Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-10-09

uef%zASssaJS- t'afsyIi this morning, and
since sunrise, that Twas waited upon by a dele
CATION from your State Committee, requesting
my presence on this occasion. They knew, and
you all know, how strongly my heart throbs, even
at the mention of the great principles, for which
you contend. Hear hear They knew, as
you all know, how happy should be If could
do any thing to deepen or to dlffuse feeling of
devotion to human freedom.
But, gentlemen, there were certain circum-
stances connected with my position, which SEEM
ed to make 1t necessary for me to say to your
delegauon, tbHt | should appear here to-day
1t should be with an entire privilege to speak out
my mind fully on any political subject, and to
say In what relation | stand to the present con-
dItlon OF public AFFAIRS both State and National.
| Cheers.
say, then gentlemen, that stand where
have always stood, holding the principles of hu.
man freedom first and foremost in NV regard,
and after these, our pecuniary, or merely world
y interests; lApplause] holding, according to
the order IN winch they are mentioned in the
Constitution of the United States " life and Ito.
erty" to be before properly" stand where l
stood in 1919, and through all the struggles Of
1850 ;-where my recorded votes and speeches
show me to have stood. | stand on the same
principles yet IF other men have soon fit to 90
off to the right hand or to the left, | remain
where | was, And if any individual of any
party Wing, Democrat, or by whatever other
appeIaton he may be known-shall ever return
from his wanderlngs, to the good old homestead
OF Massachusetts pfIncprs Free opocc :, rrre
Soil and Free Men-there, IN that immortal
bi"th.pIac of human liberty, he will find me,
early IN the mornl"g and late at night, hard at
work 10 maintain the honofof the Pilgrims, and
the principles of our Revolutionary Sres. En-
lhusastic Cheers.
Gentlemen, the perusal Of the Address and
Resolutions put forth by the Wing State Con.
vcntlon at Springfield, last week, brought me
here Sensation. 1t seems to me that no true
lover OF human freedom can read That adlre5s
ani those resolutions intell'sFaY%l, SfAUnr De-
ing struck Gown BY conviction, az suddenly as
ST. Paul was, though the light and the voice
cone rom IN opposite quarter. Great Enthu-
sasm. Whatever the design Of those papers
may have been, their whole argument and Office
are to wheel the Wing party into ine to fight
the battles Of slavery.
Under these circumstances, do not ask with
a certain distinguished individual. on the pros
pectve breaking up of partiesr Where am to
goT | believe do but echo the sentiments Of
thousands Of as good and true Wings as can be
found IN this Commonwealth, land there are
none better any where,) when | say that, let
Others 60 where they will, here, here, on the old
wing PIltform OF opposition 10 the cxt4usIon Vi
slavery, Of freedom for the District Of Columbia,
and in favor of the old guarantees Of habeas
corpus, and trial by jury, here Iremain
Gentlemen, the Free Soil party as the name
imports, is the party Of Freedom. The cardi-
nal principle of their creed is that "all men are
created free and equal;" and that they have an
lnahenable right to life, liberty, property, and
the pursuit of happiness" Their filth consists
IN the assurance that in the good Providence of
God, the day will yet come when the blessed
ness of their creed will be realized among men
and by their ,cOrks they seek to hasten the ad-
vent Of that glorious day, Hear! hear 7
party of Freedom has existed in all ages
OF the world, but mIghlier party of oppression
has been arrayed against it; and though the
lovers of human freedom have consisted of the
greatest and best men who have ever lived, vet
they have been overborne by violence, crushed
and trampled upon by power, buried in dun.
geons, gibbeted on scaffoIds, burnt at the stake
God, ike the house holder who sent servants to
his vineyard from far country, has, from age to
age, sent great and mighty souls into the world
to redeem 1t from oppression ; but the oppressor
has seized and mutllated and martvred them
with every form of ignominy towards the mes
sengers themselves, and of impiety towards the
Lord who sent them Sensation. The pos.
SCISSORS Of power and wealth seek to perpetuate
these advantages in their families, their clan, OF
their caste; and yQ1lsaaSt ~ 6ae earth, they