Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-09-17
The Whig Party of the South.


our hands on account of the place which press is
made to occupy in it After claiming great credit to
the saveholding wings for the perseverance with
which they have sustained the tariff policy against all
opposition at home, it goes to complain on their be-
half of the embarrassment thrown in their way by the
persistng of some of the whg papers in the free
states in abiding to the predomnance of the slave
power the councils of the naton the cause of the
evils of which the country complains. After except
ing from censure the New York Courier g. Enquirer
and Express, and the Albany Citizen and it might as
well have added two Or three presses in Massachusetts
it goes on to pour the whole force of its indignation
upon the Boston Daily Wing. Luckily we are not yet
so overwhelmed by to be unable to publish word
in reply Indeed, it is, on the whole, great consoa
ton to us to find that leading press so far in Virginia
has been able to make that obscurity papable
which has been puzzng the optics of our nearer and
more lofty neighbor, the Atlas, for more than month
past
We can very readily understand why the Richmond
Wing should be made uneasy at any untavorable men
ton of the Slave Power and why it should deal in
words of remonsrance and warning to us for attempt
ing to explain its nature. So long as the principal
proprietor that press remains the of two hun
dred slaves, SO long as he exercises in Virginia po
ltical weight equal to one hundred and twenty-one
Massachusetts freeman, certainly feel no cause
of surprise at his wishing to let things stand as they
are But we humby submit that this argument,
however weghty it may be with him., can carry no
conviction to the minds of any one hundred and
twenty Massachusetts men whom he may pick out.
And no other upon which he appears to rely will be
whit more fortunate. He takes credit to the slave
holding wings for doing what? Why, endeavoring IN
uan t., struggle against the overpowerng determine
ton of aorty of their associates to use the political
advantages given them by the constitution against the
interests of the free states in the matter of the tariff
That is ALL Is that so much for which we who suffer
are to be grateful? Will it help us reestablish the
constitution its primitive basis? Will it help us
check the progress of slavery over countries in which
we never agreed should be tolerated. Will it help
us our innocent citizen from imprisonment lashes
and slavery within slave holding borders? Viii it help
us spending thirty millions year atrocious slave
driving war, voted by every STAKEHOLDER in Congress2
When will show us one atom Of power to do all this
as we'll as to place our labor upon a good and solid
foundation of permanent legislation then indeed shall
we begin to think may have something to be obi
ged for to our savehoding associates in Congress,
and in the country.
We see much too clearly for our own qualification
the course of reasoning into which the Wing desires
to lead us. 1t is one, admit, calculated to have
Will IN tho Ctot
that shall be nameess 1t is one which at this very
moment parayses the leading V, hig presses of the
commercial cities 1t is substantially if the Wing
Shareholders spoke to us in these words "Frends we
will buy your silence on the subject of slavery by our
supporter system of protection ofyour manufactures"
To which we know not what others may reply, but we
say frankly and boldly, "perish the manufactures a
thousand times over before we will enter into such
contract of shame. New England has myriads of re-
sources for her industry. You may try and put her
down over and over again, as your Democratic neigh
bors have already done and like the ancient giant she
will rise only the powerful for her fall but 1t
you once succeed in undermining her principles, IT
you bring her down to the degradation of drinking out
of your Crcean cup her will then cease to be men
anu YOUR VIII DO SolPiStS' A'O1 "'N
cashmere shall not stand in the foreground OF Liberty
so long as we have even the teeblest voice lett to
struggle against it"
But the Wing charges us with entertaining hatred
to the South. If we know ourselves we entertain no
sentiments of the kind and deeply regret the Sec
tiona character of the divisions that grow out of the
question of slavery. But there is no alternative
Whatever kindness of feeling we may entertain to-
wards individuals, so long as they do nothing ef-
fectual to check the oppressive policy of the govern
ment policy too made oppressive by reason of the
slavehoding influence exerted to that end we have nc
alternative but to endeavor to resist it. However much
we may regret that this has the effect to
ken them at home we must remember that the course
they would have us take has much greater effect in
weakening us. Regard for slaveholding friends
r. has already given to the Wing party in the Free
i States that timd time-servng, temporzing hypocr
n cal aspect which has gone far to lose for it the conf
derce Of majority of the voters in every Of the
: States This cannot and ought not to be carried one
step further. The present administration put in
n to power by the unbushing appeals ola Shareholder
to the slavehoding interest. 1t is carried with the
direct object of making every interest of the Free
States subservient to slavery. 1t spurns at principles
and laughs at justice. 1t can only be overthrow by
the strong will of Free States Every other reliance
e will prove weakness. Shall we then go on muzzet
) and blind-fold in opposition merely because We
y may possibly offend some of friends who own two
> hundred human beings? We say No. Whether thu
d Wings of the South assmiate with or not mat
n ter solely for their own judgment We will not assm
IS late with them in the support Of slavery, for million
h fold all the factory profits realised by Messra
n Lawrence and Appleton combined "For this halluci
# nation of ours" we agree with the Richmond Wing
there is manfestly no remedy"