The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-08
Emancipation.

Emancipation.
That the question of Emancipation with com
pensation Will enter largely into our next cleo
tons, no one can doubt who looks ut the course
TO which political events are and have been tend
ing since the rebellion. Indeed, it will form the
main feature, the controlling principle, of the
party of the Union, throughout theStates, and
will swallow up all other party questions and
creeds in the magnitude OF It's Importance and
bearing upon the interests Of the country at
large.
The question of Slavery has, more or less on
tered into almost every campag n-natonal and
local tor many years past, but i'll somewhat
limited or partisan sense. Then those who dared
to advocate enamel patlolI-n0 matter how hon.
est Or CONSCIENTIOUS may have been their convlc-
lions-were called " AbolitihoiSts,' " Union
Splitters, ," Fanatics, and other vile names
hunted out from the prolific vocabulary of Loco
Focoisn and all manner OF evil intentions
against the Constitution and peace of the Union
were charged UPON Thorn but now change is
visible in this respect. Abolition has ceased to
be the scarecrow OF politicians. The people have
learned from tie rebellion to examine u little co-
ser for themselves, and not trust So much to dem
agogues for their knowledge of political ethics.
They have seen that, while ianatlcism and dis
union have been charged upon Northern states
men and States, treason has been nurtured AMI
cultivated in the South by The slave driving lords
of cottondom, until it has at length eliminated
in a eangunary war, which for ierocity and
barrenness Of substantial purpose, is without a
parallel in the history of the world. They have
seen, too, that those who have uniformly been
charged with disIoyalty, and y disposition to
break up the Government, are the true friends
and supporters of the Union, willie those whose
office it has been these many years past to cry
oul " the Union is dissolved by Northern ianat
les, are the real and only foes of the peace.
happiness, and prosperity Of the Republic.
The poop have learned to appreciate the
force and meaning OF the terms /" Abolition, :"
" Black Republican," aud other mean epthets
which have been Systematically and persstently
heaped upon those who refused to bow the knee
to Slavery and subserve Its ambitious designs
upon the Liberties OF the county. Such slang
nick names will no longer serve to cheat honest
men out Of their votes, but are passed by as
meaningless and Insulting deceptons, calcul attd
to cover np the real Obects OF their Inventors,
and assist them the more readily to slip into
power and partake OF the luxury of public plun-
der, which they 50 well know, from long expe,
rience and practice how to en- joy. Partisan ran.
cor and sectional malevolcnce are gradually but
surely passing away, and purcr current OF
popular thought and investigation has engaged
the minds OF the people They begin to realize
that Slavery, and not Abolition, is the pertde-
Gus parent ot all our national troubles. That
1t Is the forging of chains for human limbs to
wear in perpetual bondage. and not the plead
ings OF liberty in behalf OF all her children,
which has to-day deluged the land III blood, and
desoated large portion OF the country. That
1t Is the dark shauow OF u barbarOus and cruel
age hanging like . sable pail over the hopes and
happiness OF IL large portion of our people in
this nineteenth century, instead of the human
ity, truth and light, Of the principles of tho
declaration OF American Independence, that
now impcdes their progress to prosperity and
usefulness. The thinking masses are aiivu to
these iacts they recognize their Importance and
influence upon the social and political interests
Of the nation, and therefore are prepared to
take hold Of the Slavery question with deter
mination and zeal that will forever set at rest
the disturbing eic,neats Of which i, is made up
Men are to-day willing to be called Adolf
tIonlsts, who, one year ago, would have felt in
suited at even IL distant lntmation of any such
idea. The word has lost its evil spell, and
thousands Of honest, patriotic. loyal hearts are
ready To inscribe EMANCIPATION on their ban
ncrs, and bear it on TO triumph through the
storm OF bullets or the more calm battle of the
ba.lot-bJx. The time Tor this has come. The
North is ready. The South must be, and ia the
great moral revolution where will our own Sta te
be iound? In the ranks Of treason? No, no,
no! Delaware must and will be ON the side OF
Liberty. she cannot step aside from the track
o patriotism she must not refuse to do her
duty She will not lag behind her sister States
IN the forward march Of human greatness and
Christian charity SHE WILL he rkEE. Free
from all faint Of dsloyahy Free from any
suspicion OF completely with treason OF traitors
Free from further legal sanction of that ggan-
tic curse which has 80 long bound her to slug
gish inactivity, and limited her power and in
luence as State. And as she emerees from
the blackness of the cloud in which all her local
interests have 81 long been buried we'll nigh unto
oblivion, she will be free to declare, in all the
pride and majesty of her redemption, that hence
forth and forever she will give full and entire
recognition and scope to those inal'enabls rights