Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-08-27
For Town ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
SALVIN K. COLLINS.
BE FIRM! BE TRUE!

The first Tuesday in September-he day for which, in
political sense, all other days were made,is at hand
Before the issue of another paper the people of this
state will have assumed the fearful responsibilities Of
passing sentence upon those principles and measures
which take fast hold of the foundations of national
and individual liberties and that holy religion to which
we are pledged as nation Are they prepared to give
such verdict as may be looked upon in all future
time, as vindication of the principles OF free govern
ment, and promotive of peace on earth and good will
to man?
The real questions at issue in this election are not
as politicians aver, as between the old parties of
protective tariff or free trade, bank subtreasury,
annexation or ant-annexaton, war or peace; for
SLAVERY rules both those parties, and IT'S WILL
they must do-whether be to create or uncreate tar
ifs build up or pull down banks reject Tex
as, wage war or make peace; and vote with either of
these proSlavery parties is yielding the rens of pow
er to that Unsuitable monster who his throne upon
the ruins of free labor the rights of man, and the
thorty of God. The great question is between LIB
ERTY and SLAVERY ,-betweenthe pro-savery par
ties as instruments of the slave power and the friends
contradiction. Henry Clays declaration remains liter
lily true to this day. that neither of the old parties have
any design to abolish slavery. They cannot do it
They dare not undertake it, or avow any such design.
And the events of the past year cannot fail to have
convinced every Northen freeman that an efectua bar
rier must NOW be raised against the entertainments
of the slave power the whole land must bow obse-
quiously to its bloody mandates. Upon which side,
then, will the Freemen of Vermont be found in the
trial hour? For Slavery or Liberty? Your VOTES
will answer! Upon those silent, but mighty executors
of freeman's will, craven with the point of dia-
mond, will be recorded full approval, or full con-
demnation of American Slavery and as the record is
held up to the gaze of the universe and goes down to
the dreary abndes of the suffering bondman to execute
its Office, shall it prove message of mercy, and an
ernest of deverance shall it dash to the earth the
trembling hopes of the captive, and fill to the brm that
cup of tears and blood which shall prove the precursor
of Gods wrath?
We APPEAL to every voter in Vermont, as he ap-
proaChes the ballot-box, to
Remember the three millions ,more than all the nhab
tants of New England of our fellow-countrymen, de-
creed and held, by american La,O, goods and chattes
and bought and sold in the market;
Remember the six thousand slaves in the District of
Columbia, held in chains by laws of Congress, which
are sustained by both the wing and democratic parties
Remember the violent separations of husbands and
wives parents and Children brothers and sisters which
interest, caprice or beasy lust is daily making among
the millions of slaverys victims, and which the law al
lows, and public opinion sanctions;
Remember that slavery denies, by law, the bible to
one-sxth of our countymen and they are rendered as
essentially heather any that range the wds of AT
RIGA or the plains Of India;
Remember, that by the action of our political parties
nine new slave states have been added to this Union
and the balance of power in the u s. Senate given to
the champions of slavery;
Remember that our government is waging a cruel
war; at an expense of half million dollars dnilg-
which must be paid by the sweat of Northern brows-
for the acquisition of territory over which to ex
, tend the accursed pail of slavery;
Remember that the slave power in greatly increasing
the expenses of government and destroying the tariff
is aiming directly at the fufllment of its darling
scheme, of bringing the Northern laborer upon leve
with the Southern slave and making him the propt,
:, of the capitalist!
These things remember-strike for LIBERTY
and God speed the Right
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