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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06
Whose the Conduct that Creates
Agitation?

In the very debate in the Senate, in which
The whole force of the bunker artillery was
brought into full blast upon the alarming mob"
composed of the fifteen negroes who spirited
away Shadrach, in Boston, several eminent Sem
ators, openly and unrebuked by fellow partisalls,
referred with marked appreciation to the late
mobbing OF George Thompson in Springfield
We suppose, therefore, that we are to consider
it settled by tins indirect expression ofthe major
ity ofthat digniied BODY that a mob against free
dom is a wise and commemorate affair, while a
mob in favor of liberty is u matter to be visited
with "cOndign punishment l." 1t is well for us
little folks, that we are not compelled to look to
our Senators in Congress, for our only examples
of logic and consistency in : wiug moral dis
t%nctions. Such an exhibition of folly and alb
surdlty among the town officials in a March
meeting in Vermont, would be considered good
cause 10 impeach the most promising new made
Hog Reeve ever elected to that office.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06
TIL wangter G Prssaatn

A letter lately appeared in the Atlas chaFg'
ing that a nameless high officer Of government
had received a large bribe to favor certain inter-
ests, &c. 1t has now come out that the officer
alluded to was Daniel Webster, who, before &C
cepting his present office, was paid the snug lit
tie sum of $4,000 by sundry politicians and
merchants Of the cotton school in Boston, New
York, and so on southwark, as a mere present %
There was a certain candidate for represent
tation in a certain town in a certain State, a few
wears since, who went to a poor opponent OF
supposed easy political virtue, and told him he
felt disposed TO give him a barrel Of -four. The
man accepted it and voted for the donor. - Blu
" II sOas a mere present."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06
Grace Greenwood on DR.. Dewey.

From an article by Grace Greenwood III
the National Era, we take the following
sketch of Or. Dewey's famous pro-slavery
Lecture;
Early in the winter, we heard a lecture,
delivered before the Lycenm of Lynn, Mass.
by a distinguished Doctor of DIVINITY
We went to hear a Ii cray or scientific dis
course, such as was usually brought before
that Society, where reformers were under
bonds, at least Of honor, not to agitate.-
Such was the general desire and expecta-
&ion. But we had, under a Disgusting title,
4apOlitical' harangue-a fippaDt, ungeAer-
GUS TRADE against reforms and retormers. a
gtoriication Of compromise, and a defence
of the Fugitive Slave Bill. Setting aside
the unworthiness Of the imposition in put
ting off one-sided partisan production on
a mixed audience, assembled to hear a
popular lecture, it was a poor performance
in itself, IIliberali in spirit, illogical in rea SON.
ing, wanting ia noble ideas and eloquent
delivery. This speaker has a manner hap
" PLY peculiar to, himself, aud quite indiscrl
rbable, a certain unsteadiness Of footing and
AANLStlASthCSS Va hWlCj VA iiNolChN
ference, a lounging, rolling way, particular
ly ill-adapted to give force to words oftruth
and soberness.'
Yet we r~ecollect being IN one passage
greatly struck by his manaer He was
end eaVoring to define what was absolute
right and absolute wrong. Ii was not asln
to obey this Fugitive Slave law, he SAID
so far from being so did he consider it, that
he would obey it, even if it should require
him to return his own brother or child into
bondage. but, to utter an untruth was to
do an absolute wrong.-he would no; tell a
lie to save his own liberty, his life, OF the
lives Of all those dear to him. As he paus-
ed for a moment, and looked round on his
audience, after giving Inference to this
severe morality, standing with his figure
no longer Iounging oil the desk before him,
but. gathered up to its full height-his eyes,
before halEclOsed, now open and beaming,
with his arms folded, and a stern and aw.
;fdl virtue making rigid his set lips, he i'm
pVessed'us, profoundly impressed us, as a
94@arkable fine example of the clerical
Fe&snig.
VS. the day would our old grand
Ia'hSfs ave said, woes the day when wo-
mea Ses Up, ~ rebuke the clergyp
A", " He%I StaOdfather, woes the day
when the clergy deSa,-e such r~eproofl
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06
4NASS MtETINGE{
ar BETHEL.

