Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-10-31

more closely, ana then became u unlteu ma
ton of rebels and traitors, and prevailed in
an unequal strife, predicted to fail by the
voice of all the world besidel Those who would |
have been hanged have since been canonized. |
They are saints in the calendar OF Freedom |
throurhout the world, and ever since that |
time we have been city set on hill--a |
beacon light to the oppressed everywhere.
Every American citizen is responsible
to History
to Patriotism,
to Conscience, and
to God,
for the exer Use of his power and influence
in behalf of liberty. The Past points him to
his DUTY and SO does the Present. and above
all the Future is dey endent upon him. 10
HstorV, the Past and the Future-IIow a
long line of historical glory comes down to
us from the dead braves of our early periods
of self sacrifice for Freedom How we exult
as we seem to see on the now unwritten pa
ges of history millions of hardy, industrious,
intelligent and free citizens filling that
boundlcss North West with the wealth and
glory of Freedom, as it now exists wherever
under our flag productive industry is respec
table To Pdiriotism-Who would betray
this glorious country. and undo all that our
fathers did-roll back the wheels of Liberty,
and install the fctters and the lash and the
as the everywhere present American charac-
toristic Who would give to that great
West scuility in youth-stcrlity in such n
soil, and negro huts and pens IN the midst of
such people and such landscape To
C0HSCioncc and 10 God-Ah, there's the rub.
What fearful evils to morals and religion
must come in with the spread of Slavery and
the rc-openng of the slave trade IN tho
hands Of American activity and enterprise
What dctilement and blasphemy of the image
of God What degradation of free and
honest industry, the only agent OF modern
progress and civilization W hat time
when the mason and the carpenter and the
blacksmith and the tailor and all the artisans
and the farm hands shall, be bought and sold
/ like oxen and horses and mules :
! do not regret that what is called a Sec
| tional issue has been forced upon us in this
/ canvass | see the finger of God in it. |
| hail it as the harbinger of a better day 1t
/ is presented to us under peculiar circumstan-
| ccs Heretofore this great question Of Free
! dom and Slavery has been left to the politi-
clans, to party arrangements, personal trad
ing and unworthy bargains and compromises.
/ 1t has been the political makeweght OF cor
rupt men and selfish place and how
Freedom has sped under it we all know. We
have gone from bad to worse, till the General
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Senate chamber, for expressing sympathy for
/ Freedom. Devout women are imprisoned for
| teaching human beings to read the blessed
Word of God. American citizens are driven
| from their farms. their stores, their business
vnd their families and compelled to fly by
night to the Free States to escape lynching,
tLor holnn,r 20 tha no,;,;cal ,,artn H.. Il on.
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| nies before the Revolution nre noth;n,Noil
the rroncs of tweIce vears heG,rn the Revo.
lution. in all the Colonies hear no comnari.
son with those that have been perpetruted in
Kansas during the last twelve months, for
the purpose of extending Slavery, at the
point of the bayonet, over territories of i'm
mense extent, soemny consecrated to Free
dom by the nation by public statute in 1920.
W hat a contest there was then Those of
us who remember it see more freshly than it
is recorded in history, with what despera-
ton Slavery was forced across the Mississip-
ri In 1896 with what blasphemous def
ance the right of petition was trodden under
foot and the sanctty and freedom of the pub
lie mails attacked In 1850 what a strife
but how Intellectual to resist the new letters
for Freedom In 1854 how the solemn and
sacred contract of 1920 was dishonorably re-
scinded and how now our brothers blood
cries unto God from the ground in Kansas
All along il has been anng in our face that
the triumphs of Slavery have been accom-
plishcd by Northern votes. and SO thew have
been. But who would be willing to have his
name stand opposite these votes Those
traitors to Freedom will be forgotten when
their names shall cease to be a stencil in the
nostrils of the friends of Liberty, and not
before
We have been thus defeated because the
voice Of the people has not been taken. Now,
God in his Providence has smitten the poli-
ticians with judicial blindness and madness,
and has said practically to every individual
American. in his SOVEREIGN canacitv. Stand
up and say this dav whom ye will serve. If
tie Lord be God. follow him. and if Baal be
God. follow him. If vou desire Freedom. saw
so--if you prefer Slavery, say SO. Be ready
to answer God is calling the AYES and
Noes on this question to put every man on
record upon it, Is there one friend OF Free
dom that does not rejoice in the opportunity
to ascertain the extent of modern degeneracy
Party associations and sympathies have
heretofore hindered us in the expression of
our real sentiments-now Divine Providence
has delivered us all from such compulsion.-
Party lines are obliterated and party disci-
pline has lost its force. Parties are really
broken up. There is no party allegiance
that compels any citizens to vote for any one
of the candidates. Col. Fremont is Demo-
crat from his boyhood of the school of Jtffer-
son and Jackson. Mr. Buchanan is of the
routed party and the exploded principles OF
Calhoun and McDuffe, who arrayed the State
of South Carolina against the Government, in
open civil war and rebellion, twenty five
years ago Mr., Fillmore is not Whig-he
belongs 10 no party. The Wing party has
no candidates nor organization. Its great