Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-03-03

both do~n. Great applause. | never Eyog
It as an institution. | favored letting it aIon
when tLey .L7 ed .he Constitutions 8hrn 'l-
threw that away and exposed its Il kcdnc,
and defolmity, | cared not how qli,a !. went Nj
the board. Cheers They sent their pitcher t,
the well once too much Laughter lclu
scared so near heaven that the suns heat meileC
away his waxen wings, ard he came down to des
truction and baptized the lcaran Sea, we ar,
told Although his father cried lcarus, lclru'
lcarus, he needed not he WAS determined, u hi,
ambition and security, TO soar up to the heavens
and thus he was DESTROYED. Slavery had traded
SO long in the politics Of the country had con,
trolled convictions, had made the mean mighty
and the little great that it thought It could do oany-
thing and not remembering that soaring up like
Icarus melted waxen wings, it went right down
ward. But it melted its wa1en wings there and
destroyed the institution forever. Great laugh.
ter and applause. The friends Of Slavery have
done for It what It's enemies never could have
done and tho Abolitionsts ought to hold day
Of Thanksgiving and prayer for the friends Of
Slavery for destroying it from the face Of the civ
ilzed earth. Appliance
What We want N the Empire State, This great
and mighty Empire State, is a reformation n our
2
Ing. | suppose am regarded as heretic now.
a.dayS, from the Demecmtic 'aith and | propose,
if the doctrines have advocated for the last
two years are heretical, propose to be regarded
40 hereafter Like tie iurymfn who insisted
upon his position, do not propose to chang my
position under any circumstances in this matter,
but 10 stand where have taken up my ground.
am not Conservative | am Radical Radical
let Il be then. was never Of the trading, the
'obbing, the sxpediency class Of Democrats.
belonged 10 the yackf)uian Democracy, whose
creed first and foremost that The Union must
and shall be preserved. [Cheers There stand
to-day, and when they let up an image for me to
wor,hip, IsaJ to them as WaIace 'aid to Ed
ward
"rsto ny God, ,hr.e times daily bow,
B1tlke eo1cemb knight pray shst art thou
Laughter and cheers ]
Our Democratic friends do not acknowledge
them as tho Democucy-they ore q spurious in-
itation, not the genuine jacob fJwn,end.-
Laughter. They soy they Obtained a grcl.
conseryalivs victory in the last FAILS e.octon.
We have all heard Of the very lucky individual
Who drew the elephant Ia lougrN laughter All
who could not sell him, ani could not give h.m
away, and could not keep lin, aud di not know
exacty what to do with Inn when be gol hm.
Nov. ,eartIat or friends Val succeeded a
tbe last Falls election have drawn tue political
eep lu. taey seem TO be q good dCIi troubled
Win aim jast now, lud do Vi know precisely
that to do with him. They are c7dcntly 10 dl-
yted cornseb. Before the election th-y were
o9po,tl TO arbitrary auests-they were opposed
% these thousand .nlerisrcuces tua' ,hey cJupa
5f-but since the election they seem 10 ..ye
CHANGED ,hs-u .tiln. They changed 'Beir pots,
d, the god l.dy advised t.r iluIcsaa tue I.op-
ird could. aloIet,H te said, "ciu The leopard
change his spots " 10 be- sur, be can, ny
son. ~. u. {. when he a..s tired Of aa. spl.
he can % t, ,ana.her' fi,a.hueEl Ihsy seem
to be cha gut Their .p9Jsi1 'ne same way. b.
re the e.eelou. ,ney were .or me most i,aeu.
propositions peace. W., 70 be sure thr
vrre. The Saa,te-u people wore orr treIhIru;
burning l.il. guupJw Ter ond numbering i.a
thousands e. men, but tben J.; would be a. rgb ,
aud they hope. +, would be made up by ,Hms p.-
.itica ac,ion, and all be snooihed over SO that
the brothers oi a common lie might meet ag,1
in q National Convent a Il, d nominate some geu
lsman, either ht or unf for the Presidency aud
all 70 along nicely again as before. But when
they came 10 enunciate these ideas and these gen
temen a, the South seeing u their Imagination
a rope and kind Of an uncomfortable moose at
the end Of il, which does not exactly suit their
ambition, said we Will have nothing to do with
YOU one way or the other, we viii have separation
.nyWa,. Then these gentlemen began TO recon-
Ter their idea, and some OF them think that up
on tAe suo.e !, % les. 10 p-oseol,- iae vlr.-
nat has been my idea itlm the beginning
There has not been day from tie ttns they
fred upon Sumter but what would have hewed
them as Saul did Agls. ICasers. It is said
We should not have negro soldiers Well suppose
they do, AM in favor Of them. lCheersl L
seems to be feared that they will get between
the wind and our nobility. profess to be an
. average humanitarian and phianIhroplst, but
hsd much rs,her my black friend would be shot
than myself | can tell you. LAppausc But
no. that is one Of the political ideas, the mean
political ideas Of the time to reiuc to aYail our
selves Of what no people in the history Of man
, either civilized or savage, ever did refuse in tnC
! course OF any war from the tine OF Moses to The
present day No people haye ever refused ia wal
The aid Of an inferior order Of civilization. But
! i, suited the purposes of the day aud hence ne
groe., however efficient, nus, not be used in bat
lie. Kdetrlcls from the dignity and the char
actsr Of those who wis., to fight the battles Of tht
country. [Laughier.1 must confess am mol
troubled with any such ChcNeifeldiau. Iht
phlttorc Turk visiting the European nobility
p. s,ked them when engaged in dance why the!
did not let their servants do il fot them Laugh
: teri and | confess that have often iuqu,reJ
. when see our sons and brothers and the hus
, bands Of our fair women going to the war VIII
no, send the negroes' | say let US avail ouy'oiye
of s,erv element, slave or free, black or white, OF
: two l.cs or four, to put down hi. accursed rebel
y lion. fApplausel