minority elections are the 10y
10 er rounds Of the ladder, and if we will not tai
the trouble to ascend the lower rounds, we c;
10 never reach the top one. Suppose bYe-stand
" should say, "you fool why fatigue yourself wit
-, those Is lower rounds! Although you ascer
" from to another they do not carry you to Il
o,,, top-they will not permit you to look into Il
' " chamber Yes, but if you do not climb Il
~ lower rounds, you will never pass over the upp
IL one into the great audience chamber of hum;
), Freedom.
o. If my bretheren will excuse me, there is a
ct other point to which | may advert. 1t is in su
posing this cause like common political on
,ut on some subjects like the Tariff or the Post o
ica ,ubich rnuet ba denocoJ &c b, t,,,a