Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-07-09

rig support H6 LtbeHy Party! Three thousand
ard five hundred men in this State who have voted the
liberty ticket are prepared to answer this question in
reasons which they had for giving their votes to
rn oates Of this party and would that we could
make reAaC thousands more feel the force of these
reasons at TINS time have more than one thousand
subscribers to the Citizen who have taken it for this
electoneerng campaign, for the purpose of examining
this question, and understanding what claims the Lib
erty party has for its supports and it will be prom
nGnt part Of duty for the next two months to attend
to the wants Of this portion Of our subscribers togeth
er with the thousands of readers they bring with them
We believe there are abundance Of reasons why all
people should support the Liberty party and we shall
endoavor to make the reasons apparent Therefore we
claim particular attention to whatever articles may ap
pear on the measures, objects, and policy Of the Lib
erty party
Why support The Liberty Pwy?
l. Support the Liberty party for the purpose Of abol
shng the slavery in our land. This is the first and
great 1t is the object for which the party was
formed, and the end which it aims to accomplish
Other objects incidentally connected with this end,
and will Of course receive their share Of attention, but
never to that extent which will prejudice or eopardize
the end to be secured.
1t will be said-but the Liberty party has not the
legal right nor constitutional power to abolish slavery
throughout the States, even if it should become
jory. We answer-we have weighed this matter
which we cannot constutonally and legally do. We
for the legal and constitutional abolition Of slavery.
But we see that slavery has tiourshed under this gov
eminent and if has the power to noursh it has the
power to destroy; if has been invgorated by the
fostering policy ofthe national government contra
ny policy would in the same degree work its destruc-
ton. We also that the proper object of our gov
ernment the perpetuation Of liberty, been perver
ted TO the perpetuaton ofsavery. Late events have
nd laid b1 thp ~ ,ylC
control political affairs which have been heretofore
covcrty pursued, to protect the interests Of slavery
and to prOlOng It's existence at all hazards We
see further that throe-ourtls of all our public Offices
are filed by Shareholders and their course proves that
they are fully determined on welding the tremendous
influence of this governments; lis moral, political, pc
Curl'Uy, and plysjcaJ POWER, for THE SUPPORT
OF SLAVERY. Thcnit follows that we shall exert
more power than rghtfuly possess and only I'M
do what has been done, when we use the power of the
government to discourage rather than to encourage
the existence OF slavery; to change the policy from
its support to its destruction; and when wrest the
political influence from the hands of those who so base
ly pervert the power of free government to the pur
poses of oppression.
Slavery being created and sustand by law--by the
power of the balloit follows of course that it can be
voted down. When the people are thoroughly abol-
ltlonzed, which is the work are striving TO accom-
plish, all people elected to Office in the northern and
southern States, will be men who have the cause of
Liberty at heart and they will exert their political
power IN the enactment of laws where they legally
CABIN the States for the States and in the nation for
the nationull working tremendously together in their
proper place. and slavery WILDE abolished 1t is no
new thing for political parties to adopt articles into
their creed in relation to which the power of the gen-
era government is limited. We have had, since the
United States Bank was killed. and we still have, an
anbank party butno one preonds that because this is
made political question, it pre-supposcs that the Fed
era government has power to create repeal the
banking institutions of the several States. Because
the government has not this power, do we hear the
ant-bank men denounced, as aboltonsts are, as IN
terferng with the institutions of the State transcen
ding their powers and violating the Constitution No;
and we must infer from this fact that loving money as
most people do, they love it not SO much as slavery,
for they defend it not so zeaously.
Again it will be said-but The course pursued by
the Liberty party is not better, not WELL calcula-
ted to secure the abolition Of slavery that of the
ether parties. We reply-the other parties have no
aim design to abolish slavery and the liberty party
does design to do it; and nGton is worth something.
1t 1t falls 1t will be for want Of wisdom; therefore
see the necessity for wise coun5elors and that there
Is u place for those wise ones who keep out of its
ranks because the party pursue5 unwise course. Ac
colng to the nature of things those who set out for
definite object arc far likely to gain that object
than those who have design for it, or spurn it,
the other parties have the abolition of slavery; there
fore we think the Liberty party is more likely to be in
stmmental inthe destruction Of slavery. Furthermore
the course OF the party is to expose slavery as it is to
talk against it, pray and work and uoie for its DOWNFALL
and these are the most direct and powerful measures
that can be brought to bear against slavery therefore
they have reason on their side Those who have done
and thought the most upon the subject and made the
greatest sacrifices in the cause OF abolition are in the
Liberty party; therefore we have experience and wis
dom on this side. Our conclusions are that the Lib
ery party is the best and the only Estrumenaty that
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