Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-19
For the Green Mountain freeman.
Are YOU Ready?

Mr., EDIToR.-l solicit a corner of your paper to
ask every Liberty man in the state the simple ques-
ton, care you ready" and should they inquire, ready
for what, | would say to them ready for the coming
election, ready to engage with renewed zeal and en-
ergy in the great and arduous struggle for liberty, and
the equal and inalienable rights of man, ready to
preach deliverance to the captive, and to set at liber-
ty those that are bruised ready to remember those
that are bound as bound with Them ready to answer
any and every objection that the abettors of slavery
may throw in your way, ready to use your tongues
like the pen of a ready writer in setting forth the
denominations of slavery as the most oppressive and
cruel institution that ever disgraced the history of our
country, ready to meet with magnanimous fortitude
the calumny and personal abuse that may be forced
upon you by those who have already learned the tune
Of Rough and Ready from their southern leaders,
ready to 90 to the polls on the first Tuesday in Sept.
with Liberty votes in their hands, sound and unanswer-
able arguments in their heads, and the Fundamental
doctrine of the Constitution in their hearts, the equal
and inalienable rights of all men, and there await,
ready and prepared for every emergency, until you
have performed a duty you owe to God, to yourselves,
and to the oppressed millions in our land. And al
though | feel a deep solicitude in the answers to this
question, must necessarily wait till it comes in the
returns of the election, and shall by no means consjd-
er the answer affirmative unless they shall show at
least a forty per cent gain. And by comparing the
past with the present, have we not good reasons for
expecting such a result? The star of Liberty that
during the past has been family shining in the East,
ic pnur borinrinr to i11n,,;,,,o ,Lo o,ti., N.,..,
The abomlnable hypocrisy OF pro-slavery men in the
free States, with their high sounding professions of
aboItionism, aud the crahp d~uplicity of their slave
holding leaders have been exposed, and their true
position, viz. the extension and perpetuation of slavery
has been brought to light. The amalgamation Of the
south seems to have thrown those liberty-loving wings
and democrats of the moth into a strange dilemma;
they dare not speak out fully in favor of Gen. Taylor
for the next President, because this would put an end
to all hope of counting fyors If the Liberty party,
nor do they dare to speak against his nomination,
knowing that the iron thumb of their southern leaders
is upon them, and they must be su5servient to them
now, as on former occasions.
But to the question, "Are you ready" permit me to
say that if there be in the state a town where Liberty
men are not organized, or a school district where
there is no committee to converse with and call out
the Liberty men from every nook and corner of the
state, then we are not ready, and should use due dill
gence IN getting thus ready. If those parties that
make their issues a matter of dollars and cents, make
these preparations, how much more ought we as men
belonging to a party whose political creed is sacred
from the fact that it embraces the great subject of hui
man rights, And let me here urge this as one of the
strongest reasons why we should maintain our integri-
ty with rigid frmness, and not suffer ourselves to Goa
lessee or enter into any compromise with either of the
other parties.
The next question to be settled at the ballot-box, is
between freedom and slavery, the issue has come, and