Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-05-06

moment. | cannot put DeHeVe IL "0iN "'6-'
time TO do as old Cato did, and flush every i
speech with thesesword " However, the lag q i
nations should Bsointained, and dbSott't'sm mol
permitted TO become Omnipotent"
could not forbear to make these remarks
and the answer got was" That IS all true'
aud all right, and will be attended to when tue {
election is over, but after all, the party must
come into power, and yon know there are so
many considerations men want to be managed
and even prejudice spared, and SO forth"
And il is true but it is sorowfuI that 1t is
true. That reminds me OF what IN ochli'erS
Maria Stuart Mortimer says 10 Lord Leicester,
tde all mighty favorite of Elizabeth Il" IN Goa
,Ohat Iitlie stepts has such great LOrd to go al
this court" There is the first obstacle nave 10
meet with That consolation at least have
that the chief difficulty have to contend with is
neither lasting, nor an argument against the Jus,
ice Of my cause, or against the righteousness Oh
nv principles. Just as the canmnles by ~hicn
am installed can but harm my own set but
cannot impair the justice of my country's cause
or weaken The propriety OF my prlnclples-so
that difficulty being just difficulty and no argu
ment, cannot change the public opinion OF the
people, which always cares more about principles
4 than about wire puilings.
\ The second difficulty have to contend withs
is rather curious. Mang a manila told me that
4 il | had only not fallen into The hands OF abol
tioniss and Free Sellers, they would have sup
ported me, and had | landed somewhere in the
South, instead Of at New York, would have
met different things from that quarter ;but being
supported by the Free Solers, of course must
be opposed to the South. On the other side,
received letter, from which beg leave to quote
few lines
"You are silent on the subject of slavery
Surrounded as you have been by Shareholders
ever since you put your foot on English soil, if
not during your whole voyage from Constantine
pie and ever since you have been in this coun-
try surrounded by them, whose threats, promises,
and Aattery made The stoutest hearts succumb,
your position has put me in mind Of a scene de-
scribed by the apostle of Jesus Christ, when the
devil took him up into high mountain" etc.,
etc."
Now, gentlemen, thue being, charged flom one
side with being in the hands Of abolitionists and
from the other side with being in the hands oil
shareholders, indeed am at loss what course
to take, if these very contradictory charges were
not given me tile satisfaction to feel that stanC
just where 1t is my duty to etand-on a truly
.4merican ground.
must beg leave to say few words in that re
spect, the more because | could not escape vehe
ment attacks for not committing myself even il
that respect, with whatever interior party question
| claim the right for my people to regulate it
own domestic concerns. claim this as a Law
of nations, common to all humanity, and be
cause common to all, | claim TO see them pro
tected by the United States, not only because
they have the power to defend what despots dare
offend, but also because it is the necessity o
their position to be power on earth, which they
would not be- if the law of nations can be chang
ed, and the general condition Of the world altered
without their vote. Now that being my position
add my cause, it would be the most absurd in
consistency if | would offend that principle which
I claim, and which advocate.
And OH my God, have ] not enough sorrows
and cares to bear on these poor shoulders ? Is
it not astonishing, that the moral powes of duties
and the iron will of my heart, sustains yet this
shattered frame ?-thut am desired vet to take
up additional cares If the cause plead be
just, if It's worthy of your sympathy, and at the
same time consistent with the impartial consid
tons ofyolr own moral and material interests.
which patriot should never disregard, not even
out OF philanthropy, then why not weigh that
cause with the scale Of its own value, and not
with foreign one Have not enough diff
culties to contend with, that am desired to in
crease them yet with my own hands ? Father
Mathew goes on preaching temperance, and he
may be opposed or supported on his own ground
but whoever imagined opposition to him, because
at the same time he takes not into his hands to
preach fortitude or charity? And, indeed, to
oppose or to abandon the cause plead. only be-
cause | Ink not with the agitation Of an interior
question, is greater injustice yet, because to
discuss the question of foreign policy have
right. My nation is an object of that policy
we are interested in it but to mix with interior
party movements have no right, not being a
citizen of the United States.
The third difficulty which meet, so far as
am told; is the opposition of the commercial in
terst. have the agreeable duty say that this
opposition, or indifference, is only partial. have
met several testimonials of the most generous
sympathy, from gentlemen of commerce. But
If upon the whole it should be really true that
there Is more GOODNESS, or even opposition in
that quarter than in others, then may say that
there is an entire Misrepresentation Of the true
commercial interest in it. could say that it
would be strange to see commerce, and chiefly
the commerce of republic, indifferent to the
spread of liberal institutions. That would be a
sad experience, teeming with incalculable mis-
fortunes reserve to the 10th century Until now
history has recorded that " commerce has been
the most powerful locomotive of principles, and
the most fruitful ally of civilization, intelligence
and of liberty. 1t was merchants whose names
are shining with immortal lustre from the most
glorious pages OF the golden book of Venice,
Genoa, &C. Commerce. Republican Commerce
raised single cities to the position of mighty
powers on earth, snd maintained them in that
proud position for centuries,and surely it was mel
ther Indifference nor opposition TO republican prin
clpies by which they have thus ennobled the his.
tory of commerce and of humanity, know full
well that since the treasures Of commerce took
their way into the Golfers of despotism, in the