Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-02-06

-
and 90 forth with renewed energy tor right and
Justice II we do not. we are lost aud ruined as
fee States. The iangs which are nov dripping
in the warm lite-biood oflhree million and
half of our countrymen, will ere long be tasten-
ed in our guvenng flesh. Have not the South
already betrayed disposition TO invade our
rights. and trample on The interests ofthe Mouth?
Have they moi lusulled ns, and threatened us
Have they not swung their fists III our faces, and
brandlshed their bowie knives over our heads
Have they not goaded on their miserable crea-
lures among US, to act lawlesS violence acts in
which our persons have been rudely attacked
our regulations spitefuy assalled, and our priv
ieges as American citizens set at naught?-
Have they not treated US as outlaws in our own
country? And with more than savage wicked
Hess, with The open mouthed eagerness Of insa-
tate blood hounds, sought to imbrue their hands
in the blood Of unotfending freemen? And can
we mistake their spirit and design? Why, they
already treat us as If we had sold our birthight;
as if we had been reduced to brute beasts; as if
like their own goods and chattels" we were
good for nothing but to crafty the passions and
subserve the interests of pampered and bloat-
ed anstocracy. If we permit the spirit oftyran-
ny among us 10 feed and fatten--to grow AID
thrive upon The blood OF the slave. we are un.
done. | repeat tht II, nothing hut the most viii
fnl bindings can prevent every freeman Of the
| North from seeing that his Interests are identi
fed with the enslaved. i.
Let a'tenipt to prevent the sreedy.a hn-
litiou Of American slavery Sooner could men
bind the ocean with cord, or stop the sun in
his course. Shall the soil which drank the blood
of the martyrs Of liberty, ind the rights Of on
science, bearing up the affairs of free discussion
be sacrificed Sooner shall the earth open and
swallow those who would do it. What Shall
the Divine right Of Kings, and the supremacy of
the Pope, be openly discarded in their own do
minions, while the sons of the Pilgrims are for
hidden in New England, to declare the equality
Of man, and the ina!ienabillty of human rights !?
Will they crush every rising thought, and sup
press every noble principle, sllfe every gener'
Gus emotion, quench every holy sympathy, and
betray every sacred trust, that cOrrnp; rulers IN
Church and State may establish the foundation
of their power on the necks and hearts of their
countrymen! AS soon will they forswear their
manhood and apostatlze from God. No. I'm
deferred by official prescription, or private de.
nunciation, by prosecution at common law, or
prosecution without law, by leg enactments OF
ecclesiastical anathemies, the friends of the
slave, guided by wisdom, cheered BY the favor,
and protected by the power Of God, viii prose-
cute thei ~ik 10 the end And that man, or
that party which shall attempt to arrest this
cause in IT'S onward march, will be borne down
BY the advancing hosts! Then again, to arms
We lovers of freedom and never lay down the
weapons Of your warfare, until victory pcrches
upon yonr banners"
JOHN GREGORY.
.Northfeid Feb. 1851