Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-01-07
The DiSuniOniStS.

Edmund Quincy declares, through the Liber-
ator, that the only hope of the slave and the on
y safety of the free, lies in the abrogation ofthe
National Constitution and the dissolution of the
Union. This, We believe, is the sentiment Of
the American Ant-Slavery Society, and its sup
porers generally. OF course, the primary bust
ness of the Society, is to dissolve the Union.
Here is political purpose avowed by Society
that processes to believe that all politics are of
the devil. How it expects to compass this pur-
pose, we are not informed-but it must be obVi-
ouse to the dullest appresenson, that it can be
done only in two ways-either by physical force.
Yet these are alike discIaimed by the Society.
We may be told that they rely upon moral sua-
sion-the wide ncucation of their principles
to accomplish their purpose, But this is not
enough Unless their moral suas,on leads to
some sort of action, it amounts to nothing,
Something must be done, as well as said The
talking may, and probably ShouLd, precede the
doing, but unless the former tends to, and pre-
pares mems minds for the latter, it is so much
empty vaporng. No sane man can believe that
the political bonds that bind these States togeth-
err, can be severed, except by the power of the
ballot, or the bayonet. Those, therefore who
clamor for dissolution, virtually endorse one or
the other of those instruments by which the thing
must be done, if done at ALL They may discaim
it as loudly and frequently as they please-the
fact remains the same. How, then, can they de-
nource the Liberty party for resorting to polit'-
cal action for the overthrow of slavery, when
they propose to accomplish the same thing, in an
indirect manner, by the use ofthe same means,
or by the baycnet! Their Inconsistency is trans
parent-and when they attempt to explain it
away they incolye themselves in endless absurd
tiles.
Their object is political revolution. Ours is
political regeneration. They would Overturn the
Government We would rgorm it. They seek
to abrogate the Constitution. We would redeem
from the false CLOSES which slavery has put upon
it. They would abolish slavery by the disne-
grafton of confederacy. We, by the peaceful
overthrow of slavery, would remove the only
cause of dsahection to the Union and thus pre-
serve it in its integrity, and render it blessing
to all the parties held in its iraternal bond.
Such is the contrast in our aims and purpos-
es Can unprejudiced and intelligent men long
he'itate, which to approve and which to con-
demnl-The American Anti-Slavery Society, is,
in fact, no less political organization than the
Liberty party. Its avowal of political purposes
which can be accomplished, peacefully, only by
political means, stamps it with apoliucal charac-
ter. The task which it proposes to accomplish
is far more dilficnlt one than that which the
Liberty party has in view. "A hundred men can
e more easily induced to array their influence
against slavery, than one can to advocate dis
solution of the Union.-Of course the end which
the dssolutionists tell US they have in view, may
be accomplished long before their means will be
regarded with any other feeling than that of
aversion. Their labols are, therefore, misdrect-
ed, their energies wasted, and, worse than this,
they are actually delaying the day of the Slaves
deliverance by identifying, 50 far as their action
can do it, the cause of emancipation with the
purpose Of disunon. Charter Oak.