Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-09-02
KNFP 1T REFORE TILE PEOPLE,
ELECTION TUESDAY, SEPT T..
For Torn Rcpresentatirc-MontpeJir,
STEPHEN T. STEVENS.
The Day Of TriaIm"are You Ready?


The time is at hand to which we have looked for
ward with intense inorest-the day in which the free
men of Vermont are to render judgment upon the
great questions that vitality affect the welbeing of
the American People. Before another issue of the
Freeman ere we can again present facts and argu-
ments in favor of the cause of bleeding Liberty and
the down-trodden and crushed victim of American oD
pession verdict will have been rendered. and the
die cast. In view Of the fearful crisis now reached
Of the mighty issues that must now be dcermined-is-
sues that take hold of the very foundations of indyid
ual well-beng and national eXistence-we are filed
with solcitude for the result The interest of pro
slavery parties requires that the great question of the
day should be bnked out of sight and that the people
be still divided upon real imaginary issues of COM
paatiyely no mportance-while, in fact, the naked
and unvarnished question of American Liberty or A
mercan Slavery lies at the very door of every Free
man, and every action he puts forth, yea, every mo-
ment he delays action the question is rapidly deter
mining One party is well nigh intoxicated with en-
thusasm in favor of the war; and its demand is, that
the people of Vermont Sustain the country and the
war" The other party as bitterly denounce the war;
and the administration for commencing it, but through
its representatives in Congress, furnishes abundant
supplies Of men and means for its prosecution, and
publishes to the world its determination to pursue this
course until it shall be brought to an "honorabc closet
which means, we suppose, the conquest of Mexico and
the re-estabshment throughout its borders of the
blighting Upas of slavery
While both nartipc utorv neplnct md raf,ea r., nc
pouse the cause of impartial frccdom-whie they
practically deny the doctrines of the Declaration Of
Independence that all men have an inalienabe right
to life and liberty-while they delight to shower the
highest honors upon slaveholding oppressors and ty
rants-while they have alternately given their ofcia
sanction to the encroachments ofhe slave power unit
it has tramped down the Constitution, the rights of the
free, the vital interests Of humanity and religion
while these parties have done all this and persist II
doing it, still they clamorous in their demands upol
the confidence and support of the citizens of the free
, States And what is more surprising, the mass o
northern frecmen are still marshacd beneath their re
spectve banners, and fighting most valiantly-they
know not for what And we fear that next Tuesday
trial will show that majority of the professod friends
Of freedom, of religion and Justice, in this State are
still marshaed beneath the bloody flag of oppression
t God grant that it may not be so
, One thing we desire to impress upon the minds o.
all such desire to bring their elective franchise tc
bear in the present struggle between slavery and free
dom-whlch is, the powerful influence of the Liberty
Party upon the citadel of slavery We have mos
; conclusive evidence upon this point, which is more
convincing than the denuncations of ten thousand in
terested demagogues. A circular has been published
and extensively circulated at the south, signed by a
bout forty prominent southern politicians OF both pal
ties, proposing the establishment of press at the City
of Washington to be the organ of the slave interest
and devoted to eiectng union of all parties at tho
SOUTH in resistance to the Wmot Proviso and the rs
ing spirit of Freedom at the north In this Circular
the following tribute is paid to the fidelity and nAu
f ence of the Liberty Party;
81 How have the aboltonists, so uncomfortable il
numbers, and themselves without official station effect
ed so much? The answer is obvious They have ad
+, hered to principle They have made it paramount tC
party organization and temporary policy, and they have
thus held the balance Of pOCer between the two grea
parties They have on this account been courted al
ternately and together, by wing and democrat, unit
it has come about that no politician, on either sde is
considered as "duadble" who cannot enlist in his be
half this necessary vote and they actually at THU
moment controlling the destinies of this great confede
, racy Shall we not profit by their example?"
This is the testimony of men who are expendinG
every energy for the perpetuation of slavery They
do not misjudge. They are eage-eyed where the pc
cuar institution is at stake. The convulsive throes
the monster rive unfanp sion that the organization
of the Liberty party is mighty to the Accomplishment
of its object.
= What friend of human Liberty in Vermont, then
will fail to give his influence in favor of that organiza
ton which, by strict adherence to the principles
# Liberty and JUSTICE laying the axe at the very roc
of the vies system of oppression that now tn
h earth? May just God incline the hearts of the pee
ple 10 espouse and defend the Right