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THE VOICE OF FREEDOM. POETRY. From the Emancipator. . ' PRO-SLAVERY POETRY. Mr. Lcaviti,l have read in the Emancipator your re peated ironical cull for p"io-slavery poetry, I have written the following lines that you and all other funutici may cease chuckling over the vain notion that the Muse is opposed to slavery. To suy nothing of the verse, the sentiments they breatho will certainly meet with a response in every truly Christian or philanthropic heart, while they will sound harsh, I grant, on tho ears of fanatics. Who Muse of rapturous poesy, Feels pleasure of the firstdegree ? Who hath the sweetest joys that flow in a poor mortal's soul below? What are the cc?tacies of mind Most clear, most.pleasant, most refined, And what the rising scenes that lie Most lovely on the mortal eye? Sing, Muse, once more, and may I hear The song most charming to my tar. Joy of my soul, the crack of whip, Like dreams upon my morniag sleep ; . The merry clanking of the chains, While the blood gallops in my veins; The wail like song of summer birds, Or bleat of lambs, or lowing herds Of mothers for their babies sold, (Those little brats,) for shining gold; ' Of women, desolato of heart, From sooty husbands torn span; Of children, never more to see Their smoky sires, or press their Knee; Of huge black forms in shape of men, Never to see their wives again, Nor stand their meok-eyed babes among With soft words on the negro tongue: . These, these are pleasant things to me, ' Imparting still a joy and glee As pure and holy as entwino . Thoheaits of mortals drinking wins. O; S'avery! fallen from above, 1 '. I love thee with a father's love; Thou in this weary world of toil To me shall be both balm and oil; ' Who to his wounded heart applies It, Doth feel the cure when first be tries-it ; Are any in affliction found Because they hate to till the ground? Do any shed the briny tear For love they have' to domineer? To any is the bread tho best That others earned while he had rest? Does any love the whip to crack Upon frail woman's naked back! 0, Slavery! joy of iron hearts, Thou curest all these dismal smarts, And others too for tell me whee la mortal ill the slave don't bear, While the blest masters feel the load Rolled oil to other, for their good ; So it improves your horse to stir him, Ride on his back, and sharply spur him. O, bright Elysian fields that lie Where the slaves' tears tire never dry; .O, fertile soil, forever' red, Where the full negro's heart hath bled; " O, land of whips and home of chains,. Landwhore perennial weeping reigns, Who would not fatten on thy soil " Not doomed himself to bear the toil? My heart leaps still to think of thee, i . Lan(j 0f the brave home of the free."" There like a deer before the hound If labor chaso us o'er the ground We'll gently lay our limbs to rest, And sleep on Sorrow's heaving breast.. Friend or tub Patriarchs. Fioni the Liberator. The Slave B o y ' s W i s h .- BY ELIZA LEE FOLLEN, I wish I was that little bird ' " Up in the bright blue sVy, That sings and flies just where he will,- , , And no one asks him why. I wish I were that little brook That runs so swift along, Through pretty flowers and shining' stones, Singing a merry song. I wish I was that butterfly,. Without a thought or care, Sporting my pretty brilliant wings Like a flower in the air. , I wish I was that wild, wild deer , I saw the other day, ' ; . Who swifter than an ariw flew Through the forest far away. f I wish I was that little cloud, By the gentle south wind driven, ' ' Floating along so free and bright,, Far, far up into heaven. . . , I'd rather be a cunning fox : And hido me in a care; I'd rather be a savage wolf, . Than what I an a slave. My mother calls me her good boy,. ,.' My father calls me brave; What wicked action have I done,. That I should by a slave? I saw my little sister soloV So will (hey do to mo; . .. , . , My Heavenly Father, let me die, . . For then I shall be free. From the Pennsylvania Freeman. Lonis.