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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

1.-THE speech of this gentleman at the Demo-
cratic Convention, held at Lynn, just before the
late trial for the election OF members Of Con-
gress in the vacant districts Of Massachusetts,
has excited great deal of alteration, not only
on account OF the signal ability with which It
discusses the great question Of the day, but be-
cause of the indication which it affords of the
populer current which is setting against the Flu
gitve Slave Law. 1t is not merely the opinion
of an individual. Democracy, speaking through
the lips Of the ablest and most distinguished
Democrat of New England, condemns that law
as unconstitutional and inhuman, and demands
its total repeal. 1t is fitting that such man
should be her mouth-piece. His speech is pre-
cisey such as we had right TO expect from
him. Unlike too many Of the prominent pollti-
clans Of both parties, he has never degraded
himself by any unmany concessions to the slave
power; and if he has not heretofore been found
in the van of the opponents OF slavery, he has
at least the negative merit Of refusing, under
temptations and influences which few have ress-
ted, to place any obstacle in their way, or utter
u single word of censure or Encouragement
His sympathes, always on the right side, need
ed but the stimulus Of great occasion, like the
enactment Of the Fugitive Slave Law, to become
active enough to press into their service all the
powers of his intellect, the vast resources of his
learning, and his well-earned political influence.
He has, therefore, no occasion for retracuous
evaslons, or uncomfortable explanations. He
takes no new ground. lie condemns no previ-
ousy uttered opinion. He comes to the adyoca-
cy of freedom with clean hands. and, whether
viewed as politician or as lawyer no man
has a better right to vindcate law and Democ-
racy against the reproach and shame of the de.
ieslable enactment in question, than himself
He has never bsen able to see any necessary
connection between slavery and Democracy, and
has not hesitated to express his opinion that the
Executive, Legislative, and Judicial wheels Of
the General Government would run guile as
smoothly on free as on slave territory. In brief,
he has been in favor of the abolition of slavery
where it exists under the legislation of Congress.
As many as ten or twelve years ago, the vigi.
laut and venerable editor of the Richmond En-
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01
Mrs. swisshelm on Slave. Catohers.

When Educated and sensible women talk like
the following, politicians had better pause and
beware
Mrs. Swisshelms last Visiter is sewers on
the save-catchers-of which creatures they
have had samples lately in Plttsburg-tor
she regards them with true Womanly scorn.
Hear her
We do not say one half we feel we should
say if we were man. If we were, and
any fellow who has acted hound and aided
IN capturing a fugitive, should offer US any
ofthe courieses of life proper between man
and man, we would spit upon him. As it
is, if one such should enter the room we
were in, it would require a strong muscu-
lar effort on our part to prevent Get out
dog Get out from escaping our lips
TO US they appear like dogs, and nothing
else Their faces and forms assume the
outline and expressions of a dog Their
whlskers look like 'smellGrS or 'feelers.
I'VE would not rank amongst our list of
friends the man who needlessly sets his
foot upon worm and one who, for ten
or twenty dollar fee, would aid to tear a
man from the bosom of his family, and
consign him to the condition of brute,
ought to be held without the range of all
human sympathy. We would not let any
such biped sleep in our barn, or take a
drink at our pump. We would not take
his name as a subscriber and could not
write editorials for slave-catcher to read
and if there were a hundred people of oul
mind in Pit;sburg, it would be hard for a
Commissioner to live in it, We would
hire little boys to halloo at him on the
streets, and chambermaids to throw dirty
water on him OUT of the upstair windows
and like the Yankee boys companions, we
would keep pinchin' and poundin' him
all the while" until he would be obliged
to leave or repent Get out dog Get out !
should meet him at every door which shell.
ter family ties. Every husband and father
who values his right to live with his wife
and children, should spit upon or thrust
such and animal from his path-eyery wife
and mother who feels the value of hus
bands love, should spurn him from hei
door, and every child who loves its father
should taunt and mock him when he shows
his face.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01
The Democrats of Massachusetts,

