Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-10-12
A DISTINCTIVE ANTI-SLAVERY PRESS
TO BE MAINTAINED,

DISTINCTIVE ANTI-SLAVERY PRESS
TO BE MAINTAINED.
The National Era which now goes for keep
ing up the Free Democratic organization,
makes the following just and sensible remarks
in connection with the discontinuance of the
Commonwealth, and the use the old parties are
making Of that and other sach instances.
If there be na need of distiuctivsly Anti
Slavery press, there is no need of a distinct Par
ty against Slavery and the Slave Power IT
the Wing and Democratic newspapers are all
sufficient for the management of the discussion
of the Slavery Question, the Wing and Demo-
cratic Parties are all-sufiiciept for the manage
ment of the Anti-slavery movement That is,
the Parties which gave us Texas with Slavery,
war with Mexico, Polk and Pierce, Tyler and
Fillmore, the Gag, the Fugitive Act, the Balti-
more platforms, with pledges of resistance
against the agitation of the Slavery Question
and which in their National Conventions have
uniformly Submitted to the demands of Slavery,
are to be relied upon as all-suiicient instrument
talities against Slavery and its aggrcssions -
How beautifully the Party Of Freedom was rep
resented, for instance, in the Democratic Con-
vention of New York, which congratulated the
country on the late repeal OF the Missouri
Compromise, ruaiiirned the Baltimore platform,
and Landed the Administration of Gen. Pierce !
And also in the Wing State Convention, which
aamniitted itself against nothing specially, and
IN which proposition to take ground against
the odioas Fugitive Act, was Kissed down.
Never was there more need OF Party of
Freedom than there is now never more need OF
an independent Anti-Slavery Press than there
Is now. The Darnburners OF 1913, AZ Anti
Slavery as the Wings are now, absorbed the In
dependent Democratic Party in their ranks, in
1852 sold ont to the Baltimore Platform De,
mocracy, and in 1854 are powerless for good
or evil. Had the independent Democracy
maintained It's distinct organization, the Cause
Of Freedom in Now York would have been lar
in advance Of where it is now. TAc present
danger is, that the " higs whose Anti-Slavery
professions are naturally intense because they
are ont Of power, may absorb tie Anti-Stagery
Sentiment OF the country, and th,n, n, utraliz
1t. Inc Wings, in the control Of the National
Administration, Lave always been time servers
on the Slavery Qucstion-Always proved them
selves incapable Of boldly carrying out Anti
Slavery principles. The need OF the times is a
Party OF FrceIoin, composed OF the good, true
and liberty-lovng men OF all Parties, demand
ing for Freedom all that the Federal Constitu-
ton warrants, ard refusing to take anything
les. Blu to ing Il t u IA union, ard IT,
make it Efficient, we need something more than
ii Wing Press in Boston, whca wonders why ali
Anti-Sayery metz cannot support the Wing
Party; or a Democratic press in NV York
which does not see its way clear to oppose
|openly and actively, Nebraska nominations
| ebo Il
OF incrcas d Ani-S avery sentiment at Tx
Moth. Tie Bds'0n Atias deserves credit fo
its advocacy OF sound principles on the SLAYER
Question. lhc New York Ereniag Post is
sterling newspaper. 1t has done much and i
doing much, 10 spread right sentiments in rela
ton to Slavery, and the Slave Power. For til
good that they do, let them have all credit; bo
they know that trey are tra,nmel2d by hJsincs
or party connections, and that, were they even
disposed to advocate more efficient ard practi
Cal action, to redeem the free States from TIL
domination o. the Slave Power, they could no
DO it without disturbing great many impor
tant relations i'll which they have become in
vol,ed Ills is why an independent press, ire
from old associations, from Old PARTY ties, anC
primarily representing the distinctive Anti-oia
very movement Of the country, is Indispensable
o4ch papers as the Post and 4haS may he Anti
Slavery in their swapafh'cs and discussions; bp
sach press as We have described is necessAr,
Is pioneer in Anti-.5lavery attain.
We hope therefore, that the COMMUNICATE
viii b. resumed, OF some paper of the same 70
liticl character, be started in its place. NJ
Journal which makes the Anti Slavery cause
Sill coordinate matter, cln do its work. Ii Oh
friegds base not means ~ support Daily, lie
them start Weekly. 70 leave tie politica
Ant-Slayery movement in Boston without al
organ, is little bJttcr than to abandon til
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