Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-04-10

The following extract is from the pen of
frequent contributor to these columns, and like
most of oar correspondence can speak for itself:
" But what is the aspect Of the times -
These, sir, are portcntious times. | see dark
cloud rising in the political horizon. see it
gather and thicken 1t is charged with the
destructive elements of Whigism. | fear its
dark folds will overcast our State. 20 ye of
little faith of little faith in Whis princi
pies, can ye not discern the signs of the
timesl' | allude to the nomination of Fill
more, that foe to freedom. What sir, is the
difference between the Know Notbingism that
nominated him, and siluer greg Whigsm We
may sometimes predict the future from knowl
edge Of the past Mark my prediction. Should
there be tho slightest prospect of Fillmore'e
election, the leading Wings of this State would
support him. At the time of Gen. Taylors
nomination, but single Wing paper in the
State supported him. Abbot Lawrence, who
had offered One Hundred Thousand dollars for
the nomination for the Vice Presidency, first
carried the news Of his nomination to Montpel-
Ter. Tue next issue of the Watchman, then
the sensorium of Vermont Whigism, supported
him, and all the minor organs executed its will
Are the leading Wings, by their late union
with the Free Sellers, prepared to resist tcmpta-
tionl Did the discipleship and bypocritical
preaching of Judas, prepare him to resist temp
tation! Those Wings who assumed the name
of Republicans, and followed for the loaves and
fishes, will, | fear, like the Apocalyptic beast,
draw the third part Of the stars" of Repub-
licanism, " and cast them dO,cn - upon the
Wing platform of 1852 The ultimatum, or
the proposed extent of Wing action against the
encroachments of the Slave Power, is, the res
toration Of the Missouri Compromise. Should
this measure be accomplished, by the action,
they would then be precisely where they were
before the passage of the Nebraska Bill. They
would then stand upon that National platform
which Horace Greeley desecrated and could
spit upon, and yet sustain Many of the Wings
Of Vermont who have by Resolutions, denounced
the Fugitive Slave Bill as unconstitutional
and infamous, would support Fillmore, who
sanctioned this Bill, and would hazard human
life, and expend millions of the national treas
ure in order to capture single fugitive from
Slavery The Christian and philanthropst
might suppose that the cup of our nations in
Equity was already filled but political dema-
gogues are disposed to Fillmore this cup.
You may regard me as visionary, and these
predictions as the workings of distempered
BRAIN but fear the nomination of Fillmore
will prove disastrous to the cause of human
rights. But sir, have the consolation to be-
ieve that chattel Slavery will not always exist
The Mahommctans, and the Christian nations of
the Old World deprecate American Slavery
BY their interposition, it will yet be abolished
and the names of Pierce and Fillmore will be
remembered by future generations, and applied
as the severest epithets of reproach A Nero
had his hatterers, who, after his death won Id
enroll him among the gods.
The empty cry of the dissolution of this glo-
rious Union,' carries but little terror to the
Northern politician. The duplcity of Southern
Know Nothingism is already detected, and will
fail to accomplish its object. The election of
Banks to the Speakership, in opposition to the
will of the Slaveocracy, and their Northern min
ions, is the first triumph of the political philan
thropsts. Notwithstanding these hatterine
prospects, long will be the cruel and bloody
reign of Slavery. Ere the tree of Liberty shall
shelter beneath its wide-spreading branches the
degraded and oppressed we, sir, shall slumber
in the dust. But we should not only act for
ourselves, but for posterity"