The Democrats ofthe old Bay State, who have
stood so firm during the great Senatorial struggle
beneath the continuous fire which, during the
last three or four months, has been poured upon
them from every bunker press in the country,
are entitled to the gratitude of every lover OF
liberty. They have proved to the world that
they are indeed the disciples of Thomas Jeffer-
son. and resolved to carry out those measures
which, to his immortal honor, he putin progress
for the eventual humiliation of slavery. When
the great body of the Democracy throughout
the Free States shall take the noble stand, and
the broad and truly national ground which theil
brethren in Massachusetts have taken, the bat
tie of Freedom is all but won.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

o,,;rer read him a smart lecture ior VehtuFllg "
III so,olhinr of This sort in letter to some OF
his friends. The Virginian was great stlcHIeI
for the name of Jefferson his complaint against
Rantou was, that the latter was equally strehu-
ans in sppport of Jefferson'5 principles.
Tho democracy of Massachusetts will STAND
bv Pober, Ranto1. He has been for the last
fifteen wears their acknowledged Ieauel' ny
are Justly proud of his intellectual power Ills
learning and eloquence. They regard nun as q
far safer constitutional eXpoundeF tnaH t'le "a
tber Of the Fugitive Slave Law. Inc feh"Syi
vanian and other slave democratic paPers'whlch
are attempting 10 read him out OF the democrat,
il family would do well to look at the result ol
the late trial for Congressional election III h's
district Before that trial was made, bis oolu
and manly argument against the Fugitive Slave
law had been placed in the hands OF all the Vo-
ters in the district. Everybody knew his posi-,
non-that he had repudiated Hunkerlsm and
slavery. and had raised his powerful voice IN "a
vor of the repeal OF the Fugitive Law. Inc
! Rosion Post. the organ of the miserable remnant
Of servile Democrats in Massachusetts, WIN
drew his name from its columns as candldatt
for CONGRESS. Every effort was made by HUNK
ers of both parties, to prejudice the masses o
his old political friends against him. unde
these circumstances the trial was made, and MI
vote was increased by hundreds, and his trium
Dhant election at the next trial rendered moral!
certain.
Wehave known Robert Rantoul well for man,
years Always progressive, yet with so|e
steps than we could have wished, he has at las
planted his foot upon the platform of the grea
free party which is destined to triumph in ever
State In the Union. Cool, cautious, and firm
he has assured himself Of the ImpregnabI
strength of bis position, and may well laugh t
scorn the threats and denuncotons of those VIII
read, in this bold movement Of sagaciou5 an
far seeing statesman the prophecy of their o."
discontinue and ruin. J. G. W.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

in the style she had done, and enough to sup
port her so as to move in society equally elegant
ly eduSated. Carlo accompanied his sister to
to England, and being Of al eccentric turn, and
penurious, he returned to his employment in
Malta Two years afterwards, he received a
letter from Coutts bank, stating that his sister
wps dead, and that GlO000 was deposited in
their hands arising out of legacy left him by
her. He was so much affected at the loss OF
IFS sister, that he would never afterwards sleep
in bed. Within the last six months he nas
received letters from Paris, Vienna, and differ
ent parts of Europe, announcing large sums be-
ing deposited IN the various banks for him. AT
Vienna, 100, 90 francs; at Paris, person OF
fered hun 100000 for his receipt in full for all
amounts at his disposal in that city On the
5th of this moath he set sail hence IN the On
Orot1, for Marseilles with friend, to endeavor
to mud out WHO he IS. HIS habits are very &C.
centric. His employer could scarcely ever H.
dlce him to partoke of dinner as "A regular meal
with him. He generally took his dinner IN
Coach house, and it consisted Of lew hot pota-
toes, an onion or two, and bread and Coco cheese,
It's entire value I'D HIS supposed mother
and brother remain here, and reside at CVita
Vecchia; the latter is being trained up as Il
priest. Carlo has provided amply lor both Of
them. He carried his peRuriousness, with re-
gard to himself so far that one time he made
himself pair of shoes; and thinking that act
not the extent entirely to which he wished to
carry hls saving propensties, he made them too
large to allow for his growing; and as he oh
served, because they would not wear out so soon.
He spent great pnt of his tune at churches,
and ordinarily confessed once week. HIS
forehead and eyes are thought ike NapoIeons
and some persons think he is a son of his from
that circumstance, and that Kellerman left him
money, and General Laurister one of Bona
parts Als-do. Camp, inquired after him when
in Malta.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

