Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-10-20
Professor Bowen.

Our readers are not unacquainted with
this educated defender of despotIsm His
conduct in reference TO the Hungarian
cause has given him no'"rlety not sur,
passed by that Of any living defender Of
wickedness The Wing party in Massa,
chusetts we're determined that Mr. Bowen
should become Professor in Harvard Col
Iege aud finally succeeded in their deierm'-
nation. n
Our readers well know that he is editor
Of that fogy old quarterly. the North Amer
lean Review In il he advocates the cause
Of Russia and Austria. Louis Napoleon and
the Pope. III it he uadnces Hungary and
Italy, and ibels K,ssuIh g. Mozzlni In the
number for thus mnnh he frsakes fnrelgn
topics forzase nearer home. He dIscusse-
49, 81 American Slavery. M one
would rSNe1 that such classical liar would
tell any trJth respecting the peculiar in
siitntion; bn, we are appalled, at some ar
guments bel uses, and at some Of the post
tons he takes Let us quote:
There are, no dount som persons, believers
IN the rights OF man. according to the French
Jacnbn,cal version ct them. who could deny thu
power Ut Government TO establish such relation
az muster and Save. however much the condition
OF things might require 1t, and however carefnll,
1t might BIZ guarded from abuse. They c"nshe
personal liberty ns one of those rights, and poil
Cal liberty as another. But these II 'llOns 40 n
vague and underlined rights, inc ipable OF prach
cal application haue been long since banished from
The councils of The tolse
This is horrible enough, in all consc ence
but The paragraph which follows entnel!
SURPRISES it in slupendous villaIny:
| "Savery, therefore, exists righ'tuIly in tn
South. No rights of the negro are violated wheI
| ne Is made slave His right. like that OF al
men. is To be governed tor his own benefit. Som
even 20 so tar as to mai tain that social conhl
ton founded on the same principle, nnd modified
I sun different circumstances. relation NOR
strict than that of master and apprentice. AM
less nevere and permanent than that OF Slavery
be introduced inlo some of The Northern Males Il
relation not only 10 negroes bull 10 The swARMs ol
EN- GRANTS ,pho cro,od our shores
This is, we suppose, to be taken as
good specimen of Massachusetts WhIggery
Ii is proposition 10 make slaves out
whitr men To be sure, the Professor pu,
the responsibility Of the proposition up"'
some "-ashamed as he is himself 70 ad
vncate openly such an atroclty, but we ar
very sur, that no man in Massachusetts bu
hun ever made such an argument, Unqnes
tlonobly he is in favor of lnslnuting mll
form of slavery in the Free S,ates-th
,laves to be white men For our part. W
hope that Prot Bowen may himself som
day in his own person experience the sweet
Of slaverv~,-Hsa had his just deserts. h
would he tas aug them now. Nocrime cal
surpass his-that Of cooIly proposing to re
ducea vxslkbcdy Of innocent aud homes
men TO boadage Prof Webster was whit
as snow beside him, for a single murde
will not compare in atr"city with the en-
savement of millions of freemen
1t is disgrace to the nation that Re
view edited by an Amercan-a Review
which crculates among many respec abi
people, should year after year utter sucl
diaboical sentiments as are to be found IL
an, number of the North American for tn,
pas, three years There is no journal it
France that would dare 10 outrage human
ty in such a manuer-there is not Pro
lessor IN Europe but would blush 10 he re
puted The author of such articles. Yet ihi
learned monster Is tavorIle with the Mas
sachuses Wings. Can any man w"nde
why The Wing party IN that State which
used to be SO powerful, Is now weak AM
flendleSs! As ii at present exists III can
moi help bu, be detes,ed 1t defends slave
calchmg--,t gIonhes sucn aposiales a
" ebster and Chuate-lt mocks the peupl
by appointing il Justly hated 'raducer o
Hungary To an Important pr"fessorshIp-I
puts chains around the State House Is i
strange that the sparms IF emigrants" DE-
not love such IA party! As well expect tn
larnb to love the devourlng wolf.