Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-05-04
Liberty N0minati0nSm0b ieeti0ns.

Since the organization of the Liberty party It's od-
yocates have generally those who labor for the
establishment of good and reformatory movements
been unfortunately doomed to meet and reiute mul
tplicity of delusiye phantoms which gotten up
as objections 10 the course they were pursuing and
poured IN upon them from all directions. Especially,
has the connection of these visionary objections been
work of peculiar relish to the political wreworkers Of
the Wing school, All that the experience and party
drilling of years has taught them, with the hope Ell
Their to lul to security the awakening energies Of the
honest portion Of the people, or to tey them to
further submission to the mandate of intriguing po-
litical dicators, wh2 we are already standing upon
the verge Of the dark and fearful abyss whittier are
brought by gross tolerance of the most atrocous ma
tional wrongs. Among the more common humbugs Of
the last Presidential canvass were the professions Of
that party to true consistent ant-slavery sentiment
within ITSELF the fair promises to make the question Of
slavery an issue in 49, the duty of freemen to choose
the least of two evils the sckly attempt to palm Hen
ry Clay upon the people as man opposed to the ac-
QUESTION of Texan territory and above ALL the wick
ed scheme Of the Garland forgery, which we venture
was horalded by The or.iro Wig press viii far more
enthusiasm than would haye been the announcement
thgt al the sla9o- IN Aa,ica were free could such
tbfg have been, their poJpous professions to the con
traiy notwithstanding 40 doubt in the approaching
canvass many of these pageans will again be raised
to deter the honest and reht-minded from d
consistent political procedure. Especially do cap
prehend the vociferous cry that the Liberty party is "a
suporfuty," a "mnority faction" and being such, can
never accomplish anything; aud, as the whig party is
antslavery it is better that we remain with this SC
called fount of political integrity, and beneyolence
and philanthropy, and in the language of Vt. letter
writer of a. reman in the ship that all may be
ed" Upon the strength Of these trashy fabrics, We
are invited to abandon our nominations, and send oul
men EN- MAssE to the'fold of the great wing party
But alas miserable ship is that. Fitted out years
ago, she has made two voyages only; from one OF
these we believe she was harbored but from the 9TH
er she came on Shore ere she had half performed hei
round of four years, shattered, eaky wreck Her
'rst mate" the choice Of her crew, the very man
who above all others they chose to that position, had
taken CHARGE of her but few short months ere she
was fgr6d6Ted, shiyered broken and wrecked upon
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not survive, though she set sail upon beautiful sea
with proptous breeze, and a strong and enhu5as-
tic crew. Her "hemsnen" endeavor still to rally the
scattered forces and rear new and deusve banners tc
decoy the yeomanry, that they go on board but upor
them all is written INCONSISTENCY" so full and
forcble that good men will not venture How indeed
can she the country if she cannot save herself:
Surely she cannot do it. We say then, treat indig-
nany the subtle attempts of these men to seduce the
people. Let the "Godlike Daniel" count the whg
party the only 'star above the horizon to give us
CLEAN Of light in the dark and troubled night which il
upon us" and let those who choose echo the foosl
sentiment, but thinking men will not be slow to con
SIGN it and its advocates to that contempt which its
folly Justly deserves. We are no sticker for party
onlv let the country be rid of the guilt of slavery ant
all political thraldom, and we care no how or by
whom the work is performed If the assertion Of MI
Webster were a true one and were the professions O.
Tine wing party anything but false pretence we woulC
IS soon act with them as any other organization Blu
present circumstances are conclusive proof that as
party they are no more allied to the work of emanc
patton now than they were in IA. The pledges which
they made then, they now make no efforts to redeem
Indeed their subsequent acts show that they are rath
er receding from the work than approaching lit ant
the developments of the past two years show then
playing as false as hypocrisy could invent. Away
then with the idea that sUcH a company will do any
thing to reinstate the country in those pure sentiments
n which were advocated in its infancy.
But more recently another faction has sprung up
whose ONLY COMMISSION appears to be, to brand the
Liberty party with the most bitter vndictives whcl
the human mind can invent. We refer to the New
York clique which acts under the guidance of Ger
Smith, w. L. Chaplin and others We believe the ar.
tices Of then political faith as set forth in the address
of the Macedon Locke convention, consists of med
ley compound Of NINETEEN IDEAS, o but upon an at
tenve perusal Of their principal organ, the 2,baaJ
PaOt, we are not able to say that they are points OF
much tenaciy with their advocates, and that the men,
after all thefdscaimers are really favontes of but
single dea and that debasing one, VIZ; an indul-
goncc of the most contemptuous and abusive treat