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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-15

corruption, is now the scene Of the rcyelry OF
triumphant wickedness. laughing to scorn the
moral sense of the nation, and grinding the
iron heal of bondage into the bleeding heart
of millions. Great God, in mercy oyerrule
this great wrath to thy praise
But what is to be done? Why, let this DO
done; let the North awake, arise; Let the
people assemble in every free State of the
Union and let great party Of freedom be
organized, on whose banner let it be inscribed
ALI COMPROMISES WITH SLAVERY ENDED
THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY ESSENTIAL TO THE
PRESERVATION OF LIBERTY. Let the old par
ties 90 to destruction, whittier they have near
ly sunk the nation. Let their names be blot
ted out, and their memory rot and hence
forth let there be only FREE party and a
SLAVE party. The banner of God and liber-
ty' and the bloody flag Of slavery and chains
shall then swing out from our respective bat
Elements, and rally under them our respective
armies, and let the inquiry 60 forth now, as
of old, Who is on the Lords side ! Let the
ministers of religion, all over the country,
whose remonstrances have been treated with
contempt-whose calling has been despised-
whose names have been made byword-
whose rights as citizens have been insoleutly
denied-and whose God has been blasphemed
by the plotters of this great wckedness, now
buckle on the armour of their master, and
heartily strive with their immense power, to
arrest the nation in its downward progress,an
save it from the deep damnation to which it
is sinking.
"If yc have whispered truth, whisper no longer;
Speak as the tempest does, sterner and stronger"
The time for action has come. While
grand political party is foIming let companies
from the free States be collected together
funds provided-and with every solemnity
which the name and power Of God can in-
spire. Let them be sent out to possess the
goodly land, to which, by a law of Heaven
and law of man, they are justly entitled.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-15

Marshall St. Arnaud is appointed General
issimo OF the combined forces. He and Lord
Raglan were to meet Omor Pacha at Varpa,
to conclude plan of campaign.
The Greek instruction has assumed less
formidable appearance.
Naples has declared in favor Of neutrality
General Garibaldi was at Nice.
CHEA-Dates from China are 10 Anril
10th. On March Goth the Imperialists made
an unsuccessful attempt to retake Shanghai.
The Insurgents were steadily marching to-
wards Pekin.
LATEST FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.
A doubtful report is current that Kaffa, in
the Crimea, was bombarded.
Russia has certainly concluded treaty
Khiva.
From private telegraphic accounts it is re
ported that the Russians are menancing Ere
roum- They have recently made compul
sorry enrolment of 10000 Armenians.
From Malta we have a report that the al
lied fleet had bombarded Katfa or Thcodosia
a Russian port on the Eastern coast of tn,
Crimea.
The English mail at Marseilcs, brings thu
treaty with the Affghans. Russia promise
'.nevcr till the end Of the world to interfere
in the interior concerns of the country. Ii
return the Khan of Khiva accorls to Russia
the right to build fortified barracks an thu
districts of Hourgani. The stations named
will be Immediately occupied by Russian
troops.
A letter from the feet brings news that
Gustus Varna was bombarded without effect
on the Odd Another attempt was intended
on the Oath.
A telegraphic despatch from Belgrade an.
nounces that Silistria held out on the 10Th
the Russians having been driven back foul
times with loss
LIVERPOOL MARKErs.-Cotton-The mar
ket is a shade more steady at the quotations
received per Arctic.
Breadscufs-Brown, Shipley q Go. re
port great Hatness in the Corn market, at :
decline of Sd in Wheat, Cd Is on Flour,anc
Is on Indian Corn.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-15
Most respectfully yours,
JOSEPH X. HAYES.

