Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-04-20
For the Green Mountain Freeman,
Letters TO an Anti'SIavery Wing,
NUMBER FIVE.

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Dear W.T. am not Mistaken you are now halt
ling between two opinions in regard to the course duty
would have you take. Well, am glad you have
come to a halt in your course. 1t is favorable omen
have hope for you. You may yet have political sal
vation
will not say"choose this days a moral dec s;or
is not required-what course you will take in the
future. | want you should examine the subject till
you are convinced that it is your duty to tlrn and
then turn from principle and remain firm as rock r
your course Indeed have no doubt as to your fu
ture course, if the party scales once fall from you
eyes, so that you again behold the true light of the
sun, and see things as they really are.
1t WILL however, be no small trial for you to leave
your old party. Many have felt that they have made
great sacratce in joining the Liberty party. Some
could have held fat offices had they continued in the
Wing party, but the cries of the helpless slave has
led them to give up all for the cause of emancipation
Just consider the sacrifice made by the noble Bney
and all for the good of the slave Others have sacri
feed all their property in the And hundreds
have expended their thousands of dollars, and been
subjected to all manner of abuse, in leading the
cause of the oppressed of our land.
Every good cause demands sacrafce No great
interests have been gained without great personal
sacrifice on the part of some individual But who
will lament all we may suffer, in taking the yoke from
off the neck of the poor bondnan? glory in suffer
ing in such cause. cannot think that the fear of
losing caste and influence will long deter you from
embracing openly the cause Of Liberty, after you see
it to be your duty to do it.
One consideration has long deferred you from joining
the Liberty party even when you have felt somewhat
uneasy about your present course. The Wing party
is regularly organized party, holds as you think,
the right principles regard to national policy in gen.
era and if it is suffered to go down there will be no
possible way to carry out these principles in our nation
Hence you have said Go with us, sustain our party,
get an anti-savery spirit at work in it, then we will
both carry out these principles and in short time be-
come sufficiently anti-slavery to abolish slavery
Well your reasons for such course have looked
somewhat plausible and would say, if right prnci-
pies could be carried out in no other way, ought
to sustain the Wing party. But have not so viewed
the subject, neither have Liberty men generally had
ject the only way we save our nation from ulti-
mate ruin is to go to work systematically to abolish
slavery.
Wings have thrown the blame of their i'll success
almost entirely on Liberty men. They have called US
hybrds mules, and have claimed that if we had not
been so stubborn, but have helped them, we might
have gained both the ends they had in vew and our
own likewise.
Well suppose that Liberty men have occasioned
your defeat suppose them asinne in their DISPOSE
ton as they have been represented to be- how will YOU
change their nature and persuade them to give up
their princples-as they would consider it giving up
their prncipes-and sustain your party? assure
YOU that can never succeed in such an undertaking.
All such labor is thrown away.
There is then no help for you You must as par
ty, fail of success You know that you cannot sue
coed unless you get help from the Liberty party
Hence your profession of an anti-slavery spirit
party But you "can't catch old birds with chaff."-
"In vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird"
You may well give up the attempt before you make
it again. You may blame Liberty men as much as
you please, it will not alter their course Their minds
are made up, and they are not to be altered
Why then will you let this consideration have any
farther influence over you3 You cannot carry out
your principles. Why then wlllyou continue to throw
away votes You know, or ought to know, that if
you vote for the Wing candidate for president let him
be who he WILL you will vote in vain for he will not
be elected. The Wing party we all know, is not the
governing party of this naton-and it never will be.
But before close want to say that do not admit
that Liberty men are mush in their disposition. They
cannot from principle sustain the Wing party, in
voting for Shareholders. If you have looked upon
them as stubborn, you have misconceived their char
acter They are, as body, men of principles, and
act conscientously Such men cannot be turned from
their purpose by any timeserving considerations
Hence you more fully the folly of making any cal
culaon for help from this quarter Your case there
fore is hopeless. You are clingng to falling build
ing, in holding to your party Flee, warn you, lest
YOU be crushed under its ruins it falls For fall it
must, and fall il will. Its doom is sealed.
Still yours, LlBERTAS.