Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-06-03

as a measure of the new Administration
They had sort of second Pentecost on the
Wing side of the House. They went over
and out by score. ] am a little Free-Soil.
tic, though not Whigsh, and | was opposed
to this operation; and was sorry TO lose
my Wing allies But they went and why?
Because Mr.. Fillmore had to be sustained,
or the Wing party ruined. They did not
go because they had changed their senti-
menls.
"a man convinced agast his will
Is of the same opinion STILL"
Ali the great North, and the great
Northern heart, beats true to liberty God
in his mercy never made a company of
men, and planted them upon this earth,
who would shed their blood with a reader
will for the liberties of the world, than the
people of the Northern States and they
have given good evidence of it. Any
gentleman who undertakes to make you
believe that we love slaveholding, or run
ming after fugitive slaves, is attempting to
humbug you. He knows it is not true,
when he tells it. There is not word of truth
in it. If you believe it, you deceive your
selves
But must pass on. These measures
were passed mainly through the influence
of Clay, Fillmore, Webster, Scott, Foote,
and Cobb. Those were the men who
carried them through, ard every man who
was in the last Congress knows il.
do not wish, Mr.. Chairman, that gem
tlemen should misunderstood me in this
matter ! stated, and distinctly, that this
| meaSs,-as this C.ampromige, was thorouuh-
IIy WING move from is commencement.
| This stand to, ami think | have proved !;
but | do not mean to say that it did not
receive the support of many Democrats
after it Fad received its fist impetus from
Wing hands. Many such did vote for it,
did aid it, under the mistaken idea, as time
has proven, that it was the best, the only
means Of saving Union then lettering TO
| its fall So many Of thes in fact, joined
in its support, that soon after It's passage 1t
really seemed question as to which side
should have the credit Of its paternity.
If other proof was needed, however,
might point to the first Union meeting
held in Hartford, Connecticut, a place
somewhat celebrated in Federal annals
for its " conventions" That meeting was
attended by the Wings in great numbers,
and its presiding officer was a leading
member Of the Wing party; and it really
seems as though it was no fault of Demo-
Gratis who figured on that occasion, that
their party was not merged with the Wings
altogether. The same jnggle was practlced
in New Haven. They had a meeting there
aud, believe, the last one held in the
country, at which doctor Of divinity,
who does up theology for Yale College,
made speech in favor of the Fugitive
Slav, Law. ask, in passing, is he not
the man who said he would choose between
two devils for President, and should vote
for Henry Clay because he was less devil
than James X. Polk! And this is the
divine whose opinions are TO influence the
ministers Of the Gospel in this land Of
liberty and morality.
Permit me TO say-ior | may never have
as good a chance again-that of all crea-
lures that creep upon their bellies upon
earth, most despise the man who pretends
to preach the Gospel of Chrlst-of that
Saviour who was Graded in manger who
went about doing good, and who told Johns
disciples, when they were sent to know
whether he was the Christ, or they should
look for anot hes, Go and tell John that
the blind receive their sight, ana t''e fefue
walk ). the lepers are cleansed, and the deal
hear; the dead are raised up, and the
poor have the Gospel preached unto them !"
and is ready to proclaim himself the
champion of Shareholders What loahing
the highminded shareholders must have for
such a teacher Of religion and morals |!
Does the religion OF Jesus Christ tolerate
buying and selling men? Does it selling
your brother and your sister? When you
stand before that tribunal, when you must
give an account before an impartial Judge,
you will find those slaves, bought and sold
by you, standing by your side; and the
question, Have you fed my hungry poor
have you clothed my naked poor have you
given them the rights God intended they
should have? is asked-what will the
answer be! No. What will be your apollo
gy? They were black. Black who made
them so! Dare you reproach your Maker,
because He saw fit to make anuthers skin
black, and yours white? Did He give
you any right to tyrannize over His child,
because He, in His wisdom. saw fit to make
him black And if you then stand speech.
less, aohere will be found The sleek, misera-
bic, doughtface apotOgia for such system
OF inquiry? If slave buyers and sellers
90 to he'll it seems to me there should be
some other word coined to describe the
place where Northern men who uphold the
practice, and especially protested ministers
of the Gospel, should 90!
My honorable colleague mr. Ingersoll1
stepped out of his course to assail the
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