Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-07-19
THE UNION-THE CAUSES
THE PROSPECTS.

No great measure of National policy has been
adopted but by union of effort by individuals
who subscribed to the principles connected with
it. No great reform, either in Church or State,
has been, or can be- established without union
of individuals sufficient to carry forward the pro-
posed measures of Reform. A union or organ
ization of men for certain purposes, is either
right or wrong; and must be judged Of, and test
ed by, its principles and measures, and the eff
fects which they are calculated to produce. An
organization is no more nor less, than simply an
instrument for the purpose of protection and dis
eemination of the principles and measures nee.
essary to accomplish the object desired. There
fore, if the principles put forth by the Free De-
mocracy are just, and we do not speak in doubt
OH this point-if they are the principles of i'm
mutable truth and right-it the measures rec
commended are calculated to produce the desired
object, then the union of the Free Soil and De-
mocratic PARTIES for the avowed purpose of re-
sisting by all Constitutional means the propag-
ton of American Slavery into Territory now
Free. and of procuring its abolition wherever it
can be ConsttutiOnaly done--ought, and will
be approved by all, except by those who are
blinded by party prejudices and partizan feelings
The principles of universal freedom; of equal
rights; of the greatest good to the ,chole mum.
Der, if established and perpetuated at all, must
be done by majority in all Republican Gov
ernmcnts where the right of suffrage is enjoyed
Hence, those individuals, who, in an early day
organized for the purpose of establishing Ger
tain principles, and accomplishing certain OBJ
iects truly Democratic in themselves, looked for
ward to the time when ma jority in the Fret
States at least, would make those principles fun
damental in their organization. An organiza
ton such as is falsely charged upon the Ere
Democracy by the Taylor party, would elcvat
us to the same unenvable position which tn
Philadelphia Convention placed the Wing part
in at the North-justly chargeabie as being
band of political treebooters, subjected to tn
contempt of every honest and honorable man.
Such an union, for the spoils of office, woul
The motives which led to the union, are and wi
be impugned by our political opponents, and e'
cry symptom Of uneasness and Jealousy will b.
and is paraded in glowing capitals in the Ia!
lor papers in the State. Divide and conquer
is their motto. And for the simple reason TIL
they feel assured if the principles of the FRI
Democracy are recognized by the people of tt
State of Vermont who are not bound to Il
car Of Slavery and the present Slayeholding a
ministration, an lnglorious defeat awaits the
on the first Tuesday Of September.
The causes which have contributed to the forl
alton of this union in the Free States no one wi
has been but partial observer of the movemen
in our country for the last few years, can fl
to discover. There has been deep, settle
and prevailing sentiment Of hatred IN the min
of men of all classes against the patriarchal !
stitution. 1t embraces religious men, moral Inc
and political men, That feeling underlays ev
ry other political consideration and those M
look on Slavery as an outrage upon God a
of Governmental war with the spirit of fire.
dom, and sapping the very foundations of G
free institutions. Who but u Taylor man "
wonder then, that these men are ready to STR
hands with all those men who are ready to en-
the contest against the greatest scourge that
ficts and curses our nation?
The recent aggressive policy Of the South, a
their demands for more Slave Territory, in ad
ton to the acknowledged truth, that $500
Shareholders have controlled the operations
the General Government-hav dictated and CT
troled the nomination of all the Presidents, T
eign Ministers, Judges Of the u S Courts, q
have gone even SO far in their mad career as
hold Convention for the purpose Of forming
Southern Slaveholding Confederacy, for no OF
reason, than that the Free States have mantle
ed determination no longer to be driven
Southern OversewS, or be moulded like dO,'
by men who are as destitute of any love of fr
dom and equal rights as any language can P
sibly describe them. The defeat of Gen. CT
the candidate of the Northern Democracy,
the South, because he could not stoOp low emo,
nor cra,OL in the foul labyrinths of Slavery hi
BILE enough to answer the demands of those u
who fatten upon the unrequited toll and suf
ing of the bondman, has awakened in the
mocracy of the Free States, feeling of just
digiation, and sense Of the necessity of pla