Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-01
Last Appeal Co the Freemen.

We last week presented to you, Freemen of
Vermont, an array of unanswerable arguments
in favor OF our principles; and We now can DO
no more than urge up you their application at
the Ballot Box next Tuesday. The Free De-
,mocracy are now the only party of principles in
the country. Both the other parties have degen-
Grated into mere parties of sp0s, and have no
longer any claim to be called parties of princi-
pies. This is a strong assertion, but no stronger
than true. Wese it not so, would they not man
ifest ii ? Had they principles to boast OF would
They not present, and press them upon the people
on the eve of an election? How was it with
the old Democratic parry during the Jackson
campagn' Why they rent the very heavens
with their outcres against United States Bank
and monled monopoIies And how with the
Wing party in 1910 and 1874, in their struggles
for Harrison and Clayi Their presses unedIy
Numbered with arguments and appeals for tariffs
and Internal improvements But where arc their
oncrles aud thHnders now? Both those parties
were bold, confident and clamorous them because
they were conscious Of the possession of impur-
tant distinctive pri ncIples to back them, and
they are silent now because they are equally
conscious they haze no principles or none which
they dare urge upon the people. They stand
before the world as mere empty party organiza-
tons, held together by the lgamen,s of dead is.
sues, and striving to proong their existence
only for the spoils of off Co. But what interest
nave the great mass OF the people in these p
what matters it with the rank and file of the
old Democratic party who shall hold the half
dozen offices in the Customs, or the thirty or
forty post Offices that do not 60 begging in the
Slater And what matters it with the mass of
the wing party who shall have the half dozen
state ofices to be secured by the triumph Of
thelr party 1t matters nothing to either class
and yet they are called on to stick to their 70.
spectlve parties for no other earthly purpose than
to give office to these few individual aspirants
Now, have the honest and intelligent masses
OF Vermont no higher aims, and no worlher OBJ
Jects, to subserve in bestowing their SURFACES
than this! Has voting, which was once with
them matter Of conscience, sunk into the ser.
vie and contemplate drudgery OF going through
the ferns Of the freeman's duty merely to keep
party leaders in Office? If they have higher oh.
jects in view, and if voting with them has not
wholly ceased to be matter of conscience, to
that conscience within them we now make our
appeal In behalf of party who haze PRINCIPLES.
and principles, too which they are not ashamed
10 urge upon the people principles as broad and
national as the Declaration of Indepepdence
and as pure and elevated as the platform erec,sd
oy the Democratic Fathers, when Democracy
was something more than an empty name Ana
Win THIS party, the Free, and only true. Democ
racy of the couatry, we now invite 81, 1872.
men OF all other parties, to take their stand fo.
the furtherance of freedom and the rights If ,,..
--for the staying of the aggressions Of the sin
Power, the great corupter to which the MA
parties owe their present degradatlon---for show
ing to the world, by the expression of their suff
RACES that they will neither be slaves themselves
nor driven into the Justification and suppor, of
slavery In others; and, finally, for restoring the