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

pray to know where is their soil freer than
that ON which | have stood ? pray to know
what words they can USE or can dictate to me,
treer than those which have dwet upon my lips.
! pray to know with what feelings they can in
splre my breat more resOLute and firm in restrict
ing SLAVERY EXTENSION OR ENcRoAC HMENT than
have inhabited my bosom since the first time
opened my mouth in public life"
Ihese, gentlemen, were his words, spoken at
Marshheld, on the first day of September, 1913.
If ne were here to-day to address you, could he
speak any t0Ords more grateful to your ears
Cheers.l Ii only truth and heart were in that
language, could he speak any thing better?
IL was by such false pretences as these, that
thousands, and doubt not, tens of thousands of
men, wholly penetrated and mbued with Free
SOL principles, were kept in the Wing ranks. |
was one OF them. l had faith in men; and 7
have stlll-with important exceptions however.
The needle points to the pole but if YOU bring
a huge black mass of pig-irOn and place bv its
side, 1t trembes, yet deviates, like man strug
gllng to be virtuous before overwhelming tenn
tatlons. Remove the disturbing force, and it
returns to its fidelity. So when The next presi.
dental election is over, believe the great body
OF the rank and file of the Wing party in Mas
sachusets will return to their duty for ven-
ture to say, that if the Wings of Massachusetts.
IN November, 1913, could have foreseen the
present position of their party, and the democrat.
lzatlon which its leaders have been able tn work
IN 1t, not one-third of them, no not one quarter
OF them, could have been brought to vote the
ticket that elected Mr.. Fillmore, brought in the
present cabinet, and brought on the present dis.
astrous policy. [Sensaton.l
But, gentlemen, am occupyinc too much of
your time, Go On, go on.J TWiIl add bit fAw
more words. / said the address and resolutions
of the Wing State Convention, held at Spring
field. last week, brought me here. Applause
| have read them with profound sorrow. 1t was
the first Wing Convention that ever met in Mas
sachusetts, that did not at least put forth some
noble doctrines in favor of freedom, whether
they meant 10 stand by them or not. (Hear,
hear) Yes, even in the convention of 1850
one year since--they passed the folIowing
ReSoEUed, That Massachusetts avows her I'M
alterable determination to maintain all the prin-
ciples and purposes she has in times past, affirm
ed and re-affirmed, in relation 10 the extension
OF slavery"
And yet the late Convention, the first one that
has met since the resolution which have Just
read was adopted, has endorsed the present ad-
mlnistraton, which has done more to corrupt
and deaden public sentiment at the North, as to
the wrongs OF slavery to the enslaved, and its
injury to the free, and to aggrandize the pro-
slavery South, and to foster and encourage, ay,
and retOard its aggressions has done more,
say than any other administration that ever ex
listed under this government. History will bear
me out in this statement. Intense excitement
Yet, at this crisis in human affairs, the one idea,
the master-purpose of the address and resolu-
tons OF that Convention seems to have been to
dlsparage and deprecate the great eternal prln-
ciples OF freedom, and to bring odlum and con-
tempt upon the only party now organized for
their support.
Gentlemen, the Wing leaders, in this respect
and in regard to this most important and para
; mount attribute of the Wing party, have lurched
and lurched round, until they have got into the
very trough Of the pro-slavery sea. Its members,
| admit, are free to follow them to their ruin, if
they will; but free too, thank God, to 60 on
in their old course, steering for the haven of
honor and liberty. | give the great majority
even Of the Wing leaders the credit of having
yielded to this fortune reluctantly, and under
what they deemed a sort Of political duress
for, gentlemen, new and most alarming fact in
the history of The Wing party of this country,
has been developed within the last three years.
1t is this: formerly, and universally, the Wing
administration was supposed TO be chosen to
carry out the views of the Wing party; but the
present administration. having abandoned the
grounds on which it obtained power, and Hav
ing, for its own purposes. taken new grounds.
now demands of the Wing party to carry out
not the old policy of the Wings, but the new
policy of the Administrations
Fellow citizens, could Mr.. Fillmore by any
possibility, have boen elected, in lS48 could he
have got so many as ten thousand votes among
all the Wings of the Northern States, had his
present attitude on the subject of slavery been
toreseen? Was there ever an hour, when Mr..
Webster could have obtained one-tenth part
one-fiftieth part-of the votes of the Massachu.
salts Legislature for the office of Senator, had
the curtain of the future beer lifted up, and his
present position been revealed? You know
there never was. But, during the year 1850,
without any initial change, or symptom of a
change, on the part Of Northern Wings, the ad-
ministraton, prompted by its own purposes, or
yielding from its own weakness, faced square
about; and ever since that time they have been
striving by all the lures of patronage and the
, terrors of denunciation, to force the Wings of
, the North on to a kind of political turn,table,
, like those railroad turn tables you see at a car
house, so that the whole party should be faced
square about, made to etrace their course, bv
going backward among the sane people who
had seen them go forward, shouting down all
they had shouted up, and foreswearing all the
glorious doctrines of liberty to which the whole
world had heard Them swear. Gentlemen, if in
, this stress of circumstances, any body asks me,
"Where shall go?" my reply is, don't get on
to that political turn4able, which the admins
tration has prepared for the Wing party, and not
the Wing party for the administration; for it
will carry your country to ruin, and yourself to
dishonor.
t Gentlemen, close by remarking that it is in
. view of these great questions of Human Free
dom--ln view Of the solemn responsibility in
which we stand to our country and to posterity,
= that we have assembled here to day. May this
= meeting prove to be a concentration OF rays Of
scattered light and wisdom, meeting and burn
ing in focus, and sending back illumination
3 and cheering to all the parts of our beloved Com.
= monwealth. And if, in my humble way, can
!. do anything to promote so glorious an object
: my services are al your disposal. Enthusiastic
! cheering.)
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