Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-07-03

my aie sustaining doctrines which 10
tneir Judgment they know are wrong. We
tnen support aprincipe which is national.
we support that which has application to all
the country, while they seek to foist mon
the North that which belongs only to the 10.
cal laws of the South.
Which is the sectional and which the n,
tlonal party? the party of freedom and the
party of slavery. Such are the two parties.
The Democratic party, at their recent con.
ventlon in Cincinnati, plainly and distinctly
inauguratcd the policy, and neither the peo-
pie Of the Territories nor Congress, have the
right to CONTROL the institution of slavery in
our Territories.
think the Illustration that has been given
US here to be to the point. We might as we'll
be told that the citizens of Massachusetts
could not exclude by system of quarantine
the yellow fever from your State. That pol
icy has been inaugurated by the Democratic
party this making is not only constitutional,
but above the constitution.
1t is the alchemy through which everything
is distilled that enters into the government
The Missouri Compromise was repealed only
and solely to extend that institution, and the
fruits of that repeal We see on every hand
We see the desolaton that reigns in our ter
ritories Men are murdered, and women fee
from their burning homes with babes cliDgng
to their bosoms; and yet we are told this
Democratic policy is one which should COM
mand our respect.
1t is but the legitimate fruits of this policy
that we witness in your capitol at Washing
ton. What is it but this Democratic policy
that shoots hotel walters, cowhides editors,
proStrates Senators in the Senate of the Uni
ted States! 1t is the legitimat fruits of that
policy that it finds its support in the admins
tration and which finds its endorscr in that
convention which nominated that person who
is to carry out precisely the same principles
which this administration is sustaining. |
appeal TO the laborng men of Massachusetts
II they will stand up for such party on such
principles (Cries of no. no,) Labor lies at
the foundation of the prosperity Of every gov
eminent. Labor builds up the cities, deIvcs
In the mines, works in your machine shops
sends your canvass across the trackess deep
And l ask the laboring men Of Massachu.
sets, as laboring man, for am laborina
man myself, if you will sustain that policy
that degre at,s you bts de he slave? mo, nc,
The speaker then alluded to Mr.. Buchanar
and said he had known him well. 1t wa.
some consolation that though the Cincinnati
Convention had put up man pleged to sup
port the policy of the present administration
they had let the present incumbent Slide
There wa consolation in knowing that this ad
ninistration which came in by accident wou
so out by design (applause.) The Sout
have stood by Pierce and not let him slide
Of Mr.. Buchanan as an individual, were hi
individuality not lost, could speak as gen
tleman Of eminent abilities, Of an irrcproach
able and spotless life.
This much in justice would 1 say of GU
political opponents. Always treat them truth
fully and fairly. Good, that's it, He hal
been man conservative; but sir you know
the maxim that reformed rakes make the bes
husbands, and when conservative men break
away from the landmarks they have always
adhered to, they make the most prohigatt
men. The public acts of public men are fail
subjects of criticism. While he is states
pan OF eminent abilities, he is peculiarly fit
ted for the present occasion, for he has always
been ready to adopt any opinion.
During the war 1912 was he not Federal
st, now he is a modern Democrat; Was he
'ot in favor of and against the National
Bank ! Was he not for protection in Penn.
sylvanla, and is he not now on a platform
with free trade run mad 1t is not true that
he stood up in Pennsy lvania gallant defender
OF the hands and hearts of the freemen +?
Did he not denounce the aggessions OF the
slave power in 1921, and now he goes for sla-
very everywhere under the new dogmas of his
party creed. know no prominent question
or measure, which has agitated the country
during the last twenty years on which Mr..
Buchanan has not been on both sides. Hiss. !
1t has been said that Kisses once saved
Rome ; but all the Kisses in Massachusetts,
cannot save the bunker Democracy
A few words in relation to the gallant man
who bears our standard as | believe to victov
ry. know him well. | knew him when
California was seeking admission as one Of
he States of this Union had occasion to
confer with him as to the best method to Sc.
cure that result. He was true to the right.
His language was, California must come
in as free State or not come in at ALL" He
knew him as man Of eminent ability, of un-
blemished and spotless life. He has no scars
upon him occasioned by the sharp right angles
which he has turned. He is fresh and viger-
Gus: with heart responsive to the true utter
csts of man.
Such is our standard bearer, and one who
is to lead us to victory. In conclusion, the
speaker said the eyes of this Union and of
the world are upon you. Are you ready
men OF Massachusetts for the contest (Cries
Of Eyes, yes.'') Kndle up, then, the fires
which will well the heats of hunkcrism, which
will thaw out the icebergs, and send them
floating along to the central States, and sweep
the praries of the West as ii they were on
lire. Throw your banner to the breeze, in
shibed, "God and the right" and in that
sign we will conquer. The honorable gentle,
man took his seat amil great applause.
We have already noticed the fact that the
Worcester Palladium, the only Democratic
paper in Worcester county, edited by j. s
@. Knowlton, refuses tc hoist the Buchanan
flag. The Worcester Transcript says: