Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-08-17
MONTPELIER, VERMONT,
1H7HE FR u e MAN.


Parties in the United States No. ILL.,
The slaveholdng party are the most sagacous of
either party In the United States. They succeed best
in enshng troops for their service, whether their OBJ
ect is conquest or mere occupation. They enlist
troops in the northern States, who live at home,
and labor in their service This saves much expense.
Furthermore, they make payment easily They fire.
quently, and it is believed most usually, pay in prom.
ses Of presidential patronage. TriAing payments
sometimes made after satisfying the higher claims Of
the Shareholders themselves The body of The whole
system resides in the South; but the arms the whig
party and the democratic party reach across the States
to the Canada line. The fingers, (the wing journals
and the democratic joumos,) arrange the materials,
deal out the promises paint gloss upon all the man.
dates committed to their care, and raise fog to OBJ
struc the view of every thing favorable to Freedom
and yet are careful not to NEEDLE with the principles
oflibery lest they should bring them out of the fog
to the detriment Of their own movements as instru-
mens of slave propagandism
In the presidential campaign now progressing the
contest between the whig party and the democratic
party, is, which arm, whether the right or left shall
grasp the prize and share among them the spoils Of
victory:-or, Ito use the expression of the late John
Randolph embrace the seven cardinal principles, to
wit, five loayes and two fishes. The contest between
the whole body Of Shareholders, arms, fingers and ALL
on the one hand, and those whose principles and ac-
tons at war with slavery on the other is of very
different chaacer-Slavery and Liberty. Who can
fail to see the opposite nature character and operation
Of the two. Many wings and many democrats profess
opposition to slavery Perhaps they are sincere If
they sincere, their love of their old party is much
stronger than their hatred of slavery Were not So
they would forsake their old party and espouse the
cause of freedom Or, in other words, would act in
accordance with Their professions. What has ever
been done by the wing party or the democratic party
as such to hinder the progress of the slave power to
perfect triumph over the liberties of the north? In all
our political contests, what has ever been permitted in
the papers, which support the wing party, or the demo-
cratic party, but what the shareholders would like to
have printed? They have long kept up fierce news
4 paper war upon each oheE but when did either charge
the other with the crime disappearing slavery? Should
either do it, the reply of the other would of course be.
physician, heal myself"
The shareholders have now their two Uuvlilutog IN
the field with continual angling in support of both.
The whole body have openly protested and declared
that they would support candidate for president I'M
less he was firmly pledged in support Of slavery, and
against every thing in the character of the Wmot
Proviso; and person of toerable information, and
claiming any respect for truth and consistency will de-
ny their having two such candidates now in the field
and the papers Of each party labor to gorfy their own
candidate and to debase the candidate Of the other
party And it cannot well have escaped the notice
of their readers that they each display their election
eering powers to the best advantage while attempting
to lower the opposite candidate IN the estimation of
freemen The reader will please bear in mind that
the above illusions to the whig and democratic parties
treat them the two of the slaveholding party;
and as such they surely have particularly been this
long time. And it is one of the wonders Of the AGE
that they should so long maintain their respective cog
nomens, and still occupy that position with regard 10
the support of slavery while the spirit of emancipation
= has been vending its way TO the hearts and con-
sciences of the rest of mankind and rousng mutitudes
to action in behalf of Freedom. This climax of the
slave power to show themselves openly, in all their
desposm has had the good effect to cause multtudes
of their former partizans to something of the de-
formities of slavery and resolve to act, politically, a
gainst its further extension
This is a source of real joy to those who have beer
laboring for years. to convince others of the truth
their discoveries with regard to the moral and po
litca evils of slavery and its dread aggressons upor
the rights of feemen The late revolution in public
sentiment inspires a rational hope Of great and goot
results. Those who see the evil from which they
d have escaped will naturally desire that others shou
2, see it, and those who have unburdened themselves
&c their consciences from the shackles of subsevency
the slave power and taken stand upon free soil, will
ID readily find others to accompany them, and engage il
a defence of liberty.
lie It appears impossible that freemen in the northern
and western states, if they keep their eyes hal
" open should obtain the consent of their conscen
for them to vote either for Cass or Taylor for Pres
in ident. 1t is most palpably plain, that such voting
is the slavery side of the issue forced upon by tn
10 Shareholders themselves-he issue between SLAYER
e. and Freedom, and not merely the freedom of tire
er millions of coored persons in bondage, but also of til
ms ten or twelve millions who call ourselves Free and yt
he virtually in bondage to the slave power, and sha
or continue so till we rescue ourselves by voting tn
as rens of government from the hands of STAKEHOLDER
* Let such voting be forthwith begun by every feema
cd and persevered in till liberty shall triumph and ii
an slave power shall sink to rise no more
~, MARCELLUS.