Coming TO THEIR sENsEs.-The election
of Mr. Sumner has had a wonderful effect
in opening peoples eyes to the real state
of things in Massachusetts. The Fall
River Monitor, Wing paper, and in a
town which instructed its wing representa-
tives to vote for Charles Sumner, reads
wisely the auguries of the political heavens,
and thus records the lesson.
elf the merchants of Boston, bringing
all their wealth and influence to bear, are
determined to uphold Mr.. Webster, right
or wrong, and support the Fugitive Slave
Law, constitutional or unconstitutional,
they cannot expect to have the country 90
with them II they do, they will find them.
selves sadly mistaken. Wings or demo-
Gratis if they persist in their present course,
will have to work alone. Mr.. Webster and
the Fugitive Slave law cannot a0U not be
sustained by the country, and it will take
more wealth, influence and power than
there could be in ten thousands Bostons,
and all the advertisers, Curriers' and Posts
in creation, to stiie the love Of liberty, and
the hatred of slavery, and sIaye-catching
law, that burns in the bosoms of the free
men of the old Bay State. If the Bostonlans
are bent upon being Hunkers hook-or-by-
crook, they must console themselves the
best way they can they will be alone in
their shame. The people OF Massachusetts
oW not 60 with them, and they may rely
upon it. They will not support Daniel
Webster They will not support the Fugi-
tive Slave Law. Communicable.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

"THE TRUE FREES SOIL PARTY" who were
going to carry General SCoTT into the Pres
idencv by keeping mum on the slavery question
and being permitted to use enough of Fleesoil
thunder to gull The North, are in danger, these
days, of having the "hasty plate Of soup" they
had so cunmngly corcocted, upset by the thot
lessness of " Old Fuss and Feathers" himself
who has written letter to the Union bunker
Committee of New York, in which he fully en-
dorses the Compromise, Slave Law and all. II
have so good game sPoit in that way is pro
viking,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

APPROXIMATELY the midst of the univer.
sal rejoicing e firing Of cannon and the ring
ing Of bells which last week took place in al
most every village in Massachusetts on the re-
ceipt of the news oil Summers election, one
bell in a certain village near Boston was found
to be dumb Notwithstanding all the efforts of the
man at the rope to make it speak and when
some one was sent to see what was the matter
it was discovered that some pltiful Hunker had
been up and swaddled the clapper with cotton
batting Great is cotonw
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01
Vermont Central Railroad.

The returns Of the earnings of the Vernon
Central for the month Of March, 1851, vert
9l7,370 Sc; the corresponding mouth las
year, $l6,075 "a; showing an increase of s3l
295 3D. or about 1875 per cent. The travel anC
business on this road seems to be constantly ad
yancing, and the stockholders are now warrant
ed in the expectation of soon seeing their stock
at par
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

SPEARS FRUT TREEs.-We hope our far
mers and orchardsts will not neglect to avail
themselves, this Spring, of the rich assortment
ment of fruit trees, for sale by L. H. Spear &
Co., at their nursery at Braintree where they
will supply every variety wanted, at prices vary
ing from 20 to 25 cents, and sizes from to 8
feet in height Orders per mail will be prompt
ly attended to. Now is the time to speak.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

PROFESSOR PAGES ELEcTRo MAGNETIC Lo-
coMoTIyE, we understand made a preliminary
trial the day before YESTERDAY, on our railroad,
for the purpose of testing the best mode of at
tOchng the battery, which seems to be diff.
cult point, owing to the jostling and oscillations
OF the locomotive. II was run out over two
miles, and the best speed on a straight track
was ten miles an hour The locomotive weighs
ten and half tons, and has five feet drivers,
with two feet stroke. We hope soon to see it
under way in full blast. 1t made a curious np-
pearance to those who happened to be on the
spot at the time, AZ it looks exactly like pas
senger National Inteliigencer
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

ADVANTAGES OF BlRTH.-A son of R. R.
Rhett OF South Carolina has been removed bv
his father from Harvard University, lest his pro.
slavery principles be undermined BY a longer
residence in Massachusetts. A Boston noner
says "the College Faculty have voted as a special
favor that degree shall be granted to the Young
man. Northern boys could not get decree.
without remaining till Fall Term, Offering some
good reasons for their departure" No wonder
there are people who wish they had been born
in slave State.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01
ELECTION OF Mr.. SUMNER.
Demonstration at Montpelier

