Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-08

ions he went on TO SNOW nave poo" "
ed by the Slave Power that they have sup
pressed everything looking towards antl-siav-
cry from ali publications. There is only one
book in their Sunday School Library with
Anti-Slayery sentiment in it: and that Is
81 would not have o slave to till my ground
To carry metz fan Iae when sleep, ,.
And trembe when wake for all the wealth" &c.
A man once wrote Sunday School book
containing the history of Joseph: A little
girl in the South read it, and asked :" Ii 1t
was wrong for Joseph's brethren to sell him
into Egypt, why was not wrong to sell d.
nah and Dolla q This was reported to the
uperintendant-- superintendent went to
the authorities who recalled the book from
the libraries andi!melted up the stereotype
plates ao
There are six hundred thousand slaves held
by members of Churches--men who partake
OF the sacrament and celebrate the Lords
supper! tA4
1t has corrupted the courts The Supreme
court is just as much tool Of slavery as the
star Chamber was a tool of James and
Oaares the FIRST! Judges are appointed be-
cause they are known to be corrupt, and the
tools of slaycryt 4,
Our courts EAgnify small offences when
slavery demah1ssst. When few black men
IN Boston seized 4 brother and carried hmsto
Liberty, Daniel Webster wrote III is trcd-
SON" and Notwithstanding the Constitution
defines treason to be "1evying war" they
were indicted for this capitol offence!
Do you remember that Daniel Webster
stood on the steps Of this Hall, and told you
that the Government would take fugitivcs
from here in the midst Of the next Ant-Slav-
cry Couyentionj and that it was only from
the clemency of the Government that often
ders were not tried for treason Do you re-
member how Unitarian divine declared that
he would send his own son or his own brother
once Or twice hisown mother into slavery if
the law required it, Would men exhibit such
zeal in such false positions in any other cause
than that of Slavery!
The slave power packs juries 1t has done
this in every instance where men have been
tried for rescuihg fugitives. Judge Curtis
made the juryuien in the Burns rescue case
swear that they believed in the constitution
ality of the Fugitive Slave Law
But this is not all. What are its present
designs! 1t intends to get Cuba and Hayti,
and finally South America, and establish Sav-
cry in all the Northern states. A southern
statesman once said to John P. Hale: g 1t
will not be long before Shareholders will sit
down with their slaves at the foot of Bunker
Hill Monument" They have set down with
them in the shadow of Faneui Hall! They
are already endeayoripg to get the right to re-
side in the North with their slaves. They in
tend, too to revive the African slave trade =
What" says d South Carolina paper, is
the use of paying eight or nine hundred dol
lars for slave, when we can get one from
Africa for one hundred?' He had every rea-
son to believe that cargo Of slaves was land
ed last year in one of the Southern States.
Amid all the cncroachments and triumphs
Of Slavery, resistance has been made to its
advancement. A small number are opposing
its morality. They can disseminate Anti
Slavery truth -saeg can labor to arouse the
public sentiment against this wrong. They
have thus labored, and expected abuse in re-
turn and have received very much what they
expected He regarded these as among the
noblest of men. Time will come when they
shall be generally SO regarded. Time will
come when we shall search for marble white
enough with which to honor VIM. Lloyd Gar
rison, and not find it.
The liberty party has also done something,
and the Free Soil party more. What the
Know Nothipgs will do, we could not say
They have already done some good. They
have checkmated the United States Govern
ment. They have taught our politicians not
to depend upon corruption of foreign votes
for success. They are knocking the old par
ties to pieces, which is great deal. But he
did not believe IN casting out devils by Bel
zebub the prince of devils! If the Know
Nothing party adobted the idea Of Freedom
it must be freedom for all, whether German OF
Irish.
The nation now presents the aspect of a
house diveded against itself. One of three
things may happen to us as nation. The
Union may fly to pieces. In that case we
shall have two governments. The North
more perfect democracy-the South more
perfect despotism. But he did not look for q
speedy dissolution of the Union. He thought
the slavery question could not affect a dsSo
luton at present, Still, he did not believe
the Union would exist for an indefinite period
We must soon, he thought, have a Pacific Re-
public and an Atlantic Republic, and he hoped
also South American Republic.
Slavery may triumph over Freedom. This
is CHASTITY possibility; but things now look
like this. If the next ten years should be
like the last, there will be an end to Freedom
in our country.4 We shall have no free schoo
no free speech---no free press Two hun
dred years ago Spain looked more like stand
ing than America does to-day. Now she il
only corpse of nation. 1t is because sh'
trampled libsstsv@ aader hor feet "Thougl
the wicked join hand in hand, iniquity shall
not prosper" Thus perihsed imperial ROM
thus persisted classic Greece! And shal
not America thus perish ?
l do not think exactly SO. l see the upris
ing of such men as Charles Sumner, Joshul
r. Giddings, and William H. Seward, in GU
political parties. see such men as Henri,
Ward Beecher rising up in the old orthodo:
church, and see that he is the most popular
minister in the country. see that ever.
Lyceum in the land--and there are 700 0
them are anxious to pay him $50 dollars t.
lecture to them. And know they arc popu
lar because they appeal to tho hearts and con
sciences of the people. look into the face
of sixty thousand people every year, beside
my own congregation in Boston, and find tina
my appeals to the best sentiments of the sou
meet the most hearty response; and thes
things mako me hope. | remember it is tn
Dineteeth century after Christ, and not tn
ninth. Were it only the ninth | should des