Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-09-13
New Mexico and California.

1t is now pretty generally und .Istood that
the visit of Hon. 7. Butler King to California
Is to induce the people Of that country to an
ply :or admission mo the Union as a State
course as free State for there are no slaves
there--and thus enable the administration to
get rid OF the troublesome question which is
now threatening the integrity of the Unlon.--
Mail.
A man often reveals his dopra,ity when ho
least thinks OF it And party loech, however
prudent and foxy, will ever and anon let long
ear of his scounlrelism stick cut of the luns
skin of his professions. We do not DENY II at
Wing may be honest, mankind are so subject to
decisions, but an honest Wing, man possessed
OF anything like human heart and human man
hood, would infalhbly not have said wha, the
Mail has, but something like this "and thus
enable the administration to decide in favor of
justice and liberty this troublesome question
and avert the danger Of extended Slaverv."--
What Wing with soul above his breeche's
packets, could fail to covel for his party the ev.
erlasting elimination of Slavery from the mas
cent republics? That would be the main OBJ
ject Of his Wing ambition. To have preserved
the Union is no achievement. The Union pre-
served and Liberty lost, would be less than
nothing, The preservation of the Union would
be worth being talked shout on question about
ucres lead, copper, silver or gold, but when
eternal justice and the seli-erident rights of hui
man nature are at stake it is only knaves and
sycophants who can speak Of it. The absrdy
and heartlessness of locking first after the I'm
ion, when the question is whether the Slave
Power shall have the control of this continent
or not is only family illustrated by the familiar
story Of the old woman whose husband carried
her best pitcher down cellar to draw CIDER
The old man trpped on the stairs and fell to the
bottom like an earthquake. His affeconate
spouse hearing the fall, ran to the head of the
stairs and screamed any dear, have you broke
the pitcherY "No, but will" the husband
promptly and naturally replied, and dashed the
pitcher against the opposite wall
If old Rough and Ready had been a whole
civilized man, fit to preside over this country,
he would have set himself to the task Of secur-
ing liberty in the new domain with more deter
mined resolution than he ever did to conquer it,
and, in case of his failure, he would resent the
heartess, scoundre inquiry, Have you split
the Unoni" with as much spirit as the man
broke the pitcher Will he do so
Probably we shall hear by the next steamer
that Nicholas has acknowledged the indepen-
pendence of Hungary and recalled his troops,-
1t is very common, is it not to hear champions
of absolutsm and Slavery, after fighting half a
century or so against Liberty, suddenly turn
square round, and on some trihlng prctence OF
other become the practical friends of Liberty ?
: How cool, sane and rational it is to believe that
the saveholden,, after eXcrting themselves to
the utmost, with almost absolute unanmity ever
since the revolution to extend Slavery, and at
Ter having succeeded in checkmaling liberty
: for half century, will now turn round, and
under the lead of large stakeholder, and on
h the ptetence of preserving the Union, which
Y God knows was never in danger from the triencs
e of Liberty defea. itself! :! This is whit Tay'
lor sycophants, like the Mail, would have us De-
Y lieve. But before they carry captive our YER
y dancy, they must effect better eoneeaIment Q
d their mean and mereenSTy mo''V'S' A"0'