Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-02-17
For the Green Mountain freeman.
Now is The time for Labor.

NOW Is The lime Tor Labor
Ma. EDIroR:-The time is fast approaching when
the minds and hands of the freemen of Vermont will
be fully occupied with the labors of the Spring and
Summer; hence the great importance that the town
Committees in each county whose duty it is to obtain
subscribers for the Green Mountain Freeman should
be active, viglant and at once do up their work.
Nov is the time In this reading season of the year,
let the Freeman or some other Liberty paper be put in
to the families of as many of the voters in Vermont
possible Every man and woman, young or old, in the
free states should read the Speeches of Mr.. Hale in
the Senate and Boston, and Messrs. Tuck and Pal
frey in the House of Representatives, upon the sub
ec of the war with Mexico, ard the political aspect
of the slave question. The great difficulty why the
people in Vermont not great majority of them in
the Liberty party this moment because they do not,
1.-THE great mass Of them. read constantly and every
week, any Liberty paper or periodical. few of the
leaders Of the slave parties, read occasionally
Freeman or an Era or some other paper that con-
tans the speech Of some Liberty man, and they are
thus prepared when those who look to them for their
politics. ask them make any enquiry upon the sub
iect of slavery, and about the dongs of the Liberty
party those leaders seeing their followers beginning to
feel not quite satisfied are ready to rdcue The Lber-
ty party and all they say do thus they endeayo to
check even the very first exhibition of the feelings Of
discomfort at finding themselves in the party which
supports slavery and Hor for the sake of slavery.
say think there are multudes who would be with US
now, were it not for this influence. As have heard
men say, I" am with you in feeling and sentime 1t,
think the Liberty party right" they say but am not
well enough informed upon the subject, to hold an ar
gument with those learned wings and democrats all
around me- and if | come out a Liberty man. they will
pounco upon me and cannot hold my ground by ca
son of my want Of information upon that particular
. subject. | have never read much Of the buncs If
the Liberty party" &c. Now this, NJ, Editor. il our
greatest difficulty; if all those votes who look to ESQ
SucIl-a-One, or Capt Such-a-One, or Deacon Sncha-
One for 'ucir pohlcs,-if each had some Liberty pa
per to read constantly every week, they would very
soon declare themselves independent of the slave par
y to which they belong, and would unite with us
in rolling the car of Freedom. let the committees
then, make every effort they to get the Freeman
into the hands of the people; and would not be we'll
to strike off few thousand copies of Mr. Ilae's, Pal
treys, and Tuck'S speeches, and scatter them broad
cast through the State And unless some extra effort
is made the people, who would all be glad to act right
in this great matter-I say unless some thing is done
to place facts, undeniube facts before the freemen,
they are so much under The influence of the parties and
presses which consider the success Of their party Of
vastly Importance to the county than the Liberty
Of three millions Of citizens Of this Republic, that they
=, will, with some few exceptions, remain in their old