Ar uritten and verbal requests of a
large number of the leading citizens OF
Windsor, Orange, and Washington Coun-
ties, notice is hereby given, that a Mass
Meeting Of the advocates of Free Prln'
ciples, will be holden at BETHEL, ON
THURSDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF MARCH
NEXT, to take into consideration the alarm
ing encroachments of the Slave Power as
developed more especially in the measures
and movements of the last and present
Session of Congress. The meeting will
probably be prolonged through the first half
or all the next day and the ablest Of our
own speakers, and some from abroad, may
be expected to address the meeting,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06

"Who who p' exclaimed Trygn, bl- r
less!y, q" who was the Kahr that has SO 6e.eit
meP'
know not; l never thought Of asking" re-
piled Walter. "But here is something that
perhaps may tell" and he lifted a new rife
from among the long grass where it had lain
" 1t Is--it is my sin that has overtaken me Z
cried the wretched man, throwing up his clasp
ed hauds, alt is one Of the guns | sold Kuru.
Oh. / an we'll punished % he continued, pacing
to aud fro dlstractedly. 81 pinned for wealth to
argtandize my children, and sold arms to he
Ka6ra that / might do it more quickly; those
arms they have turned against me, and have lett
me childless. My children, it ID your father who
is your murderer
Hitherto, amid all his own grief, Hume had
appeared to feel deeply for the b%ereaved father;
but now he started from his side with a look OF
horror and detestation and wild were the words
of ~reproach and Indignation that burst IRON MS
lips as he realized the truth, that the being he
had 80 deeply loved though nov there was
between them the barrier Of a fearful death
had fallen q victim to Tryon's ambition-that 1t
was no evil chance that. had caused Willie"
Del. to be the scene of such a tragedy, but inc
deliberate resolve of the Kuru to regain posses,
sion Of the valuable ivory and skins TryoH ''Su
received as his compensation ne reuIen''ot-
cd that had not that fatal passion hleu Afyo"'
heart. Kate and himself might haveOeeh among
sath's happies, and that now he st"u
nich broken-hearted beside the sP%"s
that vas her grave And IN the apAi'u u '"ose
thoughts he forgot that Tryon y SS'
happy than himself, for he hs no Se"IrePf0s'"
and he poured forth dpo9rN" " nO'u '''''
accusations, which the A%lSeraoIe mans con-
.ciepce echo.d to tH uttermost; nay, even
more e., .e mourud for all his children and
,ho vita :. his ycth, for whom he had procured
yioielt death
y, the violence efthese self-upbraidlngS could
last and ere the sun again shone Oh the
yrsve,duin, Tryon, unconscious ofell things was
wrihinr in the agony Of brain fever. Walter
Hume attended him as though he were his son
for he saw iu him for the time but the father of
the gentle girl to whom his love had proved so
terrible. But when that was once over flor
Tryon did recover, as those to whom life is a
burden oten willy, Walter shrunk from him a.
gain, acne whose hand had fred the mine that
o~vertheNv,his happiness.
No did ryon seek his companionship, but
wandered away none knew whittier, a sad and
solitary man, leaving his name and his story to
harnt the once fair spot which his evil passions
bEghted.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06
Town Officers of Montpelier.

The following officers were chosen at our
March Meeting on the Sd inst.
]. E, WRIeHT, Town Clerk.
JOHN A. PAGE, Treasurer.
GEO. WoRTHINeToN, D. 8. THuRsroN. G.
w ScOTT, Select men.
HENRY MUTT, 1st Constable.
]. BRADlsH, I'd Constable.
ELI BALLoU, School Superintendent,
Ezra MARSH, Sealer Of weights g. measures.
Leather.
S. B. FLINT, ]. DIMocK, WIN. Marsh, Fence
viewers.
8. French, II. N. TAPLIN, Town Grand Ju.
rors.
W. W. CALDWELL, E. ScRIBNER, JR., G. C..
SHEPARD, Listers.
d.. BALDWIN, GEO. HOwEs, n. H. REED.
Trustees Surplus Fund.
d. BALDWIN, E. H. PRENTIss, G. s, HUs-
BARD, Auditors.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06
Congress

Adjourned, Of course, on the Sd instant, but
what business they forced through on the last
two days has not become known as we go to
press. The River aud Harbor Bill" the
"Cheap Postage Bill" the appropriation Bills"
and the infamous one to pay for the "Amistad
Captives,n all remained for final action at the
last advices. Next week we will Try to sum up
what Congress has done besides sc putting dO,On
the ogitution," and attending to the new vocation
of the American government.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06
Election of Senator of Massa-
Chusetts.

