Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-05-30

possible to serve both liberty and slavery?-
Could constitution having any definite nature,
have two hearts, one beating for liberty, with vi
talzed blood, and the other beating for slavery,
with black blood.
Ibelieve the compromises of the constitution
looked TO the destruction of slavery, and not to
its establishment. The issue between the
North and the South at the present time is the
extension of slavery. The South are determn-
ed TO spread the blight and curse ever Califor-
MIA and New Mexico, aud by its influence fast
en- upon the reins of government, and eXtinguish
the obligations imposed upon them by the com
promises ofthe Constitution. The South now
demand room and claim the right to extend sla E.
very. She asks the North to aid her and be-
come partner in the transaction. On that
question we hold there can be no compromise
1t is time for good men and true to grid up their
IONS and stand for God and humanity. No COM
promises which dodge the question can help us
certainly none which settle it on the side ofsla-
very.
We should not yield submission to any course
that can bring upon us the gnilt of slavery, Or
take liberty from those to whom God gave il as
right. ! shall be slow to believe that to swear
tealty to the constitution, was to swear to sus-
tain slavery.
No earthly consideration shall make us part
ners In this monstrosty. BY your belief in hui
manlty, orr hopcin religion, our faith in Christ,
let us solemnly declare to cut every cord of op.
preston whose force is derived from us directly
or indirectly. Should men chose to interpose
the Constitution, by our 50 doing, upon them
shall tall the blame. Palsed be the hand that
shall attempt to make our Constitution. ordained
Tor freedom, the instrument of oppression and
cruelty
Freemen of Vermont, let our views upon the
extension of slavery, be decided, clear, bold, and
manly. He, who does not exhaust his strength
in endeavoring to prevent it, indirectly consents
to take upon himself share of the guilt. ap-
peal not to political pates--to wings or to DEM
ocrats, but to men who possess a CONSCIENTIOUS
rectltude-in whose veins course the blood of
human kindness-in whose hearts is planted the
principle of equal rights, to such appeal in be.
halt of suffering humanity. Let us stand up in
deec' of the rights of man-abide by the
Union, formed for the protection of those rights
no yandal outrage upon it may our hands
commit. Let US honor it by submissive and ODE
dent lives, consecrato it by our prayers, and
give to 1t such foundation of right as shall
hold it steadlast amid all the revolutionary con.
cusslons of our day. The Union, based upon
the principle that "all men were created equal
Ill there be those who cannot abide by it be-
cause 1t is pure just, and humane lot them be-
ware OF the vortex in that tmutuous sea, into
which they propose TO leap. shall endeavo
strictly to adhere to it, and sustain upon the
principles of its formation as it was understood
IN the days of Washington and Jefferson. The
crisis demands of every abolitionist a close ant
determined application Of their principles, ap
plcatlon OF their principles, applied in every
place where duty calls, either religious, moral
or political. Perseverance only will accomplish
their object See to it that our efforts and on
influence are rightly apphed-that in no in
.5lfeedom % all.