Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-09-20
A NEW PARTY NAME PROPOSED.


A NEW PARTY NAME PROPOSED.
There can be no doubt but that there is much
in name. From the wild war-cry of" England
and 81. George :" in the mighty gathering to
redeem the Holy Sepnlchre, down through every
great mastering for Freedom or Reform, to the
present day, some specific rallying cry wnio !,
should convey to the arousing masses the iuii
idea of the object and crying demand OF 'heir
movement. almost in one word, has been en-
ployed with success. Such was the name OF the
" Old Hickory" party at the election OF JACK
scn-such that of the Log CABIN " party a'
the Ell ection of Harrison, and as such' we sup
pose. our correspondent intends should be used
the expressive name he proposes for the erea'
gathering for Freedom in 1856. 1t is a COCA
name, from good source-let US consider anu
pass it round. Ed of ""A'
For the Green Mountain Freeman.
THE BACKBONE PARTY.
Although we have great respect ana Vehera-
tion for the me-honored name under when 'he
friends of Freedom are now marshalling their
hosts throughout the Free States, still we THINK
in view of the progress of the age. and the
proper association of names to things, of matter
to- events, that, instead of Republican, the name
that heads this article would have been not only
more graphic, but more BETTING the times, the
manner. and the occasion which is now uniting
all pstriotic hearts into one resistless party oil
Freedom. From the fartherest western cabin in
the wilds of the broad and lovely State of Iowa,
to where the sun with his earliest beams fires
the proud tops of the eastern pines Of Maine,
the pulsations of humanity's great heart are for
revolution and reformation in the practical
workings of this Government
Amid the influence of such scenes, and the
inspirations of such pulsations what name SO
graphic, what name so descriptive, what name
so beautiful, glorious and impressive, as that
which discloses, in the purest Anglo-Saxon, the
spinal column in humanity's great hope-Iht
Back bone Party -
Again: it is due in gratitude, and, if need be
to stamp with immortality, the thrice-illustriou'
Senator from Massachusetts,, from whose pure
and eloquent lips it first had utterance. Why
not let it 60 down the long vista of all coming
| time, so that those who respond to the universal
brotherhood of man, who on all occasions shall
be found standing erect in the great battle TO-
Freedom and the rights of man, shall be calet
the Backbone of che human race! And hov
nobly beautiful and appropriate the similitud
between that osseous organization of matte
which an All-wise Creator has so curiously ant
wonderfully placed as the principal bone in on
physical organization, and thus .naking us cree
in stature and fitting Lords of the Creation -
and the pure minded and unbending patriot an
true lover Of his race, who every where and o.
all occasions stands conscious and erect, ready t.
bare his breast to the onslaughts of crime an
oppression, because he is sustained by the back
bone of principle and heroic duty! But no,
peculiarly fitting and appropriate is such anam
for party, in this most alarming crisis in GU
country's history, when universal Doughfacisr
is ready, both in and out of Congress, to " croo
the plant hinges of the knee. where thrift ma
follow fawning, "-when the oligarchy of tn
South are striving, not only BY plastic words an
Iwily and intriguing arts, but by the strong fore
of arms, to make this once glorious Republic
yea this entire Continent, land of slaves
lOnly think of the boastful arrogance of tn
proud and lordly Southron, when he exclaime
that he would yet count his slaves on that gior
Gus mound where stands the grateful monumen
to Freedoms slaughtered sons
"Where, glorious Warren thy cold earth was seen,
| Where springs thy laurel in immortal green"
Such being the existing exigencies of th
times in which we happen to live, we require a
least, in all our men of mark, that unyieldin
spinal column of principle which only can SUI
tain this great experiment of man. capacity ft
government, bring us back to the great prir
ciples of the Fathers, and make US worthy sti
to be the beacon light of struggling nations.
JEFFERSON AND LIBERTY