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THE VOICE OF FREEDOM
POETRY
The following lines were written by the late Marga.
bet Miller Davidson, when she wu ouly twelve
years :
Invocation to Spring.
Bend down from thy chariot, oh I beautiful Spring;
Unfold like a Btandard, thy radient wing,
And beauty and joy in thy rosy path bring!
We long for thy coming, sweet goddess of love!
We watch for thy smile in the pure sky above!
And we sigh for the hour when the wood birds shall sing,
And nature shall welcomo thee, beautiful spring! near
How the lone heart will bound, when thy presence draws
As if borne from this world, to some lovelier sphere,
How the fond soul to meet thee, in rupture shall rise,
When thy first blush has tinted the earth and the skies
Oh! send thy soft breath on the icy-bound stream:
'Twill vanish 'twill melt like the forms in a dream:
Released from the chain, like a child in its glee,
'Twill flow on, unbounded, unfettered, and free!
'Twill leap on in joy, like a bird on the wing,
And hail thy sweet music, oh! beautiful spring:
But tread with thy foot, on the snow covered plain!
And verdure and beauty shall smile in thy train!
But whisper one word with thy seraph-like voice,
And nature and earth shall rejoice! shall rejoice!
Oh spring! lovely gooddess! what form can compare,
With thine so resplendent, so glowing, so fair?
What sunbeam so bright as thine own smiling eye,
From, whose glance the dark spirit of winter doth fly,
A garland of roses is twined round thy brow
Thy cheok. with the pale blush of evening doth glow:
A mantle of green over thy soft form is spread,
And the light wing'd zephyrs play round thy head.
Oh! could I but mount on the eagle's dark wing,
And rest ever beside thee, Spring! beautiful Spring!
While the thought of thy beauty inspireth my brain, '
I shrink from the terror of cold Winter reign
Methinks I behold thee I hear thy soft voice
And in fullness of heart, I rejoice! I rejoice!
But the cold wind is moaning, the drear snow doth fall,
And nought but the shrieking blast echoes my call.
Oh! heed the frail offering an infant can bring!
Oh! grant my petition, Spring! beautiful Spring!
MISCELLANEO UST
Important Jury Trial.
We select the following excellent remarks from
the introductory chapter of J udge Jay's new work,
entitled, ' A View of the Action of the Federal
Government in .behalf of Slavery.' Gentlemen
of the Jury, read and reflect !
Beader, you are empanneled as a juror to try a
plain case and bring in an honest verdict. Ihe
question at issue is not one of l;iv, but of fact
" what is the actual condition of the slaves in the
United states f A plainer case never went to a
jury. Look at it. Twenty-seven hundred thou
sand persons m this country, men, women an
children, are in slavery, is slavery, as a cond
tion for human beings, good, bad, or indifferent
We submit the question without argument, Y
lrg vumm&n nonos, and oosiaeipnco. and a H 1.1 iTKlH
heart ; pronounce upon it. ou have a father.
a mother, a brother, a sister, a wife, or a husban
make the case your own, make it theirs, an
bring in your verdict. The case of Human Rights
against Slavery has been adjudicated m the cour
r . 11 fm
or conscience times innumerable, i tie same ver
dict has always been rendered " Guilty ;" the
same sentence has always been prouounced, " Let
it be accursed," and human nature with her mi
non ecnoes nas rung u rouna me worm in every
language under heaven, " Liet it be accursed,
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it ue accurseq. ms neart is laise to Human na
ture, who will not say " Amen." There is not
man on earth who does not believe that slavery i
a curse. Human beings may be inconsistent, bu
human nature is true to herself. She has uttered
her testimony against slavery with a shriek ever
since the monster was begotten, and, till it perish
es amidst the execrations of the universe, she will
scour the world on Us track, dealing her bolts up
on its head and dashing against it her condemning
brand. A e repeat it, every man knows that sta
very is a curse. Vv hoever denies this, his lips h
Del his heart, iry him ; clank the chains in h
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ears, anu ten nun iney are ior mm. uive Dim
an hour to prepare his wife and children for a life
of slavery. Bid him make haste and ready their
necks for the yoke, and their wrists for the cofHe
chains, then look at his pale lips and trembling
knees, and you have nature's testimony against
slavery.
