Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-12-31
The Republican Party in Vey-
mont.

Inc laVoflte puoolc Wnlch Vney tthe MS
publicans agitated with so much persistepsy
in the last Presidential election has burst, - !
says the pataiotc editors of the Spirit Of the
Age. and Patriot. whose self sacrificing devo-
ton to the godd of their country, is encouraged
by thousand or fifteen hundred dollars year
from a Governm ent Post Office "The vexed
question is settled, the problem is solved, TIE
dread poiat of danger is passed, the scrioa9
serious trouble about Kansas matters is over
says the editor Of the Union, who echoes the
sentiments OF the Administration for the paltry
and insignificant sum of fifteen thepsand dol
lars a year.
" Further agitation upon the subject of
Slavery will be OF no service to the slave lit
will exasperate the South; freedom has more
to fear from it's friends than its enemies" says
the prudent and careful gentleman from
Biattleboro,' in the Vermont Legislature and
AMEN respond one huadred and twenty two
members of that br@nch Of the State Govern
ment; whereupon the discussion Of the subject
OF Slavery 10 sienoed by the powder proof pad
lock of tie previous question, and the members
return to their constituency to inform them
that agitation upon the subject of Slavery is Of
no further utility but that their Representa-
tives in General Court assembled have discover
ed lag itation' to be a dangerous erpedient
At this somewhat novel discovery on the part
of the Legislature, the Editors Of the Repabli-
can newspapers in the State rub their half-open
eyes ,gape about in bewidered, semi conscious.
dreamy manner, as though q slight shock of
galvan ism had aroused them from q long sleep,
discover no occasion for the disturbance and
fall back into more profound lethargy than
that from which they were half aroused.
All this time the pres ident of the United
States is countenancing the Lecompton Con-
vention in its efforts to fasten 'perpetually and
irremediably the " Peculiar Institution " upon
Kansas ; John Calhoun is assuming the power
Of dictation, and with the bare faced mpu-
dence OF 4 second Cromwell, makes Iii election
returns, returnable to him, and himself the final
Judge of all elections from whose decision there
shall be no appeal slave constitution is fore
ed upon the people of Kansas, willing or not
willing-they having no opportunity to vote on
its adoption or rejection while the President
and his Cabinet insist that the Constitutional
Conventioa of which John Calhoun is the
President, was authorized by Congress, and
that they are hound to sustain it's actien, what
ever it may be; thus lending the material aid
of the General Government to the crushing
out" OF an expression of popular opinion in
that Territory, and countenancing the viilainy
of the murderous border rni6ans who have die
tated the affairs of Kansas from the outset
AS was dashed into subserviency the vascilating
New Hampshire lawyer whose automaton acts
were the Of the fire eating jefferson Da
Wis and the learned, unprineipled, and danger
Gus Caleb Cushing, so is Mr. Buchanan being
driven by the merciess lash of the low minded
Slaveocrats whose unwavering persistsncy hal
thus far controlled the affairs of Kansas.
Are the people of Vermont satisfied with
this tame and impotent action of their Legisla
ture? Are we 10 have no more agitation in hae
free States npon the subject of Slavery exten-
sion Are we to sit quietly down and see oui
brethren in Kansas subjected to the igneminiout
dictation of fanatical crew of Slavery propa.
gandists whose highest ambition is the subjec
tion of humanity to the degrading yoke OIL
Slavery, and whose sweetest music is the jung
Cling of letters fastened to human limbs
Do the people agree with their Legislature
that freedom of discussion tof this subject
should not be tolerated.! Do they agree with
the - gentleman from Brattleboro " that " free
dom las moro to fear from its friends than it
enemiess" Let MS hear the people and tn
press of Vermont speak out upon this matter
We have discovered for the last year an in
creasing disposition on the part Of certain me-
who were once leaders of a now defunct party
to take the Republican movement under thei
especial charge. But The Republican more
ment needs no such paternal care. The IS Re
publican Party is great and powerful OF
ganization-stronger, in Vermont, o-day, tina
was the Wing Party in its palmiest days /
Wings, Americans, Democrats, Free-Soil mer
have each and all laid down the peculiar dog
mas of a party creed, and united in commo
struggle against common foe.
The old Wing party had its life sustained b
questions of Protective Tariff and Unite
States Bank; the Democratic party found v
tally in an Independent Treasury and Ere
, Trade the American party was stimulated b
noble feeling of national honor, desiring
! protect our institutions from undue foreign il
r duences which might seek their subversion
but each and all have laid aside their part
creed and now present bold front of homes
highminded men entered for the great con tel
of Liberty. AT the same time, the Admins
ration party has gathered around the blac
flag Of Slavery, and the propagation and ,exter
sion of that God defying institution isits onl
I. rallying cry.
Our Legislature has put Vermont in falls
position the remedy is with the people,
Let the people and the press bestir ,themselve
, for
"'Tls bad age, worse than the iron times.
Nature metal hath to name crimes"