Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-07-24


sas and Fremont has been displayed. We have
Band, also Banners with appropriate notices,
and we are ready to serve the cause of Free
dom at all times We invite communications
from other Clubs, Committees and Associations
favorable to our cause.
The Club att its organization chose the follow
ing Officers:
H.K. SLAYTON, President.
S. II. FOSTER, Secretary.
A. D. PEARcE, Corresponding Secretary.
j W. CELLEY, Chief Marshal.
Enclosed is the Address of the President,
upon taking the Chair, which you can publish
if you think best.
S. H. FOSTER, Secretary.
Felow Citizens Il feel it my duty on taking
the Chair, to address to you a few of the burn
ing thoughts of my head, and feelings of my
heart
In this crisis of our country's history, it is
no time for us to say we are Wings, Democrats
Or Americans. We are all as Republicans, OPP
posed to the Crime against Kansas, the Crime
against q Free Press, and Free Speech.
Gentlemen, our Senator in Congress land
say our Senator, because the name and fame Of
Charles Sumner belongs to the whole Nation)
was stricken down in the Senate Chamber
Oh, fellow citizens | ask, and Posterlty Will
ask, why this cowardly act was done. Sir, II
was done at the bid Of the Slavehoding Oll-
garchy, which now, as then, Yields the ROVER
of this country. 1t was done because Charles
Sumner defended the rights oil the actual SET
tiers in Kansas against an armed invasion OF
the Border Rufians, against the suppression oil
the Freedom of the Press, of Speech and Of
the ballot box because he declared Freedom
national and Slavery sectional. Eccause he
hurled back the charge Of Senator Butler that
the Republicans were dsunionists and fanatics,
and declared the statements and charges OF that
Senator. blunders and falsehoods Because he
exposed to the world and to Posterity the
wrongs and the crimes against Liberty in Kan
sas. Because he plead for justice and liberty al
the Bar of the United States Senate Because
be was pre-emincnt as gentleman and schoi
az. whose attainments, whose noble heart anC
intellect lowered far above his assailants; ant
finally, because his arguments and CONCLUSIONS
were irresistible and unanswerable by WORD
speech of these cowardy rufhans 1t was TO
these causes, say, that the bludg'on WAS use'
and the blood of the Incompatible, the nobl
Sumner was made to flow upon the floor OF tn
Senate Chamber.
The Bogus Democracy counsel peace SUD
missions and no agitation.
say to this intelligent udience there is n
peace Look upon the bloody fields of Kansas
See the lurd glare of the flames OF burnin
Lawrence Look upon the murdered Dow ant
Barber See the butchered Brown ! who, |
his last moments was carried to the partner G
his bosom, there to die Look in at her no'
desolate home Sec her little orphan children
Freemen of Vermont, why was he inhumar
ly butchored! why was this deed done!
answer, for defending the ballot box frol
destruction. Venerable men, Young men, cit
zens of Vermont, laboring people of the Unite
States, appeal to you | call upon you
freemen, call upon you as men who love Lii
erty and detest wrong, to act by the ballot an
by your means to redress these outrages an
punish the aggressors
Our opponents counsel peace
Why, sir, if we hold our peace when thes
outragcs have taken and arc taking place, W
should be recreant to the history of the Gree
Mountain State, and our immortal hero (Etha
Allen, who demanded the surrender of Old L
in tho name of the Great Jehovah,) would res
uneasily in his coffin, if we submitted to thcs
outrages. Gentlemen, shall we submit /
[Cries of no, mol Well then, let us first US
peaceable means, for now is the day, and no
is the hour IF we submit, if we fail now nc
only the Liberty of Kansas, but our own is gor
forever
Opponents ask lis what we are going to dc
I will answer. We will use the ballot yet
little longer that weapon which comes dow
the freeman S will as lightning does the will
God Would you pcaccaby submit to
robbed by the highwayman when the chane
were in your favor! No
As aboring men do you value your Liber
and your rights in Kansas soil, which was s.
EMMY set apart by your iorc-fathers for FL
Itbor, less than you do your money! Ii nj
lien agitatc, act, and proclaim in thunc
tones to the world that you will not be cnsavt
They call US fanatics and negro worshippe
But the Border RufIian Party leaders have
to learn (f not already cognizant of the fa
that the People are coming to the rescue
free white persons and will not suffer them
be eubdued by shareholders, Douglas, or l
chanan, who says he is not simply james
chauan, bat the exponent of their platform
Fellow Citizens, do you believe in the Fl
dom of the Press (Cries of yes.) Then 6
the Border Rnffians,- who destroyed the I
Pres; of Kansas, their aiders apologists al
tors, advisers and supporters, before or after
fact, here or elsewhere, stern rebuke by do
all in your power, by speech, by action, and
your votes, for the election OF FREMONT a
DAYTON
A NEW PoLIrIoAL RoMANCR.--A very pre-
romance has been got up in order to accou
for Buchanans bachelorhood. The great
objection to the story is the fact that it is