Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-04-27
Anti GIaperp.
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For the Green Mountain Freen.an.
Letters to an AnttSIaycry Whig.

NUMBER SIX.
Dear WI would not endeavor to persuade you to
desert cause, on the ground that others abandon it,
Or to leave party because it is on the wane and very
likely if not certain to to nought If its princi-
pies are just and there is no other way to carry them
out would say, hold on till there is nothing more on
which to hold But if you are in sinking ship, the
sooner you leave it the better You can do no good
by remaining in it, and you give up no principle in
leaving. 1t is on the ground that Twoud have you
leave the Wing party You evidently can gain moth
ing by voting any longer with the Wing party. If
them you can accomplish any good in any other way,
it becomes your duty to do it.
Doubtless, you like many others, have often been
almost ready to leave your party and join the Liberty
party; but this objection has arisen in your mind
which some have made to me in these words "The
Liberty party never will amount to any thing-t can
never elect President" This objection, as founda-
tionless as it is, has much weight with many honest
minds.
You know that | am not apt to be visionary in my
IDEAS and think the liberty party has indefinitely
better prospects OF soon electng President than the
Wing party. think that any one who looks at the
subject mpartialy will be convinced that am right
And if am right where is the objection? 1t van
ishes we see it no more.
To show that have good ground for such an opln-
ion, etus but take view ofthngs as they have been
and as they are at the present time, The objection
to the Liberty party is, that it can accomplish nothing
If this be the objection, does it not apply with much
force to the Wing party? at has elected Gen. Will
liam Henry Harrison president of the United States
Yes it has done all of that But what did this avail
the party? In one short month after he took his seat
he was snatched away from U.S. and gloom and sadness
gone We can lament our loss, but we cannot recall
him. May he rest in peace. Would that his place
were now filled by another as worthy as he.
At the election of Gen. Harrison every thing was
proptious for the Wing party. The crisis the oppo-
sing candidate the circumstances, and above all the
MAN selected, one who held large place in the af-
fections of every American heart, all combined to
render success at that time certain If any one sup
poses that the real strength of the two great parties
was tried at that time, he is mistaken. If he calcu-
ates on future success from such data he will surely
be disappointed. Men were made drunk with excite
ment and led to do what they would not have done,
in their more sober moments. More than the strength
of the Wing party in this way exerted in favor
and far less than the real strength of the opposing
party was called forth. The same things cannot be
transacted again 1t is folly to expect it Such
citement hope never to see again. The opposite
party is now on the alert and will not be caught nap
ping again. 1t has the power in its hands and it will
keep it, If it has not the power, how shall recon-
Gle the fact that it has during the time above named,
elected four out of five presidents7 It is the stronger
party, This fact cannot be denied by any one in his
right mind And it will elect its next candidate in
spite Of all the opposition the Wing party can make.