Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-08-24
VT, THURSDAY, AUGUST "a, 1913.
MONTPELIER, VERMONT,

principles which they are now assembled to advocate.
He had stood by the side of Judge Nye and had been
decapitated with him. His heart was in this Conven
ton and he glad to the respectable portion oil
all parties. And why was this? Why did he sec
Frederick Douglas here? Three cheers for Doug
lass.) Why did he see the Wing party here, the re
spectacle portion oft? And why did he see the De
mocracy here in their strength? Because they were
all determined to curb and bride and drive back and
overthrow the proud and aggressive slave power, and
he trusted that the people would now unite and shout
der to shoulder fight in firm array till they should tr
umph. Here the staging on which we sat went down
with Tremendous crash.
We finally got corner of the table on which the
speaker was standing, when Stanton" "Stanton,'
was loudly called, and came forward amid loud cheer
ing and gave notice that the Convention would be
regularly organized at ~ o'clock and was about to sit
down. when there such an cutlery for him to " Just
say something" that he consented and said he would
make speech about long, as the ferue of his cane.
He said that the motto of this Convention should be
that of the French Republic, Liberty, Equality, Fra
ternlty" (Cheers.) They had come up to contend
against movement, the part of the slave interest,
to extend that cursed institution which takes the I'M.
age of Almighty God on the immortal soul, and bolts
it thereom by Legislation and stamps in its place, by
legal enactment the name Of BRUTE beast and proper
ty !; that that institution now struggling for existence
lon its soil shall be extended to territories where
the lower morality and feeber repubCanism of Mex.
co has abolished it, This is the issue which the South
tenders to this country at the MONDAY of the nine
teenth century. Waving all my peculiar views, am
for joining issue with the South on the great
anu for trying it this year before the American PEG
pie, and am for getting verdict and entering up
Judgment taking out execution and levying on the
slave power and taking possession of it, and hanging it
up between the Heavens and the Earth where the
winds of eXecraon shall whistle throught (Cheers.)
In order to fight this battle successfully we must be
united, and again say, let us adopt the glorious mot
to Of the new born French republic Liberty, Equal
ity Fraternity" (Cnes of good, good, that's it give it
to em
The great loadstone principle which has brought us
up here from the Mississippi to the Aroostook for it
has been ascerained in general committee that all the
Northern tier Of slave States represented in this
Convention, Good good is the French MOTTO Liberty,
the sun of this great movement around which the 9th
departments revolve bound toll by the laws of gray
tation and from which all other subordinate movements
receive their light and their heat. Then, sir, COME
here to carry out that other principle of the French
Republic EguQiiG Wings, Democrats, and Adolf
onists all parties broken up and resolved into
their original elements Then there is that other word
fraternity completing the trinity of principles against
which the united despotsm Of the void cannot stand.
[Cheers. Now, gentlemen, hope we may not divide,
lCrles Of good, good. we wont, we won't
President MAHAN, of Ohio, took the stand but
owing to the necessity of rebuilding the platform
previous to the regular organization of the Con-
vention, the audience was requested to divide in
to four parties and each party to retire to cor
ner of the Park where temporary stands had
been erected, and where there were speakers
ready to entertain them The audience did &C
cordinrIy and we left.