Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-12-06
THE SENTINEL TURNED
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Inc burlington Sentinel says:-" We prnph |
ecy to you that another year our self abused
friends of The Free Democracy will be wrTH US
on our broad ground. The storm has passed
over Another year and they will forget they
ever belonged TO the Free Soil party. They
wont " remember that they ever invited Horace
everett to deliver stump speeches to them They
wont remember thatihey ever abused HANNE-
GAN, and DoUeLAsa, and Dickinson. They
wont remember that they ever blasphemed the
democracy Of the Union, and Detained the men,
Gry OF JACKSON and Polk. They'll want to be
DEMOCRATS once more-to take seats again
WIN the old democratic, party. They will repu
date their miserabkEtest; they will abandon
thelr rotten platform hey will cas-: off their SUI
perhuous prefxess viii spurn Me unqodIy
demagogues wins them; they will come
nuddllng like sheep back into the democratic
iioldd, with hanging Heads, futtering hearts and
bad memories, rcadyIand glad TO resume rclu-
tlonship eUen 10Th Aeutholdew and GntiprorisO
men, provided they beplluwed a participation in
the great democratic victory which is bound to
come off in 80" WI
Well this perhaps, is a "settlpd question"
then, that there is TO beam end of the Free De.
mocracy. That those men who have laborrd to
check the onward march of the slave power
who have declared andmaintaned their deter.
Inlnation never to SUPPORT men for the Presden.
cy, who do not, unqedlifedly, oppose American
slavery, who have brought moral, as well as pc.
litica power, successfully TO bear upon the slave
holding South, that has been feared and felt, are
now to fall into cosamunion with the veriest
dOughfdces in all the North, and embrace even
Shareholders themselves and all for what ? Hear
oh heavens and give ear, oh ye Ininions O. the
slave power, and learn the price Of Free Democ-
racy in Vermont. "PrOrided hey be allowed n
participation in The great Dsmocratie bioOry ,ct,cR
is bound 10 come of IN 80"
What beautiful panegyric the Sentinel has
pronounced upon the honesty and integrity Of
the Free democracy. What high and dignli.
ed compliment to the sincerity, and intelligence
of four thousand votes, to be told that /" the,
will come to the democratic fold, with hanging
heads and bad memories, ready even TO resume
relationship with Shareholders. Men who have
fattened upon the unrequited toll of the bond
man. Men who have despoiled the brightes
hopes blasted the most cheering prospects,
sundered the most sacred tes-invaded the God
given rights Of husband and wife-violated chas
tity, sold their own blopd into interminabe bonds
and annihilated all that is noble in man, by con
verting himinto mere brute beast-a chqtiel o
sale and traffic Br. Paul, you ure indalging il
vain delusive hope, There are more thai
1000 men in Verm@t, 9who will never be seer
-. YIN
HAsrEeANs, your uerAss' DIcKtNsoN's, no
any other Democraticyinniers If the Free De
Fnfotracy of Vermont abandon tie nigh groun
they have taken, for ire purpose Of sharing wit
the party which John Van Burehssys will "com
in to stay" then indeed, they will richly deserv
all the anathumies which have been pronounce
upon them by the Hunkers, and the Taylor pal
ty. For ourselves, we think there may be som
uncertainty in the election in "'52 . and not hav
ing disposition to commence the campaign s
early, we shall content ourselves with the reaeC
ton that no U'ctOTy procured by an alliance wit
Shareholders, will be realised, in consequence {
any exertlon on our part. No NEVER! never
And we trust, in this declaration, we have III
response ofevery Free Soil man in Vermont =
We wish our friends to distinctly understan
that we shall never be found in the support
slavery. nor pro-sayery party. We hold thu
there is, and should be honesty in politics, I
well as in other matters. The spoils in 1876
have no charms for US at present.
The Sentinel will rseoIlect that the Fee Sc
mon are ready to act, and will act, for the pe
pose of securing the great object they have
view, as cheerfully with those mon who ha,
left the wing party, as any others. And it
becomes the SeRtinelto be constantly sneein
on that account