Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-25
TIE FIX + L NJ A N.
For the Gr0cn Mountain Freeman
What has the Liberty Party Done,
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.. 1t has gwen permanency to the Antslavery SEN
timent,
Previous to the efforts of WIN. l.. Garrison and his
coadutors, there no influence in the country tend
ing to the abolition Of slavery The whole current in
church and state was Of an opposite character. In
making this assertion, do not overlook the bursts of
individual feeling in some of the slave States. Not
outstanding these it is true that the combined influence
of political parties, of Legislative action, of church or
CARNATIONS and of societies for the relief of human
woes, was to bind closer the chains upon the poor
slave, Friend Garrison and his helpers did good
work in arousng the public mind to the true condition
Of the slave, They efectualy ncucated the duty of
immediate repentance on the part of the STAKEHOLDER
They planted in the public mind the sentiment of slave
holdings sinfuness. And under their influence the
churches of the north generally took the ground,
in some form, that slavery is sinful. Some did it
sincerely: Others a Of chef deuure to keep
quiet the rising spirit of aboonsrn. That the great
majority of Congregational churches took these
steps from the latter motive, is too manifest to need
proof Especially is this true of ministers. For in
the first place, they careful to word their de-
from the charge of abotonism open. And then, the
great mass of them ready now, openly to deny the
sentiment as applicable to individual saveholding.
In the political world, the wings were induced by the
force of the ant-savery sentiment at the NORTH to
mate northern man for President in 1910. But, by
nominating for Vice President at the same time, man
wholly devoted to the Shareholders interests, they
showed that it was political ar6ce, to win by false
precnce, the vot of anti-slayery men.
Under this state of things in church and state, the
wise ones thought their plans so wisely laid to crush
the ant-slayery sentiment that they conceived impos
sble to fail Churchmen were quoting the turbulent
spirits in the church by their happy strokes of art.
Politicians had opened channel, through which the
anti-slayery sentiment of the world might find out
let. And the whole movement was about to be swa-
lowed up in these mighty currents. These currents
could not be resisted by mere church and ecclesiast
cal acton, for the good reason that all such action
must fall short Of the necessity Of the case 1t cannot
reach the evil of slavery to remove it. As it is the
creature of law, can be abolished only by politi-
cal action. And it is true in philosophy that, whenev-
er sentiment OF the heart is not fully carried out in
appropriate action it eventually dies Church action
although right part of the ant-slavery work. is but
part And stopping with this, anti-slavery men fail
to carry out their sentiments in proper action, and
liable to be carried away with the current of opposition
What then, would give this sentiment permanencY?
What could save the cause from ruin? What could
deliver it from the chains wrought for by the artfu
machnators in church and state? The remedy is
plain. Let every true hearted abolitionst faithfully
carry out his sentiment, both as christian and rs
citizen Let him be true to his religion in shutting the
doors Of the church against the Shareholder and let him
be true to his country in excluding the stakeholder
from Offices of trust. This did anti-oovery men, when
they organized the Liberty party. By this they
saved the cause from extinction They gave tperma-
. nency. They planted it upon immovable basis.
And when remember that the moving spirit in the
party is that Of conscientious integrity, may have
no fears that the cause will ever die. Truth acted out
never dies And the snt-slavery sentiment embodied
the living action of the Liberty party, is destined to
: live and thrive, until slavery shall utterly fall.
A CoNGREGATIoNAL MINISTER,
Of Undp,tcd OrhodorH