Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-09-02
GREEN MOUNTAIN FREEMAN.

Notwithstanding we find no power conferred on the
general government by the constitution, to egislae
upon the subject of slavery, still find she has as
sumed the power And it was slave political Influence
in the councils of the federal government.
That re-instated the slave laws of Maryland and
Virginia in D. c. making the capital Of this republic
the vilest slave mart in the world
That caused the laws of 1893; making all the free
states slavehuntng ground; by which many fugitive
from oppression, and not a few freeborn Americans
have been consigned to perpetual bondage.
That caused the law of 1907, which forbds the traf
fc in slaves in vessels of under 40 tons BURDEN and
legalizing it in large vessels, by which many have
pocketed the rewards of inquty by national sanction
That produced, in the P. o. law of 1910 the proh-
biton of the service of the coored man, by which the
North is subjected to no small share of the expense of
mails in the South.
That caused the law, making the African trade Pr
acy to enable the breeding states to govern the mark
ct in the consuming states and pocket the profits.
That produced the law of 1881, allowing any per-
son in DC to traffic in slaves by paying for license
400 dollars and another in 1884, allowing f. Brook to
bring into the district and hold slaves as property.
That caused the unconstitutional $50. says Calhoun
Missouri compromise, and spread the bighting curse
of slavery over large portion the U. S. territory
That trampled under foot the constitution and the
peoples rights by the passage of the 2lst rule.
That has drawn from the national Treasury millions
to purchase slave terrtoryand bloodhoundsand to paw
Gen. Jessup and his army for catching slaves in Flo
rido.
That caused the annexation of Texas, out Of which
has grown the Mexican war, sacrificing millions OF
money and thousands of lives to extend slave terrific
ry and prevent "save political influence" from being
"strangled in the councils of the federal government"
For the sake Of brevity, add but one more. 1t is
the influence Of slavery that is endeavoring to reduce
the free laborer to the condition of the slave or the
pauper Of Europe, while it draws from the nationa
treasury, and bcstows millions annually upon the slave
ocratn the form Of high salcries as a reward for tho
fidelity to their peculiar institution And because We
begin to feel FESTIVE under the yoke, and make signs
OF throwing it off, they threaten "wh Ink or boot
as the occasion may demand" (Alabama.)
"Ihat time is come wher this que ston must be met
1t can longer be avoided iii could is it desirable
The longer it is postponed the more nvetente ant
dangerous will become the hostility between the slave
holding and non-slaveholding states. With union a
mong ourselves we have nothing to fear; without it
everything The question is far above the party ques
tons of the day." SO says Calhoun. SO let the Mort
think, feel, and say aud so feeling let us united
meet the question, not with "bood' but the still sma
baIlotwhch mighty to the putting down of arostoc
= racy,) and once SO met, it will amount says Viz
gina editor) sin effect to virtual exclusion in al
time to come, of southern men from the exocutiv
branch Of the government" A. S.
= Norwich Aug %, 1917.