Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-08-31
A WORE no GAMBLE WEN.

A WORD TO CANDID MEN.
On Tuesday of next week tho Freemen of Yer
mont will be called upon to exercise the bloodbought
privilege of deciding upon the men and principles to
which they would commit the interests of beloved
commonwealth for the ensuing political year, and al
select to represent them in the councils of the
nation during the next Congress. We will not in.
suit the intelligence of any man much 10 sup
pose him wholly ignorant of the great questions now
at issue before the nation; and can but allude to
some of the considerations which, in our judgment,
ought to influence the decision of reemen in the ap.
preaching election.
Vermont has for many years been wing State;
indeed, so uniform has been her decision in favor of
wing men and measures that she has gained the ap.
pellaton of "the Star that never SETS" And that
party is making every possible exertion to per
petuate that ascendancy. 1t cannot be denied that
the controlling reason for the uniform political
of Vermont, has been, the belief that the wing party
firmly committed to a certain course of beneficial
public pocy-snch as protection to home industry,
sound currency, land distribution &c, and above ALL
that it was bound to faithful of all constitution
u
And full warrant for this belief may be found in
the standing creed and oft repeated resolutions of this
party for many years. We shall not now stop to
speak of the past fidelity nhdeity of that party to
its Pledges but simply ask the freemen of Vermont
to look at its present claims to their confidence and
support. What is the position of the wing party at
the present moment and what are its arguments
Do they plead protective tariff in danger? sound
currency in jeopardy? or distribution hazarded? And
above ALL do they present an issue upon the slavery
question that entities them to your confidence and
sympathy? Not at ALL Every man of ordinary in
telgence knows full well that the questions of tariff
currency, &c. definitely settled for years; they
have not even been mooted in the last Congress- while
upon the slavery question, which is now the allah
sorbing topic, the wings of Vermont, both in Con-
gress and at home are contributing every means in
their power to secure the election of Gen. Taylor,
the very embodiment and embowelment, so to speak,
of the slavery propGgandism of the South
The wings of Vermont for Gen Taylor! What a
spectaclel Six months ago not a wing in the State
could have been found to decide in his avor but now,
when he has been forced upon the wing national con-
vention by the slavery champions Of the South at the
sacrifice of every political principl and every public
man they ever protested to hold dear, the wings of
Vemont-the leaders, we mean,-ioin in the ch7se,
and even frghten the boodhounds themselves in tier
hideous yells for the Trough and Ready can . late
of South Carolina Democacy Our heart sic}eaj at
the thought,and we can only ask the wings of 9rnont
to look for themselves at the utter recklessncss and
corruption of such men.
With regard to the Democratic party We 10 not need
to speak. After having pledged themselves through
out the Free States 10 the Wmot Proviso, they have
selected standard bearer who is unbushngly pedg-
ed to the South to veto such measure; and this is
fair index to their position, and the measure of con.
fidence to which they are entitled
On the other hand Freemen of Vermont, we cor
daily and exutingy point you to the most remarkable
political movement of the age-the FREE SOIL
ARMY-which is now mastering in every Free State
and many of the Slave States to whose standard
hundreds of thousands of honest men, from all par
ties and sects rayng, and hundreds of thousands
more will rally, ere the November election. We point
you to the noble sentiments of our standard-bearel
in another column and ask you to contrast these with
the actual Southern pledges of Gen. Cass, and the
still stronger practical pledges of Gen. Taylor What
ever may have been Mr. Van Buren's short comngs
in other and darker times they should be forgotten in
admiration of his present noble position The first
blast of the Free Soil buge at Buffalo, fell upon Mr.
Calhoun and the slavery potters of the South, as the
death knell of their hopes. Never before have they
been thus smtten between the joints Of the harness
The conflict is now fully begun-there is no going
back Friends of Gree Soil, Free Principles, Free
Labor, and Free Men," we appeal to you, on which
side shall the victory turn? 1t rests with you Viii
you not come up to this great work. and in the cheer
ing words of the Buffalo pledge-"Fyght on and fgh
eUer, until victO,y shall be ours" .