Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-07-29

An Appeal to Freemen.

Mr. EDITOR The old political parties have
meanly bowed down to the Slave Power, and
have chosen their leaders with view to please
the South, and secure their votes. After all
their talk about liberty, they have both declared
their readiness to support the Fugitive Slave
Law; law which Austria w build be Ashamed
of; and which trampes our Individual and State
rights in the dust. And such is The influence Of
party, that we have reason to fear that the great
mass of those who had escaped from the Slave
influence will fall back upon their old parties
and sacrifice good conscience to gain party
victory. "Loaves and fishes !" What an argu-
nent Satan knew what was in man, when he
said all thus lON give thee!
What, then, shall the friends of civil liberty
do? answer lei them rally, and do their own
work. carry out their own principles, cease to
hope for any help from the old parties, or any
who cling to them. The Liberty party have
done much, and they might have done more had
they kept their own ground and avoided all en-.
tangling alliances. They seem to have forgot
ten, that two cannot walk together except they
be agreed Let them learn wisdom, and remem
Der that union, heart-union, is better than mum,
bers whose hearts are divided. Let those who
have 10 principles 90. Unite all that have any
moral principles and love civil liberty more than
party, and go ahead
The Liberty party, by whatever name desig-
mated, should be formed, not for a day, but for
the whole war. Plant your coIors, and resolve
to defend them to the last. Let all good men
come together, and proclaim war against Slave
ry, and resolve never to submit TO the Slave
Power. Death or victory! Support your prin.
cples like honest men, and your principles will
support you. Avoid twisting and turning and
compromising, A good cause needs no mean
trickery. If the humble tools of the Slave Pow
er oppose and fight, let them fight. Better meet
them as open foes, than be duped and betrayed
by them as secret enemies. Place before the
world the grand issue: civil and religious free
dom, or chate slavery-and let all come forward
anu SlOOoC WHICH lhSJ WIN oCtNC' II INC ullSo
of the people have become so Indifferent about
that Liberty for which their fathers bled and
died, as to be led by party leaders who have
sold themselves to the Slave Power, then we
must submit, bow the neck, and like Hungary
mourn our blessings lost. Bat die like men,
Traitors don't live always. God will cast them
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their places. Honest men, who have been de.
ceived by unpnncipled leaders, may learn wis
dom, and join to support the cause which they
really love, and the weak may become strong
No compromise with traitors, or Slavery You
may be in the minority; good men have always
been there but mnorities with truth and rinht
have powers, and often prevail. Where now
are the mighty men that have long led on the
old parties Aud where will those be ten wears
hence, who now fall down and worship at the
dctaton of Southern masters? Fear them not,
God will deal with them Up, and with iron
hearts prepare for action. The enemy have I'm
furled their banners; plant your standards. and
resolve 10 defend them. Meet them in the last
ditch, if you must, and there with three hundred
thousand true men you can vanquish all their
millions. Be not afraid.
Organize organize from Dan to Beersheba !
Wake up, every true-hearted lover of liberty,
and come down to battle. Tell the slave power,
there can be no more compromises, and that you
will never consent to catci her slaves. What
sight All the leaders in the old parties ready
to hunt slaves on our Green Mountains, and
pledged to sustain the black Fugitive Slave
Law See them on the chase, under the drec,