Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-10-16
What If Fremont is not elected?

What 1t Fremont Is not elected?
Admitting that there il no possible chance of
Fillmore election, we grant that if Fremont
is not elected Buchanan will be. If, then, Fro
mont is not elected, what viii probably be the
effect upon our country,
We have already, (the fourth of next March)
had O four years peaceful of determination
upon free institutions and the principles of Mo-
rality, Liberty and Justice. And while the
past four years has been but war of over
awing, sneers and corruption, the next four,
under still more determined despotic rule,
from the over-heated mad, furious and exas-
perated state of the party press, party leaders,
and the party itsef, against their enemies. it
is to be expected that the most bigh handed
proceedings will be instituted to 'crush out
and " subdue those who oppose their base
schemes, that ever autocratic tyrants could dc
wise; Kansas mad armed with bull dogs which
will howl like infLriated wolves over their
prey cannibals will glut upon tue fair features
of wives and daughters, and our sons must kneeI
beneath the battie,axe, as in the dead of our
revolution midnight, our ancestors did to far
moro merciful and humane savage; war, civil
but just, will open the veins of our honest hard
laboring freemen, who had rather die than
serve. After we shall have failed to get redress
and correction at the ballot box, then must
come revolution. The higher law-the law of
God meed out to man, mustinterposc to correct
these evils. And Kansas will not have to fight
her battles alone There are sovereign States
whose freedom is hanging upon the extension of
Freedom to Kansas
be determined heads and able hands to defend
their lives, and both Senate and House will see
large gains to Freedoms van ere another four
years dawns on our nation and we leave them
to themselves, trusting to their own Yankee
spirit. But the state of the nation. No law
can be enacted to materially alter our national
policy no state can be admitted with slave
constitutions no further demonstrations can
be made outside Of Kansas. The House has
plainly. shown in her election of Speaker in
her holding the Administration at bay during
determined struggle, until the adjournment Of
Congress, and compelling The President to call
an extra session-that no measure can be got
through that will materially change the aspect
of affairs. No strength will be lost in the pres
cnt agitation, but on the contrary it is prepar-
ing the minds of the people for the occurrence
Of events which will totally abolish human
bondage The ranks Of Freedom are steadily
and substantially gaining strength those who
have for II time acted with the anti-slavery feel
ing from policy are fast coming to do so from
principle.
But what will the psople-the great source of
ouE nations satisfactorily! Upon the peo-
pie will come the suffering. Petty Office paid
tyrants, already grown fat upon their gloating,
will grow more shamefacedIy tyrannlcal, and
the screws of serfdom will be pressed notch
closer upon their nccks. States in which - mile
posts" nor sentinels with lean visages can
scarce be found to represent the party, there
will be those petty postmaster vigilence com
mittee imposed upon them, and they will labor
to :" crush out " and prevent the circu lation of
ought but the blackness of darkness.
Upon the black Democratic party the effect
will be to still further narrow down their policy
to that Of despotic rule. Even now, the man
who dares dissent from their doctrines is mobbed
beaten, murdered, and all the hell. hounds set
upon his track Spies larrass the steps Of hon
est men, and if one is found to maintain prin
ciples antagon istic to their SANDER, foul-mouth
cd and with shiny folds, creeps into bis private
affairs, enters his household twines its slimy
poison around the hearts of his wife and babes
men fed by drink which burns up their con-
seriousness of right-who pollute their hearts
with the baseness of intemperance, polygamy
and slavery, and teach it to their offspring.
The effect upon the Fremont Democracy will
be like an electric shock. binding their numbers
more closely in the great warfare it will re-
new the life of their long fatigue, and nerve
them to lay more securely their plans and more
guarledly place thcir sentinels upon the watch,
who shall not gest day nor night, but light
their watchfires, whose uneeasing glow shall
light up and mingle with the mercy of heaven.
A defeat will never scatter nor -despond the
forces, but show to them more plainly that
to live-to maintain all they hold dear to
the memory of the struggles of the Revolu-
ton, depends upon their exortions alone. Espe.
cially will it be demonstrated that if now tho,
" swish to be free they must fight" Thus, ever
in defeat, there will be cause for congratula
ton. While many prayer will go up mingled
with the base jeerings of the inhuman wretches
there wi be no lack of toll lack of th,
energy which has nerved them on to SO signal {
defeat of the Kansas-N Nebraska policy of extend
ing Slavery.