Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-07
A GENUINE pouGHECE.


at Abolition meetings, and wrote rampant
little paragraphs for the Daily I9csia ofI
Ipqediotc Emancipation. That was before
he. discovered that it was David Wilmot, not
Jefferson, who yrote the Ordinance Of 1877.
SANDER (which never spares the good and
great says that he even belonged, In those
days to the Encourag ement-ct-Siayes-to-Cut-
their-Master's-T Threats Society. BUTT is not
worth while to recall the circumstance to his
memory. You misunderstood his meaning.
He has written letter, TO friend at the
South, since them in which that fact is clear
ly shoxn.
At present he is known to himself, though
not to the community at large, by the name
of Conservative and Patriot. He loves our
glorious Union. He venerates the American
Eagle. If he has an enthusiasm, it is for the
Star-Spangled Banner. And he says 80 on
all occasions. He is fond Of quoting from
Websters Speech against South Carolina
Secession, where it talks about ''thc broken
fragments of our glorious Union. discovered,
discordant aud drenched, it may be, with fra
ternal blood" which, he says, was intended
as ii warning 10 posterity MOTTO elect anti
Nebraska members Of Congress. -
He disikes slavery. He considers it a
moral and political evil. Not above his breath
though, at Washington, but very loudly at
home. But he thinks that by weak cning the
South, it gives the North great commercial
advantage, aud political preponderanccs. He
onders that "our folks" will not soc it in that
light .aasAGet,for their own best interests
When 10 visits his Southern friends, whosiiye
at Charleston, he remarks feelingly On She
aggressions Of the North upon the Constlin-
tioual Rights Of the South, and its rashness
in provoking sectional disputes He admires
the Southern character. 50 hospitabie, cour-
teous and chivalrous. And the much misrop-
resented condition of the blacks. We'll fed
and clothed, and taken care of in their old
age. What more do they want? lie doubts
whether separations often occur in families
He would like to have been born in Virginia
His Southern friends, who live in Charleston
consider him remarkable enlightensa' and
liberal minded man.
The Genuine Doughface never alludes &c
the sad accident which deprived him Of the
use OF his backbone Its conjectured 10 have
occurred at Washington, where he was once q
member, or at Baltimore, where he has sew
eral times been delegate.
If we remark that he became, three years
ago, the owner Of sixteen shares of Texa
scrip, that he is an applicant for place il
the Custom-H House, or that Mrs. g. Doug htace
previous to her marriage, inherited a fn'
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. be. lamentcd I'm
Gle in Alabama--wo refer to these facts a
thing apart, and not to be understood as bear
ing at all upon his political opinions. Fo
his disgust Of merccnary politicians is vel
known:sfsH is Indignation at that money-mak
ing schrmsenti,lcd the Kansas Emigrant All
Association is case in point He was tn
first to point out its sordid objects.
He is asloyer of Peace, and Law, and Or
der. He considers the mob attack on tn
kidnappers in Wisconsin a shameful outrage
He is not lawyer, but his opinion is tina
such ofeuses come under the head Of higl
treason in the irst degree. He is conGden
he has seen decision, to that effect, by Judg
Story. The authorities are justified in an
amount Of iurce--yes, b!oodsAed--to PIT
them 3sown flg is is surprised you shout
think there is auy similarity in the case {
Obadiah Shocks, the schoolnaser. Snook
to boseara, was sad to have been !ynche
ard sarrcd and ieahered, in Georgia, for II
ceiying an Anti-SIavory letter through til
Post Office. But where was the evidence
ii2 Newspapers always eKaggerate. b.
:. sides, what business had he to set himself u
in opposition to the well known prejudees
, the community?
He has keen eye for danger to the Unto.
He declaregitwill fly into a thousand finder
: if Bingtown Centre elects Free Soil const;
bic. He shakes his head when you say Di
union has died ont Its designs arc concca
/ cd, he admitS-blt they are SO much the MOI
dangerous. His vigilance is as untiring {
. that Of the old hdy who used to march
, night up and down the sidewalk in front
the City Bank, to guard it from robbers
ter the careless Directors had all gone to be-
, lie holds that all this agitation about 81;
very is an "ism.' 1t is only temporary
!. They make great hula5oloo about Ne5ra
| ka aud all that, but it will blow over, an
r that viii be the md of it. To be sure, b
made the same PREDICTION in AS, and .agai
, in 80, and aganin 80. But there hay
: been unforeseen circumstances since. Whe
! it is over this tim,, there will never be an
more. Then dolngogues and fanatics wi
: be kept at home, as they ought to be, an
. men of real talentand ability put in Office.
d He doubts whether any Of these fellow
r that make so much noise about their symp
u thy with the savowould give the first doll
: to buy onc,s freedom He would Of cours
,. He gave five to reaunerate Mr.. Lennon f
). the loss of his am boldly had it been pu
9 lishei, with his n4ne in full, in the Joura
u Of Commerce. II was published twice. I
It is not afraid to lei his right hand know VIII
Is his left one is ab9ht.
) He would liketo know how we come to
h SO much wiser til our lorefathers? WI
If didn't they mentio, niggers in the Declarat
OF Independence iflthey mcnt to include EN-
v He is confident th,t the Fugitive Slave la
q would have receiYM their approval in fa'
= he is incliaed 70 llHk that the original drs
OF it was made by Jay and Hamilton. 7
be sure, they did iway with slavery in IL
G, State, bat he doubs whcather they wou
Vt have adopted that hsh measure it they h
forcseen the use Rople would make of
a And if. Washngtoa did emancipate his slave
y it was when he WIS ON his death-bed, al
~ n probably after his rhnd began to wander.
" lie is fond Of brgdcloth and our best SOC
le ETY.. He thinks thet are distinctions, even
,r a Republic, which be are to apt to lose sig
Y Of. In this resped, he thinks wohave dege
sr erated-except 4 the South They are n
j. so much mixed rpkhere as here All histo