Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-09-21
VOL. V. NO. SO.

ment the return Of or compensation for the slaves
who valiently emanclpated themselves on board the
Creole? They had tot themselves out of the reach
of such laws as made men slaves, or kept them SUCH
John Tyler was President and the Hon. Daniel Web
ster was secretary OF State. The demand was made
by written communication signed by Mr.. Websteras
Secretary of State. Now, who was responsible for
that act? Was it Mr. Webster Or President TvlerS
Had that demand resulted in the reOro of those free
persons and reducing them to perpetual Nondape On
whom would have rested the guilt of TIT wicked
act? The question is proposed to Mr.. Webssr him.
SELF
One item more requires notice; that is, Mr.. Wen
ters assertion, that the Liberty Party by voting for
Mr.. Birney elected Mr.. Polk President This is the
third of fourth time that have seen that assertion in
print as having been spoken by Mr.. Webster. do
not know but he has asserted it so many times that he
begins to believe it consider there is not the least
semblance of pausibty in the idea. Any thing
that in truth be said upon the subject contains so
many ifs, that there is nothing to it. This idea has
been refuted and the thing accounted for in many
ways freeing the members Of the Liberty party from
all blame if blame it could be called, will present
one view only We may say in truth, that, if all the
members of the Liberty party in the State of New
York had voted the Clay ticket that would have car
red the Clay ticket Again, it is true and just as
much in the power of man, if the sun had not risen OF
shone on that day of voting, would have been night
According to the Register, the vote of the Liberty
party in New York In 1874 was 15,812-Polk's ma
ority in that state was 5,106. Now we know that
this Liberty party formed by accessiOns from both
the wing and democratic parties. What portions from
each party no person knows, nor can it be known
But they had come out under pledge to oppose sla-
very in all constitutional ways, and never to vote for
a STAKEHOLDER for President or Vice President and
some other offices. Let us now notice the hypothe'
SIS If one third Of those members of the Liberty
party in that State had voted the Clay ticket, and all
the rest had voted for Brney had not voted at ALL
Clay would have carried that State.
Again, if those who had been wings had voted the
Clay ticket, and those who had been democrats had
voted the Polk ticket the vote for Clay would have
done him no good Again, if the 1882 pioneers in
the liberty cause had concluded to prove recreant to
each other and to their country and to the cause of
freedom, and, by days voting, break their mutual
pledge and destroy their party where would they have
gone? For whom would they have voted Surely, If
they voted at ALL they would have voted for their old
respective parties. And how far, can any one sup
pose would this have advanced Henry Clay towards
the Presidency We turn the scale around with
much greater FEASIBILITY, and say, if the wings, Of
the North, who protested opposition to slavery had
voted for Birney, he would have been elected; and
Texas would have remained foreign State, and we
should have had no war, and we should not now be
in danger of having more slave territory crowded up
on us.
But, in alusionto the talk about North and South,
Mr. Webster says: awe have had no North" True,
we have had, comparatively, no North, placed in OPP
position to slavery, and the slave power But there
has been great South well organized, and firmly
united in support of the institution Of slavery; and
they can all act together upon that subject when nee
essary, as John Randolph said they could in his day.
We have had ALSO great North, protesting oppose
ton to slavery But, Of what use are professions,
without corresponding actions? man may profess,
and feel strong dislike to the inroads of cattle into
his fields and the destruction of his crops, but 1t is all
of no use, till it wakes him up to repair his fences
and shut them out The only barrier against the in.
crease and extension of slavery, in the least degree
available, is, to use the language Of the Poet,
"The little ballot, which comes down ms still
AS snow fakes fall upon the sod,
t But executes the freeman's will
As lightnngs do the will of God"
There has never been any resort to this barrier ex
cept by the Liberty party, whose few members have
been scattered over the Northern states, standing
firmly on the platform of our National Independence,
and urging their principles upon the freemen of all
other parties and testing their sincerity by correspond
ing action.
The Free Soil movement, and its success thus far,
begins to create North, and one altogether efica-
cious to check the progress of slavery, if a or two
thirds of those who profess opposition to slavery, will
oin u.s. and evnce their opposition in the only avaia-
Q BILE form. Why will they not do it? Why will they
not nut on courage and far desert their old parties,
as to act according to the convictions of their own
conscences? The ISSUE to be decided on the 9TH Of
November next is one forced upon us by the united
voice and resolutions and intended actions of the
: Shareholders That issue is slavery or ffeedom.-
Every freeman, who votes that day, will vote eth
er for or against slavery His vote will either strength
4 en- or weaken the domination of the slave power
l.. No one can dodge that issue. Even if he stays at
home and neglects to vote against slavery that neg
d lect adds strength to the slave power The slave
holders have two candidates. one in each party, with
i whom they are perfectly satisfied, because they know
that theinterests of slavery can never suffer under
;, the administration Of either Of them. Now, strange
: as it NAV SEEM not only the Hon. Mr. Webster, but
our two wing Senators and three wing Representatives
from Vermont, are all at work lending their influence
n and some of them all their powers, to the success o.
e General Taylor What can be the mOtive' Can II
l. be to save the wreck Of the lettering wing paryF-
Is What can be the worth or value of party without
country; party with its liberties trOdden under foO'
it by despotic slave powora What can be the charm
at the ciy of Washington, that city, cursed by sol
of laws enacted by Congress- under which slaves ara
created are born, are bought and sOld what can DC
- the charm, that our Northern wing Senators and Rep
a reseutavcs notwithstanding their loud professions
a spans. slavery, not only vote in support OF it but
endeavor to induce the honest feemen of this state
h thus to vote.
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