Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-07-06
VOL. V. NO. 27.


ing him for the administration Of the foreign and
domestic affairs of our Government : and to make
the inconsistency and Prohigacy still more ap-
parent, this candidate was not only uncommtted
to any principle, but, by his own admission. with
out any definite opinions upon the great ques-
tons OF policy which have divided the two lead
ing parties ofthe nation for the last twenty years
Can the Wing party bow lower? Can degrade
ton and abandonment 60 farther? Is not the
present condition of the party most humiIiating
one And yet all this has been forced upon rs
by the arrogant demands of the Slave-power. to
which we have basely submitted.
For years, we have denounced the Democrat
ic party, for its servility to the South. We have
held it up as her natural ally" We have char
acterized its conduct-in submitting to the sac
rifce of Mr.. Van Buren,, and supporting Mr..
Polk, at the dictation of the Slave power-as be-
ing, in the highest degree, pusilIanimous and de-
grading. But that was magnanimity compared
with the course Of the Wing party; for they have
not only sacrificed all their old and long-tried
leaders and eminent statesmen and taken can
didate at the Shareholders biddng-he an "out-
slider" and never identified with us-but. for the
boon thus vouchsafed from their masters. thew
have thrown away all the principles for which
they have ever commended.
w Hat, now, loHoW-CltlZenS, was l. your dele
gate-who have been known, for years, to be
opposed to Slavery, in all its forms, and elected
by you, knowing what my principles were-to
do? Should !, by approving this course, give
the lie to my own professions and your unani
mously recorded vote? | would not do it.
could not be false to my own convictions duty
and your deliberately recorded opinions, to cain
the applause or escape the censure ofany man or
bod OG he,
Would you have done so, had YOU been there
yourselves! Painful as was the tria-knowng
as did, that should probably sacrifice the friend
ship of those whose good opinion highly priced :
i announced to the Convention, that | should
not be bound by its nomination; but should 90
home, and do all could to oppose it; and ven
tured the assertion, in your behalf that the six
thous and Wings of the District-who had sus
tanned John Quincy Adams through his long and
glorious career-would spurn, with scorn and
contempt nomination forced upon them by the
arrogance of the South, aided by the servility of
the North.
And ifanything was wanting to Justify my con-
duct at the time of making this announcement
the subsequent course of events in the Conven-
ton filled up the deficiency and the measure Of
its degradation. The "Wilmot Proviso" was
presented to the Convention by the Ohio delera-
ton, and received with the same spirit of defiance
and denunclatlon which all previous efforts of the
friends of Northern rights had excited Its friends
were denounced as taCtiOniStS who came there to
disturb the harmony of the Convention. Yes
the great PrincipIc Of free territory, which has
received in Congress the support of the majority
of the party and been supported by all the Wing
Legislatures of the Free States, was denounced
in that National Convention and Indignantly laid
upon the table, while its supporters were brow
BEATEN insulted, and denounced And another
circumstance, equally significant and in charac-
ter, was the fact that the Convention broke I'D
without adopting single resolution or recording
= a single opinion upon the great questions of the
day. Nothing was said about the war-about
the acquisition Of territory-nothing about the
events in Europe, or any other of the stirring
: themes of this most wonderful period in the his
= tory Of the world, For what then, are you to la
Dor, in the support you are invited to give to the
ticket thus nominated? A Wing victory But
! of what advantage can Wing victory, gained
under such auspices be to you, the yeomanry, the
rank and file of the party? Such victory will
be barren of all good at least to the free North
GA barren sceptre in their grippe,
Thence to be wrenched by an unlineal hand,
f No son of theirs succeeding"
, For such a victory | had no desire. | will
n have nothing to do with such an utter abandon
e mcnt Of principles. | wash my hands now and
+ forever of all possible agency in such an ignobIe
If work as this to which we have been invited BY
e the trading politicians Of the party will not
o trade away the rights of treemen, nor ignore the
l. whole question of American Slavery, merely for
i the election of few ofice-seekers to places of
l. trust and power-especally those who have
J. thrown themselves thus unfaithful to the true in
- tcrests of the party, the country to common
C humanity, and to God
J. know the idea is held out that, although
General Taylor may not have much experience
II as statesman, and may not be exactly our first
l. choice, yet being honest he will surround HIM
1t self with Wing Cabinet, by which the present
d reign of misrue will be broken, and there shall
It be return ofthe Government to the principIes()
r. of the party. Let not the honest freeman of the
y North clay this hattering JUNCTION to their souls
ID The reckless adventures, the fiery spirits of the
L Southwest who have brought forward General
e Taylor from the obscurity Of frontier camp,
and of whose principles he is the exponent and
10 champion, have not done it all without a econ
lie sideration" Not only is he to be the leader, I'm
h der whom the last act of the Mexican war is tc
ut be consumated, its appropriation of the ceded
e territory now free to Slavery, (which can only
lie be done by Executive permiSSiOn) but we cannot
IN suppose that, having made all these personal ex
T. ertons and expenditures, they will step quietly
70 aside and let a sober Wing administration, made
,e up of our leading statesmen, enjoy the fruits o
he their tolls. 1t is expecting too much, that mer
I'd who were so overbearing in the Convention
e: with power but in expectancy, and when concili
Sc alton would seem necessary to secure the accom-
er plishment of their bold schemes, should wher
e. firmly seated in the administration, become mod
IN est and forbearing. No; Gen Taylor will come
in, if he comes in at all, unpledged to any mer
I'd and measures, except such in secret cabal hi
ne has counseed with, and who have chosen hin
mt as their leader His election will be but anothe
We Southern victory Already have the leading
Y" politicians of democratic South Carolina express
he ed themselves as better satisfied with him thar
er with Gen. Cass. And the probability is greater
ed at this moment, that the policy of his admins