This still pending election becomes each
week more and more interesting, not only on
account of its increasing Importance TO the cause
Of freedom, but az the point from which is con-
stantly evolved sufficient light to keep us apprls-
ed OF the plans and movements of the pro- slave
ry wire-workers at Washington and elsewhere,
to avert the dread calamity attendant on the
election of Charles Sumner. The New York
Evening Post, with excellent means OF judg.
ing of the truth, thinks the Proclamation was
" mainly designed to operate on the Senatoria.
election in Massachusetts" The snppositlon is
q probable one for it was confidently asserted
at Washington, thai, at the next trial, Summers
vote would fall off more than twenty. The
Hunker papers in Boston, also, as if acting in
accordance with the cIew received from hepd
quarters, at once opened nfresh their batteries
on Sumner, and charged him with having been
the direct cause of the mob " by his speeches
and advice to the fugitIves, at the same time
confidently asserting that he never again could
receive the number of votes which had hitherto
been given hi n, as-these effects uf his ovnduot
would now open the eyes of his once deluded
supporters. Well, that next trial came last
Wednesday, just aboutth the time when the great
est effects OF the Proclamation, and the rescue
which professedly called it forth would naturally
be most perceptible; and mark the result! Snmner
received two more votes than he had ever oh
tanned before, and but for the presence of two
opponents who we're absent at a previous trial
would have been elected! Verify, the Procla
nation has "opened peoples eyes" but not ex
uctly in the way Fillmore and Webster ha,
connted an.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06
our opponenTg

our opponents =
leyen[who by their Vow and depraved those
a maJorityue Slave Bill. / do noe ~~ra PASSED
we're dlslnteresteG mr. even a large minority,
We should remember that the nfbRy took, but
at least might have been pure.
Mr.. President, | consider it the duty Of every
man, woman and child to join in the great cause
VIZ are engaged in, and to endeavor to difust
our principles. Many may say we can dc
nothlng-ior we have no influence but it i.
not SO. Every one has some influence over
few at least. Every one has al interest in tlt
great cause OF Human Liberty and in s~ccelera
ing the time OF its universal triumph. woulf
call upon you TO engage in 1t for this reason also
because by so dung only, you, yourselves can
hope to enjoy true freedom,-cun hope to pre-
serve ihose Liberties you now possess.
In the words of one of our noble anti SLAYER,
poets, | would say
&" Is true freedom but to break,
Fetters for our own dear sake,
And with leather hearts forget
That we owe mankind a debt?
NO-true freedom is to share
Al the chains our brothers wear,
AND with heart and hand, to be
Earnest to make others free.
They are slaves-who fear to speak
For the fallen and The weak.
They are slaves-whn will no; choose
Hatred scofing and abuse.
Rather Than in silence shrink
From the truth, they needs must think;
They are slaves - who dare not be
In the right with two or three"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06
Old whitey's Floating Bridge.

The gigantic works at RoHse's Point, and I
Windmill Point, intended D. bring thu Northern
and Vermont g. Canada Railroads within a rel
pectable proximity, are progressing with all pa
slble dispatch, The piers, on either side. w
ere long. he constructed to the main ehaHnc'
A great number OF hands are busily at work ?
the Boat which is. to ply between the " ships's
the ends Of the piers, and which will be Of 81
fcient capacity, and will be purPOseiy aenstrE
I'd to transport entire trains from one road to
other. X
The boat is three haBdred feet u
will, probably, be completed o -
som as the ice breaks up. OpsSJeSJ
one who may chance ~ VISA Inese p'acs
find hat MANY things can be done unosF't
Statute ,"--N, u. Jhssa.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06

