The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-10
Freedom for the White Man,

The spirit in which the earnestly loyal men OF
the Border States, and indeed of the whsle South
wherever loyal Nan can be found, receive the
emancipation proclamation, ought to be the most
complete answer to, as it Is the most whitening re-
nuke eff the coarse of the Northerr, political al
lies of Slavery. We have already given our reat2-
'ers the views of such Union shareholders as Gel.
Hamilton Of Texas who, in dealing with the afro
eous wickeSness Of tie slave koiders' rebellion,
speaks of what he Knows. We add to this testi-
mony the following from the Cambridge fisli-
gerlcer, ore of the most extensively circulated and
Influential. local papers in Maryland, published in
a large slave holding county. After heartily APP.
proving the Presidents Emancipation policy, it
adds.
"IRere IS another sense ir which THIS is q ,our
of freedom. There are Other men in the South
TO be freed as we'll as blac4. men. The white
men of the SoGth need TIE strong arm of the
government to lift the yoke from their necks
These have endured slavery far transcendng that
of the blacks The socia! system of the South
has never been anything short of despotsm-a
tyranny equal to any of the age. The mind has
forever been bound here. Freedom of opinion
has never been tolersted below Mason and
Dixons line. Men haze not been permitted to
hold, much less express their own opinions A
man might conscientioHsly have believed slavery
to be burden upon the State, but be dare not
let the public know that such were his coavic.
lions.
Let the mind be fee! Let the faculties be
unfetterec". There CAN be neither prosperity or
happiness where these are ensaved tits de
grading TO any people. We shall never accom-
plish our'magnfceut destiny until these are free
The war is unbinding them. gHe true glory of
sshitc m.n of the Scs!th. They are already be-
closes they will joic their voices in one loud hal
leu ah to the God CT libertyfor their deliveran CO.
We had hoped that in the free North, the
politicians who haze lived and thrved in past
wears by bowling down to, and serving the Slave
power, would have found that business either too
unpopular, or too uni roiitable to be further in
dulged in since tie war. We thought Slavery
had disclosed the hideousness of its features so
distinctly, that nc man, who.oved his country and
Republican liberty, could longer help upheld the
institution that,was cutchin,, at the throat of al
liberty and equa rights, and constitutional govern
meut in America. 10 this, we have been disap.
pointed. There are yet men at the North, who
are ready and willing to do the bidding Of slavery
and lion hands with jeff Davs in resisting the
emancipation policy of the Government. They
yetpreteud to believe that slaveryis not very bad
not nearly so miscellaneous as ant-slavew. They
wage bitter partisan warfare on Emancipation,
while they have no word of condemnation for the
barba.ous system which not only ensaves black
men, but tyrannizes over, and enslaves the white
man, by the enginery of kengings, burniags, rob
,bings. tar and feathers, and despotsm Of opinion,
more bood-thi.sty and unrclenting than that o
Robesp.ere. We commend to these devotees O
slavery the ceer and bold rtterances of such pa
pers the Irteihgeneer, ard of such Union slave
holders as Col. Hamilton. If they will not be
eve these, they would not believe though one
shoudgise from the deads-and their case ma,
well be given oSer as,hopeless.