Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-02-13
For the Freeman.
THE STANDARD.

The slave power have erected, not the golden
image of Nebuchadpczzar. but the Standard of
the most Gcd ds(yng, liberty destroying evil, that
human ingenuity ever devised, and demands
that all the born, Gbery-loving cuzens of
our nation, shall rally in its support, Or on fail
ure so to do, to render themselves Ineligible to
ang office in the United States Government
The Constitution of the United Stalds makes no
distinction among its citizens with rega,d to Of
fee; and the government have an equal claim
for the services and talents of each one in any
office named.
But the Shareholders are not content with
this Nebuchadnezzar was not content that his
subjects should worship the God of Heaven, but
they must fall down and worship the golden i'm
age he had set up. The great ones at Wash
ington have erected, shall say an image :? Il
wish it were nothing butan image) have erected
an earthly god ofimmense power claiming to
rule the destnes of the nation; claiming to
conduct the slave power TO victory over all
that remains of those liberties for which our
fore-fathers fought and bled; and they say you
must worship this god, or you shall have no part
nor lot IN the spos of the great impending vic
tory of Slavery over Freedom. Freemen of Yer
mont! Freemen of the Northern States who
requires all this of you? Is it set of men with.
out office, without power, without political in
tiuence? Not is the work Of men of talents,
men Of influence, men high in office, men too in
the confidence of the President of the United
States, the great dispenser of political power for
the time being, that they assume to hold the dis.
posal OF all the offices in then own hands,
Moreover, they are men, gathered at Washing
ton as servants of The people, to protect their
rights; not to put up bars to prevent their en-.
ioying their rights. These are the men who
say you must worship the god their own hands
have made, or yield all pretensions to any part
In the guidance Of the officers of Government
What is the name of this god Ii is Compro-
mise. Yes, Compromise. What is the mean
ing of that word, when SO used as a name? Its
etimology shows its meaning. 1t means jus,
this" all for slavery nothing for freedom."-
This appeared plain enough to some, while the
word aud the thing were in the forming process
The worst suspicious of that period are fully
confirmed by the worship now demanded for
their idol.
Can the freemen of the North tamely submit
to such rapid strides Of the slave power. to de.
priVo them of the common rights Of citizenship
without erecting standard of defence? With.
out struggling to retain their constitutional
rights in their full extent? If people, who wish
to enjoy Republican Government, ever have
cause for alarm, and to rally in defence of their
right, it is when their rulers become so corrupt
that they invade those rights, or so pusilIani-
nous as not to guard them from the assaults and
lntr'gues OF designing men. How easily the
rights The North can be preserved from the
stacks of the slave power, if the freemen will
only be Pupctual IN attending to their interests,