Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-04-30
Progress of Free Opinion in the
Slave States.

Both of them are manly and high-toned ex
pressons of the great sentiment-the suprem-
acy of free labor-whlch trumphcd in the late
election. We give that part Of Mayor Winners
address which relates to the question of eman-
eipation. After making acknowledgements for
the honor conferred on himself in the late cleo
,tion, he says
There is however another, aspect in which
this event is to he viewed, far more gratifying
10 me than considerations of personal elevation ;
because, in my opinion, it transcends in its
importance to the public welfare the elevation
or defeat Of any man, great or small. nj
lude, of course, to the emphatic endorsement
of the great principles which have been hon
cred by being chosen to represent.
1t is an universally admitted truth, that
labor is the only creator of wealth and material
prosperity. 1t is equally true that skilled
and intelligent labor of free white men is
more productive than the compelled labor OF
slaves.
"Civilzed society ows everything to labor,
upon which it is founded and upheld and for
this reason all should unite in guarding the
rights Of labor and uphodng its dignity, be-
cause in the same degree that its rights and
dignity are maintained the prosperity of all is
enhanced
There are those, however, SO welded to the
pride of dominion, that they prefer to see the
interest of free white labor degraded by an in
furious competition, which whilst it ministers to
the pride Of individuals, initiates against the
prosperity of the state.
The resolutions recently introduced into the
Missouri legislature were intended to bind our
state and city in all future time to system of
labor unsuitcd to our condition, lowering by
lis competition the labor of freemen of our own
race and tending to drive from us the emigra-
ton from Europe and the older states.
The peopleo of st. Louis have, by their late
action, rebuked the authors of these resolves.
rhey have calmly and fearlessly taken their
stand They have decided in favor of the
many against the few. This declaration am
satisfied will never being reversed There are
none now who openly assail it, 1t is believed
that no man or combination of men can pre-
vent its becoming the policy of our people.
1t IS best for the state that it should be peO-
Piled by white men. When this shall have been
mplished-when the toiling masses who
create all wealth and uphold the very frame
work of society shall thus assert the dignity
and nobility of labor--then shall our state as
ou'HC bilC pIOuu pUSltlUH WHICH UGIUuHS W leT
as the centre of the continent, the focus of ten
thousand miles of river navigation. And the
possessor of climate and soil not surpassed by
any portion of our country"
The response to the Mayor elect was made by
George B. Taylor, President of the Board of
Aldermen. 10 replying to the sentiments ad
vanced by Mayor " liner, in regard to free white
labor Mr.. Taylor said
The great principle which you have ad-
vanced in relation to free white labor must
meet the cordial appreciation of every true
friend of this city and the state of Missouri.
The principle is one which is Unborn in every
son of America, whether he be of the North or
the West, and is the one which will ultimate ly
prevail all over our extended country, and DIES
pite of sectional prejudices, institutions and
education. These principles have been mine
from my earliest recollection, and the only
thing in which differ from yourself, is in the
proper time for carrying those principles into
practice. No man in his sober senses doubts
that, eventually. Kansas will be free state and
engrdled as Missouri will be by free states, the
institution of slavery cannot flourish to any
great extent, or endure for any long time. The
heat of our sun does. not require an African to
stand beneath its rays; none of our agricul-
'lral products demand his aid, and certainly
our manufactures do not need him
These views, says the St Louis Democrat
coming from Mr.. Taylor, who has been under
stood to be acting with the opposition in the
past, caused some surprise to many, and were
loudly appauded as they fell from his lips
1t is said by those conversant with his senti-
ments, however, that they have been the views
of his lifetime and that on yesterday he only
gave public expression to what had ever been
the staple of his private conversation. Mr..
Taylor is man Of sense. He has been largely
beneactor to our city has erected some of
the most magnificent structures in ST. Louis
is one Of the heaviest contributors to the new
Exchange, and many other enterprises that re-
fleet credit upon those who originated them
and he sees as clearly as any man Gun see, that
the future greatness, and wealth and welfare
of ST. Lou and Missouri can rest upon no pol
icy of slavery perpetoation.
The ST. Louis Euening Nelos, in speaking OIL
the address of the Mayor and the response of the
President of the Board of Aldermen at the in.
auguration Of IL freesoil municipal government
in st. Louis says:
g That Mayor Winner, an avowed Enamel
patonist should deliver panegyric on free la
Dor, the dignity of white labor, the 'toiling
masses who uphold the framework of society
&c, &c, &c. is nothing more than was tc
have been expected but that the President o.
the Board Aldermen George R Taylor ESQ.,
Virginian by birth, in manner and habits, anc
the toughest kind of Il National democrat
should deliberately, in cold blood, and will
malice prepenso echo the hypoborean utter
ances Of the Mayor, IS Il most surprising cir
-cumstauces
J MIR. Taylor is southern gentleman, a,
eminent citizen, and man of wealth-fact
which it was supposed, cllnched him to anti
Benonism forever, Judge of the a3tonish
t ment and anguish Of his old friends, then, II
| seeing him give hearty response to the senti
men,s Of the Mayor, and declare that KAnsa,
will be free state, thai Missouri is bound {
follow as her climate and economy are no
adapted TO slave labor ~
From the Wheeling (va) Intelligencer, April 49,
AS against slave labor We avow our prefer
ence for the gradual introduction of system
which will eventually, and without disturbing
the rights of any man, commit the industrial
r interests of the state to intelligent Anglo-Saxo
labor. We advocate this believe and kno,
that slavery is an uamtigoted curse''-aye Mr.
Argus, we will repeat your nohc,sed words--a
> unmheated curse to the soil Of Virginia
= Who does not know it, that has sense to know
it We pity that man who has arrive IA
Q the years of maturity, and confess his igno
: rance Of the fact.
!. Thomas Jefferson, whose memory the Argu
t affects to revere, said SO and mAny Others O
I, the early fathers also declared Even in latte
i, days OF the Argus creed, Hon j. Eulk
= ner. for instance, member of Congress from tn