Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-07-28
Action or no Ac ion--T11urnph or
Defeat.

A little more than five weeks intervene before
our annual election, with whose occurrence are
called into exercise the highest duties of the
freeman; and vet what has been done, and what
is doing among US for the suffering cause OF
Freedom ?
In former years, when the prospect Of
umph was seemingly as distant as the heavens
when public assertion of principle was the
only motive for action-when the two great par
ties of the country yet retained so much of the
platform of freedom as led thousands of its
friends to doubt the necessity of any separate
organization for its advancement-and whet
the organization of those old parties presented
fronts apparently as impregnabe as the rocks OF
Gibraltar-when all this was SO, the distinctive
friends of free principle, as the day of election
drew near were on the alert, and ever found
faithfully and earnestly laborng in the field Of
action. Why then, oh, why this evident cold
ness and apathy now now when the prospec,
OF triumph, with their former faith of success
and corresponding exertion can be SO easily
made bright and cerain-when the opposing
organizations have blotted out the last streak.
ings of the light Of freedom from their party
standards and unblushingly left them Haunting
in the unreeved darkness of pro.slavery des-
potism,so as to leave no further hope from any ac-
ton of theirs, and when those organizations have
become so peculiarly assailable aud consciously
delinquent, that they are losing all confidence in
being able to prolong their own existence be
yond the present Presidential tern,--the one
defeated, disprited and crumbng to pieces,
and the other bloated to absolute weakness, ard
that weakness made doubly vulnerable by the
incurable dissensions which are raging among
themselves?
If the friends of Freedom could be active and
peTsevering under the di,couragements of the
. past dark years, what, we ask, what should they
be under the doubly stronger duties and
ten fold encouragements Of the present? Will
they now lie down IN The turrow when the
bright prize OF Liberty and Equal Rights for
which they have SO long fought and struggled Is
so near their grasp, and when they may so clear
ly see that if they now yield the contest, tho
rapidly extending wings of the Slave Power
must soon enshroud the whole land in remedi.
less darkness.
We had hoped better things of the Free De.
mocracy of Vermont this years but we can as
sure them-speaking from the various and thick
ening signs visible from this central poin. of oh
servation, in and about the camps of the enemy
plainly betokening their different schemes to wea
Ken and distract US, we can assure them il they
mean to do any thing this year, it is high
time they were up and doing. Our regularly
noninated Free Democratic tickets State and
County, must everywhere be maintained with
the raising of no other tests than those By which
they were nominated. The Temporary evils
which may be thought will flow from this in
some instances, will not be any Offset to The
great and inevitable mischief which will ensue
our cause from an opposite course. And this 10
not enough The friends of our cause mrs,
everywhere organize, thoroughly and efficiently
organize, down to the smallest school dis,ric,
resolve themselves into COMMITTEES of the whole
to do each his part and appoint special com.
mlttees OF their most active and influential men
as special committees to see the people, and win
them to truth, by their own and the arguments Of
others, 10 watch and conte ract the corrupt and
terested schemes OF our opponents, and to raise
the pecuniary means to carry all this into effect