Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-15
PROGRESS, APPARENT AND ADMITTED

PROGRESS, APPARENT AND ADMITTED.
We all know how often the old Liberty men
Of the North have been disappointed and dis
couraged--how often, when their hopes were
highest, they have seen those hopes dashed to
the ground, and their cause, which they believed
to BIO on the eve of success, defeated, and SEEM
ingly thrown back for years, by the different
political combinations which have successfully
arisen to Divert or stave off, the only real issue
before the country. And never, perhaps, have
they been SO much discouraged, and so near Civ
ing up in dispair, as within the last few years,
during which they have witnessed such startling
ageressions of the Slave Power as have been ex-
hibited in the Fugitive Slave Bill and the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, which alone, if
acquiesced in by the free States, will make
Slavery national institution. But they should
recollect that, in the political world, nation is
not horn in ay,-that it required the constant
preaching of the friends of Liberty for more
than score, of years to prepare the masses of
America for our first War of Independence, and
but for the unexpected folly of their oppressors,
might have required scores of years more to
bring those masses to the determination of tax
ing their stand for Liberty. So it may be in
this our second great struggle for Freedom. AS
in the former case, so in this, the seeds that have
been sown for the last twenty years, have been
silently taking root in the public mind to an ex-
tent not dreamed of by our opponents, or even
ourselves, and the fruit may be developed when
VIC are least expecting it. Indeed, we do not
believe it would require the enactment of two
more such bills as the Fugitive Slave bill and
the Nebraska bill to start revolution which
would not stop, till every slave in the Union
was freeman.
We have been led to these reflections by the
perusal of the following significant article from
the Mobile Nc'vs, one of the ablest and most
iar-seeing of our Southern opponents, knowing
that the acts and admissions of an enemy are
not unfrequently the surest means of judging of
the real strength of our own position:
Ger The success of the Abolitionists, in the recent
election of United States Senators from the
North and North W est, is omnous. The party
which, twenty years ago was ridculed in the
North for the insignifcance of its numbeas, and
its fanatcism, and treated with contempt in the
South, now controls the political destiny of
State, like New York. In the East, North and
West, the reverberations of their cannon echo
from hill and valley the iiendish joy of their
hosts. Their bonfros and rockets luridly glare
upon their cold sky, and snow-cad earth, in
commemoraton of victory.
Along road, river and lake, upon sea shore
and mountain, from Massachusetts to Wiscon.
sin, shout answers shout from their ,jubiant fol-
lowers.
Abolitionism, the offspring of crazy preachers
and foolish women, the bantling of dirtiest dem
agogues now takes a seat in the Senate Cham
Der, to counsel in the greatest assembly in the
world, and to advise the President Of Republic
of States. 1t has demoralzed the Wing and
Democratic parties, which sought its lewd en-
brace. 1t laughs to scorn the Know Nothing
party which, we were told, would Anericanize
AID convert it from its pestferous course to con-
servatism.
1t SCOTS the Word of God tramples on the
Constitution, violates sacred oaths without re-
morse, and yet in the North, the pious North,
celebrated for its schools, for its churches, for
its Sabbath ordinances, for temperance laws, for
moral REFORM it boldly marches forward, con-
querng every party that opposes it. What does
this portend What will be the end Of this be-
ginning9
The election of the several Abolition Senators
is not the triumph of men. Mr. Stewards
and Mr.. Wilson's election is no exponent of in
dividual success. 1t is the exponent of great
moral power. 1t is the pulsation of the heart
of great revolution which has been gathering
strength slowly, but with accelerated progress
sion from the day that Arthur Tappan and Hor-
ace Greeley put the terrible ball Of Abolitionism
and Communism in motion. Seward and Will
son are but flies upon the massive wheels of the
car of Juggernaut which will soon crush all
North and South that come in its resistless wav
1t is not Seward uor Wilson that are to be
feared 1t is ideas that live--that revolutionixe
not men. Let not the South be limited in hel
view, and lose sight of a great revolution, ii
watching the success of men.
IF, then, the recent elections of Abolition
Senators are an index of a revolution in tn
North, and not Of individual success, and if i
be true that revolutions never 90 backward
what is the South to do! She must look to NJ
party nor man North of Mason & Dixon's lin
for safety. She must not expect it in the Con
stitution. The South must prepare to RELY upo
herself, for Abolitionism will, at no distant day
put her out Of the pale of the Union"
The foregoing article is full of food for re
Election for the friends Of Freedom and SHOULD
serve to encourage them to press forward wit
renewed vigor in the great work before them, O
which our opposers, it seems, if we do not our
selves, begin to see the glorious termination
But among all the admissions it contains, tn
,iaost important is the direct one that the Con
etitution affords no protection to Slavery, an
the Indirect, or virtual admission, consequently
that all the recent Legislation of Congress in be
half of Slavery is a violation of that sacred in
strument. Let Northern Doughfaces read tn
article and blush for their recreancy
TIE PRESIDENTS VEro OF TEH COLLINS BILL
--" Can't you see notbing--not one single thin,
in Frank Pierce, to praise him for z, - the otbe