Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-03-22

public in his pocket, than he now is, or than
he has been at any time since the commence
msOt of the foolish attempt to bind Freedom
and Slavery together in one government The
North has always been the sufferer and the
loser by her wicked compromises with Slavery.
1t is full time for her to try the policy of an
independence founded on justice and humanity;
one which suffers no tyrant one which neither
makes nor holds slave Why should we not
try it? Green Mountain Boys why do yow
not begin the movement for it?
Judge Red6eld favors us with his opinion
that in case of separation, i" the North will be
almost sure to be split into many independent
States. Surprising, for the sake of argument,
that this improbable supposition should prove
true, the States now composing New England
would certainly remain united. And how un-
speakably higher, better, nobler would be our
position as members Of a confederacy really
Free within those limits than now, shackled
by the Union from maintaining the rights Of
our own citizens travelling in the South, subject
to the decisions of Supreme Court, itself the
servant of the Slave-Power, and stammering
unintelligible explanations, to European inqui-
rers, as to how, and why, States calling them
selves Free are the upholders of Slavery!
It is anything but the desperate obstinacy
which clings to hopeless cause, that makes
Judge Redfeld say-n view of a separation be-
tween the Free and the Slave States
"The navigation and commerce, and wealth
and enterprise, and literature and science,
which are the Just pride of an American, at
home and abroad, in life and in death, must
perish like the morning dew"
Are these characteristics of New England de-
pendent in any manner or degree upon her nom
inal Union with Virginia and South Carolina?
Is it needful to say word of reply to assump-
tions so utterly baseless?
In one statement of Judge RedfeId, the last
which shall mention, there is indeed much
force; force operating strongly against his
conclusion, and in favor of mine.
He refers to the changes which dissolution
of the Union would necessarily bring to our
" vast charitable and missionary ENTERPRISES"
meaning, no doubt, the American Bible and
Tract Societies, and the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions. All these
have been, and still are, so managed as not on
ly to buttress the wicked system of slavery in
the South, but to corrupt the minds and de-
prave the consciences of those Northern men
who are united with shareholders in managing
and sustaining them. Many New England
church-member, who hated slavery in its ord-
nary guise, and who would see at once through
the lying pretences of the ordinary stakeholder
or overseer has been first puzzled and then over
come by the sanctimonious face, the pous tone,
and the glib fervency in prayer, of a slavehold
ing Doctor of Divinity. He was shocked by
the refusal of Legree to let his slave read the
Bible; but when the American Bible Society
refused an offer Of five thousand dollars on con-
dition Of their distributing that amount in BIZ
bles to the slaves, he hestated and finally con-
cluded that such plous and Reverend gentlemen
must be right. He was shocked when the New
York Herald justified slavery; but when the
monthly official organ of the American Bible
Society called on the Southern people to give
the Bible to their slaves, as the most efficient
mode of keeping them in subsection, and claim
ed the contents of that book as demonstrative
evidence that God had appointed the slaves to
be, and to remain, in slavery-again the North
ern Church-member hesitated, and then yielded,
thinking that such pious and Reverend gentle
men as the Secretaries and Managers ought, of
course, to be trusted. What need to recount
the histories of the Tract Society and the Amer
lean Board These bodies have done more
harm in debauching the consciences of the
Northern church in regard to acquiescence in
slavery, than all the good they have ever done.
They have baptized sin, and taken it to the COM
munion table. They are the most potent allies
of the church in maintaining the position of
the great bulwark of slavery" And one i'm
mense advantage and blessing resulting from
dissolution of the Union would be, that we
might, for the first time, have religious and be-
nevolent associations untainted by the poison
of slavery.
What has become of the disunion haranguers
which were SO plenty in December last What