The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-22

the decision OF the y. ). Court finally settled down
upon as law. He knows also that tie State Court
OF Wisconsin then only for a moment took up the
behalf of freedom, fooSing precedent set by
Georgia years before, when Georgia bued the
Court and set at nought its law. He knows that
the Republican party never approved Of the course
taken by the State Court, and is no more respon-
sible for it than is the Free Soil party. He knows
that the Administration, which he SO sharply con-
demns, is now making Judge Taney's opinion in
the Booth case the law upon which it rests its au
thorily for refusing to obey writS of Habeas Cor
puS issued by State Courts, while the party tc
which Mr.. r. now belongs repudiates that law and
denounces the Administration as a despotism be-
cause it takes advantage of it against traitors
And he knows that Governor Seymour, the cham.
pon of the Simultaneously of this year, dis
tinctly told the roters-whom he called friends
in New York, that the laws of the State ofNew
York, and the decisions of its Courts, should be
enforced by him with the whole power of the
State, against the Federal Government if neCes'
sary Let Mr.. R. purge his own party before he
attempts to arraign another.
/" 1t has by its press" &c. If this charge means
anything more than that the Republican party
has ever held that the Constitution according to
the Fathers was infinitely preferable to the Con-
sttution according to Buchanan, fancy ard Da-
Wis, Mr.. R. knows as well as any one that it has
no foundation whatever. The Republicans have
ever, in their presses and in their public teach
ings, insisted on bringing the Government back
to the pure administration Of early times, and to
the atmosphere of Liberty which then surrounded
it aud which was its breath Of life and they
have always insisted that the Sham Democracy
OF modern days was striving with all It's energies
to 8" let the Union slide " into the undisputed
control of the slave despotism. Mr.. RS teach
ings " were once fully in accord with this same
attempt " to educate the people which he now
makes one count in bis indictment against the
Union party.
The - higher law" to which Mr. h. alludes in
his next accusation, was first preached under Free
Soil auspices when Mr.. r. was Free Soiler, and
it was his belief, when the party to which he then
belonged sought in its name to teach that there
we're laws higher" more sacred, more in har-
mony with everlasting truth, than the fugitive
slave enactment Of 1850. And it was for ridi-
culing this higher law that Mr.. Redfeld de-
nounced Webster then, saying that in SO doing
he had made" the saddest mistake of bis mstak-
en- Lfe." But Mr.. r., 'ince then, has swept
through the whole arc of oscillation to the oppo
site pro-slavery extreme, and now stands with
the Seymour party Of New York, that calls the
anti-draft rioters " my friends, instails the ca
prices and passions of men above the laws Of
Congress-" and instigates citizens to trampe the
constitution and laws Of the land under their
feet" to sack and murder and burn, dashing out
the brains of Innocent children and harmless
men on the rugged pavements OF New York,
with more than savage fendishness burning their
victims, and treating with nhuman terocity every
person Of African descent who appeared on the
streets OF the moo-ruIeu CITY lhe party WHOSE
" watchwords are denunciaton Of the lawful
authorities in the nation, and whose inspiration
is hate of the only loyal race in the inSurgent
States.
But we forbear to follow Mr.. Redfeld's speech
further and we should not have given so much
space to it had he not been principal actor in the
Free Soil party, and furnished in his own political
history an example of the sins he now so sancti-
monion8ly denounces. And the party with which
he is noting TO day in its red-handed. mob VIC.