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

pretended to be " the true Liberty party" and ii
afterwards -" The true Free Soil patty" and who b
made such strong anti slavery professions, should
TO THE SLAVE POWER, and a
while these professions yet burn on their lips, e
should be found in full communion with the most +
ultra slave propagandists of the South? Oh a
treacherous Wings traitors to reedom y! r
what is the meaning of this? Is it because you v
are in the ascendency in the national govern ?
ment, and think by so doing you can get little
aid from the South! For CONSCIENCE or PRIN- e
CIPLE's sake it surely con not be.
The smell of cotton, il is said, has very
pleasant flavor to any political party that hap
pens, for time, to have the power in the ma
tional government, whether for its sweet smell,
or the useful qualities Of the plant, is not yet
fully known. But nevertheless, it has been as
certaned, we believe, beyond doubt that no
party ever retains any love for the article after
it loses the power in our national affairs. There
fore we think that the inference is to be safely
drawn that they seek to court the favors of the
South by loving their cotton, which - Rpotent
material for the existence of Dbl
of AMERICAN SLAvI
But to return 20
the Inauguration Of
ern doughface with ~
Presidency, the Wing party ~ ~
ing its slavery professions, until it finds it.
self " caUed in " to the support of slavery. 1t
was by the signature of Willard Fillmore Ia
wing PresidenH that the infamous fugitive slave
bill became "the law of the land" Ii was also
by his signature that ten millions of dollars was
given to Texas for land that did not belong to
her, and $4,000 square miles of territory, over
which she had no honest claim of jurisdiction.
1t was giving to Texas and slavery land and
money that righfully belonged to New Mexico,
and should have been secured to freedom.
Some of the whig papers say that it was not
Il Wing Congress that passed the Fugitive Law,
nor did but few recreant wings in that body vote
for it. This, perhaps, is true. But do they for
get that Wing President signed it. and by that
signature it became law? And as long as the
Wing party support the President and the law
in question, is it not chargeable to them? Are
they not responsible for it Had President
Fillmore Vetoed and returned it 10 the House from
which it originated, with his objections thereto,
and then it had passed by two-thirds vote, las
required in sec. vii, art. lst of the U. S. Consti
tution,) neither would the President nor their
party have had to bear the public censure for
this atrocious piece of legislation. But as it is,
it is right that they should.
1t cannot be doubted but what the wing party
generally support the compromise measures, with
the fugitive slave law, and have turned " negro
catchers, and have converted the domain of the
Free States into territory to hunt the painting
fugitive" from oppression, and at the decision
of bribed commissioner send him to the " land
of chains and whips" to toll till the end of his
days for his so.caled master without the least
compensation for his labor sra
Had the late administration of James K. Polk
passed such an act, the Wing presses would
have teemed forth in one general tone of dissat-
istaction, and denounced it as an act to favor
the slave power and to cripple the cause of free
dom in our Republic. But the wings now find
themselves supporters of this act: what can they
do? They have proved by their acts that their
former professions were but hypocrisy, only cal
culated to " catch Free Soil votes" and nothing
else.
Mr.. Folks administration never did half go
much for the propagation of slavery as the pres
ent, as we have good reason to believe. The
" compromise measures, the fugitive act, and
the cheap postage law, are every thing that char
acterzes the present national administration
with its two northern props-Fillmore and Web
ster,-uness we take into consideration its Of
fetal acts to enforce the already condemned
fugitive bil-which has disgraced it in the eyes
of the civilized world.
Why is it that the Wing party have of late be-
come so UhiSt in their resolutions passed at their
conventions on the subject of slavery, and slide
over it in such shy manner? Is it not because
they are connected with the compromise" Flu
gtive Slave law administration of Fillmore u
Co.? Even the wings in our State, in conven-
ton held at Bellows Falls, on the 25th of June
last, was almost silent on the great question of
slavery The compromise measures, &c, were
partially endorsed, and would have been wholly
had they dared to do it.
In order to show the general politician what
was once part of the anti-slavery creed of the
now apostate wings of Vermont, we quote res
olution passed at Wing convention held at
Montpelier on the 2lst of =
ported by Lieut.
principles of u
should be inward
and applied to all7SSSn5S
We now leave the subject, - perhaps shall
resume it again. H.