Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-08
For the freeman,
Reasons why I should not Vote
Free Soil.
CHAPTER III,

LIST. " Negroes are so stupid, 40 brutal, you
can do nothing for them! They cannot learn
they will not try! II they were tree, they could
not take care OF themselves!
Such expressions | often near. Ought not
these considerations to deter me from casting
another Free Soil vote? Much better labor for
the conversion and elevation OF the heather in
Africa: at the same time. by my political action,
aid in the extension of our degraded slave pop.
ulatlon to new territories.
Cd. ''Il is designed by Abolitionists, land Free
Snilers may aim at the same thing1 to make the
slave population politically equal to the free
whites Then negroes could sit as jurors, could
be elected to the Legislature, or to Congress.
Who would want to be tried by a negro juror P
| would not like 10 90 to Congress, and have a
great black greasy negro in u char beside me-"
Expressions like the above are also Common.
Surely it were sad, indeed, if no intelli gent
able white nan could be induced to go to Con
rress, for fear of taking his seat beside a great
black, greasy, stupid, brutal negro, elected by
lean, lively, lovely, likely hooking, white con.
stituen,s! 1t were bad il men would not expose
themselves to trial, BY the committing Of crimes.
tor fear of regrn jurors! Riaemen In the moon
e~ndanger our lives.
81. If your measures should result in the
liberation of Slaves, they will compete with
white Iaborers for employment, and knock wages
down :"
1t must be owing to their superior industry
and intelligence. White laborers have but 1t
tie to fear from The competition o those of an
inferior class. Freedom must greatly improve
the black race. to make them dangerous com
petitors with the white laborer for employment.
9TH. " set the slaves free, and they will be al
over the country, We do not want them here
Negroes who have cmigrated from a warm t.
a cold climate, are as numerous as baboons ir
the forests of Labrador. In 1922, The slaves o
New York, mostly held in the southern counties
were liberated. The way they did not pass ~
to the North is a sample Of their propensities t.
a n rthern migration. If I mistake not, in al
ages men have fed norlhward from oppression
have braved the perils OF fight, of northern
sterilily, frosts and storms, to win to the,nselve,
that desideratun of human aspirations Liberty
5th. All agitation makes the matter worse.
What filth agitation will stir up in a foul res
ervoir, fed by a spring of pure wafer. Can agi
tation ever cleanse it?
9TH. "Slavery is a matter we have nothing Il
do with 1t altogether belongs to The South"
We have ncthlng to do but to vote in accord
ance with The wishes of the slaveocracy. Every
measure which has resulted IN the extension, q
tended to the perpelualion, OF Slavery. has beer
effected by the help OF Northern votes. North
ern votes must be had, or the further extension
of Slavery will prove a fallure--even its perpet
uatlon may, Stop, ( like to have forgot, We
must help catch runaway negroes, or
7th. The Ua'on will all go to smash, civil
wars, dissolution! Horrors untold will all en-
sue.
Oh, callthe dogs, my boys, a negro "a gone,
The dogs have failed Then set a ~dotphfacs On.
Destroy this Unlon! The South want us t,
hunt negroes, when dogs fai' they want on
territory tor d hunting park. What else is ou
Union for, if repeating the fugitive slave Law
will destroy itP Oh, beautiful law!
At once a bono Of union and of peace
Our country's glo'y, the slave.imn.e's bliss!
The only Chain that holds our State togetI. er,
Break that. and how we'd butcher one another!
Our ConSttation, self defence, and trade.
Our Destiny. our need Of mutual aid,
Unr thousand interests, cannot prevail
Repeal tina. law, and our experin enl must fall.
RETS0F c. NoLUA.