Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-03-10
ADDRESS
Of the Wing State Central Committee
10 The Voters Of Neio- Hampshire.

CdstluR lOuT fOteS IOT SuCn persons as you
may wish TO make laws for you, and to ad-
minister the government Of this state for the
next political year Never was there
more important election. Never were the
questions TO be settled more vital to your
interests than the questions that are to be
settled by the coming election. Are you
for your country, or against il T. that is the
question. Are you for the preservation Of
your free institutions, or are you for those
measures that will engulf them all in the
vortex Of ruin 7 Arc you for the preserve
ton OF our country, as "the model repub-
lie" or are you for conquest and the annex.
alton of millions ofignorant, degraded, half
civilized Mexicans, to govern you by PRO.
nunciamentos" and the mandates Of militia
~ chietnins Are you for extending the
"area Of human bondage" or for the equal
and political rights Of all meni Are you
for slavery or ftcedomi "Are you for
your country or against ii!' Are you for
men TO make your laws and administer your
government on old fashioned republican
principles, or for men who are willing TO
hazard all your institutions in bloody aud
expensive war for conquest and annexation
Are you for men who go for the principles
Of your fathers, or for men who have forgot
ten all the lessons Of history. and are ready
to fasien upon you large standing army,
and taxes that will grind you to powder .
Are you for men who hold to the liberty Of
speech aud the press who go for the rights
Of the people, or for men who hold that it
is treason FOR feemen to speak, except to
sing hosinnas TO the President and to APP
paud his deeds Are you for men who
dare say TO the President that he is wrong,
IL they think so; or for men who are dumb
when he speaks, and who hold that is is the
duty Of freemen only 10 yield tame obedi-
cnee to his will! Are you for men who
are freemen themselves, or for men who are
willing to be slaves for the sake Of Execu-
tive brides! Are you for Freedom or
Slsveryi Are you for the rights OF repub-
licans, or are you for surrendering all to the
mandates OF despot, "Are you for your
country" as i, is. with its glorious consiitu-
ton aud representative government its
! free institutions; IFS equal rights; or for
new one, to be made up Of all the nations
OF this continent, and run the hazard Of the
RESULT These are momentous questions,
and we ask you 10 pause aud rehec, before
you vote
You are told by the vassals Of the slave
| power that there is no danger So you
were told when Texas was annexed. That
was TO aid the abolition OF slavery. What,
we ask you. is the prospect now' That
was to be "bloodless achievement. -
What has il beeni What is il Already
it has cost the blood Of many thousands OF
your fellow citizens. !, has fastened upon
you an immense public debt And you are
still told there is no danger. We have got
Texas. say they, and now let US have Mexi-
CO; and a Senator, who aspires to be your
President, tells you that your country is TO
extend from pole 10 pole. And how is il 10
be donei By war; by one of Mr. Folks
"bloodless achievements" And where will
you be then Where then will be your
free government Gone, ingulfed in mil.
itary despotism. You will have sold all for
glory. You will have to live on glory the
glory OF war the glory of some Napoleon
the glory Of despot We ask you, then,
TO pause and reflect before you vote.
You are told by him who aspires 10 be
your next President, and who is the most
prominent Of the candidates of the Slave
Power and The Radicals OF your own state
that you are repaid for all the blood and
treasure expended in this war by the glory
and you will be repaid for all the blood and
treasure expended in conquerng this con,i-
nent by The glory. But the glory Of war is
the glory Of few; the glory Of war, is the
glory Of heroes the suiierngs are the sui.
) ferings Of the many the sufIerings are the
) suderings of the people. The glory that
France acquired by war was the glory Of
! Napoleon but the sufierings were hers
The glory that you acquire by war may be
! the glory Of some Gen Cass, but the sui
/ fcrings will be yours. The hero has tht
reward. and the people pay il. Are you
, then, for taxes and conquest, and glory. OF
for the comforts. the blessings Of peace p
/ We ask you. again, to pause and reflect be
/ fore you vote.
Two men are now before Won for you
SURFACES for Governor. One Republcn
the other Radical. One the friend Of Tho
Q freedom and the equal political rights of al
/ men, the other the vassal Of the slave pow
$ err. One in favor OF the right of petition
n the other against il. One for sunderini
: the bonds Of the slave, the other for strength
4 ening the chains that bind him. The ont
. for the blessings Of peace, the other for III
sufferings, the taxes, the blood, the glory o
e war. The one for preserving your free in
d stilu,ions, the other for risking them all il
e foreign conquest, the subjugaiion AND an
). nexation Of foreign states. The one 10
H your country as il has been, free, great an
4 happy the other for our c0untry ms II ma
/, be, when wars shall have changed il, whe
d glory shall have destroyed H. We ask yo
Is then, to pause aud reflect before you vote
/, The result of the last election in thi
q state was hailed by the President as an ar
!. prevail of'his course as the signal for NOR
\. blood, more debt, more glory. Shall III
', result of the next tell him to push on 70
more war, more blood, more debt, more gle
{. ny still. 7 We ask you 10 pause aud refie'
le before you vote.
y Now is the time for reflection. Now
E, the time TO pause Mexico is at your fee
is She lies at your mercy, and the PresideI
ID is asking for more men, more money. II
n pants for more blood, more war, more gil
N ny; and we ask you, by your suffrages @
ID the 18th Of March next, to check him
ID his mad career Speak before il is too LAT
! lie. the ballot box issue its warning vote