Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-07-07
The Issue.

The following is one of the vigorous, terse and
truthful articles of DR.. Elder, now in the absence
of DR.. Bailey the acting editor of the Era, from
the last number of which it is taken. The whole
issue is here presented in one comprehensive
sweep OF his pen.
"What is the news to.dayl" said gentle
man to colored barber we'll known in the
city Of Pittsburgh, as he took his seat in
the chair "The news are very various,
sir; the topics are too numerous to men,
ton but noe are the subject" This was
the hubbub of the Presidential election of
1874, squeezed into nutshell. Since
that day, Texas has been annexed Mexico
parttioned; California and Oregon organ
lied and admitted; Calhoun, Clay. and
Webster, canonized Europe revelation.
ICED, re-conquered, and restorationized
everything at home gloriousIy compromis-
ed, and almost every other issue then pend
ing fossilized; but the colored mans an
swer-a0e are the subjects this day more
emphatically true than it was in the critical
day when it was uttered Pierce is elect
ed the appointments are made; the old
party issues are abandoned the Wing par
ty annihiated, and not mouse stirring in
the political household but the question
of Slavery is more rife than ever. The
papers of the South are loaded down with
its burden; half the editorials of the lead
ing journals in this interest are occupied
with nothing else, and the general outcry
Of all its advocates is like that of Napoleon
on The morning of the battle of Waterloo
Mon Dieu! | have all my battles to fight
over again!
One of our exchanges says: eve have
never believed that The Slavery question
was in any other than the morning stage Of
its discussion; that we have not even seen
the end of the beginning of the agitation"
The editor continues: Gone after another
the bonds which held US Ohe North and
South together, have been giving way
The powerful religious sect--the Methodist
have separated, the Baptists have separa-
ted the first numbering upwards of A, 0O0,-
tNIO, the latter near 2,0U0 400 persons,
(meaning worshippers.) Nor have the
Presbyterians been free from disahec,on.
And the only cause that can be assigned
for the harmony of the others is, difference
of church government. We doubt not that
the lay members OF all tie churches are
equally estranged in brotherly love and
Christian affection"
The Cotton Plant says: " The great
question to be met is the abolition of Sla-
very. Disguise it as we may, at is the great
political, social, and religious idea Of tho
day. 1t must be met" TO this, the Union,
the Republic, the Richmond and Charles.
ton papers, with the whole editorial council
Of public safety, unanimously agree and
the Memphis Convention contesses the same
sentiment Of the merchants and Planters
the entire cotton oligarchy of the South.
From all which we infer that the poIti-
cal conspiracy, entered into at Baltimore
by the two great parties, for discounts.
nanclng agitation" is nonplussed, and that
the triumph of the Democracy and the ex.
tinction Of Whiggery have only cleared the
deck for closer conflict in which Wing
Democrat, and Free.Soiler, is to be Olsen.
tangled; and not blow struck hereafter
will 60 wrong, except those that miss So
mote it be. A trial at politics, like trial
at law, never can be fairly had until the
pleadlngs are brought in a simple and sin.
gle issue, which the one party directly af.
firms and the other as directly denies. The
prophets of the press confess that they dc
not foresee upon what principles or poll.
cies the parties are to decide in the mex,
Presidential contest. They have dumb
sort Of consciousness that there is nothing
left of the old grudges to quarrel about, and
they are quite slow to perceive that the plat.
form of the old liberty and present Free
Democratic party is the matter that they
have to meet, for they have been long III
the habit of treating it as an impairment
collateral affair but it never had any les:
intrinsic consequence than now, when it is
plainly the conclusion of the whole matter
and can no longer be evaded. We are get
ting ready for you, and you may expect " tc
meet US again at Phllippi" E.