Mr.. Giddings has presented a resolution IN
the House enqulring whether the outrages com
united on George Thompson, a Member of
Parliament, at Springfield, are not a violation Of
our treaty obligation to Great Britain? Per-
haps Great Britain herself will soon begin to
make the same enquiry, if Thompson is mobbed,
burnt in efigy, and pclted with rotten eggs,
many times more.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06

Rev. Mr.. Pease will lecture before the Insti
tute at the Temperance Hall, on Wednesday
Eve, p 81; z S,Gloc asoo H M9 1 Rsy%oO %ris Address Sf be.
fore the Associate Alumni of the Univernisity
of Vermont"
March, 4th. C. G. RoLFE, See.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06

The Nsw York Tribune has opened It's mos
effective batteries on the late movements of the
High Priests Of the Slavery Dagon, now fairly
set up for our worship at Washington. Stand
10 your guns this time, Mr.. Greeley, and we will
forgive all your previous shortcomings.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06

~ The Worcester Chvoo;cle relates
that a young woman, equally igno,ent .suuer.
sutIous and cruel, recently tied a cs, fast
20 a bed post. and cut out It's heat, whlvb
she stuck full ofpinS, as a charm to secure
the affections of some man to whom she was
attached.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06

The GreyIOck Sentinel is the title of a new
Free Soil weekly just established at North Ad-
ans, Mass. 1t is a good looking sheet, and
promises to be an efficient one in the cause OF
freedom in that part of the State.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-06

b. r. 7fayElPs0M.

NJ All communications to the Freemah
whether IN business Of the paper or for puhllca
ton. should be addressed, post paid: to the Eli
ltor.
MS. NJ. PETTENeIIL. No. 10 State, se s,h
BOSTON. is our autho' ized Agent to reGe
scriptions and advertising for this P'PN'
Washington telegraph., 1851-12-17
TAKE ME HOME.
Mother: my heart is chill

Mother. my heart is chill
..,v-I would sleep. Oh. take me home!
~. ~ me some lulling, leathean anodyne
w. s,s.p the quivering senses OF this clay
Io,..,her strange and dreamess deaths eclipse;
ah., bear this dropping spirit to thy home'
n.,ond the singing stars: There Is spell
Ofce upon my SOUL its freezing chain
Seemed in gnawing poison presses down
1Tn,i the clankiess feiiers slowly change
Al h..uty into bitterness. My brain
q a. ,,;Idercd too, and faintng with the strife.
n,;obty struggle with its warning thoughts,
"a al its fierce imaginings. The mind
IT,, famed al times, gorgeous comet-star,
q. ,lowed anon a steady, shining sun,
NJ darkless OH its weary, wandering way,
H ~. some pale nebula, far wavering through
r.. .tarIess desert Of the southern pole;
in., -" lost, and lone. Oh! mother, guide me home!
IT,. hrazeu portals of dull despair
a." On ma with hoarse and sulen clang,
IT,, masses sharply through my shuddering soul
A. ike a bell in some dim ruined tower.
S-un, by the signing solitary wind.
H. Lone heart sends a hollow echo back,
IT,, w.iIinp in u vague, unmeaning dream,
..d oroping onward in this horrors mist,
ca,d cIsmmy. cIinging as the damps OF death
E1, EDo,, IN, the charnel-house. The lights of fe
An male and lurid waver mid the gloom,
q. i.dipg lamps at morning wall the death
nf Pleasure in her lonely banquet hall:
And a.urations, hopes that led me.on
~, dor. att ain the unattainabe,
~ at before me strange and meaningless.
A. b.If.formed images that darke through
/, IDIOTS vacant brain!
The world TO me
f. Tx, . .phiux-huge, dark aud mystical.
From whose still, stony eyes win no glance
or kindly sympathy-whose granite lips,
Fixed rigid in everlasting smile.
Mock the deep anguish Of The Orphans cry
n; r. me, my mother, meath the kindly gloom
Thai wraps the vale of shadows-oh! lift up
Tbi. wearines<, which like an svalanch,
And freezing as its adamantine waves,
Seems crushing out the energies of life,
Aad filling up the dreary, aching void
With idiotc madness-terrors vague,
Th,t creep like reptiles through the ruined brain
And crunbling heart.
Give me the anodyne,
Ere phantom madness seize me-let me sleep:
Come, come, my mother, save thy truant chud,
Sweet mother take me HoME
Washington telegraph., 1851-12-17

