Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-04-08
THE FREE MAN.
MONTPELIER, THURSDAY y, APRIL8, ls47.
Mr.. Collamer and the AbolitiOniSts,

NIL UUIIdIuCI anu tuO AUUlltIVhAHV"
We notice that the Wing papers are publishing
and lauding the speech of Mr.. Collamer, our
Representative in Congress from the I'd District,
upon the Three Million Bill. The Burlington
Free Press says, it dis forcible and just
true to the opinions of his constituents and the
principles and the humanity of the State" In
this speech we notice that Mr.. Collamer directly
asserts that the question of Slavery had slept
quietly until within three years; that a few po-
I~litical abolitionists (the Liberty Party at the
North preached the doctrine that the pOwer Of
the General Government should be exercised to
produce the abolition Of Slavery in the Slave
holding States; that the South have embraced
the same doctrine, so far as to acknowledge the
power of the General Government over the sub
icct of Slavery, but are invoking the aid OF its
strong arm for the pcrpetuation, rather than the
abolition. of slavery: while he asserts that the great
body of the northern people hold that the Ten
eral Government cannot constitutionaly interfere
in any way with Slavery in the States. There
Is ii SItOlCo VI l1lOl UNIV VI "AAN' AHHN
~tation, not to say low meanness, about this whole
statement of the subject, that we did not expect
from one of the representatives of the "tru(
Liberty Party in Vermont. In the first place
does Mr.. Collamer believe himself when he says
u that the question of Slavery chad slept quietl,
>. until within three years past?' Perhaps he ha
d been ignorant of the whole subject until within
e this period of time, and we question very mucl
if less can be said of him than that, even now
n If the question of Slavery has "slept quietl
until within three years." it has been owing t
, the criminal dough-faccdness of the north, an
not for want of abundant provocation on the PAL
of the South to cause even the $ tones to cry GU
=, By what power was Slavery established IN tn
% District of Columbia? BY that of Congress-
RS BY what power have ten new Slayeholding State
p been brought into the Union? BY Congress-
D BY what power was the law of 81 enacted, sui
re l~ccting the whole territory of the United State
at to the bloody scent of the Kidnappcr, and inin
r, and imprisoning all who should feed or clotl
T. the furnishing and naked fugitive from the Soutl
II ern prison house? By Congress. Under who's
e. sanction has the blood coursed beautifully in I'll
of veins of Slavery, from the slave breeding to I'll
consuming States, with all the horrors of I'll
~ middle passage! That of Congress. For who's
n benefit has the U. s.. Treasury been taxed
fight Indian wars, make treaties, and acquir
A territory 4! Slavery. In fact, the history of OF
IL Government for the last half a century, is but
~ series of the aggressions of the slave power al
or yet, MIR. Collamer says it has slept quietly uu
ee within three years. Shame upon the friends
liberty that it has been so!
In the second place, we challenge the honor
bic gentleman to show when and where the " fc
,or political abolitionists Liberty Party) of t
nut North have ever avowed the doctrine that t
~ with, Slavery in the States, any further than
ee has been unanimously resolved by the Wing lie
Or %lslaturc of Vermont for the last eight or ten yea
u, and which is triumphantly pointed at as a cert
g. cate of the genuine antislavery character of I'll
bv party-viz the abolition of Slavery in t
RS, District of Columbia, and the territories, t
are prohibition of the Interstate Slave trade, t
ina non-admission of new Slave States, and the |
ND of all constitutional means to secure the gene
ion abolition of Slavery" The only difference
tn tween the Wings and Liberty Party is this-t
INT Wings sag and do not, while the latter say, a
-" attempt to do.
ra- We are Il little s%olicitous to know how
lie 'truc Liberty Party of the Cd District
.he pleased with Mr.. CoIlamcr's representation
p 1l' their principles.