LEAGUE AGAINST MAN HUNTING.-The peonle
of Racine County, Wisconsin, have held a con-
vention and organized a - League" against the
Fugitive Slave bill. Eleven towns were repre-
scented by l04 delegates, and the deliberations
OF the Convention were controlled by reso-
lutte purpose to suppress the business of man
hunting on their soil. They say they are i'm
PEELED by i" the necessities of delence'j against
the Legrees and Lockers Of the South. A con.
stitution was adopted, the first article of which
reads as follows -
Art. |. This association shall be known by
the name of the Racine County League. lta
object is, first, to preserve the liberty of the
person of every inhabitants of the county, re-
g,rdless of the color of the skin, or the place
of his birth second, to Illustrate every attempt
at kidnapping, by all the means which God has
given US; third, to shield, by combined inhu-
ence Of united purses and strong arms, all in
dividuals from harm who may be in danger Of
suffering from carrying out the object Of their
League.
The following are some of the resolutions
adopted by this Convention -
Whereas, The moral sense of this nation has
been outraged and the sacred rights of the in
habitants insulted by the passage of the inla-
nous Nebraska bill--and whereas the Com
promises of 1920 have by this act of Congress
been repealed, and whereas the territory Of all
the free States has been turned into hunting
ground for fugitives, and may be desecrated with
IMMUNITY in all ways and at all times by the
Legrees and Lockers of the South, who are
on the scent for human victims or human blood;
and whereas the very compromises which were
designed to give the North rest and quiet, have
been sacrilegiously invaded by the Shareholders
and their doughtaced tools Of the North, and
every village and hamlet of the free States is
liable to be disturbed by the baying of the
hound and the crack of the slaye-driyes lash
Therefore be it
stand it no longer. -. ~
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-15

ADMITTED AT LAsT.--The N. Y. Tribune,
which iercely assaulted the majority of the
Free Democrats in our Legislature, for refusing
to cooperate with the Wings for the prospect
of eleeting Mr.. Shattcr U. S. Senator, and false
ly commended such an election would have thus
been effected, in an editorial of the 9th in COM
menting on the Rutland Wing Convention, and
its nomination of Mr.. Shafter, says: "Oscar L.
Shafter has been a leading Free Soier, is a
very able lawyer, and ought to have been chosen
U. S. Senator last session, but the obstinacy Of
a ew S'lOer- grays bunker Whigs) prevented -
So then Mr.. Greedy has at last admitted what
every intelligent man about the Legislature last
fall, knew to be fact, that Mr. Shafter owed
his defeat to the Wings, and no ito the course Of
any portion of the Free Democrats as was falsely
and meanly charged, not only by the Tribune
but most of the Wing presses of Vermont.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-15

THE NEBRASKA OUTRAGE IN CALAIS.
Mr.. EDITOR On the first Tuesday of June
we had fine june Training, and while firing
the cannon the following toasts were given
By A. P. SLAYToN;
Calais Lafayette ArtiLlery.-May they never
dishonor themselves by aiding the Slavery Prop
agandists of the South.
By Col. IRA MCLoUD
Stephen A. Doug'as.-May he and his Ne
By GEO. j. SLAYroN:
great Northern Party, and The cry of Repeal be
heard and obeyed in the Councils Of the Nation
BY MARCUS AiNswoRTn:
they all be seen floating down Niagara Falls in
chaldron kettles.
By MosEs CILLEY
Success to the cause of Freedom, and death
to traitors
By AMAsA MCKNIGHT
FeiioU Citizens Il hope we shall all wait
and look the matter over well, and be sure we
are right, and not be in q hurry, but wait and
see.
By Moses Sheldon, in reply to Mr.. Mcknight:
Northern Freemen.-May they not be found
mapping until they are entirely surrounded and
taken by the enemies of Freedom, and let no
Night Of darkness ever come over them
Here man in favor of the Nebraska and
Kansas Bill gave u toast in its favor, when the
torch was applied to the loaded cannon, but it is
q curious fact that the gun refused to go off, and
the powder flashed in the pan
large number of citizens, in addition to the
above, expressed sentiments in favor of repeating
the Nebraska and Kanzas Bill and the Fugitive
Slave Act of 1850. After the firing had ceased !,
we marched, with large concourse of citizens,
to the place prepared to burn the efigy of Ste
phen Arnold Douglas, where an appropriate
speech was made on the occasion, and the ques-
ton was formally put to the audience, What
shall be done!" Cries of "Burn him Burn
him.! " resounded from every quarter The
torch was applied, and the efigy was soon in
ashes. One voice feeby cried. 60 Three cheers
for Douglass" but dead silence was the only
response. ONE OF THEN.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-15
YANKEE sCuooLMAsTERs.