Two millions seven hundred thousand persons
in tnese Btate3 are in this condition. They were
made slaves and are held such by force, and by
ueing put in iear, ana tins tor no crime ! Keader
what have you to say of such treatment ? Is il
right, just, benevolent? Suppose I should seize
you, ana too you 01 your liberty, drive you into
the field and make you work without pay as long
as you live, would mat be justice and kindness,
or monstrous injustice and cruelty ? Now, every
body knows that the slaveholders do these things
to the slaves every day, and vet. it is stoutlv af.
firmed that they treat them well and kindly, and,
that their tender regard for their slaves restrains
their masters from inflicting cruelties' upon them.
we snail go into no metaphysics to show the ah
surdity of this pretence. The man who rols you
every day, is, forsooth, quite too tender-hearted
ever tocufi or kick you ! True, he can snatch your
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money, out ne uocs it gently lest he should hurl
you. He can empty your pockets without qualms,
but if your stomach is empty, it cuts him to the
quick. He can make you work a life time with
out pay, but loves you too well to let you so hun
gry. Content to fleece you of your rights with "a
relish, but is shocked if you work bareheaded in
summer, or in winter without warm stockings.
He can make you go without your liberty, but
never without a shirt. He can crush, in you, all
hope of bettering your condition by vowing that
you shall die his slave, but though he can cooly
torture your feelings, he is too compassionate to
lacerate your back he can break your heart, but
is very tender of your skin. He can strip you of
all protection and thus expose you to all outrages,
but if you are exposed to the weather, half clad
and half sheltered, how yearn his tender bowels !
What ! slaveholders talk of treating men well,
and yet not only rob them of all they get, and as
fast as they get it, but rob them of themselves, also,
their very hands and feet, all their muscles, and
limbs, and senses, their bodies and minds, their
right to acquire knowledge, and property, and rep
utation, and yet they, who plunder them of all
these, would fain make us believe that their soft
hearts ooze out so lovingly toward their slaves,
that they always keep them well housed and well
clad, never push them too hard in the field, never
make their dear backs smart, nor let their dear
stomachs get empty.
But there is no end to these ridiculous and con
temptible absurdities. Are slaveholders dunces,
or do they take all the rest of the world to be, that
they think to bandage their eyes with such thin
gauzes as these? Protesting their kind regard
For those whom they hourly plunder of all they
have and all they get! What! when they have
seized their victinis.and annihilated all their rights,
still claim to be the special guardians of their hap
piness ? Plunderers of their liberties, yet the care
ful suppliers of their wants ? Robbers of their
earnings, yet watchful sentinels round their inter
ests and kind providers for their comfort ? Filch-
ng all theirtune, yet granting generous donations
for rest and sleep ? Stealing the use of their mus
es, yet thoughtful of their ease ! Putting them
underwriter.?, yet careful that they are not hard
pushed ? Too humane forsooth, to stint the stom
achs of their slaves, yet force their minds to starve,
and brandish over them pains and penalties, if they
dare to reach forth for the smallest crumb of
knowledge, even a letter of the alphabet ?
It is no marvel that slaveholders are always
talking of their kind treatment of their slaves.
The only marvel is, that rnen of sense can be gul-
ed by such professions. Despots always, insist
that they are merciful. The greatest tyrants that
ever dripped with blood have assumed the titles of
most gracious,' 1 most clement, ' most merci.ll
&c.,and have ordered their crouclunjr vassals to
accost them thus. When did not vice lay claim
to those virtues which are the opposites of its ha
bitual crimes ? The guilty, according to their own
showing, are always innocent, and cowards brave,
and drunkards sober, and harlots chaste, and pick
pockets honest to a fault. livery body under
stands this. When a man's tonaue grows thick,
and he begins to hiccough and walk cross legged,
we expect him, as a matter of course, to protest
that he is not drunk ; so when a man is a I way
singing the praises of his own honesty, we in
stinctively watch his movements and look out for
our pocket-books. Whoever is simple enough to
be hoaxed by such professions, should never be
trusted in the streets without somebody to take
care of him. Human nature works out in slave
holders just as itdoes in other men, and in Amer
ican slaveholders iust as it does in English,
French, Turkish, Altrerine, Roman and Grecian.
