Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-08-18

' TIC FAANitihtH ANN lafe '""NNAis
Frcomen of Permoni Az election is ap-
preaching which will affect IN its results the
far famed reputation you have inherited from
your Fathers, as ardent lovers and valiant
defenders of human freedom A crisis is to
be met that will show whether or not you
are the worthy descendants Of the Green
Mountain Boys Of Old. Not one Of all the
United States can furnish from its early
history an example Of brave, hardy, lber-
ty-loving, tyranny hating people, equal to
Vermont. Not IN all the records Of history
can be found a more striking stance than
that Of your Fathers, Of people asserting
aad maintaining agains, fearful odds, with
unfinchng courage and perseverance, their
rights and their liberties Not time has
there been like the present, for the sons TO
show that spirit worthy of their sres ami
mates them-that the blood yet courses IN
their veins which once made the Green
Mountain Boys a terror 20 enemies not more
dangerous To liberty than the lordly slave
drivers of the South. VIII they do IL p
VIII they NEE. the onward march Of the
slave power Of the country, in the spirit Of
the heroes of the Green Mountains Or
will they. while the work Of the sages and
patriots of tae revolution which their Fa-
theirs helped 10 accomplish, IS being turned
to a reproach, hold their peace. till the very
stones upon which Ethan Allen and his
comrades have stood, shall cry out
Men Of the Green Mountains arouse
Yourselves md show 10 the world that the
glory Of Vermont has not yet departed --
FOO long have you wasted your time 10 mis-
cradle party sguabbles, while every year
that rolls round finds the heel of the slave
holder planted more firmly upon your necks.
Too long have you FILTERED away your en-
ergies IN useless contentious among your.
selves, while before you is the humiating
spectacle of men whose chief end is 10 pro-
mote and extend the traffic IN the bodies and
souls of their fellow man, controlling the
destiny of Tho nation. And now let voice
20 forth from your bills that shall strike ter
ror into their hearts. aud strengthen the
hands of their foes all over the land. Let
the Nermonters lead of 10 movement that
shall make the knees of the dough faces of
the North smlte together. Let the craven
spirits at Washington behold the Green
Mountain Boys coming down upon them in
style that shall make Franklin Pierce
faint" again, and the traitor, Douglas,
tremble, in view OF the fate of Arnold, that
awaits him. Send men TO the Capitol OF the
nation with the mantle of" Old Ethan" rest
ing upon them, TO declare in tones determin-
ed as those that startled the commander of
Ticonderoga, that the foul work of slavery
extension shall have an end - that we have
borne with negro trading politicians and
negro catching laws I'LL we will bear no
longer
Wings, Freesolers and Democrats cease
your party strife. Cast your jcalousies to the
winds, and give the men, mo matter when,
where, or by whom they are nominated.)
who stand the declared representatives of
that sentiment of determined and unceasing
hostility 10 the past, present, and future ag-
gressions Of the slave power. such a cor
dial, hearty, undivided support as no party
hitherto known in the State can claim for
ITSELF Give them such an aunihllating ma
jorlty as shall bear evidence that II is no
party vote, but an uprising Of the people for
the sake Of great principle, and shall be
warning TO politicians how they disregard
that principle, Let the men, who, for the
sake Of their party are crying "peace peace,
when thersls no peace"-who would sell to
the STAKEHOLDER for " mess of pottage" the
exclusive and hitherto undsputed right to
ireemen to a vast communicative such
rebuke at your election that they will not
dare to wag their tongues. Let those who
are giving /" aid aud comfort" to the enemies
of our counlry-who are trying to extend
the blighting curse of slavery over il like
then Tory Fathers of old-be few and far
between. Let them not live and flourish TO
poison the AR of the Green Mountains.-
Give them such Beach Sealing at the polls
that they will hide themselves.
Let them know that the Genius of Liberty
yet dwells among your mountains; that Yer
mont, forgetting all her party differences and
making all other questions subordinate, is
henceiorth and foreyermore the active, I'M
compromising, inhexible foe of slavery pro-
pagandists Of the country. After seeing the
Constitution traInpled upon, compacts dlsre-
garded, pighted faith violated, and law that
dehes the public sentiment Of all Christendom
enacted-let not her sons behold the broad
territory of Kansas and Nebraska turned into
fields for the slave driver, without making a
demonstration that shall do honor TO the mem
DRY OF the man who once took British fort
" IN the name of the Great Jehovah and the
Continental Congress"
ANTI SLAyERT.
White River, Aug. Ia.