-illo (Ky.) Bulletin. ' This paper, edited by William Wallace, Esq., in the number of the 3d inst., says : " Abolitionism, we think, is falling back. It is a wonder to us how such men as Whiltier, and some others, could ever have advocated a doctrine r fjilsn in feclintr so destructive to the country, nnd so mud in the very abstract. But the torch of abolition has almost burnt to ashes, and God send that it may never again threaten our political edi fice willi conflagration ! We draw the above conclusions from the milder and less seditious tone of the emancipating papers of the East." It is by no means a new thing to hear of abo litionism "falling lack" or " dying away." At least as often as semi-annually, since the forma tion of lu Aericanin Anti-Slavery Society, the friends of that doomed institution, so appropriate ly denominated "peculiar" have consoled them selves with the idea that lha opposition was loos ing strength and "djing away." .If the pro slavery press generally is to be believed, we have been totally discomfited some score of times, and It is hardly decorous for us to presume to exUt at all, alter so many grievous paper annihilations, Our southern friends certainly havo reason to marvel at cur pertinacious adherence to vitality', and to exclaim with Macbeth, when the slain Ban- jiio "pushed him from his stool," " The time has been, That when the brains were out the man has died. The readiness of our southern friends to give im plicit confidence to the boastful bulletins of their northern allies has often amused us. Tiie pelting of an Anti-Slavery lecturer the chivalrous dis persion of a fetnalo Anti-Slavery Society reso lutions from cotton speculators, and northern merchants in the southern trade, and even the put noli; outbursts ol Yankee pedlers and clock vrn ders, in behalf of our olorious Union and their southerr. custom have been hailed, one after an other, as death blows to " Fanaticism." At one time abolitionis is represented as expiring under the heat ot ecclesiastical power ; next the lugs celebrate Us luneral obsequies at raneuil Hall and finally the democracy of the Regency Slate uuiu u ut:uuj-uiM!.t: in uiu vwviuiii ui ui. xufii- many. If a Methodist Bishop refuses to license an abolition candidate for the ministry, slavehol ders from the Potomac to the Mexican Gulf con grattilate each other upon the " dying away of abolition. II a northern theological professor. witn the prospect ol southern 3tudenis and slave holding patrons, with well lined pockets before his eyes, takes up . the Bible lo prove that the npostla Paul turned slave-catcher for his friend Philemon,. the savor of hi sanctity rerfeshes the entire South, and it is confidently predicted that abolition cannot long survive the battering ram of such a biblical exegesis. Was not the veto message of President Van Buren hailed as the certain precursor of the death of ubolition ? Was it not killed outright by Pinckney's report anil aid not the te Ueuins ol victory over it, (ol low through the south the news of the passage of rattou s gagl.- w? Did not Lalhoun.resolve.it to death in the Senate three years aso ! Did not Atherton stub it under the fifth rib lara winter and Henry Clay perorate and gesticulate over it with his drawn datrp-er? 'Was it not scourged m the nerson of Dresser by the Nashville chivalry hung, in anticipation, by Senator Preston drowned in the Ohio river, in the shape of types and printing presses, by Kentucky slave traders and Buck-eye dusgli faces f Has it not been tarred and feathered, until, like the hero uf Tirmbull's 'McFingnl,' " Not- Mais' son with wings fur cars, Such plumps around his visago wears, Nor Milton's six-winged angel gathers, ; Such superfluity of feathers." And all that can be said of il at the present lime is what has been reiterated for ilia last live years. witli a perseverance worthy o! all admiration it is "failing back," "dyi.jg away !" To calcu late how long a period would be required to put an end to it, at this rate, would tax the arithine 'lieal genius of another Zerah Colluni. lheeitor of the 13 ullftm is inclined to marvel at the fact, that we could evsf have advocated the doctrine of abolition. We will have the cliari- it for gran; d that he does not know From the Libsity Bell. -Perfect Freedom. SI MARY CLARK. '" Freedom! Oh 'tis a lovely thought!" Freedom to do and td be-a we ought.. To be free without to be free Within, ' Mind, body, and spirit unshackled by sin. This, this, is tho " glorious liberty;" He