Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-05-28

or The Third party State convention in this place
the Sd and 4h Of June days meeting mot malapopo
for this party they will but spend the first humiliation and
egned pentence for its share of the heavy responsibility
should hesecon their sincerity by the abandonment ola party
organization which has already been oho evil the Of
humanity, we doubt not will be the State Convention the
party ever heidi Vermont Waterman, May2l.
GIVE, too, deem it not 'maapropos' for the
friends of freedom to hold at least two days meeting;
but We respectfully ask of our neghbor if it is not
malapropos' at the present crisis, io him, or any
other admer and supporter of shareholders, to taunt
those who have labored increasingly for years to en-
tighten the mind and arouse the conscience of the ma
ton to the enormous guilt and danger of slavery, with
having been prolc in evil to the cause of humanty'
Now, when the cang of arms is heard upon our Dor
ders and the murdoous warcry resounds through the
land; when the funeral knell of him who has fallen a
martyr to the cause of freedom and common humanity
is echong among our hills, and the agonizing grief of
the widow and fatheress children are borne to us on
every breeze-and all this at the behes and for the
benefit of the monster Slavery; at such time as this
we ask is partzan prejudice blind hypocrisy SO
unbushng, to draw forth such crocodile tears from
the eyes of one who has lent his whole influence a.
gainst all efficient anti slavery measures, from their
first lncepton--cred peace, peace to the troubled
conscences of thousands and endeavored to cover up
the heaving volcano of slavery with the mantle of ig-
norance? Under ordinary circumstances, we can bear
almost any thing. We have often witnessed the
Pharisaical operation of tthng MINT annis and cum
min, while the weightier matters Justice, Humanity,
and Mercy, were set at naught we have heard sane
monous groans over the dissertation of the Sabbath
in delivering the image of God from the ditch into
which he had faen have heard men pray for good
rulers and then enoin it a christian duty to vote
for bad ones have witnessed such unbounded zeal for
the conversion of heather abroad as would sell bro
Their into eternal heathenism at home to furnish the
means. All these, and many other similar things, we
have borne with toerable patience but we freely ac-
knowledge that the continual ebulton of such vile
ISLANDERS the above, from that and similar sources
in the present crisis of affairs creates feelings in our
breast akin to Indignation
But let us analyze the grief of the Watchman editor
for moment and test its genuineness. He mourns
over Texan slavery, which is ALL comparatively speak
ing, yet in the future there being, yet, few slaves
in Texas. Has he no sympathy for the millions that
are actually grooming in our land? Possibly he has but
the evidence is wanting His anathemas are dealt out
against the Liberty party for he charges, aiding to
extend slavery yet in the future) over Texas while
he holds up, as the embodiment of his principles a
man who boasts that in 1920, he solely instrument
tai in efectng the Missouri Compromise, by which
means the letters rvted upon the limbs of thou
sands thousands, who are at this moment canking
their chains, and handing down the accused inheri
lance to their children Has he no sympathy for these
suffering bondmen7 Possiby-but if so, it is all
overwhelmed in his admiration of the guilty insru
ment of their oppression But how, in his view is the
Liberty party responsible for the perpetuty Of savey
By refusing to support man who openly declared that
the subject of slavery would have no influence with
him in determining the annexation question: and who
by his precept and example, is doing all in his powe
to maze human slavery perpetual.