Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-04
From the Maine Liberty Standard
Letter from Hon. Samuel FcSSenden

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Your official communication or the l4th an
bouncing that on the 18th inst, the State Lib
erty Convention, held in Augusta, had unanl-
mously voted to present me as the Liberty
Candidate for the high aud responsible office OIL
Governor Of the State, at the next Election, has
Leen received 1t was my intention to have
been at that Convention, where | fondly antici-
pated the pleasure of meeting the friends of the
cause, which gave rise to the Liberty Party in
the United States, the emancipation Of three mill
ions of our Countrymen from Slavery, and toI
confer upon them that impartial liberty, to which
they are entitled by the immutable law of Con
the law of Justice, upon which rests the throne
of the Eternal; and of which they have ruth
lessly been despoiled by a nation protesting to
be Christian, and the great, if not the only bull
wark of free Institutions, The severe sickness
of son prevented me from participating with
the friends of the slave, in the hopes, and the
cheering prospects, which the steady and the
substantial growth Of the Liberty Party would
suggest and inspire, and increase You will
permit me to say that my whole heart is in the
success of the Liberty Party, believing that, UNI
der the guidance of Just, holy, and mercl-
full Con- it is to be the most efficient means of
bringing to speedy and final end, that Heaven
accused system of Slavery in our Country,
which has rendered US obnoxious, in the Just
Judgment of all Christian communities, and civil
Iized nations, to the character Of a nation of
hypocrites to the great principles of
freedom-recreant to humanity-a Cor defying
nation. | most sincerely rejoice in the evidence,
which the great increase of the Liberty Party
affords, that its principles are taking deep hold
on the hearts Of the people. Results, i'll my
opinion, show the practical wisdom Of steadily
and firmly pursuing our one great object, re-
gardless Of those, comparatively, ttining and in
significant ones, which di:lde the two great pc
litica parties, whose strife has so long excited
and distracted the Country, and as often as time
has brought round the stated election Of those
who are to administer the Government
Organized as those political parties are, ant
continuing to be so equally balanced as they
have been it is utterly vain to hope that either Cal
or will aid the cause in which we are engaged
Both are bound irrevocabIy to the slave holdin!
power-a power single and indlvisble, havin!
one great object the extension and perpeIuity o
Slavery and united to this to the exclusion o
all other interests they throw their weight into
the political scale, of that party in the free State
which is prepared to be most subservient to lh'
slave power Hence it is, that hitherto, (anC
there is no hope that 1t will not be SO for thu
time to Gomez each party has We'd with the 9th
,uhioh shall D,nko bo ~,
nhe altar of this Moloch. This is the inevitable
result of the organization Of the wing ant
democratic parties. To giyeu our organlza
tons and amagamae with either of the grea
political parties would, in my judgment, be sui
cidal, and strike death blow to the hopes O
the crushed bondman Equally fatal would
be to the truest and best interests of our Who'll
country. For as certain as that cause produce
its appropriate effect, so sure will Slavery, if
be not destroyed, but continue to be chershe
as the great interest Of our country, as it ha
been, result in tine overthrow and destruction o
our free institutions. Already is the nobl
fabric being undermined. Administered as tn
government has been by shareholders, the Con
stituton has been no barrier TO the steady ad
vance Of the slave power. To secure its ascen
'dency, and peEpetuate its control, the Constitn
ton has been palpably violated in voting TO an
mex foreign nation to the Union. And no
contest with the ascendency already acquired b
such bold and garng usurpation, war, un
constitutionllIy declared, is now being vindic
lively waged with comparatively feeble, anc
nnoffendiag nation, for the sole object of dis
membering that republic, that the area of SLAYER,
may be extended, and new market opened 70
the sale of human beings In this war, also
hateful as it may be to many of both parties
are they compelled to vie with each other, whc
shall 60 fartherest, and fastest to consumate
the object for which it was unconstitutional
declared the dismemberment Of sister Rep ub
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With such political parties the Liberty Part
can never amalgamate, or coalesce. What then
should it be asked, have we to hope? My an
:swer is, everything. While we have no confdenc
in those parties as organized. we have everythin!
to hope from the integrity Of the people of whom
they are constituted. The people love Liberty
and are beginning to sec, and will see that thei
own best interests are being sacrificed, and the,
will come TO the rescue They will come out
and cordially embracing our principles, carry
forward the glorious enterprise to successful is
sue. Our country will yet be saved | ma,
not live to hear the grand Jubilee announced
for am now three score years cid, but firmI,
believe my children will live to Join in the shout
Jehovah has trumphed; the slaves are free.
was my design, had Providence permitted me Il
attend the Convention, respectfully TO decline
denomination cannot. however, under tn
circumstances in wlich the nomination wa
made, do so. l hold myself bound to sub
nit to the judgment of the tried friends of tn
cause Grateful for the confidence which tn
act of the Convention expresses in my zeal fo
the cause, and submitting the question of m