UPON reception, by Telegraph, of the intelli-
gence of the triumphant election of CHARLES
SUMNER to the United States Senate, on Thurs
day the Oath inst, the opponents of the present
National Administration and its offspring, the
Fugitive Slave Law, pursuant to the call of
Town Criers, and the ringing of bells, assem-
bed at the Court House for the purpose Of
adopting such measures as should suitably honor
the event. The meeting was organized by the
appointment of Hon. JACOB ScoTT, Chairman,
and H. D. HOPKINS, Secretary. Messrs. s. B.
Colby, Jos. Poland, T. P. Redield aud c. G.
Eastman were appointed Committee to report
resolutions, and make all necessary arrangements
for the purpose specified above and the meet
ing adjourned to Friday evening.
FRIDAY EvENrNo April IS.
Upon the assembling of the meeting, on FRI
day evening, the Committee, through Mr.. Po-
LAND, reported the following resolutions:
Re8olUed, That we hail the election of CHARLES
SUMNER to the Senate of the United States, not
merely as the addition of man of brilliant in
telect and honest purpose 10 that important body,
but more especially as it furnishes scathng
rebuke, at the right time, AMI from the right
source, to the unparalleled treachery OF Daniel
Webster and the perfidy of the National Ad-
mlnlstration.
RESOLVED, That we rejoice that under the very
shade of Faneuil Hall and Bunker Hill, Trade
and Commerce have not been able to dictate to
Old Massachusetts a Senator pledged to sup
port that odous act of the last Congress the
Fugitive Slave Law and that Massachusetts
has at least one Senator who believes that the
inherent rights Of man should never be hazard
ed in asserting the rights of property.
RESOLVED, That we yield to none in love and
allegiance to the Union. We shall cling to it
IN spite of the odous tests which political phar-
lsees have prescribed. We shall obey the Con-
sttutlon but we remember it was ordained
to secure the blessings Of LIBERTY" Yet
We now see it perverted to p9rp tuate SLAVERY.
The Union must be preserved; )" the Constitu-
tor must be restored.
Resolved, That while the 'almighty dollar
and the cotton conscience" of Boston are put
ting the shackles upon man to make him a
siave the PEOPLE Of Massachusetts send Chas
Sumner to Washington, to beard the lion in his
den.
Resolved, That one of the saddest mistakes Of
Daniel Webster's mistaken lite, was in suppos-
ing that the people of Massachusetts could as
easily conquer their predjudices as he could
his principles.
These resolutions, after being discussed in an
able and interesting manner by s. B. CoLBY,T
T. REDFIELD, and others, were unanimously
adopted; and the meeting adjourned.
JACOB SCOTT, Chairman.
H. D. HOPKINS, Secretary.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

0F7The Burlington Sentinel, in answering
some one who very pertinently asked what were
the present politics of the Vermont Watchu,aa
and the Free Press, says, they are neuter, a
term derived from two Greek words, ne and utter,
signifyiDg neither one thing nor t'other."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

The Republic, Filmore's organ, very frankly
avowes that the Atlas, ". WGtchman and other
Wing papers had the printing OF the laws taken
from them, because they opposed The Compromise j.!
and adds that in every case the change was
adUiSed by The ,c6gs Of the several States At
this neghbor Walton flares up, and calls tor
names and documents. No you don't, L. P.!-
Burlington Courier.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

, The AcoRN,-A Geographic dispatch from
KlI'y' Pats brother, dated the 10Th of April at
savannah, is said to have beer received in town,
giving the tidngs of the arrival of the piraticaI
org Acorn, treighted with slave captured on
the coast OF Massachusetts, at an expense of
about $4,000. The next despatch will proba-
Oiy give the particulars of grand ILLUMINATION
OF the city and te de,tpa. ''-'N''''
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

O. The reader Is invited to glance over
Keith s. Barker's advertisement in our paper Of
to-day. Their assortment is good, and their
prices and mode Of dealing unquestonablY far.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

Liquor SALES IN MoNTPELtER.-Th Select
men of Montpelier have appointed Rev. |. D.
Rust agent to sell liquors the ensuing year, as
provided by statute
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

MIR Washington, the proprietor Of the
Mount Vernon estates, offers to sell two
hundred acres of land around the mansion
to the U. S. Government, for the snug little
sum OF 100000. The government want
II Tor the purpose of establishing a Military
Asylum.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

A PROCLAMATION by the President to arrest
the new Cuba INVASION has been issued. It is
said the armament was to have sailed from diff
terent parts of the Southern coast on the 10Th
OF April
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

TAE MANCHESTER CAVE, of which we re-
Gently published an account, existed only ltnow
appears, in fancy The whole press were COM
Petely hOOxed by it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

0|@ContributoIs to our paper will please rec
oect that their communications must, to re-
ceive insertion, be POST PAID.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01
Hon. John M. Niles Letter,
To the Boston Anti-Fugitive Slave Law
Convention, April sth 1851.

