Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-07-27
THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1913.

pan Ol dSSOcldOn with the following Tor one OF It's
articles. " We will neither import nor purchase any
slave imported after the LIST day of December next
after which time we will lohOy discontinue the slave
trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves
nor hire our UeSSeiS sell commodities, or manu-
tactln1eS to those who are concerned in it." goodly
lst OF sgners from IL States is appended Since the
above was written more and stronger of the same kind
has come to hand. Among whom are GEoRGE WASH
INGroN, the ADAMsEs, the LIvINGsTONs, the LEES,
and the RUTLEDGEs of that memorable day !! 0 the
degen@acy of The politicians of these times !!
You will not, we know, be so credulous as to give
heed to the childish declaration that Gen. Cass would
veto certain anti-Slavery bills because he would not
toresa the choice of the people Of the Territories,
but would leave all to them This is the most miser-
able of all pretexts. lie knows, as well as you, that
those Territories the confines of Slave States,
that shareholders and slave traders pressing in with
their slaves and making labor the badge of Slavery
So as to repel more etfectually than any legal en-
barge the presence and influence Of intelligent and
industrious freemen, thus consgning the soil and its
cultvators to hopeless bondage! We ask soemnly,
fellow citzons, how you vote this once" for
either Of these men? Can you do it hoping for a
better state of things hereafter? Would not this be
doing evil that good may come "
On the principle of choosing the least of tlCO evils
can you support the one to defeat the other? How
many times will you be placed in the same dilemma
can force this alternative upon you OnCe by purity Of
reasoning it may be done thousand times You esta-
blish precedent equally preposterous and fatal Be-
sides, you are not bound neither have you the rght
to choose between two moral evils, l. e.. evils which
lauOlUe your Otgn SIN WrOng-dOing. If other men
propose two wrong things to be done, they cannot
compel Or make it right in you to do either And il
you refrain and the greater evil ensues the guilt must
lie upon them who proposed and supported either the
H. &C oobIo
der unless you help another to rob him. you arc
neither compelled into, nor justified in the robbery tc
prevent the murder. You have responsible agency
to exert in such cases, erCp TO labor for the prevention
Of BOTH eUilS. And, unless things are SO arranged
that you can prevent both you bound to let both
alone. Let the sin and its fruits lie upon the authors
Of the arrangement But who knows that you may
not arrest both evils in the present case In submit
ting to you whether it would not be a right and Q
duty, aiming at good object and doing good act, tc
support Mr. Hale we have only to ask your attention
to the bearing and department Of that gentlemen con
nected with his revolt from administration and mea-
which have rolled forward the dark tide Of Saye
ry and war with fearful rapdity; and to his services
in the u S. Senate during the present session of Con
gress.
One thing more. AS citizens of this model State
and model Republic have you no just pleasure ant
eXultaon in the fair fame of your country? Are no
the character and glory Of your WASHINGTON ant
your UNION dear to you in all parts Of the earth
And would you not shrink from any such gross incon
sistency in your conduct as would tarnsh the rcputa
ton of your country abroad How have you beef
thrilled, the last few months with intelligence Of thu
progress ofberty and free institutions in the old world
With what electric power have these stirring note
| told upon the hearts of your countrymen? How va
rous and appropriate the adapted to expires
their eXultant heart bursting emotions Take q sin
gle specimen for illustration =" Baltimore, May
| 49, An immense French sympathy meeting was hell
this evening in Monumental Square Mayor Davies
Prest 1t is estimated there were 10000 people pre-
sent, altogether the largest meeting of the kind eve
held in the city, Judge LIE Grand and others dev
cred warm and glowing speeches in honor Of the re
volutons in Germany and France. band of musi
was present, and great excitement and enthusiast
prevailed Is not this anlmating, delightful, gtOr
ouS} But, alas what rejecting mind can help de
tecting the monstrous ncongruties involved SlGpt
trading city-ts principal square named from monu
ment to the Father of his country, who three quarter
Of century ago, joined Congressional associatio
with strongest pledges to destroy the SaUe trade in
slave-hoding State, of this Boosting and boastul Re
public devoted to the extension and papetuutiOn
SIavay-a brisk trade from the soil Of that State bein
an important auXiliary-rejocing in untold ecstasie
with 20 millions of our felow-freemen, that tOAOtCn
on at a late hour and an humble distance in the wax
France should have been so auspicously ushered in
exstence-one of whose first, most legitimate and wo
thy, acts it to issue order for the abolition
Slavery and the slave trade, not on her home SOIL b.
even IN the least and remotest provinces Of her dom
Mons Ill! But enough. We need not 90 on. Fe
lowcltizons, is there or not any sincerity in our pr
LESSONS oflove and attachment to hbety? And shou
we not blush and hide our heads with shame to tliI
Of eXerting an agency for the up-buildng or suppC
IL
are upon our lips? Then with what consistency
deCenCb evenf we must say it, can we vote for eth
of those Slavery extensonists whose promotion al
policy would be disgrace to the American nam
and who are against our honest choice, thrust beo
us by the plotting and ntrgues of saveocrats and L
supple mnions Of party, who have deep schemes
private gain and personal ambition to consummatt
No, felowcitizens, we hope better things of you
trust you will not, for love of victory office, or a
other thing prove so false and recrean to your oat
your country, your postery and your race; but, I'll
you will so act in the premises as to secure for YOU
selves soothing reflections and an approving conscen
hereafter that while the present generation shall
curse you for rivetting the chains of Slavery up
them, the future should rise up and call you bles
ed for your timely and efficient agency in lett
the oppressed go free and breaking every yoke"
We have far exceeded our intended limits from O
strong solictude in this case And we can only ST
In concusoll llat Ihe present Is nlolenlous crsl
The spear of lthuriel has indeed pierced the mail
the old party organizations but, unless we cut sh
the of years. it may be too late to retrieve
political honor and birhright 3D." .Nou," them is e
phatically the accepted time" for your decided, fl
and INDEPENDENT actions.
In behalf of the State Liberty Convention at Mo
pelier, July 4, 1913.
, G. C. SAMPSON,)
w. H, FRENCH, Committee.
7 |. H. PARKER, )