Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-07-31
A New Tack.


The editor of the Patriot, in his last issue,
seizes boldly and with fearful confidence upon
new issue shouting " stop thief! " with as
much carnestness as ever did Jail bird. Hear
what he says:
+" The utmost scrutiny of the black Republi-
cans is challenged to fnd in any number of the
Prtriot single word or sentiment in support
of the odious disqualiiying laws of the Kansas
legislature. We have repeatedly, over and over
again, expressed our emphatic condemnation of
those laws They were passed for no worthy
end, solely and simply to harrass abolition agi-
tators, in the territory, without the remotest in
tention of ever enforcing them and the at
tempt to enforce them has never been made. Our
position and the position Of the Democratic
party in relation to the Kansas legislature, has
been, and daily is, misrepresented. No man in
the democratic party, south or north. approves
of those laws-we mean, Of course, the laws
requiring oath to be made to support the fug-
tive slave laws. and abstinene0sfrom expressing
ones free opinion Of slavery, as qualifications
Of franchise And if any body at the South
does sustain them, such persons will be found to
be those who, now their repeal is proposed by
the Democratic Senate, are arrayed with the
black republicans in opposition to their repeal y
b. Now this is all bugaboo; and is as useless and
false as that sheet usually is; and we simply
say that, having file of the Patriot before us,
ace accept that challenge. We are sorry for the
indisposition of the people to appreciate the ed
itor's cxertions. y pity the editor, and would
request tho people not longer to " misreprcsent
him and his position" His true position is bad
enough To those.who know him, his cries for
mercy are but the cry Of the " stop thief and
he will be off On some scheme, before the people
discover that he is the veritable thief, as they
have fifty times previously done. If he is truly
repentant, why does he not say, 60 Before was
wrong, but now am right was blind but
now see; Lord believe, help thou mine I'M
belief" But no, there is no repentance there {;
and his cries are vain; his destruction is APP
preaching, and the people will laugh when his
fear cometh
LIST. He says he has never said word in sup
port of the odious Kansas laws.
I'd. That he has repeatedly expresscdhis con-
domination of those laws
Sd. That the Republicans are opposing their
repeal
Now for the facts. What said the editor of
the Patriot of Douglas speech, which was made
March 20, 1885, in support of the majority re-
port providing for the admission of Kansas when
that territory should contain $4,000 nhabi-
tants, and which bill has since been abandoned
because it, like all the schemes of the Black
Democracy, was not for the good of free Kansas,
but for their personal emolument1
Here is what the editor said, April 49,, 1850
Is We shall commence the publication in the
Patriot of next week, Of Judge Douglas great
speech urging his bill, providing for the admis
sion of Kansas as state and defending the po-
sition Of the Democratic party in relation to
Popular Sovereignty Extra copies will he prn
ted so that persons subscribing for the Patriot
during the week can be supplied we will also
furnish individuals with copies for private dis
tributior. This powerful vindcation of the
Democratic creed should be read by every man
in Vermont. Before the light of such reasoning
and the force of such truths, the heresies of
black Repubcanism will vanish like mist before
the sum-
Again, May I'd:
g The speech of Judge Douglass is closed this
week; A lew extra copies were struck of. and
can be furnished to those who desire them
Ii Democrat. after having read the speech,
does not see the Importance of giving it wide
eircu lation, it is of no use to tell him so -
Now, what says Douglas in his speech which
the Patriot editor thus eulogizes After quo
ting from the minority report upon his BILL and
the remarks OF the opponents of the till, who
say that
" The great fact remains, and it is not mot
by the report, that the people of Kansas have
been conquered, as the governor himself once
said, and Legislature has been imposed non
them by violence" ~"
he says:
The report of the committee NOT only
denies, but disproves, the truth Of sucb y
charge so conclusively that no man ia inexcns,-
BILE for repeating it, So Overwhelming is the
proof OF the majority report on this point that
the only mode in which the minority could
avoid or break its force was by suppressino the
testimony which disproved the truth of the ale
CATION" '''''
lThis majority report was made by Douglas. J
Again:
. The facts are presented in the majority re.
port, and proven by official and incontroyertiblc
evidence, are. that Of the eighteen election dis
tricts into which Kansas was divided, allega.
tons OF violence and illegal voting were made
IN seven, while there was not at the time anv
presext Of fraud, violence or illegal voting IN
the other eleven districts. "a II does
nos appear from any source that ten men were
O oanu "a any OF the eleven districts who were
Wiling 70 sign the statement, or any one man
VINO was willing to swear to the tr,,I oe "a
statement that there had been fraud y;o i. .ne
or illegal voting in any of those eleven districts
ouch statements were made and presented 70 ~.
Governor in reference to some Of Tho ~ .ne
in seven Of the eighteen districts. but mona i
the other eleven. Tbese slsra. a.; -