Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-08-18
Importance of the coming Election

The September election, ever Important to the
distinctive friends of Freedom and Humanity, is
doubIy so this year, on account of the choice Of
a United States Senator which will devolve on
the Legislature they will be called on to elect.
Vermont has the reputation abroad of pos.
sessing more of the Free Democratic spirit than
any State in the Union. To this good name,
we believe she is. and ever has been. Justly en-
titled; and to have been truly represented, she
should, long ago, have had her Hales and Sum
nels in the Seuate. But what-insiead Of such,
since the commencement of the Slavery aga-
aion, in which the sentiments of her masses
should have found an especial voice in the Ma
tional Councils, what kind Of men have been
suffered to become her Senators The first who
presents himself for our notice within the period
named. is Samuel 5 Phelps, who anblushingly
boosted, within the hour that made him Sena
tor, that he " had got the election without having
damned niger on his back! And the idea
intended to be conveyed by that ribaId expires
sion, which would have added shades of black
ness to the character of the dirties kgua I'd
in Vermont, he perseverance! exe'npIlfed by his
acts while in Office, during the whole period of
which, the Slave Power found no more willing
instrument than he.
The next was William Upham. who did no.
thing for freedom but what he more than undhl.
II he made an anti slavery speech near the close
oil his first term, he laughed about it with his
Hunker and Southern associates as necessary
piece Of Bunco,nb to sccure the second election;
which he indeed gained. and which was the last
we heard of his tree soil pa,ro Ism. Nay more;
instead of complying with the known sentiments
Of the people of this State, as mass, he con
travened them in voting against the reception of
Kossuth, and, what was still worse, for r. jec;ing
the Free Soil Senators from the standing com
mittees.
Now is the Free Democratic sentiment Of
Vermont always TO be thus misrepresente in
the Senate of the United States? Is there not
enough OF the spirit OF liberty among the people
to prevent it? Will not even the honest Wings
Wings who were not hypncrites in their for
mer profession of the Free Soil principIe-the
only issue left OF their whole avOwed creed
which still remains a living issue beiore the
country.-will not such Wings join us this fall
in securing the election of Senator who will
do something towards wiping out the stains left
by his predecessors on the character of free
Vermont? Their false leaders, who have ever
betrayed Freedom, under the specous show of
befriendng it, will bring forward such candi-
dates, and such only, as ]. Coa,ner, DR.. Vince.
ler,& Baxter,all compromise Wings and Web
ster Hunkers, varying in that respect as little as
the stripes on tho tail of the emblem coon of
their own trailing banners. And one of these
will, in that case, as surely be elected as the
Wing party is suffered to maintain the ascen-
dency in the September elections. Can consci
entious Wings, then, who were also conscen
tious Free Sellers, longer help them to do this ?
And can the honest and untronelIed men of the
Pierce Democracy, with the praise Of Thomas
Jefferson on their lips, any more consistently OF
honestly favor the election of a man who will go
to Washington and rampe the whole creed Of
that illustrious statesman in the dust?
1t ia time-.in justice to the true sentiments OF
her people, is high time, that Vermont was
revolutionized; and with proper exertions it may
now unqupstionably be done. But on the vlgi
lance, activity and faithfulness of the Free Dr.
socracy in their town elections, this fall, will
verifying depend. Let them join no party for