Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-06-19

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Refusal. But the Slavery Power dares any
thing and it can be conquered only by the uni
ted masses of the People. From Congress TO
the People, l appeal.
Already Public Opinion gathers unwonted
forces TO scourge the aggressors. In the press,
in daily conversation, whenever two or thee are
gathered together, there the indignant utterance
finds vent And trade, by unerring indications,
attests the growing energy. Public credit in
Missouri droops. The six per cents of thai
State, which at par should be l02, have sunk To
"a 4-thus at once completing the evidence of
Crime, and attesting its punishment. Business
now turning from the Assassins and Thugs, that
infest the Missouri River on the way TO Kansas,
to seek some safer avenue And this though
not unimportant in itself, is typical Of greater
changes. The political credit of the men who
uphold the Usurpation, droops even more than
the stocks and the People are turning from all
those through whom the Assassins and Thugs
have derived their disgraceful immunity.
1t was said of the old. " Cursed be he that re
moveth his neighbours Landmark. And all The
people shall say, Amen "-( Det xvii 49,
I Cursed, in the city, and in the field cursed in
basket and store cursed when thou contest in,
and cursed when thou goest out These are
terrible imprecationa but if ever any Landmark
were sacred, it was that by which an immense
territory was guarded .forerer against Slavery !;
and if ever such imprecatons could justly de-
scend upon any one, they must descend now up
on all who, not content with the removal of this
sacred Landmark, have since, with criminal COM
plicity tostered the ihcursions Of the great
Wrong against which it was intended 10 guard.
But utter no imprecations. These are not my
words nor is it my part to add TO or subtract
from them. But thanks be to God p! they find a
response in the hearts of an aroused People,
making them turn from every man whether Pres
ident, or Senator, or Representative, who has
been engaged in this Crime-espccially from
those who, Graded in free institution, are with
out the apology of education or social prejudice
until of all such those other words of the pro-
phet shall be fulfilled" will set my face
against that man, and make HIM sign and a
proverb, and | will cut him off from the midst
of my people ~ Ezekiel xiv, 81 Turning
thus from the authors of this Crime, the Peo-
pie will unite once more with the Fathers OF
the Republic, in just condemnation of Slavery
determined especially that it shall find no
home in the National Territories while the
Slave Power. in which the Crime had its begin
ing, and by which it is now sustained, will be
swept into the charnel-honse of defunct Tyran-
MES.
In this contest, Kansas bravey stands forth
the STRIPPING leader, clad in the panoply of Amer
lean institutions. In calmly meeting and adopt
ing frame of Government, her people having
with inlulive promptitude performed tho duties
of frcemen and when consider the difficulties
by which she was beset, find dignity in her at
~, t., AZ IN e. In
The Union as a FREE STATE, she presents sin
gle issue tor the people TO decide. And since the
Slave Power now stakes on this issue all ill-got
ten supremacy, the People, which indicating
Kansas, will at the same time overthrow this
Tyranny Thus does the contest which she
now begins involve not only Liberty for herself,
but for the whole country God be praised that
she did not bend gnobly beneath the yoke! Fan
away on the pralries, she is now battling for the
Liberty Of all, against the President, who mis-
represents ALL Everywhere among those WHIT
are not nsensible to Right, the generous srug.
gle meets generous response. From innumer
able throbbng hearts go forth the very words Of
) encouragement which, in the sonowful days o
our Fathers, were sent by Virginia, speaking by
the pen of Richard Henry Lee, to Massachusetts
in the person of her popular tribune, SamutI
Adams:
CHANTlLLY, VA. June %, l774.
- hope the good people of Boston will no
lose their spirits, under their present heavy op
> PRESTON for they will certainly he supported b,
The other Colonies and the cause for which they
suffer is so glorions and so deeply interesting II
the present and future generations, that all Amer
lean will owe, in great measure, their politica
salvation to the present virtue of Massachusetts
Bay. > (Amefacdn Archives, 4th, series, Vol.
= p, 1867
In all this sympathy there is strength. But
in the cause itself there is angelic power. Un
seen Of men the great spirits of History com
bat by the side of the people Of Kansas breath
lug divine courage. Above all towers TIT
ma estic form of Washington once more, as ol
the bloody field, bidding them to re member thos
e rights of Human Nature for which the War o
Independence was waged. Such a cause, thu
sustained is invincible.
= The contest, which, beginning in Kansas, ha
u reached us, will soon be transferred from Con
g eress 10 a border stage, where every citizen vii
u be not only spectator, but actor; and to lhei
G judgment confidently appeal. To the People
u now on the eve of exercising the electoral fran
l. chise, in choosing a Chef Magistrate of ih
J. Republic, appeal, to vlndicate the elec,ora
y franchise in Kansas Let the ballol-box of tn
!, Union, with multtudious might, protect the bal
d lot box in that Territory. Let the vuters every
s. where, while REJOICING in their own rights, hel
to guard the equal rights of distant fellow-c Cit
II Ems ; that the shrines of popular institutions
/ now descreated may be sanctfed anew ; that til
J. ballot-box, now plundered may be restored an
l. that the cry, " am an American Citizen" ma,
e not be sent forth in vein against outrage of ever
e kind. In just regard for free labor in that TER
3 tory, Witch it is sought to blast by unwelcom
ID assertion with slave labor in Christian sympa
e thy with the slave whom it is proposed to tas
u and TO sell there; in stern condemnation of tn
v Crime which has been consummated on that beat
T. tiful soil in rescue of fellow. citizens, now sui
re ugated q tyrannicAl Usurpaton in tuful rt
e spect for the early Fathers, whose aspiration
5, are now ignobly thwarted in the name of tn
81 Constitution, which has been outraged-of III
TT Law trampIed down-of Justice banished-,
lie Humanity degraded-of Peace destroyed,
l. Freedom crushed to earth and, in the name
e the Heavenly Father, whose service is pelfe,
J, Freedom, make IL last appeal.
y Melon RuGs-Thc hest and most relioh1