The Richmond (Va.) Examiner defends
the shooting of Yankee abolition schoolmas-
tiers, as fair and legitimate game, after the
following fashion:
1.-The South has for years been overrn
with hordes Of iliterate, unprinciplcd gradu-
ates of Yankee free schools, the hot-beds Of
self-concet and ignorance,) who have by dint
Of unblushing impuncnce, established them.
selves as schoolmasters in our midst. These
creatures, with rare exceptions, have not de.
served the protection of our laws. They bear
neither in person nor in mind very strong
resemblance to human beings. In language
morals. manners and education, they might
lead one to believe that Fraukenstcin was not
the myth Of a German romance writer, anC
the Yahoo alreal rather than a,tabulous mon
ster, born "a the envenomed ard satirioal per
Of Shift. OF this class, Ichabod Crane, 6
northern writer's portrait Of Yankee school
master, is a most complimentary and Aatter
ing picture. So odlous are some Of thes,
'itinrdat ignoro'ausrS' to the people Of TIT
South 50 full of abolitionism and concealed
incendiarism are many Of this class; so full
of guile, fraud and deceit, that the deliberate
shooting of one Of them down, in the ac
act Of poisoning the minds Of our slaves O
our children, we think, if regarded as homi
eide at all should always be deemed perfect,
justifabe; and we judge that the prophet,
of shooting an abolition schoomaster, whcl
caught tampering with our slaves, has neve
been questioned by any intelligent Southern
man. This we take to be the unwritten com
mon lay of the South, and we deem it advisa
bic TO promulgate the law, that it may b
copied into all the Abolition papers, thunder
ed at by the three thousand New Engan
preachers, and read with peculiar emphasis
and terrible upturning of eyes, by Garrison
at the next meeting of the ant-Slavery PAL
ty at FaneuI Hall. We repeat that tn
shooting Of intinrant Abolition schooimas
tiers is frequently creditable and audabl
act, emitting respectable southern man tC
at least seat in the Legislature, or plac
in the Common Council Let all Yanke
schoolmasters who propose invading the Sout
endowed with strong nasal twang, a lon
scriptural name, and Wcbster's lexicographi
book OF denominations, seek some more con
genial land, where their lives will be more 81
cure than in the vile and 'homcidal slay
States. We shall be glad if the rawlings {
the Abolition press about the Ward acquitt;
shall have this effect"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-15

all freemen of Vermont, who agree with US in
the principles and purposes herein set forth, most
cordially tend ring to them our co cooperation In
the cause Of Freedom, and offering our confidence
to those who confide in US.
8. That we do also invite the co operation of
the people of all other States who are disposed
TO ressl the encroachmeuts and the extension of
Slavery by all practicable and constitutional
means; and in case National Convention shall
be called to consld r the subject, We recommend
the appointment of two or more delegates from
each Congressional district TO represent Vermont
In such Convention.
.. hat while every supporter of the Nebras-
Ra Dill has lmpeached his character for political
ana personal Integrity, the Northern supporters
OF That m asurc have added the guilt Of blacklist
tfeschery to ,h'lr constituents and we hereby
declare that 30 such man whatever be his party
anhitles, his position Or professions, Can ever re-
celve our respect, our confidence or our votes.
=, H. That to the delegation in Congress from
Verm MT, to all others, Irrespective of party dis
iinctlons and especially to those noble represent.
atlves o the South, who have manfuly struggled
to maintain the publ faith invioata, we ac
} knewledge the debt of gratitude due 10 faithful
public servants and honorable men.
Hon Alvah Sabin, Representative in Cronpress
from the Sd District in Vermont, was then called
for and addressed the convention in A mos, able
and acceptable manner
Hon. w. Weston, Rev. Dr. Wheeler. Hon
Arson Allen, and Edward Kirkland, ESQ, dis
cussed the resolutions very alb y, and they were
adopted unanimously and followed by three cheers
The COMMITTEES for making nominations made
a report, which was adopted with reclamation
and unanlmty
For Governor, STEPHEN ROYCE, of berkshire.
For Lit. Governor, D. l.. SKATER, Wilmington.
For Treasurer, 81 ENRY M. hates Nonhfe d.
The following resolutions were off; red and
passed.
IL Reso1red, That we most cordially approve
of the nomination of Stephan Royce, for Cover.
nor, o. l. Shafer, for Lieut. Goveruar, H. NJ.
Bates, for Treasurer; and wa pledge ourselves
as friends of the Republic, and citizens of Yer.
mont, who desire the economical administration
of our State Government to do all that we can
to secure the election of the cand dates tn day
nominated, and to abide by the Resolutions this
day adopted
IL. That we present our thanks to the Con-
gregatonal Suciety of Rutland for the use Of
their house Of worship.
On motto ', the State Committee were author
lied to fill any vacancy that might occur in the
nominations BY death or declinat ons
On motion the Convention adjourned.
{ WILLIAM HEBARD, President.
G.. II. HAYDEN.
cHAs. t,nA'sos, Secretaries.
&. ". WILLARD,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-15

