Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-12-20

NJ Al decentralization to the FRtEAAs, Whether onbusi-
ness Of the paper, or for publication, shouldhs addressed
tpostspafd, torthe Editor.
ANNOUNCEMENT ITO FFsE PATRONS OF
II FREEMAN.
With this number ter inmates the present vol
ume, aRd with it also terminates eur pecuniary
interest in the Freeman, tits now nearly seven
years since W g became the joint, and nearly six
years since we became the sole, proprietor and
editor of the paper. And during this last named
period, we have taken the whole charge of the
business affairs of the Establishment, kept the
books, conducted the correspondence, made all
the selections, and written nearly every thing
that has appeared as editorial, and, in short,
have devoted cur entire energies Of body and
mind to the o%nerous, but deliberately assumed,
task of managing it's financial affairs, keeping
up its general creditas a newspaper, and advo-
cating'th great and noble principles of Freedom
and humanity which il was started to advance,
but which We have, we fear. but'too fsebly sqsr-
tanned. s
All this we have done, or rather tried to do
but weshave become sadly worn down and ex-
haasted in The performance Of SO many and va
ricuslabars, and ia the discharge of so many
and caAplicated responsibilities; and we have,
for some time, been admenished that we needed
relief from hhs hseHassing cares and anxieties Of
our post--that we'needed mental repcse-or at
least u change of mental labors, and that, above
all, we should IL justice to ourself and family,
make a business, the ensuing year, of collecting
The large amount of our just dues, which a nu-
merous proportion of our subscribers, while e
have been laboring so hard to make them a good
paper, and borrowing mcneytto supply their de-
linquency, have seen fit to .wirhhold from US.
Such are our reasons forsparting with the pro-
prietorship Of the Freeman. But though the
Freeman is about to change its proprietorship,
it is not to changeita principles. Mr.. SIDNEY
S. BoYcE, the purchaser, from a family of our
old anti-slayery patrons, himself a patron, and
frequentta and acceptable contributor to our pa
/ per, is'inbued- with the right spirit, and enters
on his task With che determination to give no
quarter to the crime ana despotism of Slavery !;
but, in the verbs Of OUT old motto, to fight
on and light ever, !" for the good cause Of Free
dom. And knowing the frmness and energies
of his character, rs well as his principles and
native capacities, we have confidence that the
! patrons Of the freeman need, if they will yield
him "a generous support, lose nothing by the
change, But that support we must oil give
him. He win need it, especially at the outset.
A generous confidence, prompt payment, and a
helping hald in keeping up the list of subscri-
bers, will be thsonly way to strengthen and en-
courage him, and the best way to make him
what we all would have him. Let no enc of
our cid patrons, therefore, discontinue his pat
ronage,--we ask it for the cause we have labor
ed so hard to SUBSTANTIVE ask it for the now
only distinctive anti slavery paper in Vermont,
which must neuer be suffered to 60 down and
we ask it as a personal favor Of all those who
may think we have done aught for their prinei-
pies which warrants Us In making the request.
In parting with those Of our patrons-and we
are happy to say they have beea e majority of our
subscribers-who, by their prompt payments,
kind council, and words of Encouragement, have
enabled us, and alone enabled US, to sustain cur
press, and weather the storm Of opposition and
obloquy with which our press has been assailed
by the old parties, either in open hostility, Or
by the meaner, insidious blows dealt us under
the guise Of protested political fratenity--in
parting with these, we Cannot ferbear the ex-
preston Of cur heartfelt gratitude to them for
all their kindness. In one breast, ct least, ae far
as that goes, they surely have their reward.
We have Row said all we had to say-yes all;
and yet we ind ourself lingering in the porch,
reluctant to depart, There will ever impercep-
tibly grow up between an editor and bis readers
q chord of mental sympathy, which draws them
closer and closer together with the growing, and
establishes relations between then full of kindly
thoughts, and full of moral beauty. That pc
culiar tie, as ETHEREAL as tits, cannot be sundered
without creating some sensations OF pain and
regret. To those sensations, ,ce, at least, con-
TESS in the parting !; but they are tempered by
the hope that the connection of which we have
spoken may, ere long, if not in this, in some
other field of intellectual labor, he senewed.
D. P. THOMPSON.