Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-04-13


Political Anti-Slavery men exhibited the facts
in their true light, and furnished the explanation.
ID lcas through the old parties, boasting of their
Nationality, rcpHdiating sectioaalism and section
al issues, that this graspng, subtle interest had
obtained such control over the Federal Govern
ment, and was seeking to establish perpetual as
tendency Pretending to be National, ard the
great body of their adherents at the North sin
cereIy believing that they were National, they
were controlled and managed by a sectional in
terest for sectional purposes.
Political Anti Slavery men, assailiBg this sec.
tonal interest, endeavoring to unmask its policy,
and to expose the Uniform subserviency to it OF
the Wing and Democratic Parties, were denOunc-
ed as sectional, foes to nationality, enemies of the
South, seeking to array one portion of the coun-
try against another. This was TO be expected.
They were confined to The Northern States,
formed a very small majority, and the supporters
of the Slave interest understanding the attach
ment of the American People t. the idea of Ma
tionality, saw their advantageif they could sue
coed in fastening upon their opponents the stigma
of sectional bgotry.
Nothing could be more false and unjust We
warred, not against Nationality, but Sectiona'ity
hiding itself under its broad folds. We warred
not against our country, but Glass Interest," de-
ermined to rule its destinies. We warred, moi
against the Union, but against an aristocracy Of
SHAREHOLDERS, who by their unity and crafty coun-
SEES, had perverted the Union from its original
purposes. Our object was to rescue the Govern
ment from the hands of the Sectional Interest, to
divorce it from its degrading alliance with Slave
ry. and make it, as it was intended to be, the
representative, the exponet, the bulwark, the in
strument of national interests. Our motto WAS
and is, =" Liberty and Union, not s Slavery aud
Union land if this be not true Nationality
what is ~
We saw that the supporters of the Class Inter-
est of Slavery acted with paramount reference to
that interest Let them call themselves Wings
or Democrats, the ordinary issues between the
old parties were minor considerations to them
Their first demand from whatever Party they &C.
ted WITH was fidelity with Southern Interests
a mere crcumocution for fidelity TO the interests
of Slavery. And the demand was complied
with, for what distinct pc tlcal power existed to
make fidelity the great National Interest of Free
dom, a condition to its adhesion! This odious
Class Interest had everything its own way. Should
either party refuse its demand there was no an
tagonistc power elsewhere to fall back upon,
and Slavery would give victory to the party that
had not hestaed in lis oath of allegiance. Or,
should any public man rebel against this oath
what counter interest was there to save him from
political degradation ! The sceptre was held by
Southern shareholders, and Northern politicians
must bow to their power, or forfeit all hope OF
political preferment.
We determined to establish counter Interest
10 organize party of Freedom against the
party of Slavery. Fourteen years has this work
been going on, amidst obloquy and misrepresent-
alton. It's nucleus was formed iii 1910, when
James G. Brney, mot long before citizen Of
Alabama,) selected as the representative of Free
dom, received nine thousand votes. Twelve
years AFTER in 1852, it had grown to one hundred
and fifty thousand, and to-day the ideas and feel
ings which gave birth to it are stronger and more
prevalent than at any former period It's growth
has been watched with anxiety by the party o.
Slavery, which has become more exacting in its
demands Our action has tended to reveal its
tactics, and its action now that it must confront
defiant opposition, is holder and more turbulent
Not content as formerly with selecting North
er instruments, without an open profession o.
loyalty Oh their part, it requires submission tt
odous tests as the condition precedent to its ia
vor. What with the truths inculcated upon the
puuic Hi'u ny tHC party vi IIeeuOii, anu lllt
slrikir G iust atoms of those truths furnished b,
the party of Slavery, the people have been grad
ually awaking to the real relations of Slsvery tt
the old parties, to the use ii has made of them
and to its rreconcllabe enmity to true Na,ionali
ty. Circumstances of Providence has favored
the development, until this last and most fagrau
attempt OF the party Of Slavery to use the powe
of the Northern political organizatiors for the re
| I,f,I, -
ing the whole of'the Territory of the Union tc
Slave Labor, and investing the Slave Interest
with the attribute of Nationality.
The demand now is, not only acquiescence ir
this movement, but active support to it, on pain
of being denounced and DISTINGUISHED as an Abo
lluonist. Northern Wings r'fuse compliance
and are already branded Northern Democrats
who hesitate, are thrcated with the same doom
Southern Wings in the Senate with single ex
cepton, are energetic supporters ofthe movement
and the leading Southern Wing papers speak as
if there were no longer Wing party at the
North, Southern Democrats in the Senate, with
single exception have 'axed all their energies
to force it Trough Congre S, and Southern Dem
ocratlc presses agree in casting out from party
fellowship every Northern Democrat who dissents
from it.
Here, and now, we hold, it is the duty of the
North to meet the issue thrust upon it by the par
ty Of Slavery. Old parties are in fact dissolved
old party questions have disappeared-th is
no Wing party, there is no Democratic party
There is an organized party Of Slavery, grasping
defiant, desperate despotic, controlling the South
clutching at the throat of ,he North There il
an organized party of Freedom at the North, the
direct antagonist of this, embpdying the faith o
Freedom in its course of action but as yet com
handing too little Of Northern strength to prove
a match for the power of Slavery.
Why should not Northern voters, now that TIT
issue between Slavery and Freedom is forced OF
them, rally with this party, with the Independent
Democracy, and once fer all give these slavehoid
ers es;on at the ballot box, of what the non
slaveholding millions of the country can do, whei
compelled to the trial of their strength
1t was because we thought this result impor
tant that we almost regretted that Messrs. Bel
and Houston in the Senate, and eight Southern
men in the House, have felt it their duty to op
pose the repeal movement, much as we homo
their herolsm. Their position is calculated Il
break the force of those odious proslavery dem
onstra ions, in sund' ring old party relations, ant
uniting Northern men in solid phalanx, as par
ty of Freedom. Itmay lead some Northern Wing
and Democrats to cling to the long cherished ide
of equal union in National parties with Save
holders. This Aristocracy is blind, or it woul'
see tais, and recognize in these exceptional mem
bers of its caste. the only men who can save it
pretensions from rltst overthrow
M Meantime, out business is with Northern men
Western men, aye. and Southern men, who arr
sick of subspryiencc to Glass Interest, sick 0
the yoke of Slavery The few Shareholders VIII
protest against this violation of the Missouri Com
promise, are mere exceptions. The Class. as
whole, is desperately bent on repeal, and on sub
|jugating to its perpetual rule the Federal Govern
ment. 1t is with you to say whether they sha'
succeed. We showed, the other day, that thu
Democratic Party, which had triumphed at tn,
North, on legitimate issues, in 1874, lost ever,
Northern State but two in 1913. by committing
itself tn a cond;t.ta whosa sentiments on tn,