Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-12-28
GREEN MOUNTAIN FREEMAN
VOLUME VI-l849.
Enlarged and Improved!

In accordance with the undaunted spirit and up.
ward and onward determination of the Free Soil Or
ganzaon throughout the country, the first number of
the sixth volume of the GREEN MOUNTAIN FREE-
MAN will be issued on the 4h day OF Jan. next, mate.
rally enlarged by the addition Of one column 10 each
page, with such essential Improvements in its dress
and mechanical execution, as shall render it inferior
in size and appearance to no paper in the State.
The present is period Of intense interest That
it is big with the fate of our country, no man Of ord
nary intelligence can doubt and it should be the
chief desire of all to understand well the great CUES
tiOns upon which our desnies hang, that they may
give their VOTE voice. heart and hand upon the side of
their country and their race.
A little less than ten years since was the first polit-
ica organization of the friends of impartial freedom
in our country. They were SMALL feeble, despsed
and prosecuted band; and the furnace of trial through
which they were destined to pass, finds scarcely
parallel III any age of reform. But this band
composed of men of strong minds, dauntess cUurage
and inexble determinations strong in their confidence
in the righteousness of God aud the virtue of the
people. At the first, this was denounced rs the
smallest and most insignificant of all 'seeds' but it
has taken root, sprung up, and spread far and wide,
UNTIL in the late election, more than THREE HUN
DRIED THOUSAND sovereign Treemen have "come
and lodged in its branches" And if we give heed
to the most sagacious Southern statesmen, and the
sober convictions of almost every man at the North
our principles surely destined to succeed in the
next Presidential election To aid, in our humble
way, with renewed energy and unwavering confidence,
in achieving this glorious c0nsummaton, VIII constl-
tute the leading aim of the FREEMAN
But the Freeman will not be- as it has not BEEN ex
clusively political We attribute no small degree Of
its success to the fact that liberal space has been
allotted to Preside, Moral and Religious reading
Agriculture, Education, Peace Temperance, Litera.
ture, General Intelligence, &C., &c. These various
departments will receive increased attention. In
Short no pains will be spared to render our paper du
ring its approaching volume, not only the best Pc
ILlTICAL but also the best and most attractive FAM
lily JOURNAL in the State of Vermont
To aid US III accomplishing our designs for thu
FUTURE we earnestly solicit the patronage and infu
ence of all such as approve the ends which we labo
to promote. With such support we shall be encour
aged and enabled to prosecute vigorously the grea
work before us; without it. no journal or cause, how
ever able or righteous, can be sustained.
TERMS.
Our terms will be as tollows-which are as low a
will afford us the means of support and to which W
must nfexibly ADHERE so per year, if paid il
advance $l75 if paidater the expiration of thre
months, or 81 if payment be delayed six months frol
the time of subscribing.
Montpelier Dec. H. 1648.