Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-02-05
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Thursday Morning, February 8, 1859.
Another Screw in Preparation
for the North.

In addition to the test required of the North
in 1848, demanding the privilege of peopling
the free territories with slaves, and the still more
~peremptoty one of 1850, eujoining obedience to
the Fugitive Slave Law, the South, as we per-
celve from some of their leading journals, now
propose another test as the condition on which
they will only 90 into the election of a president
with the North and that is, that the latter should
r~epudiate Kosssuth and abjure all thoughts Of
intervention in behalf of his outraged country
The Free Democracy have never been insnlted
by such propositions, aud have, therefore, no
indigniLies of the kind to resent in the past, and
no fears of receiving any to resent in the future.
The unsupported are rarely tempted, and in this
tribute which iniquity pays to Its opposite. that
party have a right to presume the goodness OF
their cause and the honesty of lis supporters.
It is not of them we would speak, but of the
two old parties who have so long controlled, and
who, by selling out the scanty remains of their
political virtue, may yet a little longer, perhaps,
control the political destinies of the county,
1t is to them, and them only. the South presumes
thus to dictate. But are they going to bow the
neck forever? That they would abandon their
principles for the sake of conciliating the South,
many foretold but who could have counted on
their abandoning all their pride and spirit as men
and freemen?
Cass was the first political aspirant of the
North, who ever fairly kneeled down to the
South in the presence of his countrymen and
how did the South repay that act of s%ervility ?
They turned and spit upon him. One would
have supposed this a lesson sufficient to have
cured the whole North but it was not and the
South, seeing how tamely their insults, and their
outrages on Northern principles, were received,
were emboldend to dictate another test-that Of
becoming true and faithful subjects in the bust
ness Of negro-catchlng-a requlsition the more
important to them, since this business was con.
~fessedIy too dirty to be done by themselves.
Well, what was the result Why, that all
Hunkerdom became suddenly impressed with
the sacredness Of our obligation TO obey the law,
however obtained, and however Objectionable
its provisions, for gthe delivering up of fngi-
tives! And now comes another test-the extin.
guishment of all Northern sympathies for For
eign nations struggling for freedom! Will the
old parties yield to this, also? Why should
they not! 1t will involve no more i%ndignity
than what they have already quietly submitted
to. 1t will presel vetheir consistency, and show
their fealty to their Southern soyereigns. They
have already admitted, by their conduct, that it
is the right of the South to dictate and the duty
of the North to obey. And all this being grant
ed, why hesitate, gentlemen Hunkers, to 90 on
as you have begun? Neither your principles
nor your pride seem any longer in the way
The political rights which you once enormously
supposed were safe in your keeping having been
all conceded to those so much more capable oil
taking care of them, why not go on and concede
TO them the care of your persons also, I'LL your
"Lords OF the Lash shall know no distinction
he, veen their Southern and Northern slaves
We have heard some Of you preach that the
blacks are better of under the care oil lheSe
masters than otherwise; who know put IL wouia
AIDDTOVB HOuT GOllQllVth lih HAoS
well make you any more abiect, and 1t YOU'D
measurably relieve you of the responsibilities "i
conscience and principle which some now mink
il incumbent on you to discharge. Go on, then,
submit to the new test with the same commend
able meekGess that you have to the ola ones;
keep up a suitable cIamor against The hlgher
law and the necessity of maintaining the lover
where the interest," of slavery are concerned,
proclaim Kossuth a knaye and a humbug, and
intervention, provided it 10 for freedom, a dan
gerous heresy-then repair humbly to your com
ing national conventions, PROSTATE yourselves in
the dust at the door, and, in the language of old
Pope, who must have made the couplet express
ly for your use, exclaim-
We're all Notwithstanding you'd have us, make US
The only question is, sirs, VIII you take US p
Do all this, and the chances are very fair that