Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26
The Wh.g SWindIe for 1913.

The Whg Swindle for 1040.
In 1914, the Wing leaders tried to make the
North-and especially the Observation-Disclosures
that Mr.. Clay was uncondltionally opposed to
annexation Of Texas on anti-slavery grounds,
and would be able to prevent the consumation of
that measure if elected. Mr. Clay himself had
the frankness to declare in his Alabama letter,
that SO far from being personally opposed to the
annexation, he should be glad to see it on Ger.
tain conditions, (easiIy complied with and that
the subject of slavery had nothing to do with
the matter. Tens of thousands Of honest anti
slavery men, relying upon the pledges of distin-
gulsled Wings as to the feelings and intentions
of Mr.. Clay, made up their minds to vote for
him as the only means Of keeping Texas out of
the Union. His Alabama letter appeared too
late to change their determinations Now we
do not suppose there were a dozen men among
these distinguished Wings, that doubted! for one
moment that Texas would be annexed to the
Union, whether Mr.. Clay were or were not cleo
ted. Indeed, they must have known his success
or defeat would have no effect upon the question
for history has recorded that that iniqituous
measure was consumated, all except the mere
formal "deIi,ery of the deed" under the admin
lstIarlon of John Tyler, and by the Joint labors
of the man whom the Wings Of 1910 had inn
posed upon the country as its chief magistrate,
and his secretaries Of State, (Upsher and Cal
houn,) who Ind been unanimously confirmed in
their places by a Wing senate. Yet, with these
facts before them, the Wing press of the Union
has heaPed unmeasured abuse upon the Liberty
party for not conserving to be duped by the great
Wing swindIe of 1874.
We presume that party will fare little better
from the same hands for refusing to be caught
III the snare of the great whig swindle of l94S.
Aud now to the swlndle.
Since the ad iournrnent of the last Congress.
the Wings of the North have professed to regard
the Wllmot Proviso as the Pole Star OF hope, by
whose guidance the country was to emerge from
thick gloom with which our war of conquest has
clouded it. They have taken it for granted that
new territory was certainly to be acquired, and
that the only question was, o1Gt relations shall
1t sustain to SLaUCry and freedOm-shdN it be
cOnsecratcd to liberty or abandoned to slavery?
They have protested to regard the Provlso as
settling this same queStioh-have pledged them
selves to stand firmly by its proyisions-have gTo-
ried over the united Northern Wing vote in Con-
greSs in its favor-hare claimed to be its special
patrons and champions-have expressed their be-
lief that Northern democracy would baseIy de-
sert it in the hour of trial and have denounced
: as flctlonists and impracticabies all Abolitionists,
who would not admit it to be the only and all
sufficient anti-sldvery issue which ought to mingIe
in the approaching presidential contest.
Now, who but the liberty party men and the
| leaders in the Wing party, would have believed,
six months ago, that in August, lS47, nine-tenths
of the N ,rtheru Wings would be found in the
attitude of making up their minds to abandon
and d%enounce this very Wilmot Proviso? Who,
we say, would have believed this but Liberty
t purity men and leading Whigs-the former, be-
cause they know by bitter experience that Wing
: ism could not be intrusted with the interests Of
r the ant-sIavery cause, and the latter, because
they never intended TO use the Proviso any long
er than was necessary to deceive and wheedle
the anli-slaVery portion of their party.
, But such is the fact. As if by a concerted
movement, the leading Wing presses of the North
+ the Boston Atlas, the Albany Journal, the
: Philadelphia North American, and other inAuen-
: tlal Northern newspapers-acting in conjunction
e with the Richmond Wing, the Louisville jour
mi, and other leading presses of the South
are repudIating the ProviSo, and preparing the
\ public mind for the great wing swindle OF IS4e.
q The cry now is, no more t~crrltOry-nO more
t~erritOry-here is common ground, on which
IS the Wings Of the North and South can rally and
r avoid the vexed question of slavery-hurrah fol
old Rough and Ready-Go it blind.
Is there a sane man in the country who does
not believe that this cry Of "no more territory
is worse than delusive-that New Mexico and
California at least are now virtually annexed tc
this Union, and no more can be shaken off THAI
" can the expenses or the r~ascality of the Mexican
N war? Then is not this cry a sheer deception
I'd a known fraud and does it not deserve the ep
Ii tibet we have bestowed upon it, THE GREAT
I'd WING SWINDLE FOR lS4S.
al We are aware that we are using plain Ian
a. guage. But we are sure that the leaders, to b.
Ne followed by nine-tenths of the rank and file q
or the Northern Wings, in order to concliate tn
Southern wing OF The party, and bring both sec