Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-07-23
Letters from an Old Man.---No. 8

Mr. BoYcE, Dear Sir IL had about conclud-
cd that should write ne more for your readers
but must work while can, and seeing your
remarks in your last paper, will try and note
a few remarks which you may ponder and dis
pose of as you please.
| think the people of our little State did
themselves much honor by the manner in which
they met the Slave Power last year, and | did
hope they would stand like men, and meet the
crisis, whatever it may be. Let the Slave Pow
err, whether in high or low places know that
Slavery shall never pollute our soil This may
lead to . athstruggle, and line must be
drawn upen sympathy. Slaveocrats must join
their party, and the descendants of old Wings,
.wbo really love Liberty, must unite and assert
Liberty or death. am not sure but the
sooner we cone to this point, the better MIX
and water measures will do no good. Be aen
or nothing Our enemies despise them, our
friends are disheartened, and can have no con-
fdence in such leaders have no objection to
the re nomination of our present State officers /;
but who are those men who undertake to direct
the measures TO be adopted by the ireemen OF
Vermont say to every man who is allowed
to vote, Look before you leap. and let no man
hoodwink or deceive you. See that your rep
resentatives and senators are tried men--nlen
that can he trusted in storm We may have
one before the year comes round. Act as your
fathers did when was hey. Select men who
are honest, who have moral principles, who
fear God Such men will not quail when the
hail comes Gathering from the South, but viii
meet the foe at Bennington or at Plattsburgh.
From present appearances, have some hope
that the conflict in Kansas, may be, in a meas
ure, healed If Gov. Walker has wisdom to
! bear away, and let the people decide by a iair
4 vote their own Constitution, they will do it.
and the minority must yield But the friends
of liberty must not, for party purposes, blow
the fire, when they should throw water. 1 like
the plan proposed by Mr.. Helper of North
Carolina, as given in the last Radical abolition
isl, for exteriainating Slavery 1t is deadly
blight everywhere Say it shall die. Why
nourish in any place, II serpent that is singing
tie death the white man as we'll as the black
have hoped to see in the Freeman the who'll
re printed from Mr.. Goodell's Radical /,
cant be that you are afraid to lay such matter
} before your readers. Try them. A few ole
Wigs may cry hush but they wish you ant
your paper dead, and they will kill you as soor
f as they can, Give US all the information abou
MIR. Helpers movement you can, that we ma,
know what it is, and how to act. Let US Sc
> who will find fault. think many will be glad
and hope you will be so far satisfied that you
will say as do, | will 60 heartily with the non
Slave holders of the South, If they will brea
their bonds, act like men, and take decide
e measures to break from their necks the galln
e yoke Of Slavery
presume the Badical Abolitionists, unde
a the lead of Gerritt smith and Goodel, wi
have amee'ing and organize for action. Shout
:. they have wisdom to unite with Mr. Helper an
Is bring out the non-Slavers of the South, the
e would soon make the Slave.Power tremble.-
! Who, but Intervals, would oppose! l hop
n the Green Mountains will never sustain NIL
n who would meanly bow to the little band ,
i Shareholders, who have so long troubled an
v dsgraced our nation Is il not wise To wait
9 little and not cntangle ourselves with any pa
ty, until we know what this cloud, which loon
up at the South means
d An Old Man, KIAH BAyLEY.