The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-01
"A Political Party to Save Slavery,

Inc propositions now before Congress affect
ing slavery, are OF great significance and impor-
lance. The bill abolisbing slavery IN the Dis
'fict OF Columbia is one Of these. The1o can
De no well grounded pretence that this is uncon
stitutonal, yet chat objection is of course raised
by thc friends Of slavery both in and out Of Con-
gress. >oAoh Senators as Garlic Of Western
flTGsaaa---a Senator who is little, if any, i'm
proScDent upou Mason-and Davis OF Kentucky
who is scarcely better than Breckenridge
and Salisbury of Delaware, and Pearcc of Mary
land, fnarllest, in discussing this bill an angry
temper, and exhibit plantation manners, that
would have been quite in keeping with the be-
havor II the traitors who have left the Senate,
but were hardly expected in men who yet ac-
knowledge fealty to the old flag. They show
very Clearly that they prefer slavery to the Union
and if they nave but one, their choice would
not be long postponed. These same mcn--and
they represent, unques,ionably, large class of
border State politicians, exhibit the same I'M
easiness, and the same temper in discussing the
Presidents emancipation resolution.
The recent conference of the Democrats and
border State men at Washington, to agree upon
platform for party organization that should
combine into some conference the scattered Gle.
ments of the Democratic party, with The slavery
defenders OF the border States, was evidently
made in the interest of slavery. These old heads
have not mistaken the signs of the times The
Presidents gradual abolition message, and the
very general assent to it by all classes Of men
who really dislike slavery, has been IL phenome
non which could not be mistaken. The bill to
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia has
also furnished a note Of warning The Govern
ment seems TO be Enthusiastically on the side of
Freedom, aud determined to use what power it
rightuliy may to uproot tho criminal institu.
ton. Certainly nothing can now save 1t unless
it be the CID partzan cla,nor against every per-
son who speaks Lis honest convictions of the
evils Of slavery. Party spirit must be evoked
to rescue from the destruction which is SO i'm
mincnt the cause Of the terrible war into which
we have been driven, and the slave drivers have
not thought it possible TO find any machinery so
we'll adapted to that end as the sham Democracy
Accordingly they have conferred. And first they
deemed it OF importance that they should put
on u fair exterlpr. In their work of darkness it
became D necessity to clothe themselves in gar.
meats of light 10 this end they assume to be,
par excellence, the friends of the Constitution
and the Union, and in this disguise, they hope
to mis)ead and seduce thousands into an alliance
with their evil designs. They then at once AS.
is the principal plank of this new party plat
form But at this era in our history, when the
evils Of slavery are SO sensibly brought home to
the understanding of every man, what shall we
think of the press or the party that is willing,
in this march OF events, to stand in the way of
emancipation? Can they be honest? And If
SO how came they 30 ignorant?
1t would hardly seem possible that this new
political effort to save slavery could have any
general popularity. For the first time in many
years the Government has given official utterance
to the national wish to be rid of slavery. Why
should not all men who love their country join
heartily ia an effort to attain this desirable end
It is not the scheme of any radical. 1t is not
the plan of abolltionists. But it is the DELHI.
crate judgment of an honest man, who is anx-
ious that the nation may forever put away from
it the great crime for which we arc now suffer-