Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-11-10
John Brown and our Nations Curse

John Brown is to be murdered. A poor,
wounded and dying man, covered with purify
ing sabre cuts, and lying upon prison floor, is
doomed by an Migrate heart to be hung until
dcad-dead and mercy to the old man it
will be too; and the country will say, " mer'
cy If it will only rid him of the agony of
his suffering life, and Of the cruel, brutal treat
ment of Virginia Slave Prison. Dogged In
Kansas,
{" Like hound on the tigers track
his property stolen, his home outraged, his
children murdered-no wonder the ruling pas
sion Of his life, vigorous in peaceful pursuits,
was In madness vented against power which
had thus brought sorrow to his old age. He
took IIarper's Ferry. and sought under discover
to start band of five hundred slaves in the Ii
rection of the North Star to plague the servile
power. He tarried, and failed in this whole
sale delivery of bondmen and bondwomen. And
Gov. Wise has him seized, bound, tried, found
guilty of treason, and sentenced to death, with
out hardly judge or jury, certainly with no
show Of mercy, fairness, or Justice.
And what lesson does this teach? The Pro-
Slavery Democracy seize upon it as thwarting
a"grand Abolition scheme" to ruin the country.
Upon the eve Of important elections, it is her.
aided, in startling phrases of denunciation. to
bias the minds of the people and carry Elections
in favor of the damnable curse which has caused
all this uproar. Not alone for present effect, but
it is sought to entail all responsibility upon n
party having no hand OR aforethought in the
matter. With what result is growing apparent
every day. Instead of rejecting upon the Re-
publican party, it is but fastening the whole re
sponsibility upon the curse of Slavery and its
defenders. Nor is this all. 1t is demonstrating
to the South, beyond controversy, thatthe SUM
berng volcano is beneath them, that the maya
zine is ready to explode. 1t further exposes
their utter weakness, and inability to meet
their most dreaded enemy, and in u most fearful
manner to them. The success with which
Brown held Harper's Ferry, and the hurried
fright and excitement of the people in the Vi
cinity, show that they have no confidence in
their safety, but are in continual fear of in
surrccton and murder
There is one great good growing out of this
unhappy affair. Slave property is felt to be
unsafe, 1t has human ingenuity, cunning and
revenge it has human invention, and is too
we'll informed to be sleeping while the master
slumbers. Eternal vigilance is the Shareholder s
only hope of safety. A complete arming of the
white people in the South, and bars and bolts,
with nightly are sentinels, found necessary. And
what will be the effect of these bolts and bars
these armed sentines, hard revolver pillows, and
an eternal watchfulness for life? Why the price
of two.legged property, with human instincts
and human invention and reason, and more than
half white blood, will be small, and growing by
degrees beautifully less This terrible magazine
will never be felt to be safe until every bondmar
is out of bondage. The terrible curse, growing
daily more dangerous, will be got rid of in tn;
most speedy manner. And Heaven speed the
day. This is the inevitable result at the South
And what is the effect at the North Do North
ern people lose any sleep? Do they bolt the
doors and CRATE their windows, load, prime ant
cock their six-shooters and derringers? d.
they organize the independent militia in ever,
hamlet? and look with anxious fear to ever,
rustlng of the thicket, or fast-riding post-boy
Do they lament and deplore the awful catastro
trophe which the G. terrible Black-Republical
cut-throat Abolitlonists - are bringing upon tn
country? Do they shout "moral treason!
cry L" murder "and go to the ballot-box to cleo
Il worse than Saveholder--a Brown Democrat
Oh, no! they sleep as sound, and the school
boys crow,
{" Old John Brown bad little Niger,
One little, two little" &C., &C.,
as Justify as they ever did
AS sailed, as sailed,'-
or any other ditty, and the people go abou
their peaseful labors, with only the addition Q
regret and a growing hatred for the cursed in
stitutlon which enslaves their brethren. The
only button their coats, clinch little frme
their honest sincws, and straighten to firme
hatred and resolve against Slavery. Whereas
before, they had opposed its eatensiom, they no,
deplore its eristence. Whereas, before they onl
went with the current, now they help to ro
up the opposing force, to rid the country of tn
STAIN
And SO it is. Let New York, New Jersey, @
any other State, vote as they will, fraud an
corruption CONTROL the result is as sure as q gu
shall rise and set. Those unhappy people WI
be free And the more John Brown insure,
tions, the more Broderick murders, the mol
Sumner outrages, and Kansas enormities, grow
ing alone out of this institution, the sooner wi
the political graves of these bastard despots
dug,
, Old John Brown
The best take off on the excitement of ii
Democracy at the John Brown riot is the fc
7 lowing " new version of an old song from IL
9 n. Y. Eue. Post: