Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-04-15
N.om the Emancipat0r.
VIII Won iOin The liberty Party.

earnest We ask you to unite with US to destroy
American slavery. We speak to you first of the
slave,- and for the sake of the slave. Look at
the orOngs which he suffers and must suffer,
while slavery lives He la5ors without 0agcs.
He gets nothing he can call his own. That he
has coarse food and scanty clothing, we do not ,
deny; but are these wageS-woud you work
for them, and have them measured to YOU by the
avarce of your employer, and not by your own
necessities nor by your ability and skill to laborl
If labor is ever a hardship to the free, to the
man who can at least once in life choose his oc-
cupaton who can always change his employer,
and who is stimulated by hope, what must It be
to a doomed man, doomed to one master, and
dricen by fear, never made glad and strong by
hope.
We ask you then to unite with us in demand
ing wages for the labor of the slave.
But the slave not only has no reward of his
tabor he has no home. lie has no house, he
Can have none. A slave can acquire no proper
ty. He has no bed, nor chair nor table, no
household utensils which he can call his OWL
he has no wife Legal marriage is unknown
among slaves" He is permitted to live with a
woman and she with him, not for their good, not
for their happiness, but that they may have an
offspring Of property to be valued as soon as
born, and worth so many dollars more, as they
are inches taller, or years older, or pounds heavl-
This family is kept together, not that pa
3nts may educate children, and children support
md comfort the declining age of parents, but
shat they may grow up as calves in the stall -
cakeu out at the most promising age in the bloom
Of youth, and sold as cattle in the market place,
The single state of Virginia sent away forty
thousand human beings in one year, to be sold
and worked to death in louisiana and the ad-
lolnlng States.
The city of Washington, the Capital of your
country, is one of the great centers of this trade.
The money which you have paid in duties
upon salt and iron and other articles Of COM
MERGE have built the prisons IN the city Of Wash
ington, which are given up to the sellers and
buyers of human flesh.
Is this by your consent! Have you done all
in your power to wipe off this disgrace upon the
American and the Christian name!
But these are not all the wrongs OF the slave.
1 Uluk Oh WttttOUS Oh nIBu dllQ NNUSu Cuh Ol
from all the sources of mental enjoyment. Oh
three millions of slaves, probably, not more than
one in a thousand can read Not more than
one in thousand can spell out the name OIL
God, or the name of his Savior in that precious
book of life, put into your hands, but kept out
of the hands of the slave. They have no books
no weekly or daily messenger comes to them
from the world to tell Of the struggles and pro-
gress of the human family. They live in the
midst of darkness, they grope at noon day. Is
it right? Have you done what you can to de.
liver them If not, put your hand with ours
and let US deliver our brother, whose cry now
perces our soul.
But slavery does not terminate in the wrongs
done to the slave. 1t is a parent of crime. The
whole southern section of this land is filled will
violence. Neither the life of the slave, nor thu
lives Of the citizens are secure. Crime follows
crime, and blood touches blood.
"The element of water mostens the earth,
But blood flies upwards, and bedews the Heaven"
Were every drop of blood drawn by the whip
from the back of the slave, every stream that
gushes upon the hand of the murderer sprinkIed
upon the Heavens, the stars wonld dIstil Grim.
som dew that would dye the green earth where
slavery is. The feet of the slave write his cru
elites upon the earth he treads--Justice sleeps
at her tribunals, and stretches out no hand tc
ayenge this blood. Will not God be avenged
upon such nation as this? Have you done al
in your power to stay the progress of the plague
Are there not thousand ghosts whom slayery
has murdered calling upon you at midnight anc
at noon day, to awake and arrest this violence
Are you to be moved only by consideration o
your own interests! Look then at the draft
which slavery makes upon our nations Treasury
Fifteen millions of dollars paid to France 70
LOUISIANA, that slavery might expand and grow
luxurious upon its rich soil. Five millions NOR
to Spain for the Flordas.-and forty million
more in the war to drive from the evernlade
the Seminoles, among whom few score of slave
had found a refuge from their less mercfu mas
ters And now the whole army, navy and re
sources Of the country enlisted to extend tn
domain ofoppression. An unknown debt INQUIRE
-h'y years will not hear the last petition #
money IRON those who are wounded or suffer
this war Fifty years of prosperity will not pa
the debt, which an usurping stakeholder will m
up for war made without the authority If 20,
gress, by Shareholders. and slaveholdinG advse
for the benefit of their darling institution. Ho
long is this to be borne? Was Liberty bur;t
in the graves of our fathers Has freedom !
charm in her voice to arouse you to action 2.
The honor Of your country no claim upon YOU
The hopes Of the world entrusted to us, 10 c
that calls to you for protection? Has suift