Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-06
Gbt frttman.
MONTPELIER, VI:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1867.
SectiOnaliSIn.


throughout 1t is very pleasant to the ey
and, (if we except its politics. to the unde
standing also 1t is ably conducted %:
per. and gives considerable more readin
matter than most of the Vermont Journal.
We never could quite understand WHY SO ser
sible a man friend Willard should be lea
so far away into the wilderness of radicalism
lie doubtless has some good reason for losin
faith in the teachings of the fathers, and fol
lowing after strange men, He always has
reason for his acts. But SO long as the pic
ture of Washington hangs in our bedroom
we cannot forget his frequent warnings to tt
country to avoid sectional parties. and T.
adopt only such political issues as woul,
draw to their support fair proportion of tn
people in every section of the country II,
FIREMAN las for ten years supported part,
composed almost wholly of Northern men
and, OF course, sectional party Were
Washington alive, the FREEMAN would have
one more democrat to oppose.
Expressing our grateful appreciation of tho
complimentary part of the above notice, We
cannot decline to write a paragraph or two
respecting the charge of sectionalism. Our
friend OF the Union may try to comfort him.
self by an effort to draw political inspiration
from the picture of Washington hanging in
his bed room, but we suspect he knows Just
a. little as we know, what the politics of
Washington would now be if he were on the
earth. Washington was mt much of Dem
ocrat IN his Hfe-time-certainly not a Jeffer-
son Democrat-but, we believe was reckoned
as Federalist- If he were alive now he
might be a Democrat and might disagree
with the FREEMAN: but he would find the
United States so much changed that we seri-
4, -.
was Democrat or Republican and he
probably would mt vote until he had read the
papers and posted HIMSELF in the new
order of things
Democrats Of this generation never fail to /
improve an opportunity to quote Washing
tons Farewell Address. But it is rather
hard on Washington to press him at this late /
day into the service of the party which, as is I
now claimed, was founded by jefferson. and /
was most certainly not in its origin entirely
agreeable to Washington Indeed. we sus-
pect a great part of the Farewell Address
was meant and understood in it's day to be a
shot fired directly into the camp of the young
Democracy of 1896. 1t is, however, one of
the peculiarities of Democratic teaching. that
- --N'N 49, NHN VI utdu statesmen.
whose political career when alive it always
opposed, vast amount of sound political
wisdom The Democratic party never gave
vote for Daniel Webster living, vet its pa
pers and speakers praise without stint Dan
lei ebster dead just the beardless Dem
ocracy of the last century did not much
admire the Federalism of Washington. al
though the Democrats OF the last half of this
century hang Washington picture in their :
houses.
We have noticed that the Democratic quo {
tatIons from Washington usually stop with
the caution against sectional parties There ,
is another declaration of the great Virginian 1
which we would not have these Democrats I
overlook 1t Is far above mere political wis +
dom, and was written when its author was a
adjusting his final account with this world. a
in view Of his final account in another state I
of existence 1t solemnly commences. "IN i
THE NAME OF COP, AMEN; and proceeds O
as follows r
Henl--C pom the decease of my wife. it is "
my Will and desire that all the slaves whom
! hold an my Oicn right shall receive their
freedom To emancipate them during her
be attended with such insuperable difficulties e.
Dn account of their lntermixture by marriage Il
with the dover negroes, as to excite the most n
painful sensations, if not disagreeable conse-
quences TO the latter. while both descriptions III
are in the occupancy of the same proprietor d
Il not being in my power, under the tenure fe
BY which the dover negroes are held TO -
them. And whereas. among those =
Who Will receive freedom according to this r
ievIse, there may be some, who, from old T.
ige, or bodily lnfirmIties, and others, who. ev
IN account of their infancy, will be unable m
% support themselves, it is my will and de- ~
ire. that all, who come under the first and I'll
econd description. shall be comfortably co
lothed and fed by INV heirs while they live. in
md that such of the latter description as n
ave no parents living, or, if living are I'M w
bic or unwilling to provide for them. shall '"
'e bound by the court until they shall arrive I'll
t the age of twenty-five wears and in cases co
' here no record can be produced, whereby an
heir ages can be ascertained, the Judgment
I the court, upon its own view of the sub Pc
sct, shall be adequate and final. The ne pl;
roes thus bound, are (by their masters and vic
lIstresses) to be taught to read and write
nd TO be brought up to some useful occupa-
ION. agreeably to the laws of the Common l.
-ealth of Virginia, providing for the support 'u
orphan and other poor children And l an
o hereby expressly forbid the sale or trans tn,
N. on
ny slave | may die possessed of, under any =.
retence whatsoever. And | do, moreover
lost pointedly and most solemnly enioin it 81
pom my executors hereafter named or the III
IrvIvOrs of them. to that this clause re- 20
1ectIng slaves, and every part thereof be nd
'ligiously fulfilled at the epoch at which it
directed to take place, without evasion, MOI
eglect. or delay, after the crops which NAV du1
zen be on the ground are harvested. partic- mo
arly as it respects the aged and infirm civ
cling that a regular and permanent fund
established for their support as long as
ere are subjects requiring it not trusting
the uncertain provision to be made by in and
viduals And to my mulatto man, William. Civ,
ling himself William Lee, give immedi- Coo
E freedom, or, if he should prefer it, (on
count of the incidents which have befallen Ne'
m, and which have rendered him incapable son
walking, or of any active employment,) to Mr..
main In the situation he now is it shall be o,,a
tiOnal in him to do in either case, how
er, | allow him an annuity of thirty dol az
g during his natural life, which shall be poll
dependent of the victuals and clothes he thin
5 been accustomed to receive, if he choose
. last alternative but in full with his III
edom, if he prefers the first and this | sacb
e him, testimony of nv sense of his
achment to me, and for his faithful servi- port
during the revolutionary war. stltu
The Union is Of course familiar with this it re
t act of emancipation, and we trust has it the
nted in letters of gold, and hung as of ii
with its picture of Wash