Showing an Increase Of 60 per cent IN
popua:lon, and 40 in wealth. In the
new, less populous portions of the West
aud Southwest, the increase under similar
circumstances would have been more
than quadruple. Speculation would be
at fault in estimating the trade that must
follow the completion Of our proposed
works. The rapid increase of every city,
town, and village. would be one certain
effect, whilst new ones will sprlng up i'll
every direction. The appreciation Of
real estate. aud the profits of every indus
trial pursuit, will be increased; and our
increased population would far exceed
the anticipalions of the most sagacious
Then the heart OF the patriot will. rejoice
in this acquisition Of strength. wealth,
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-07-01

circumstance-looking back to that occurrence,
and then to what have within the year past.
should alarm the true friends of this Republic. 1t
should teach there are men North and South
who ready TO accelerate the fall of this Union,
and, Unnecessary, TO destroy It,
al say this in all sincerity l say, too, that
when look back to the crisis through which we
have passed, feel that there danger that the
days of this Union were numbered. determined
then, if necessary, to sacrifice every political pros
pect had in the world, and life itself to save the
country. [Great cheering But, fellow-citizens'
have said more than intended Your very fiat
tering and undeserved compliment has betrayed
me into speech that never intended to make.
You will pardon me, | trust. There those
with me much more capable of addressing you
| than myself, Permit me to return to you my very
| sincere thanks for the very kind manner in which
you have received me-"
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-07-01
Fort NToultrie.

The anniversary of the battle which gave
this fort near Charleston, South Carolina, its
present name, occurred on Saturday last, the
battle having been fought on the 2Sth Of June,
l776. The secessionsts Of that vicinity pro-
posed to hold 4 grand festival on this occasion
within the walls Of the fort, when it was I'M
derstood the cause Of disunion would be openly
preached and loudly advocated. 'Phe officers
of the army in command of the fort deeming n
place that was sanctifed with the blood of the
Revolution which gave us our liberties and
made us free and prosperous Union, not fit
one for the dissemination of disunion doctrines
and reasonable sentiments, declined, on appli-
cation being made, to permit the fort to be desc
Grated to such purposes.
The Charleston Mercury of the 2Sth informs
us that large body Of citizens would partake
of collation. on that day under tents in front
of the fort; but.it a&p states that many DIS
tinguished Cardinals were expected to be
present-gentlemen whose high character was
guarantee that, however deep the feeling
which called forth this demonstration, il would
be ''sacredly guarded from all disorder, and
from every exhibition that might soil the his
toric glory Of the day, or bring discredit on the
cause of the State"
We have not yet heard how the celebration
came off, but presume that it was quiet and
orderly; for it is but justice to say that the
citizens of South Carolina, though often quer-
ulous and unreasonable in the extreme, are
seldom moved to mob violence.
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-07-01
MIR. wsbster at nunalo.

A correspondent OF the Nashville Union,
writing from this city on the / tn instant,
quotes and comments upon that part of Mr..
WEBsrER's speech at Buffalo which he did
not make, but which, by mistake, the reporters
put into his mouth.
We are unwilling to charge the Unions
correspondent with putting words into Mr..
WEBsTER's mouth which he knew MIR. WEE
sTER did not utter, for the sake of commenting
upon them to his injury; but we must express
our surprise that the writer should not have
known upon tho | It'll, the date Of his letter,
that Mr.. W. did not utter the words attributed
to him; since the correction was made as
early as the Sd instant, by the New Yorl,
Herald, and appeared in this paper on the 4th.
1t seems to us that if the writer had been as
anxious to do Mr.. WEBSTER justice as he was,
apparently, to make political capital against
him by quoting what he was (falsely) reported
to have said, he would not have been likely to
overlook this correction, which had been made
week before he wrote, and was in all the pa
pers that were not too illiberal TO publish it,
We should be glad to know the true differ
ence between telling an untruth, and repeating
an injurious report, after it has been contra
dicted upon the best authority!