Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-03-15
" Agitation" Division Excitement"

We are not little astonshed to find in the
Waterman & Journal, violent philippe pro-
nounced upon Northern men who have been Ia
boring for the purpose of restricting, and utim.
ately producing the peaceable abolition of sa-
very in the United States. After the decara-
tons which the Waterman has made, the noble
stand it took before the PhIadelph Convention
with the name of Judge Mclean at the head of
columns, as the candidate of the North against
Slavery and the South, and the unwillingness
which it manifested to yield its position, and o.
hey the mandate issued by Shareholders al that
Convention, we say it is little astonishing that
its Editor should come out and impungn the mo-
tives of those men of the North, who still MAIN
tain their adherence to the institution of Sla-
very. We have quotation at the head Of this
article which we find in letter " to the Editorial
CHAIR" dated Washington, Feb. 81, written by
the Editor, from which we make the following
quotation for the benefit of political Anti-savery
men in Vermont:
".4gitation is what they demand-not settle
ment agitation, di0iSion- ercttemem not for
the high purpose of defending the constitutional
nights Of the South, as Mr.. Calhoun and his CO.
terie mngroquently deciaim not tor the holy
purpose of excluding human slavery, as certain
politicians at the North announce with equal ell
oquence /; but, at the North and the South, for
the purpose of making new party issues and
building up new patty platforms upon which to
array one section of the Union against the other.
A dissolution OF the Union and Southern con-
federacy, are the ultimate purposes of Southern
fanatics, if they cannot control the Union as it
is; and upon like contingency, a dissolution Of
the Union und Northern Conederacy are the
dreams of Northern fanatics. This is the end
of the extremes upon both sides; it is avowed
by the fewest and widest on both sides, and to
this the course of things both North and South,
is apparently tending with great rapldlty.'
1t appears from this language, that change has
come over our noighbor of the Waterman, per-
haps from the fact of MS being in a situation
where he could behold the beautiful workings of
that system which has placed man in the Pres
dential Chair, who holds hundreds of the hui
man family in abiect bondage, chattels or
hngS' We hope, however, this is not the case.
But let us enquire who it was that declared that
the first impulse which they felt on hearing of
the nomination of Gen. Taylor, "lca1 to rebel?"
Aye, rebel against the aggressive policy which
has been established by the South, and carried
on for years, with few exceptions, even to the
election of all our Presidents.
Who has stood up in the face of the South
and Justly demanded that this blightng curse
should he stayed in its desolating course? Who
has demanded and obtained the right Of petit
ton? Who has checked the proud waves of
Souther.l domination in the halls of Congress
Who has broken the seal placed upon the lips
of Northern representatives in Congress by
shareholders? Let the people answer. John P.
Hale, j. r. Gddngs, ]. G. Palfrey, are now the
eloquent politicidnS--the ".Nonhern .fanatics,'
who are dreaming" of northern confederacy,
according to the declaration of the Waterman.
In behalf of those worthy representatives, we
have only to say, that they have never proposed
a convention, neither at Washington or Hart
ford, for that purpose.
Those men, together with thousands of others,
are maintaining consistency of character in car
ryng out their hostility to Slavery, by opposing
the men and the measures that sustain it. This
wholesale denunciation of northern men, who
have received nothing but abuse at the hands
of the South for their efforts in behalf of hui
manly and the rights of the free states, is the
result of having slaveholding President that
will need the unanimous support of the Wing
party in the free states to sustain him.