Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-22
The Sims Case.

The London Standard ef Freedom, a
-paper of the most signal ability, aud which
ENJOYS the confidence of the retormers OF
ENGLAND and never hestates to express
their voice, concludes an account o! the
case of Sims, with the following heart
stirring appeal =
#** "Amercan law is now asked to
make this man slave. American law IS
now asked to sanction the practice OF kid
mapping any colored man as it may suit the
convenience or CRAFTY the revenge CT men
who dare say he is theirs, as the horse they
ride, or bullock they slaughter, is theirs
American law is asked to defy the Constr
tuition, which guarantees that no man shall
be deprived Of life and liberty without due
process of law, and to hand over the lives
and fortunes, aye, and the eternal welfare OF
the slaves to multitude of functlonaries
who poIlute the land they tread, as the
plague of frogs did Egypt of old.
The Fugitive Slave Law is greater dis
grace to America than slavery itself. That
was an evil partial in its Operations, in
some degree to be remedied. In the In
fanny of this every American participates.
He may talk of freedom-a cody profess
sion may be his-tjll the Fugitive Slave
Law be repealed, he is the abettor of slave.
holders-he stoops to do their dirty work
and he must share their degradation and
shame.
Till the Fugitive Slave Saw be repealed,
America must be mournful sight to con-
template; no fouler injustice. no more
damnabe wrong, are to be met with amidst
the despotisms of Europe than what the
Fugitive Slave Law sanctions; and yet
America can offer the Hungarian refugee
home, and can refuse it to the Fugitive Slave,
for whose wrong and agony in coming years
a fearful-God: giant that it be not bloody
-atonement must be made.
Abolitionists of Boston, Of America! be
up and doing. In England there are sym.
pathising hearts and cooperating hands
} Across the water, and louder than the roar
!. of your own Niagara, shall be heard Eng
lands appeal for the slave. Foremost in
> the struggle, and readiest to JOY in common
: victory to be won in the name humanity
y anu IClSlOnI you VIII hHu uo' oiNN' 49,
# rest not-taIk not of truce or repose, till
the Fugitive Slave Law be repealed, and
i the STAKEHOLDER of the South learn that
" against the Christian principle-agalnst the
+ moral strength-against the common hu'
/ mainly of the North, his gold and threats,
y his bluster and entreaty, are alike powerless
y and vain. EnglIshmen, to you, i'll his ex'
a. tremlty and loneliness, turns the American
IL slave. He is man and brother. Hl'
r. origin is as noble and his destiny as glorl
Gus as your own. The Almighty breathed
in into him the breath of life, and the insPlra
IN ton OF the Highest gave him understanding
a, If You aid, his letters will burst and he vii
III rise an emancipated man. The men o.
n9 Bristol and the Congregational Ministers o
y. Worcestershire have begun nobly-the
to Antl'Slavery Society has followed in theiI
nd steps; but more must be done.
he May is the month of demonstration. Ii
It. this great metropolis, in few days, will bt
III gathered together the religion, the greatness
!, ~ the philanthropy, ofthe land. Almost every
H. victim of wrong will have an advocate. II
ID cannot be that next month no voice will bt
raised for the American slave, and that nc
m narrator will tell of the lifelong misery by
Or which he is withered up, and by which the
II democracy of the West becomes a by-word
= mockery, and lie"