alone is the freeman whom truth makes free. Ring, Liberty Boll! tilj that echo thrills From (he ocean rocks to tho inland hills! Till the sound of the scourge and the fcttor is o'er. And wrong nJ bondage are known no more. ty to take what that " doctrine" is. It is no new thing : but is all summed up in the Keniucky bill of rights: thai each moral agent has the rigiit of personal ownership that each human being has inalienably the rights of life, liberty and the pur suit ol happiness; and consequently, that slave me antagonist oi mis aocmnc, is wrong in it self, or as a celebrated Kentucky lawyer said iii 1830, il is "all wrong, and no circumstance can niiiKo it ouier wise.. . But the "doctrine is false in feeling." Is it then wrong to tore the cdusc'pf freedom to give uur sympathies, to the oppressed ? Is is the same feeling', sanctified and purified, as we trust, on the purt of ihe abolitionists, :by its manifestations, only iaipeaceful and moral effort?, which urged Israel from her Egyptian taskmasters: which has consecrated every spot where man has striven for his rights the .'Tliermopylajs, the Marathons, the Bannuckburns, the, '-Lexingtons which has worn with the pressure o( pilgrim sandals, thu era's around the grave . of the deeper of Mount V ernom: which swells the marts at ihe mention of the Dc Witts JcVaii ArteveliJs of Holland, the Sid ueys'and Kussclls of England the Emmets. und Fitzgerals of Ireland, the Grecian Botznris, the HeUeiiar. Iloftr and Winkelried, the ..Haitian L'O verture which has. made the field of Kun- nymead, the rock '"'of. Plymouth,' the Polytechnic school of Paris, and the old Hall ol Indepen dence now before us, dear to the lover of freedom throughout" the, earth : - ; " To the Palestine And Meccas of the mind.""' : It is the same feeling which impelled tho in fant navy to ihe pirate-haunted Mediterranean, and before the walls of Tripoli, in blood and fire, and amid the groans of dying . men, tq proclaim liberty to the American tenants of Moorish dun geons ; the samo-whicn widuced Kentucky s elo quent statesman to summon as with the war blast or a lyrlaeus, the people ol the United S. to the relief of the impressed sailors incarcer ated in the floating dungeons of the British na vy; which called forth from the same eloquent lips, a tribute "of sympathy for the South Ameri can revolutionists, Indian, European & African, striking side by side, for liberty, in the fraternity of pntnotism ; for Greece in her, struggle with ihe Turk ;' for Poland perishing under the iron rule of Kussia. Will ' the editor of the Eulletin J drown such a feeling ? But the doctrine, we are further told, is "des tructive, to the country!" Tho doctrine of the Declaration of Independence and the Kentucky bil,' of rights inimical to ihe true interesis of the United States! Tho abolitionist3 seek nothing beyond what is contemplated in these honored declrataions, viz: that the blessing ot life and lib' erty, and the pursuit of happiness, may be left open to tho enjoyment of all. They know that although the doctrine ot the declaration ol 1770 was denounced as 'destructive' and dangerous by the cowned heads, and possessors of arbitrary power in Europe, and their friends in this conn try, it has, in its practical ' effects,' falsified the predictions of its eneinins. It' has indeed been "destructive" to slavery in one half of the States but will our Kentucky friend argue that in so do- mg it has inflicted any real injury upenihem Will ho even deny that it has, on the contrary been their benefactor? Will he deny that the superior prosperity of Ohio and Pennsylvania ihe higher value of tlie.r lands the more lull u velopement of their resources, as compared with Virginia and even Kentucky, are proofs of the principle tint the freedom of 'the laborer onhan ces the value of the sod ho .