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

! other times, depending upon the days and pa-
ces, appointed by the Governor and Council for
special elections Renewed merrimentr1 Every
nody remembers how the Boston Alias used to
stir up the pure minds of the Democratic party
by way of remembrance, by publishng-per-
odlcally, as they say, and sometimes oftener-
the names Of those Democratic Senators or Rep
resentatves in our General Court who had voted
Tor freedom and against Texas in order to
show their fragrant inconsistency in still adher-
ing to party that had been false to liberty.
That paper has done some good service to our
cause, especially for holding up for long time
the Fugitive Slave act TO Reproduction, while the
other Wing presses in the city were daily striV-
ing to hide its atrocities from public view, and to
defend what they could not hide trust the
reluctant and struggling editors of that paper
are not to be overcome by the mammon of sa-
very, whatever DISCUSSES it may assume. | trust
The sIave-power will never be able to use to-
wards them the language which helrs Fortress
addressed 10 Satan:
" At first they called me Sin, and for a sign
PortentOns held me but familiar grown,
pleased, and with attractive graces
The most averse Thee chiefly" Applause.
Those prosperous days of the Massachusetts
Wings continued until 1913. They thrved in
basket and in store, until, like Jeshurun, they
waxed fat, and, at least in the fourth and fifth
Congressional Districts, they performed some
very hard kicking. Laughter and applause.
Then came The nomination of General Taylor
zen. Taylor was Louisiana stakeholder. He
had been the hero of the Florida war-as great
,ahoutage against race as ever Rome or Rus
a Acomnitted He had been prominent, and,
wy 1eIaged, willing instrument, in spill
1nse arhsister~R ennhlie.
IN sf60ld the Executive divest him OF mill
Lary command, or he should grow too old for
service, it was universally known that there was
full black battalion on his own plantation
which he would always command. The South
demanded his nomination absolutely. They
would hear no terms, and would offer no terms.
In the northern canvass it was strongly asserted
that he had written letter, saying IN so many
words that he would not veto the Wllmot Pro
viso but that letter was so warily kept in
certain uncomfortable part Of Wing mer'
chants wardrobe, that neither Mesmerlzers nor
Spiritual Rappers could read it aloud to the peo
pie.
Hence all omens foreboded evil. Those which
we looked for on the earth, argued i'll to our
earthly interests; and those which we looked
for above were in the wrong quarter of the heav-
ems. The character OF many OF Gen. Taylors
friends brought distrust upon himself. lie owed
his election far more to the repulslon which
good men felt towards his opponent than to any
attraction they had towards him.
1t was an occasion that tried the sagaclty and
the discretion of honest men, and have always
felt great charity both for his advocates and his
opponents each being able to make out so
plausible case. The course which the Con.
necticut clergyman took on that occasion always
commended itself to me. He voted the Taylor
electoral ticket, but endorsed a prayer on the
back of his ballot, saying that he was painfully
uncertain as to the course Of duty, and lmplor-
ing that his vote might be sanctlfed for the good
of tina country.
But am happy to avail myselfof this, and Of
all opportunities, to do justice to the name OF
Gen. Taylor. He turned out very different
man from what his friends or his foes supposed
him to be. | believe he desired freedom for all
the territories; and, could he have been permit.
ted to carry out his own plans, he would have
secured not only the freedom of the territories
but would also have consummated all tho great
national measures of the party that brought him
into power. Mr.. Clay threw the first stumbling
block in his way, by his Compromise scheme
| This, alone, might have been surmounted. But
Mr.. Websters apostacy, on the 9TH of March,
turned the tide of battle. 1t broke up General
Taylor's phaanx, both north and south. 1t
reused the dropping, and just.yielding spirits OF
the slave power to frantic exerulUu. hu enemy
on lie field, Gen. Taylor was always ready to
meet but he was not prepared for treachery in
his own camp. Still, he maintained his ground
resolutely, until struck down by the power that
conquers tine conquerors. There are many who
believe it was Mr.. Websters perfdy, with the
nameless labors and anxieties that came in its
train, which caused General Taylor's death. II
remains TO be seen, whether the political Mac.
beth shall succeed to the Banquo he spirited
away, though all the "weird" brethren of the
slave. mart and of the "Union and safety com
mttees" still tempt him onward by their incan-
tations.
But it was under the circumstances of Gen
Tayor nomination and not of his death, that O
portion of the Free Sellers parted company witt
the Wings; as another portion did from the De
mocrats, because of Gen, Casss avowed subser
vlency to the southland the conduct of all mer
is to be judged by the circumstances contempt
rary with their acts, land not subsequent to them
If, however, there are those who Judge OF mo
tives by results, this certainly can be SAID ir
vndcation of the Free Soil party, that the now
acting President of the United States who came
in on Gen. TayIor's ticket, and is now compile
ting his Presidential term, has done more Tor sla
very than the Free Soil party ever predicted o.
feared would or could be done by the candidates
whom they opposed. Sensation. Even now
when the third year of the Presidential term IL
but half spent, the Wing administration, aidet
by many leaders in the Wing party, is carrying
out, with relentless hand, and more relent
less heart worse pro slavery measures than the
Free Soil party ever charged upon them during
the canvass, or ever believed or conceived they
could commit.
Such was the position Of affairs in Massachu
sets in 1913, when, almost for the first tint
within the memory of man, the Wings failed, a
the polls, to elect electors of President and Vict
President.
Let us dwell for moment on that crisis.
was during the canvass of 1S48 that the Wing
became so amorous towards the rank and file o
the Free Soil party. No knight Grant ever pro
tested more fidelity, or vowed to do more valor
GUS deeds in his mistress cause. Than some o
them, no dove ever cooed with sweeter gurgle
kEbap others, no stag ever offended with ranke
breath. They wooed them by Daylight, b.
moonlight and by torch-hght. Loud cheering.
They swore belief not only in all the Free So
Scriptures, but in the traditions of its Rabbn,
The Ordinance of ~ they loved the Whine
Proviso they loved better; and would the co
damsel of Free Soilism but consent to the aft
ance, the abolition of slavery in the District
Columbia should gladden. the espousals. Ever
Wing rally, from ward and dstrict-school NEE
ings to monster mass meetings, resounded wit
Mr.. Webster's slogan, or war cry, mo NOR
slave States No more slave representation
the Congress of the United States p The Bo,