Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-07-27
For the Green Mountain Freeman
The CriSiS""What is our Duty?

Mr.. Editor The present is an eventful period in the
history of the Liberty Party. 1t has been said that
no third party exist through a Presidential
vass, and retain considerable portion of its members
Local feelings-old party predictions, and the pow
erful efforts which generally characterize the election
Of President have tendency to draw in to the other
parties its members But the Liberty Party are not so
much in danger from these causes | apprehend as
from others. The fact has been established that
the Liberty Party, based the immutable principles
of righteousness and TRUTH cd and has stood through
the severest toll and against all the force of political
chicanery which the wisdom and shrewdness of the
two other parties could bring to bear against it. The
cause of human liberty has been progressing steadily
onward. The principles of the party have been ac.
knowledgod to be correct by all northern men; and
those principles beginning to exert an influence
not only upon northern men but upon the South even
The bold and manly course pursued by Hale, Gid
dings, and Tuck, in the national assembly, has pre-
scented the position of the Liberty party in its proper
light. What then have we to fear? What is the
cause of alarm? | answer; that amid the breaking
up Of the two great parties there iCW be, and there
noW is, an effort 10 make new platform for Anti
Slavery men instead of standing on the platform of
the entire divorcement of the National Government
from Slavery, the repeal of all laws for the contnu
ance protection of Slavery; the abolition of Slavery
in the District of Columbia and the prohibition of the
traffic between the States in slaves and the passage
of the ordinance Of 1887 that shall operate upon all
the Territories of the United States We have now
presented butone point that is to be the nucleus around
yhc1o &C A.
States are to be gathered and that is to prevent the
extension of Slavery Territory now free Liber
ty men of Vermont, you prepared to adopt this
your platform? Are you prepared to leave those other
great and important questions to the management of
the slave power as they have been for the last half
century, with effort your part to wrest from that
power the management of the General Government
for the protection of the nhuman' system of Slavery
The bold and manly course pursued by our standard
bearer in the Senate of the United States in boarding
the lion Slavery in its den amidst the scon and con-
tempt that has been poured upon him by Shareholders
shows to us that he is emphaticaly the man for the
times and hesitate not to say that there is no man
in the United States that is rising faster in the est-
nation of the American people than the Hon. John P.
Hale He has shown himself worthy of that conf
dence you have reposed in him-he las presented to
the world the noble spectacle of honest politician
fearless champion of the rights of the down-trodden
and oppressed and until he by the advice of his friends,
for the interest of the Liberty Party takes himself
out of the field as our candidate, we are bound to
stand by him and support him! Let me admonish
liberty men to be cautious how contemporaries the
interest of the three million slaves who are looking to
Anti Slavery men to break off their chains Let me
say in conclusion we look with pleasure upon any
move or any demonstration that shows that the menu
bers of the other parties beginning to feel that the
best interests of the countyhe best interests of the
save-demands action united, energetic, persevering
act,On to rescue the slave and the Government from
the grasp of the worst despotsm that the history of
the world can produce For this purpose the Liberty