Among the many excellent speeches and let
tiers brought out by the great meeting at Ire
mont Temple, we have read none more calcuIa-
ted to awaken reflection in the minds of all
candid men, than the following from that able
and lnconuptible statesman, JonN NJ NILES OF
| Connecticut.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01
Hon. Robert Rantoul, Jr.

To show that we have not over estimated the
acquisition our party has received in Mr. RAN
roUL, we publish below communication on the
subject from JOHN g. WHITTIER, to the Ma
tlonal Era.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

A LARGE proportion of the population of
London are suffering from influenza. The
diseased has also been prevalent in Paris.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-01

049 An communications to the Freeman,
whether on business Of the paper OF tor pnbica
ton. should be addressed, post paid. to the Ed
itor,
General agents.
v.B. PALMER, ans. NJ. PETTlNGILL, BosroN.
The New York herald., 1851-12-06
Later from Texas.

from the New orleans True Delt to, Dec. 20.
The steamship louisiana Captain Forbes, arrived
last evening from Galveston, bringing the Texas mails
in which are papers from Galveston to the 2st instant
The democrats are 10 meet at Austin on the sth Of
January 70 elect delegates to the National Convention
Heavy rains had fallen, and the Trinity was nsvgabls
for stesmbests and was rapidly rising.
We learn frrm the San Augustine Herald Of the sth
instant that during the previous week, the town
flowing into TeIas in unprecedented numbers Those
passng Through San Augustine had large numbers Of
slaves and other evidences OF wealth
Mr.. Blsckmond the Sheriff Of Jasper county Il IL
reported was lately killed in dispute about cards
Its stated that Smith county has produced such
Of corn In the past season that she can
The Legislature has done nothing yet Of interest out
o. che etste and very little Of interest in h PROPOSE
tion has bee intSodussd obud new capitol Of brick
or stone
The volunteer company. under Captain II McCaloch,
was mustered out Of service ct Fort Martin Scott on the
In relation to the state debt the Gsreen Y. Of the
s1st ays:-
We understand tha, there is very general disposition
among the members Of the Legsture 70 pay the second
class creditors of the State out Of the FIVE millions al
ready received from the United States Treasury and to
let tie first class have their TO the general
that class
In several parts of the State, delegates are being
elected to the railroad convention which be held in
This city in January next At the late election in Vic
tors the town voted eighty three to eleven in favor Of
snbcrbug s2 600 to the capital stock Of the San Anto
MO and Mexican O uf Railroad.
Colonel Ford late CT the iusurgent forces the Rio
Oranse, had arrived st Corpus Christi with his body
susid' The kBeres Gsl,y ssys his nd received
hs,smorss, doing veil The paper Of the 18th
ssyt;--
IL Is iuInored In town. and pretty generally believed
that Captain % X Lewis has during the past week
n,ed ON the Rio ersnde. at the head Of four hundred
men Tor the purpose Of joining the revoutousts Not
being authentic, We refrain from sommeutsn
The Nusces FOLEY furnishes the following items from
the Rio Grsnde city,
The Mexican who convicted at the last term OF
the county court of Starr county CT killing at
Rcma feveral months since vas hung at Rio Grsnda
City on the 18th ult lie confessed his guilt.
Van Astin who killed shropshire has at.tv kiiled
another msn-s ferryman Of CnTsjal n !. r,py.sentsa
~ most cold blooded affair
George Downs "a bro .-r ~ Uhsdcs Downs recently
wouno.u :. s-.esn IAbcho on The RE Grapdel died
Nvsn"Ao - the evening oy Tho 2ist October He was
Nen ~uown and much esteemed throughout rexss; ana
Vas one n the memorable Mer prisoners"