-tills? Kentucky, the garden of the West, with a soil rich as the Egyp tain Delia, with her mild climate, her ncLle for ests, her river navigation, and her commanding central positisn,- needs nothing but her practical adoption of the principle of emancipation, to be come the leading btate of Hie confederacy Slavery has kept her p pulation sparse has ar rested the hand of improvement rolled from her the tide of emigration and enterprise, and polled her to tame down her youthful energies to keep pace with l!.3 decrepitude and permature decay of Viramia and the Larohnas. Should then, the Kentuckians generally imiiutc the nobl example of James G; Birney, docs the editor be lieve that il woulu prove "destructive to any thing worthy of preservation ? Would r.s des tructive" effects be any" more pernicious than those of thehealihful breeze which sweeps away pestilence from an infectedcity ? But again, "the doctrine is mad in the very ab stract. Yet it is a madness which we share in common with Washington and Jefferson, Frank lin, Rush and Jay, of our own country: with Wilberforce, Clarkson, Brougham, O'Connell, De Broglie and La Marline, on the other side of the Atlantic. The circumstance that ihe slaveholder supposes us to be mad in our advocacy of human Ireedom, only proves his moral insanity, ins no- lions of the compalability of slavery and free dom in t':e same government, and his assumption that slavery, violating the laws of Ood and na lure, the Decalogue and Declaration of Indepen dence, is a divine institution as well as the cor ner stone of republicanism, are precious sped mens of moral absurdity, and deserve a place, witli similar absurdities, described by Mi'lon, as flying - . ' "Over the backside of the world, far o.T Into a limbo broad and large, and called ' Theraradiso of focK" Seriously, in concluding these hasty remarks, we wish to call the attention of our Kentucky friend to eoino of tlio frrounJd of our confidence in the triumph of abolition principles. We do this in no spirit of , unmanly exultation over the growing embarrassments of slaveholders, nor of menace, nor provocation, but with a sincere desire for his true welfare. In 1332 the first Anti-Slavery Society, consis ting ot twelve . members, was lormed in JNew England. We have now an organization consis ii:ig of between one thousand five hundred and two thousand Anti-blavery societies, extending through all the free states, and concentrating its action in a parent society, under the direction of central committee. 1 hese societies are bound together by a common object and a common con stitution. The influence of this mighty and growing organization, may be seen in the immense increase of petitions to Congress and the State Legislatures:: in the constant publication and dif fusion of appeals, arguments and facts on the subject of slavery and emancipation; m the pow er which it exerts over the public press"; in the great amount of political strength, which item- bodies; in the nnli-slaveri' action which it is pro- duemtr m fliherent ecclesiastical bodies in the North and Weft; in its successful efforts to secure a jury trial lo 'persons claimed as fugitive slaves, in several states; in the approving resolutions of northern legislatures ; and in its successful opposi tion to the annexation of Texas. But ve by no means place pur main dependence on our organization. We rely upon the pledsed word of the Almighty for the deliverance of the slave. . v e have an auxiliary in every conscience at the South, not wholly hardened by the exercise of tyranny. We know that whrle prayers arc going up to the rather of mercies, from almost every portion ot our land, ana troni us purest hearts, against the abominations of slavery, and in behalf of the wronged bondman, not a slave holder dares to break the silence-of his clos-1 communion; not a priest, ; whose hire is with the price of blood," dares lift his hands at a south ern altar, in supplication to the God of justice for , . . . f .1. ' . TT P . 1 .1. - . ie preservation oi mis system. e leei inni we have with us the best minds nnd hearts of our land its holiest sympathies 'the mighty sense of living religious obligation, the approvincr echoes of .the voice of our fathers not yet dead, omong our hills and ralliesthe 'all hail' of the enlight ened world" the unconquerable strength of a good cause allies and coadjutors in every gen erous impulse ot the human iicart- in every thing that ennobles manhood, or awakens the sym pathies, or calls forth the moral heroism of woman voices of encourntement from across the waters, from France, and Germany, and Europe n bow of promise'spnnning tho skies in the est Indies repenting slaveholders bidding