Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-06
No Time to Take the Back Track.

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of defeated politicians, is making quite lively
time among sensation newspapers and political
delnagogues, to allay which the people OF the
North are beseeched to repeal their Personal
Liberty Bills, and the President to announce
his policy and Cabinet; all of which will, in
due time, be found to be Of no avail, and
mere piece of nonsense Abraham Lincoln is
not going to assume any Of the functions of
President until the fourth of next March, and
those who suppose that the people Of the North
are going to be frightened by IL few Southern
demagogues, are entirely mistaken.
Tho Republicans mean just what they say,
that there shall be no farther extension of Slave
~ on this Continent, and that all constitutional
means shall be used to get rid of it where it
now exists. And this is the true policy. For
any Republican to argue in favor Of repeating
our stringent laws for the protection of the lib
critics OF the people, or for better disposition
On our part to give up fugitives, or to pay for
such as escape, is the biggest piece of folly i'm
aginable.
The Republican party has no fear of diSunion
threats. Southern revolvers and bowie-knives
have no terror Tor their hearts. Slavery is fast
disappearing from the more Northern Of the
slave States, and the preponderance of free
States, and the power of the free over the slave
States, will forever prevent any material
enlargement Of slave territory. And this is
as it should be- 1t is the natural effect of
prosperity and the progress of our Republican
Government.
We do not propose any raid upon the South,
nor its peculiar institution, but we propose to
cut them off from the continual fostering care
of the Federal Treasury, and its influence in
their behalf We mean to make them take care
Of their own institution, and if by our letting
it alone it cannot live, but will inevitably sting
itself to death, why, God be praised.
At present the object of the Republican par
ty is to restore the Government to the policy OIL
its founders, trusting that, under heaven, q
way may be opened for gradual emancipation
Of human bondage. In Slavery is not the nat
ural condition of the African, nor is it mari
Of Christianity for the white people to hole
them there
There are those who are more or less frigh
tened at the attempt at Il panic, and a dissolu
ton OF the Union, and who are deemng it bes
TO fall back step or two, and give up oul
Anti.S.ayery notions, renouncing all opposition
to Slavery, and thus quiet the bragadocio Of 9
few hundred unprincipled shareholders. Blu
we are not Of that number. If there are any
who went into the fight without counting thu
cost, or wanting in courage, we are sorry bu
really, when the battle is fought, and we hav
the enemy in orr hand it is no time to retreat
Disunion cannot be of serious disadvantage t.
the North, as isproposcd by the South to brIn
it aJ)lt, nor Is th3ry any fow that an attemT
at disunion would last over the length Of tim
that poor, misguided John Brown held Hal
pers Ferry. Let no Republican utter wor
Of dependency, throw no wet blanket upo
the praiscworthy enterprise, but encourage on
Senators and Members of Congress with fri
maintenance of the principles which have lie
Ms to victory, and a God speed to their duty.