Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26
From the Nationa! Era.
Levi Woodbury.,

There is evidently a plan on foot to suppress
the Wilmot Proviso rebellion of the Northern
Democracy, by giving them a "Northern man
with Southern principles for Presidential candi-
date. Looking over the list of the prominent
democrats of the free States, the President-ma-
kers Of the South appear to have made up their
minds, that in case Gen. Taylor or some other
STAKEHOLDER cannot be made available, Judge
Woodbury., of New Hampshire, is the man for
the occasion. owe can trust him." Say the
South Carolina toast-drinkers. 1t would be fol-
ly, indeed, to ask Of Judge Woodbury. any fur
Their pledges of his entire subserviency to the
Slave Power, and of his willingness to be used
as its instrument to extend its sceptor over the
free States. He has omitted no opportunity to
manifest his |seryility. In respect to every i'm
portant question upon which, in any capacity he
has been called upon to decide, he has taken the
hint from slavery.
We have often had occasion to express our adj
mlratlon of the keen sagacity and accurate dis
elimination of slaveholding politicians in respect
to men and measures, viewed in connection with
their peculiar interest and their policy in the
present instance is by no means calculated to di-
minish it. They evidently understand their man.
The Indians hold that every class of animated be-
ings have a gigantic model or archetype-a sort
Of monstrous exaggeration and caricature Of its
peculiar qualities. Applying this theory to the
phases OF human character, we have no hesitation
in setting down Levi Woodbury. as the great
model DOughtdCc. Most men to whom this ex-
pressive epithet Of the Roanoke orator is applied
betray at times a sense of their degradation show
that they loathe their task work and writhe under
} tho WhIn Rut VIZ DbtbInr ff chic 49,, 4bo NOHr
Hampshire polticln-no spasmodic outbreak OF
manliness-no revolt of a better nature. He
seems to have a natural aptitude for his vocation
An Eastern traveller tells us, that in the caravans
Of Mcccan pilgrims, some apostate from Chris
tlanity is expected to prove the sincerity of his
conversion, by following with brush and pitcher
the camel who bears the Koran, in devout atten.
dance upon the rear of the holy brute. Upon
the same principle, doubtless, and in a very sim.
liar capacity, the apostate from Northern princi
pies is required to attend to the wants, humors
and the necessities of the "%peculiar institution.
The individual IN question seems to have actet
his part with such %obsequious fidelity as to take
precedence Of all his competitors for the favor
able regard Of the guardians of that institution
Will the Wilmot Progiso Democrats, will thu
friends of Silas Wright be deceived for a m
by such a show of compromise as the presentation
of such a Northern man by their Souther allies
A compromise! 1t would be the v%erriest mock
q cry. When the Wilmot Proyiso shall have beer
: defeated by Executive power and patronage ant
the territorial acquisition of the Mexican wa
given over to slavery, and the free States place.
thereby in the conditional conquered provinces
at the feet of the Slave Power, will it be an
satisfaction to be told that the instrument of tn,
great mischief is a Northern man? Nobody il
his sober senses can doubt for a moment that al
/, Administration headed by Levi Woodbury. woul
be intensely pro-slavery-meanly, basely subser
. Went to the will Of the Southern wing of tn
Democratic party. A STAKEHOLDER could affor,
f to be magnanimous while a Northern apostate
5 in his anxiety to CRAFTY his masters, would offe
r gratuitous and un-called-for indignities to hi
birthplace. J.G. w.