us Cod speed and the blessings of the oppressed colored man, and the perisliinp slave restint: updn us.": Can we then doubt foij a moment that the object of our labor will be attained ? Does the editor of the Bulletin doubt it? When truth shall become falsehood; when the ordinances of Charles X, and the maxims of the holy alliance are substi tuted for the Declaration of Independence; when the slave laws of the South and the resolutions of the slaveholding churches shall take the place of the Bible; when nature shall case to bo true to herself; and nature's God shall cease to vindi cate his claim to man's obedience then, nnd then only, may it be said in truth of our principles, that .1 ... !, . tney ore "uying away. FILLSa 9 1R. CJ. IS. PIIEJLPS COMPOUND I A IP ENTIRELY VEGETABLE, ' A new and valuable remedy for all diseases arising from impurities of the blood, Morbid Secretions of the Liver nud Stomach, Also, a subsistute for CALOMEL, as a CATHARTIC in FEVERS, and all Billious diseases, and for ordinary Family Physic. This popular Medicine which has received such general approbation as a remedy for Dyspepsia, liilliouu and Acid Stomachs, Jaundice, Heartburn, Cortivencss, Head ache &.C. &c, and which is now prescribed by many of the most respectable Physicians, is fur sale by authorized Agents in most of the towns in tho United States, and at wholesale by tho Proprietors, Hartford, Conn. ' A fow only of the latest certificates can be inserted here, for numerous others see large pamphlets just published. New Haven, Ohio, Dec. 4lh. 1838. Gentlemen, Seeing tho very high estimation held forth by the Agent in this section, and by those who had the op portnnity of trying Dr. Phelps' Compound Tomato Pills and being under belief of the firm having restjored healthy secretions of the glandular system more than once, hy us ing tho iomato Apple' as a vegetable ; I have been indue ed to trv this medicine in various diseases.'. In the Autum nal Intermittcnts, prevalent in this section of the States, I have no doubt Dr. Phelps' Compound Tomato Pills will, in a great measure, if not entirely supersede the use oj Lai.' omei.. I believe that m diseased liver they are more prompt in their effect, and as efficient, as Calomel I have tried them in various other diseases, as Viheumatism, JJvs pepsia, Jaundice, &c, with tho most happy effects. As far as my knowledge extends, I have no hesitancy in rec ommencing them as a highly valuable lannly medicine Xours respectful v, THOMAS JOHNSTON. From a gentleman of high respectability ; dated New York, Nov. 6th, 1838. To R. G. Phelps, Dear Sir : I have used your Com pound Tomato Pills, tho past season, for tho Liver com plaint ; and am happy to add, with decided benefit : anp therefore ta!;o trreat pleasure in recommending them well from a sense of gratitude to the benevolent Proprietor as with a view of serving the cause of philanthropy ; from a sense of duty I owe the public lo bearing my testimony in favor of this the world s. invaluable medicine, Six years since, I suffered from a malady , pronounced by the concurrent opinion of a council of physicians, a chron ic inflammation of the Liter ; and underwent a skilful mercurial treatment ; being confined for many months and at length mainlv restored to a tolerable degree of health, though not without an apprehension that I should be similarly afflicted. 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Geneoal 1 Agent for Washington.Orange, Calcocnia, Em ox, Orleans, Franklin Lamoillo, Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties, will be promptly attended to. PROSPECTUS OF A NEW PERIODICAL DENOMINATED THE 9 OR MORAL EXPURGATOR, AND SCIEN ..TIFIC AND LITERARY EXPOSITOR. H"T is in contemplation to commence the issue of a sem BL monthly Periodical, upon the first of January, 1840. with the foregoing unique cognomon.and which is design ed to bo entirely original, and to be presented to its patrons in tho state of a well executed royal octavo of sixteen doub le-column pages, amounting, in the year, to nearly one thousand of those ordinarily presented in the book form; constituling a volume which, it is intended, shall be as useful as ample, and which is offered to subscribers, at the uncompensatory price of two dollars a