Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-10-14
A Few Suggestions.


Vermont has past, and the Republicans, under
discouraging circumstances, have
triumphed by an increased majority over last
year, and now the several questions may be
asked Why such union after so much appa-
rent dlsaifection? and what of the future?-
Is there aught to divide those who for a few
past years have acted in concord, and should
still continue to act thus firm in a union upon
principle, and determined in opposing the mad
schemes of the present Pro-Slavery rule? Is
there any real danger in that sound Of discord ?
any trouble ahead ? Or was it merely a passing
ripple upon the surface of the political water,
a solitary wave. caused by the splashing OF Il
few discounted ofice-seekers, all being harmony
beneath and behind? The future will tell, and
to that every friend of the party, every true
Anti-Slayery man and Republican, must turn
with anxious eye.
First, does not the result plainly show that
the more radical portion of the party will not
desert while Republicanism floats her standard
high for Freedom the equal rights of all
wherever our General Government holds exclu-
sive control? and that they fully realize The
Importance Of keeping up and strengthening
the present organized force in opposition to
that Democracy which has become II disgrace to
the Nation, a synonym for everything corrupt
and vile in politics sapping the very iounda-
tions of our Government by its wild extrava-
gance, swallowing apthe resources of the coun-
try to an extent heretofore unparalleled or un-
thought of; by its tyranny usurped over the
people Of Kansas m%eriting the stern rebukc of
every true Democrat everywhere, and seen in
acts, to have been the authors Of which
would have caused any throne in Europe to have
shaken to its centre and does it not further
show that the more Anti-Slavery men, as a
body, have not the faintest wish to break low
the present organization while it can be kept
upright upon its present platform, living out
and carrying out its principles in its practice?
Hundreds and thousands there are who have
joined hands with those more conservative in
their views, that believe the Constitution car
ried out in its spirit, and in the spirit of the Fa-
theirs VIII. framed it, forbids the holding of a
slave and that the General Government could
and should, as soon as the best good Of those
most concerned would permit, provide the means
Of putting a final end to the system. They be-
lieve it has long enough remained a foul blot
upon the otherwise proud record Of our coun
try. Nourished by the power that long since
should have banished it from the land, every
year growing stronger, until stepping in at the
head Of every department of our Government,
it rules the Nation at its will.
That great party, at the head of which once
stood Jefferson and Madison, with other noble
men, whose every word was for free institutions
throughout the length and breadth of the land,
has now become a mere tool for the building
up Of Slavery. And does any member of that
party, high or low, listening to the voice of
true Democracy, speaking through those men
OF the past, for a moment falter in the support
OF every measure proposed by its leaders, no
matter how unjust or oppressive it may be, no
matter how humble before their god Of their
party they may have been, how long or how
low they may have crawled and licked in the
dirt before it, hy tse officiating priests he is
politically damned to suffer, at least, the pains
and penalties Of purgatory until he repents and
confesses. And all this while those who should
be wide awake to tier own rights and duties,
outnumber their adversaries by thousands. They
believe it a disgrace to our land, a shame that
comes kissing into our very faces, that such a
state Of things should be permitted to exist
They act with the Republican party, that they
may speak against present misrule where they
can be heard, hoping it will advance in the
right direction as public opinion advances, in
stead Of yeering off in II Southerly direction,
finally becoming what the old Wing party be-
came-an opposition party without any dis
tinguishing principles, living as that lived to
die of its own folly.
Let those who would thus guide the Old Ship
perhaps unwittingly-into the breakers, learn
wisdom of the past lower not its %colors, OF
confidence in its principles and power to accom-
plish any good will be lost by Anti-Slavery
men of all classes. Men who have once cut
loose from former connection for a special OBJ
ject, are not easily drawn further off when that
pbInpt Is lost eirbt &c by tbnvo with ubnun tbnu
united. Denunciations and reading-out pro-
cesses against such men are wholly out OF time
and place. Success-that watchword i'll poll
tics gcnerally-independent of principle, has
no particular charm for them.
Does not the future harmony of the party in
this State depend ina great measure on the
course our Legislature, at its next session, sees
fit to pursue with regard to the two great ques-
tions Of the day. 1t is believed that that true
Democrat, Col. Neeham, should he bring for.
ward another bill similar to that of last fall,
will be better sustained now than then.
Recent interpretations of our Liquor Law
seem also to call for amendments. Should any
be made, it is Aagea the makers will not so be
You'd their W abilities to understand hui
give us something Ineligible to the people as
well as to our learned judges or lawyers.
L, c.
Woodbury., Oct. !, lS4S.
SHERBRooKE RAcEs.-Soturday, Sept. 25.-
Hurdle Race FOR Sl00, inside stake of SIC
each, a dash of two miles over 8 hurdles.