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

comprehensive and fundamental guarantees in
favor OF freedom, with here and there only an
exception In behalf of Slavery 1t allowed "per-
SOUS VINO were held to service or labor and
VINO should escape into other States TO be reta-
ken' out II also secured the trial by Jury to every
person who should claim it on any question of
lie or liberty, and on all questions OF property
even down to the paltry sum of twenty dollars.
ret there Is not now, in the United States, a
single spot, from ocean to ocean, where free
man Is iree from danger of beng kidnapped and
carried INTO horrible bondage for himself and his
PoSterl'y forever; or-what is as keenly tortu-
ring 10 every mind penetrated by the spirit and
anenaole TO the precopts of the gospel-of being
oaleu upon, uhder penalty of fines and letters,
TO surrender his soul to this accused work.
80 VOW as true disciple of Christ ought to feel
IL ne saw the imbruting dogmas and Moloch
INes vi heatnehism returning to invade Chris.
tenuem' ana to extlnguish the lights of the Cos.
pei; so should every lover of liberty feel when
ne sees inc Tell spirit OF Slavery regaining its
lost empire over the institutions of freedom-
Hear, hear
The analogy between the present condition of
uils country ano that OF Europe, is too striking
lot 10 attract attention. In l648 there was a
great uprising OF the friends Of liberty in both
newspapers. Thousands, and tens of thou
SANDS sought to redress the wrongs Of humanity,
Dy the cartridge-box there, and by the ballot
box here. The phalanx of Tyranny and of
Mammon was unprepared for so sudden an on
set, and for % 4 iaRiHa - ne broken
by the Vic -
naIa.w
people
also the
spiritual weapons for yHsA lsSss, whose plumber
it shares.
In this country, owing to our different nstitu-
tons, the means of quellng the spirit OF liberty
have been different. The administration have
an immense amount Of patronage at their dsPo-
sal. They give contracts to the amount OF mil
lions, and select the contractors, Directly or
indirectly they appoint some thirty thousand
ofice-hoders /; and, by lamenabe reGupca-
ton of the powers Of evil, they control twice or
four times that number, who are aspirants for
Office. Their influence bought over the Slave
Power, by surrendering all our new territories to
the invasion of Slavery, and by giving fifty
thousand square miles of free New Mexican
territory to be turned into Texan Slave territory
thus adding to the already enormous size Of that
slave-begotten State. Ten millions Of dollars
of almost worthless Texan stock we're raised to
par value by the signature of Willard Fillmore.
During the whole tendency of the compromise
measures agents and brokers, reputed to be in
terested in this stock, lowered about the pureus
Of the National capitol. The stock was trans.
ferred from hand to hand, without record and
without daylight, so that, besides the accompli-
ces, Heaven and Satan only know into whose
possession it came. And as though the means
Of patronage and seducement Oh so magnificent
a scale were not sufficient, private purse, al
most up to the figure of fifty thousand dollars,
was presented to the foremost. man Of all this
world" in his apostacy to the principles of hu-
man liberty. Applause.] These. fellow citizens,
were among the agencies and seductIons which
caused the discontinue of the friends of Free.
dom in the National contest of 1850. The
tyrants of Europe had no vacant lands, or Texas
stocks, wherewrth to put down humanity, and so
they used gunpowder and bayonets. Our slave
power and its northern allies, being debarred by
the principles of our government from bullets
and bayonets accomplished their Judas work
by the articles Of scrip and " dotation" En-
thusasm.1 To carry out these purposes, the
generals Haynau and Radatsky were found
there; the Senators Webster and Cass here
[Applause.l
The origin and the present necessity Of the
Free Soil party, may be briefly stated Some
years previous to the annexation OF Texas an
apprehension existed that that great breach of
the Constitution and outrage upon northern prin-
ciples and feelings were medtated. Mr., John
Quincy Adams sounded the alarm; but men
were SO engrossed by their business, and by
their local and temporary political stnfes, that
even his voice, potent and prophetic as it was,
passed by unheeded. Some respect, however,
was due, at least from policy if not from princi-
pie, to the many humble but earnest opponents
Of 80 fragrant wrong Before the consumna.
ton of that inquiry, the Massachusetts Legs
lature passed strong resolutions against it. The
question was taken by yeas and nays, and all
the Wings and almost all the Democrats in the
General Court recorded their names on the side
of the Constitution and liberty. But the slave
power then had possession of all the depart
ments of the National Government, and under
the auspices Of slavcholding Presidents breach
was made in the walls of the Constitution wide
enough to let in foreign government, with all
its burden OF slavery upon its back. Yet, not
outstanding this perfdy to all the principles Of
true democracy, such was the external pres
sure brought to bear upon the members of the
Democratic party that but few of them uban-
doned its ranks. They "acquiesced" as the mod
ern phrase is, when anything specially iniguitous
is to be sanctioned. They were told, as the
Wings are now told, in regard to the Compro
mise and the Fugitive Slave Law, that the act
was done and irrevocabe. The merchants were
told, as the Wing merchants now are, that the
crime of extending slavery would at least be at
tended by increased profits of trade. The man
utacturers were told, as the Wing manuactu-
rers now are, that if the number of slaves were
increased at the South, it must create an in
creased demand for whips and negro-cloths.-
And the mere blind political partisans were told
as the same class of Wings are now, that ii God
designed to stop the Remembering enormity Of
spreading Slavery over this continent, he must
do 1t In some way consistent with the integrity
OF the Democratic party. Precisely the argu,
ments which " = - = aAsAednce and cor
aEs -
cfl
ness O.
But from Wll8is-ai dayS0l ~ ANNEXATION q
Texas, thousands and thousands of honest an