Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-06-10
ANNUAL REPORT,

The Executive Committee, III presenting their
Annual Report, have cause, amidst many dscour-
agements, for gratitude, while they congratulate
the Society on the aspect and prospects of the
anti-slavery enterprise, which meets with the con-
tinual smiles of Divine Providence. During the
past year, death has invaded our ranks, and cut
down, both here and abroad, those eminent for
services and moral worth
With the members of the British and Foreign
Ant-Slavery Society, we mourn the removal of
their venerable President, Thomas Clarkson, of
Joseph John Quincy, and other friends of eman-
cipation; and they will participate in our griefs,
as we lament the decease of friends and associ-
ates in this country. Rev. Theodore S. Wright,
who led the devotional services at the last Ami
versary and who had been member of the Ex-
ective Committee from the formation of the So
ciety, as we'll as friend of every good object,
has been called from his labors on earth to his
reward in heaven. The friends of the oppress-
ed also mourn the death of other devoted cham
pions, among whom mention should be made of
Dr. Eels. of Illinois, and N. P Rogers, of New
Hampshire
Deprived ofthc services of the Corresponding
Secretary, by sickness and absence in foreign
land, during a large part of the year, the Com
mittee are not able to report the completion of
all the plans devised at its commencement. Still,
previous to his departure, Mr.. Phelps had edited
five numbers of the last years Reporter, in which
were discussed some of the vital principles of the
cause, and prepared for publication a Liberty
Almanac of AZ pages, full of useful and interest
ing matter.
Had he never written anything else, these pub
locations would be an enduring testimony of the
talents, wisdom, skill, philanthropy and piety,
that he consecrated to the service of his oppress-
ed countrymen and fcow-mcn, in the fear of
God. He has, we have Just learned, recently ar
rived at the South, with health somewhat impro-
we'd, but too feeble to reach this city in season to
attend the Anniversary.
A German Anti-Savery Almanac for 1847
was also published, and extensively circulated,
under the sanction of the Committee, with all
elaborate and able original address to those who
speak that language in this country, by that en-
inent scholar DR.. Carov, of Frankfort, Germany.
The Anti-Slavery Reading Room and Deposi-
tory have been frequented by large numbers, who
have had welcome access to the anti-savery lit
erature, and have witnessed the industry with
which the business of the Society has been con-
Quoted by the proper agents Tracts and other
from time to time; the two last being, tract
entitled tt'Shall we give Bibles to Three Millions
of American Slaves!" and a "Protest and Re-
monstrance against the course pursued by the
Evangelical Alliance on the subject of American
Slavery"
In no year since the commencement of the an
ti-savery effort in this country has there been so
much discussion on the subject of slavery as du-
ring the past year. In the halls of the National
and State Legislatures, in newspapers, in eccle-
siastical assemblies, and among the people, the
question of slavery has occupied unusual atten-
ton. Editors of religious and secular newspa-
pers, who had previously stood aloof or opposed
the ant-slavery cause, have in several instances
confessed that public sentiment demanded dis
cusson of the subject, and, in particular ln3tan-
ces, both Democratic and Wing papers have
streuuousy advocated the cause of the slave
The introduction of the "Wilmot proyiso" in
Congress has immortalized the name of the in
dependent Democrat of Pennsylvania, who, with
kindred spirits in other States, refuse any longer
to be the "white slaves" of Southern despots, or
to be "driven to the wall, and "naed down
like base money!" by the arrogant FEW who have
for so many years usurped the Government of
this country. The sovereign States of N. York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, &c, have solemnly resolved
that they are utterly opposed to any farther ex-
tension of slave territory Even in New Hamp-
shire, the present dominant party has been obi
ged to edo homage to the rising spirit of free
DOM" and become pledged against the extension
of human slavery.
The Northern States have at length, under the
"stimulus of public opinion received from Alb
olitonists," become aroused to feel their degra-
dation, the reproach of the country, if not the
wrongs of the slave; and it is hoped that no po-
ltica magician will ever again be able to wave
his compromising wand over the National Leg
islature, and induce trucking doughfaces to
violate the Constitution and break their plighted
faith.
Anti-Slavery discussion has not been confined
to the halls of Congress or the free States. For
time, c. M, Clay's paper, "The True Ameri-
can" boldly advocated the cause of emancipa-
ton in Kentucky Its subscription list wa:
large, and constantly increasing, and the circu
ation extending in the slave states as well as the