Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-08-26
Another Wbig ROOrbaCk,

LAAVthNA W HE
The wing papers in this and neighboring States are
e|xultingly parading intheir columnst the proceedings of
what they denominate a Liberty Party meeting in the
town of Colchester, in this State, which meeting grave
ly resolved that the cause of Political Liberty would
be best subserved by a dissolution of the "Third
Party" and a return of its members to the old parties
from which they come. And this is heralded as an
unfailing sign of the " dissolution of the Liberty Par
ty in Vermont Even the Boston Atlas devotes one
long, broad column to this subject, and %denominates
Colchester " one of the strongest Liberty towns in
the State" 1t grieves us to deprive these poor, dis
consulate souls of the little crumb of comfort which
they have cooked up for themselves, but nevertheless
the truth must be told. Let us onalyze the matter a
little.
|. The Liberty vote in Colchester at the last cleo
ton was l8-in I845, 0! So that, even we're it true
that all the Liberty voters in town had arrived at this
sage conclusion, it would not be the act of one of the
" strongest and oldest Liberty towns in the State"
But,
II. There is not the slightest evidence that the Lib
a4y Party voters of Colchester had anything to do
with this movement. The contrary appears true on
the face of it. l. 1t does not claim, either in the call
or the proceedings, to have been a meeting of Liberty
mon. 9. The Call for the meeting is signed " By or
der of County Convention" Whm "County Conyen-
tom" None other than the Wing County Convention
3. The Call itself is Us folows:-
NOTICE.
The voters of Colchester are requested to meet a
the Brick Church, Winooski, on Friday, the Both inst.
at s 10 o'clock, A. NJ, to OF ganize and appoint a tow
committee for the ensuing year, that will devise anC
carry out measures best calculated to advance the cause
of Political Liberty, and do all such business as usual
ly devolves on such committee, and do all other bust
ness thought proper when met.
By order of County Convention.
Thus it IS not the Liberty " voters" but the " rOter
Of Colchester" that are invited to meet and sit il
Judgment upon the merits of the Liberty Party. Lib
erty men, Wings, Democrats, Native Americans
Garrisonians, Land Reformers, and what not ar
included in the call Had it been merely a meet J
of the Liberty party, would it not have been espresso
in the call? a. Among the gentlemen named in tn
, proceedings, we recognize but one who has ever acte
. and voted with the Liberty Party-and that one, nc
!, three weeks previous to the holding of this meetin.
f expressed to us his abiding confidence in the Libert
Party, and ~deepened conviction of the irremediabl
n corrupt and proslavery character of the old parties
5. Throughout the whole proceedings the Liberty Pa
! ty is termed the d" Third Party" What Liberty MAJ
that was even a yearling, would adopt this reproachll
4 term of the proslavery parties? G. The sage concIl
u sion at which these political doctors arrive-viz: that il
asmuch as both the old parties at thenorth are COMM
ted to the Wilmot Proyiso,the is no more to be dor
against slavery proves them to be not so thorough
r. inbued with abolition principles as even the wings clai
to be, inasmuch as they the voters of Colchester,
are satisfied with preventing the further ert nSion
slavery. 7. And the fatherly advice of these "vote
of Colchester" to the Liberty Party universal, that
disb9nd, and return to It's cid political embraces, SLOW
conclusively that the old parties ale less hostile
each other than to the /" TIurd party" Perhaps the
No are preparing for a fraternal hug, after the So uthel
fashion, and regard the Third Party" as the only ii
u p|ediment in their way.
In short, this is only another specimen of VIII
Roorbacks, and the silliest of them all. Such edito
- as trumpet this transaction as e~menating from Llber
Party men, do so without the least evidence, but again
=, every evidence. They would trumpet any other
that would subserve their purpose as soon as this.