Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-11-16

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darkness which surrounds one--a darkness that can
be fell ifnot seen. This is owing to a very rich black
soil, and the density aud holiness of the forests,
through which the road, III many places, passes.-
Without waiting to bid adeu to the light emit y II
found myself at last in a rich looking Gle ,qu -,o
ON my night, little further on, good looking log
cabin, with piazza in front, covered with climbing
vines attracted my notice. The house stood some
little distance from the road leaving several acres in
a front and side yard, covered with green crpet
lawn, and stored with fruit trees. The apple and
peach seemed to vie with each other in productyerss
Apple trees were in full bearing the stems Of Which
not larger than my wrist or arm, and only five or
six years old
Favorably impressed with the appearance of the
place, walked through the yard and applied to the
owner for permission to spend the night TT Wa a.
man go or G5 years Of age to appl rance, brie and
actWe and his peculiar German accent so clever and
good natured betokened his origin. He chearlully
gave his consen-unsaddled my horse, and in short
time he was watered, bodded and had placed before
him peck of oats, with the best OF herds grass and
clover lie introduced me to his wife, sona and daugh
ters who had prepared for me a supper composed OIL
ham, chickens, eggs and toas--a large dish Of bor-
res and cream, a loaf of white bread warm biscuit
and golden butter; and to crown the whole, q large
thick and white sheet Of beautiful honey, with ecete
raS made up the neal do no. mention this bill of
fare because am epicure, but for the purpose of
abiding to the fact that every article on the table
was produccd on The farm Scarce article is eaten
or worn by the family during the year, but what comes
from the same source.
After supper, as 1t had been rainy and wet during
the day, we gathered around large blazing fire on
the hearth which, with its backlog and pile q split
wood on massive andiron8, presented fac Sialie to
many a similar scene in New England Thirty years
ago, when there was plenty Of wood and such a
thing as a stove scarcely known. My host then re-
counted to me the circumstances Of leaving his Euro
pean hooe and settling in, what then, the wilds
of the far West. He said he procured plat Of land
at the Land Office of all the Indicated land in the
section or district of country where he wished to set
te-then after full oxaualon he located his pres
ont farm of eighty acres, which he considered full
large enough for one family. As his farm was under
good fence and mostly cleared, except splendid wood
lot and sugar maple orchard, inquired Of him how he
performed SO much work with his scanty means and
without hiring. He answered by saying, that his
wife and daughters le had but one son who wts too
young to work. accompanied him into the woods with
their axes. As he felled the large 'ees, they cut
down and trimmed the small ones, ana pioa rhe limbs
In this way the forest soon yielded to their united Ia
bcrs and they had now rich and happy home Of their
own. No danger Of its being sweep away by some
petty tyrant of the old world Or its proceeds by the
relentless landlord or tax gatheror and they left tC
fight beg or stavc.
A hearty welcome, SAY, to such emigrants as these
in countless numbers to our shores; and an aqua
welcome to as much of the rich virgin soil of ou
western forest and prairies as their necessities re
Iqnrie Show me the the argument that car
prove the country is not richer and the nation srongc
by what is termed, sometimes in dersion this ".AOod'
of emigration? Better thousand times better, tt
work here with enough to eat anil wear OF their own
than to work there for the benefit Of = lo1y oa.. s.
backed by bayonets and bullets, when notuna -cru-
as the proceeds of that labor but the horrors of des
pair and starvation.
OFF, no apology for feeling deeply on this sub
ect and none should be offered for feeling deeply OF
a kindred subject, when the rights of Our own coun
trymen instead of foreigners, are cloven down by thu
iron heel Of oppression A good deal of symp' thy
manifested in behalf of the down trodden in Europe
and this is all right. But when it is considered ina
more than three millions Of human beings in our ow
country, are in the same Or even corsc condition
deprived of every right in this boosted "home of tn
free" under government whose o.1~ni' Inv dac re
-. r
general welfare, and SECURE the BAEssINcs OF LIB
ErlY to ourselves md our PosTEUITY," someth be
sides sympathy should be manifested
The blush Of shame with furnace heat,
Should burn and crnls IN every cheek
until this cmse, this stigma be obterated from OF
national escutcheon.
The voice of the Amighty--the principles of otcl
nal Justice and Truth, Of reason and common sense
unite and demand in thunder tones--"lET TH
OPPRESSED 90 FREE"
And yet we leading politicians, followed b
large and obsequous political parties, laborng wit
all their strength, openly or tiauduently, to exten
and perpetuate the curse Of slavery over immense r,
gions of territory now free. They will not even I
the people CO. and settle in this free territory witt
out permitting the oppressor with his slaves to Q
also But from present Indications in ali parts of tt
country, the "peope" seem to be taking this matte
into their own hands, determined to go where the
please, untrameled by this witherng blighting
= Wherever go, nearly avery man meet, whether
. the new clearing the settlement the village, e,
: presses tins determination in manner--with voIC
= and language not to be misunderstood. Their bal
. ner, thrown to the breeze, on which is inscribed
"FREE Son, FREE SPEECH and FREE Men" will NJ
soon be fured. God grant that it may yet float
triumph over rcganoratea country.
gathered from the recital of my host, the Germa
y that he and his lived contentod md happy III h
. snug little home independent Of the shop keeper
the tailor and the merchant-treely supplying the
: own wants by their own means and industry. TIN
he lives and thus he realizes and illustrates, in b
own person, the poetic sentiment Of our eariy 6ho
II books
G "EIe that holds fast the Golden s9an,
/, And lives contentedly between
q The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,