Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-07-19
Maine Erae.soil Convention.

The Free-Soilers of Maine held their State
Convention at Watervllle on the 9th and 26th
OF June. They nominated Geo. f. Talbot as
thelr candidate for Governor. A series of OK.
celent resolutions were adopted, among which
we notice one Recommending mass meeting TO
oe holden at Worcester Mass, in October, by
the Free-Soil men of New England. The fol-
lowing is the concluding portion of the very a
bic and eloquent address to the people reported
on the occasion.
Z" SO far as the present deep interest and earn
est demand for just action upon the subject of
slavery is dependent on the will and action of
individuals, so far as it does not spontaneously.
rresislably spring from the innate feelings Of
the human heart, and come therefore from God {;
SO far we may IN part control its continuance or
its CESSATION and so far we feel at liberty to de-
clare our determination in regard to it: and we
have assembled to-day to declare to our fellow
citizens of the south and the north, to our fellow
citizens all over the Union, and especially to the
members Of Congress, who are anxiousy en-
deayoring to contrlye some measure which shall
quiet this opposition to slavery, that none of the
measures which they propose will make US a.
| bandon or Iatel in our contest against slavery.
Their comprehensive plans of adjustment viii
not turn us from our work; their compromises
will not settle the question: and we wish them
them to understand it. We shall keep up our
struggle for liberty, and we will not cease to
speak through the press and through public as.
sembes, and to pray by petitions to Congress,
and to act at the baot-boX; we will keep up
the agitation, God willing, with more sacrifice,
more energy and more courage than hitherto,
until we as citizens of the United States, shall
be relieved from all part in the guilt Of slavery
until the pdcy of the national government,
wherever it comes In contact with slavery, shall
be in favor Of freedom. Short of this we will
not rest. No plan will be found sufficient to
prevent this. agitation and alhy excitement,
which evades without answering the main ques-
ton at ssues The main question IS the charac
ter OF slaNa4r-is 1t conclusive to true or to any
national prosperity Does it promote human
happiness Il Is it right? These questions Or
rather this qeson must be answered, aud when
our natonalpolicy shall be based on their cor.
rect answcr then will order moe firmly eslob-
sh Itself, ad true peace and harmony begin to
prevail, andlhe bonds of union be strengthened
by justice. Nothing else will deliver US from
our present ADVERTISEMENTS. II is not the dis
cu5sion of slavery, it is not the agitation of the
slavery question, which now endungcrs the I'M
ion. 1t is slavery itself, the system itself 1t
demands to DO supported; it demands to be eX-
tended; and when its unjust demands are not
complied with, it threatens to dissolve the I'm
ion. Ii we cover before its threats and comply
with its wishes, it will be emboldened 10 ask
other and more unjust terms it will convert the
Uuon into an instrument of slavery, an engine
OF oppression, and make i, utterly useless and
intolerabIe to frcemen. If we calmly and firm
y resist these demands if We faithfully adhere
to the right, We shall find these threats TO be
empty. Our brethren of the South will begin
to reason soberly and condidy of the matter,
and 10 see that they are now asking what is not
right, and they or thicr children will thank us
that in this crisis, we stood firm in orr opposl
ton to oppression, fixed in our friendship for E.
quality and liberty. By so doing we shall save,
not destroy the U Mon. Let us be true to our
own consciences, to our moral convictions, to
our fixed political principles and it must follow
as the night the day, we cannot then be false tc
any man.