Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-09-23

promise or adjustment the act for the recovery
of fugtives from labor incIuded,) are received
and acduiesced in by the Wings OF the United
States, as a final settlement, IN principle and
substance, of the subjects to which they relate.
Il And we deprecate all further aglta-
ton of the questions thus settled, as dangerous
TO our peace, and will discountenance all efforts
10 continue or renew such agitatlon whenever,
where or however made"
Now, what an outrage Is this Does not our
Constitution provide against" abrldglng the tree
dom of speech in an organic law, II the tyran-
nv of a social law can abolish it! OF what
value is that provision in the Constitution, which
secures the free exercise Of religion, it social
intolerance and bgotry. acting in an uneGaIlzed
wav, can destroy it Yet here are two Conven-
tons, utterly unknown to any OF our constltu-
tons. whether State or National, invested will
no powers, legislative, Judicial, or executive,
coming together for day, aud then scattered
and sunk in individual obscuriiy yet lifting up
their piguy VOICES against the inlghast impuI-
ses Of the human heart against history and
| Providence, against the fat and tile spirit Of
God himself resolving that mankind snail be
dumb in regard to the greatest o!hnnan wrongs;
aud resolving, asn, that law passed by a Re
publican Government, yet as barbaToua and ~
rancal as was ever made by any despotsm,
shall be conseciated in its wiCkedness, and re-
main eternal
Two Baltimore Conventions, assuming to
Quench the eternal spirit Of Hberly-that spirit
which was part Of the inspiration OF the proph
cts Of old, wien they command the tymn's OF
Tie earth to "uudo The heavy burdens and let
1.-The oppressed 90 free !" that spirit which guvo
rail- its heroism and splonlor 10 the classic land Of
Greece, and made its memories IMMORTAL that
spirit which gave to Rome its colossal proper
tious Of physical and Intellectual grandeur; that
spirit which, in the darkest night OF the worlds
history, climbed Alpine heights and sheltered it.
self il the tletness OF Alpine mountaas, mac
ceas5e TO tyranls which, at another time
found protection within The dykes of Holland
barring out the rage Of the ocean, and the more
remnrseless rage Of despoc men that spirit
which has given 10 England, and 10 Eugl'sh his
tory, all their nndIsputcd claims to removal, ana
10 the gratitude Of mankind. and which, when
prosecuted and driven from England, crossed the
, Atlantic, spread Itself over tbs onen continent,
having been nur4od by more lhtn two hundred
years Of struggle Ind discipline, now bds def
ance TO the wnrld-his GodlikG spirit VI Liberty.
immortal nvn2rablc and ndestructblo. two
cphenGra Baltimore Conventions undertake to
pan '--A''Nca Gnaiotog INC ileIiespont was wiz
, oo"' Ptr'oh'a,N eoa,P"G0 "l'n tnem n.y. 1t
would be too cIgloa'd ana HONORABLE III l.IIsiFo-
t'oh 10 conPalo lhe'" 10 ,"o old male Pli!ng
IONS, m0PP'ng oHl me Atlantic!
why d'd MT 'ne'c insane men propose TO do
somg'niNs "'lcH Is al Ie'st cone4'vq'e WAY
da 'nHy h0t propose 70 turn oacN Iha order Oh
PhysMa events rather t4an to voi7te the more
inlfangolc ana lFre8'5u0'e laws OF moral prog
) res5 WY d'd they not order 'he OAK back IN
to the acora' or the blrd back INTO the It's shell
or the earth itse'i back INTO lta first geoIoglea
rpoca, rather than toof1e' HE enIranchscd spir
it Of The nIneiernh cennry back into the gloon
/ and bondage OF The dark ages Of the world
t Why did they not l,ii up the wand Of arrogance
and apd1eIt2 towards Arclura7 and the PIeIade.