year, payable, however, unexceptionably in advance. Tho object of the present enterprise is not to create i substitute for thoso more elaborate, volumiuous and supe rior Periodicals, with which persons who are able may bo abundantly supplied from abroad; but to afford a cheap and convenient vehicle for recording and circulating the readable lucubrations of our sectional Literati; nnd which, we hope, will be, the more abundantly elicited in thechar acter of manuscript contributions, by tho proffered opror tunity for promulgation. The character of tho work is designed lo be neither tle ol ogical, political, sectarian nor partial; and, therefore, hipen to universal, chaste discussion and recuperative irony. Its columns are intended to be, mostly, appropriated to the investigation of physical and intellectual humanity; to the contemplation of man ns a moral and social being, whelm ed in responsibilities, ignorance and delinquency, with their, inevitably, disastrous consequences; . to expose and reform the ignorance, error and vices of society, by reflec ting, convincingly, upon each, its deformity hazards and calostrophies, and to scourge or ridicule, both, fashionable and unfashionable licentiousness and folley, out of credit with their votaries, andfout of humor with themselves: In fine, it is intended as an oracle, through which, truth mav be fearlessly uttered; and in whose responses, Virtue shall find ample encouragement to emulation, while Vice shall see Mcnc Tekel written on every wall of its habitation. These are the self-evidently, laudable objects, for the at tainment of which our contemplated periodical is to be in stituted ; and for whose encouragement, we would, confi dently, yet courteously, present our claim to public patron age; not, however, without the provision of its being cheer fully relinquished, whenever the value of the work shall havo lailed to justify its continuanee. Montpelier, Oct. 1839. By the provisional Editorial Committee ERY A. ALLEN, AVING procured from Breton new and elegant founts of the most FASHIONABLE TYPE, is prepared to prosecute the above business, in all its branches : and has no hesitation in saying that all work entrusted to him will be executed in a style not inferior to that of any oth er establishment in Vermont, JCIP Office, one door east from the Post-Office state it. Attention Artillery Companies R. R. HIKER, (State sreet, opposite the Bank,) AS this day received from NEVV-Y'ORK, Scarlet Broad Cloth, for Military Companies' Uniforms, Ar tillery Buttons, Y'ellow Wings for Sargeants, Red Cock feathers, Red Pompoms, Red 12 inch Vulture Plumes, Yellow Lace, Yellow Epauletts, Red Sashes &c. for sale cheap for cash. 30 doz. Infantry Hat Plates, White Cockfeathers, VV'hite Wings for Sargeants, 12 inch White Vulture Plumes, Swords and Belts, Flat Eagle Buttons, Laces, Epauletts. &c. for sale cheap for cash. Montpelier, June 10, 1830 24:lf SB"ERINOS, cheaper than ever, mav be found at Its. jewett, howes & co's. Sept. 27. ' . . 30:3wis USLIN Edgings and Insertion, Cauibxip, do Thread do. do. Plain and fig'd Swiss Muslim jus received at JEWETT, HOWES- CO'S. -" Sept. 27.' 39:3wis G ADDLERY, Haru Ware, Neat's Oil, Patent Leather 3 &c. for sale by CUTLER & JOHNSON. Montpeler, April 27th, 133."). . MILITARY GOODS. "UST received from New York, by R. R. RIKER, ' State street, opposite the Bank, a larco assortment of MILITAJiY GOODS, suitable for the present regulation of the Mililia of this Slate. Terms Cash. May 6th. 1839. 19:tf HATS, CAPS, FURS &C.&C. "BTUST received at the Hat and Fur Store of Badger Cfl & Partridge, opposite tho Village Hotel on Slate Stroet; a new and splendid assortment of hats of various descriptions viz. Brush, Plain, Mole skin, Nutria and Com mon Naps, also Otter, Nutria, Seal and Cloth Caps of the most approved fashions"; Fur, Seal, Nutria and Russia Dog Collars; Buffalo Robes, Boas, Muffs and Neckties, Stocks, Dickovs, Bosoms.RufMe & Plain ; f-uspenders, Gloves, Um brellas, Capvisors, Pantaloon Straps, Stc, &c. Ladies and Gentlemen please give us a.call ? - . BADGLU & PARTRIDGE. Oct. 25th. 1839. ... .48:tf THE VOICE OF FREEDOM Is published every Saturday morning, at $2 a year, pay able in advance. 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