Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-09-10
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The next Presidential Election.

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1t is now confidently asserted that the next
candidate Of the Wing party for the Presidency
will be non-slaveholder, and that his partlzans
in the Northern section of the Union will 60 in
to the canvass as advocates Of the rights of the
Free States against the encroachments of Slave
".
Their candidate is not to be an aboitionlst--
not one who can be suspected for moment of
making the rights of persons paramount to the
rights of property, of estimating the abolition of
human Slavery as more important than high
tariff But, he will be vouched for as one who
will hold the balance equal between the North
and the South, distributing his patronage impair
TALLY between the anti-slavery Wings of one sec
ton and their man-stcang brethren Of the 9TH
err
And the Liberty voters are to be once more
importuned to abandon their original hostility toI
the Slave Power and Join in the support of such
candidate, with the very satisfactory assurance
that under his administration, in the event of his
success, the places now occupied by sat e-hold-
ing Democrats shall be filled with good slave
holding Whigs-ilIusrating very concIusivey
the essential difference between tweede-dum and
tweedle-dee
Now say for myself and my Liberty friends,
that we care nothing for party and party names
We are only anxious for the triumph of the prn-
cipes which we have advocated SO long and at
so severe a cost. Insure this triumph, and we
care not who reaps the paItry harvest of Office
and popular favor by so doing. Only let us see
the foot of American Republlcanism planted on
the neck of PROSTATE Slavery, and be it a Wing
or Democratic victory, the first and loudest shout
of congratuIation shall be ours.
But we have no expectation Of seeing Slave
ny abolished by any party which does not make
that abolition its first and paramount object
This the Whig party will not do. A mere neg
alive anti-sayery-a withdrawal of active gov
ernmental support of the Slave System, is the
utmost which is promised by its Northern mem
berS. This cannot satisfy us. We are ADOLF
TToNIsrs We have banded together, with God
help, to destroy the accursed system, root and
branch And we must tell our Wing friends in
advance, that they will not gain our votes by
presenting US with candidate who will only
promise to let the evil alone, and neither direct
y foster or oppose it. We will vote for no Pres
idental canddatc-however worthy in other re-
spects, who if elected, would feel himself I'M
der obligations to give shareholders and dealers
in human flesh the highest places Of trust and
honor under his administration, We want nc
more Northern Presidential canvassers for the
favor of shareholders Give us an out and out alb
oIitionist or shareholder. Henry Clay before
Daniel Webster, John G. Calhoun before Jane,
Buchanan
With the Wing party as at present consttu
ted-with its bland and smiling Northern head
dragging after it the dragon-tail of Southern
ISIayery-we can hold no fellowship. Yet Will,
we sternly repudiate the Party in its present con
necon, we can still honor and respect many O
the individuals who compose it, We d
Justice to the honorable exertons of Adams an
Giddings and Seward With such men we vii
act whenever it is in our power to do so withou
compromise Of principle. We will hold our
selves in readiness to cooperate in every meas
ure by whomsoever originated, which promise
we'll for freedom and humanity. BIT most man
ifesty our present duty is to stand frm-to hol
fast our principles-to push our measures wit
renewed vigor-to hope all things, and cndur
all things for the right and never through loubr
wearness or Impotence, abandon the vantage
ground Of position which it has cost us s
much to win, and which we have such good rea
: son to know, commands the strong-hods of til
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