WAR WITH SPAM.-Although the Court of
Spain, as it now seems, have refunded the
$4,000 fine on the Black Warrior, made every
reasonable concession, and taken away every
pretext for quarrel with her, still the Admin
istration is determined on its mad project OF
plumber and piracy on Cuba 1t has appointed
two Commissioners to 60 and join Soule in over
awing Spain by presenting, as the highwayman
presents his pistols to the traveller, the altcrna-
tive Of selling Cuba or war. There is every roa-
son for believing in the truth of the following
The New-York Ercning Post, of Saturday
has the following from special correspondent
Washington, June neutrality-suspicious. for wall
with Spain, if she will not sell Cuba, go or
steadily and firmly.
l. Military and Naval stores are being col.
lccted in great quantities at all convenient
points.
2. All the vessels of war and naval stations
are undergoing thorough inspection.
3. All vessels OF war are detained in port
4. All ideas OF reducing the surplus in the
treasury by reducing dutics--so strongly rec
commended by the President in lis message, and
by the Secretary OF the Treasury in lis report
are given up, although the surplus is already
nearly Doubled.
5. Dallas and Cobb are to 90 to Madrid, tc
bring back Cuba or war. They will do what is
required of them. Cobb is IA furious Cubanite
Dallas is a poor devil that runs upon every scent
the Administration gives out, ana besides is un-
Gle to Bob Walker, and under contract and Il
war is to Bob what Il railroad charter is-u
mere speculation.
6. NUllilers i'll Congress say, Cuba or war il
six months; members of the cabinet say thi,
Administration acW have Cuba.
"Cuba or war within six months - Ave
but there are other kinds of war besides the one
these infatuated slavcocrats are meditating. Lei
them beware how far they exasperate the al
ready arousing lion of the North There ar,
more men among the masses thinking of thci
rifles these days than the mere politicians are will
ling to believe. We are almost every dav startled
by the revolutionary spirit we hear expressed
Has the Administration gone stark mad
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-15
From Fred Douglas Paper
COMPROMISES,
THEIR END, NOW AND FOREVER.

THEIR END, NOW AND FOREVER.
Against the indignant voice of the North
ern people-against the commonest honesty
against the most solemn warnings from states.
men and patriots-against the most explicit
and public Pledges Of both the great parties
against the declared purpose of President
Pierce on assuming the reins of government
against every obligation of honor and the
faith Of mankind-against the stern resist
ance of brave minority Of our representa-
tives-against the planest dictates of the
Christian religion, and the voice of its min
listers, the Hell black scheme for extending
slavery over Nebraska, where thirty-four years
ago it was soLEMNLY PROTECTED FROM SLAVERY
FOREVER, has triumphed. The audacious vii
lany Of the slaue power. and the contemplate
pusilanimity Of the North, have begotten
this minister and sent him forth to blast and
devour whatsoever remains of liberty, human.
ity and justice in the land. The North is
again whipt-drven to the wall. The brick
is knocked down at the end of the row by
which the remainder are laid PROSTATE. The
Republic swings clear from all her ancient
moorings, and moves off upon tempetuous
and perilous sea. Wo wo wo TO SLAVERY
Her mightiest shield is broken. A bolt that
bound the North and South together has been
surged asunder, and a mighty barricade, which
has INTERVIEWED between the forces of slavery
and freeeom, has been madly demolished by
the slave power itself; and for one, we now
say, in the NAME OF COP, let the battle come.
Is this the language of excitement 1t may
be- but it is also the language of truth. The
man who is unmoved now, misconceives the
crisis or he is intensely selfish, caring moth
ing about his country and kind. Washing
ton, long the abode Of political proaigacy and
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-15

CRAcKrSc THE Wnlp.-Slave driving dignita-
ries at Washington sent their admonltlons to
Boston during the trial Of Burns, IN the form
of crack of the whip over Mr.. Sumner head
He has been too insubordinate lately, and Mas
sachusctts seemed to want u little training, for
some muttering symptoms remained. 30 The
Union said thus
"Not the Door fugitive, who escaped from
his kind master, deludcd by fanatics, and duped
by false sympathy not the excited zealot, who
is taught by traitors that he is doing God SER
vice when he fires upon the officers Of the law
but the sleek plausible false-hearted, dishonest,
and corrupt traitors who hattered the one, and
inaamed the other, should be the first r'ctims
(if victims there must be) of these unjust and
criminal organizations against the laws. "
The Star, another special organ of q man
stealing democratic administration said
Z" If Southern gentlemen are to be assaulted
and threatened while legally seeking to obtain
possession of property for the use OF which they
have solemn constitutional guarantee, if legal
rights can only be sought for and Established
at the bayonet's point, certain men now In oul
midst will have to evince little more circum
spection than they have ever eyinced, in then
walk, talk and acts. Ii we contrast inc treat
ment which Southern STAKEHOLDER receives a
the hands of Il Northern abolitonist, with the
treatment which the latter receives at the hand'
of the former, we may proudly assert, that
among the many virtues which adorn TIN
Southern character, forbearance is not the les
conspicuous
1t is said that MI. Summer has been warnct
of personal danger But let them touch a hal
of his head if they dare. This is one result o
the Nebraska bill. The influence of free mel
in Congress must be broken down next, so the,
assa Mcssrs. Sumner, Chase and Giddings. |
that is not repealed, to the present insults
taunts and abuse poured upon every man no
servie, will be added the absolute suppression
of free speech by the pistol and bowie knife
Portland Inquirer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-15

Rcsolcsd ,HThat hencelorth We shall know none
bet freemen in the North, and all who reach
our State shall be as secure as though they
were already treading the free soil Of Canada;
Resohed. That since the issues OF the Ola
parties are left out of sight in the crusade for
slavery which has been set up, we can leave
them out of sight also, until liberty is again
restored as national principle. and that here
after we will know no issue at the baliot-DoS
paramount to the great principle of human
freedom as defined in the Declaration OF lnde-
pendence. rr-...1
RcsOlued, That Our advice to every Gwted
States officer in Wisconsin, whether he be Judge
Commissioner, Attorney or. Marshal, is that he
ness of assisting in the return OF fugitive slaves
or resign his office, and pursue at least res
pectabie business for his daily bread.
Resolved, That in adopting these resolutions
we are neither " triaing nor {. insane" but
living, we will practice them, and with our dy
ing breath WE WILL BEQUEATH THE SENTIMENTS
THEY CONTAIN TO OUR PosTERlTr.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-15

How THEY SETTLED IT.-Speakirg of the
eclipse the Jocose edlor of the Brandon Jcfer-
son'an says: " A little difficulty occurred. we
learn, at the preparatory meeting of the Mile
rites in one of the towns near by, arising out Of
the mooted question as to the order in which the
male and females members Of the flock should
ascend when the critical moment should arrive.
his embarrassment was finally adjusted by
agreeing that the men should ascend first, the
boomers next in order, and the female women
last
The Panama Railroad is completed to the
SUBMITS, ten miles beyond Obispo, and will be
ready for passengers by next steamer. The
health OF the lsthmus Ia remarkably good, no
sickness of any kind prevailing either at Aspin'
wall OF Panama.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-15

Hon. N. P. BANKS, late Democratic Speaker
OF the House in Massachusetts, and last year
elected to Congress, who was among the ever to-
oe-honorcd Democrats in that body, who had
the honesty and independence to take decided
stand against the Nebraska Bill, last week ap-
peared before his constituents in Waltham, and
made powerful speech against that and the
kindred outrages in agitation at Washington,
IN which he fairly cut loose fiom the Admins
.ra'ion and uttered solemn oath to oppose it
IN all Its mad schemes Of slavery propagandism.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-15

Mr.. SKATERS NOMINATION BY THE WHIGs.-
We have received communication from prom
inent Free Democrat in Chttenden County, ask
ing for light on the unexpected d" nomination OF
Mr.. Shafter for the unimportant and side-judge
sort of Office of Lieut. Governor" by the late
Wing Convention and wishing to know whether
it :" was done by the aid and procurement Of
any portion of the Free Democracy" In reply
we can only state that, we presume from what
we have gathered from come of the delegates Of
that Convention, that Mr.. Shaftcr was nomina-
ted without his knowledge, and without the
procurement Of any of his political friends, who
have generally been reserving him for quite a
different post.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-15

The VERMONT STATESMAN, hitherto leading
Wing journal, in bold and manly article in
the last issue, comes out and utterly repudiatcs
the compromises of 1850, and condemns the
Wing party for ever sustaining them. That Edi-
tor is evidently getting into the right direction