The Spartans boasted of their kindness to their
slaves, while they whipped them to death by thou
sands on the altars of their gods. The Romans
lauded their own treatment of their bondmen,
while they branded their names on their flesh
time hereafter.be called to act in relation to it,
should rely with strong confidence on his giving
to the subject the impartial consideration its lm
portance demands, and on his arriving at the wise
conclusions, to which, with such a temper, the spir
it of truth would conduct him. But, to this narra
tive which, substantially, is as follows :
When the Ueneral was a lad, there was yet
living almost a centenarian an Indian woman,
called Hannah, reputed a slave. Hannah had been
unusually prolific in early life, and herdecendants
all held as slaves were now numbered by the
hundred. More than thirty of them were held by
Mr. Scott, the General's brother. The manner in
which they came into his hands is not mentioned.
It began to be whispered about in the neighbor
hood, that Hannah's posterity were unlawfully held
in bondage, as she, instead of having been made
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a slave under the Virginia law, which authorized
the enslaving of hostile Indian captives, bad only
" taken vp" (to use a slave-phrase for marriage)
with a slave, with whom she lived as a wife, re
maining on the plantation, and, for the permission
to do so, performing servile work. The estab-
ishi.ient of this fact was all the courts of the
Stale reqired, for the liberation of her decendants.
A suit was instituted by the slaves concerned, lor
their freedom, and the necessary counsel employed.
The chief out-door management such as finding
tire known witnesses searching out others serv
ing the subprenas, Sec. &c, devolved on Frank, an
active, intelligent and faithful servant of the num
ber held by Mr. Scott. The General as all the
boys in the south used, in such caes to feel, twenty
or thirty years ago became warmly interested for
Frank and his co-plaintiffs. He would make the
proper memoranda for him on paper fill up his
blank subphasnas and do for him all that a young
and unprofessional scribe could, to assist him in
preparing his cause for a hearing.
Most of the witnesses as might well be suppos
ed being very old, and scattered about the coun
try, it was a matter of no small difficulty to secure
the attendance of all of them at any one term of
the court. Owing to their non-attendance, the
cause was continued several terms. A short time
before the court was to be held, Frank would go
to his master, and a conversation of this kind
would take place 5
" Master, I come to ask leave to go and serve
my subpaenas.
" Certainly, Frank, you can go, if you think it's
time. With so much at steak lor yourself and
others, Frank, you ought to be dilligent to secure
the attendance ol your witnesses.
" I may stand in need of a little money, sir, to
pay ferriages and other expenses occasionally."
1 rue ! rank, you may ; and here are hve dol
lars for you. But how are you going?"
' Aloot, sir."
Would it not be better, Frank, to take a horse ?
with hot irons, and when old, threw them into You will be able to do your business, and get back,
their fish ponds, or like Cato ' the Just,' stoned quicker. There's Roger take him ; and as he
them to death. It is the boast of the Turks that must be fed, too, Frank, here's as much moremo-
they treat their slaves as though they were their ney as will pay his charges."
children, yet their common name for them is " Thank'ee master." exit Frank.)
' dogs, and for the merest trilles, their leet are At last, however, all the witnesses were lorth
bastinadoed to a jelly, or their heads clipped off coming wereexamined old Hannah was proved
with the cimetar. The Portuguese pride them- never to have been a slave according to lata, and
selves on their gentle bearing toward their slaves,
yet the streets of Rio Janeiro are filled with na
ked slaves, yoked in pairs to carts and wagons,
and whipped by drivers like beasts of burden.
Slaveholders, the world over, have sung the
praises of their tender mercies towards their
slaves. Even the wretches that plied the African
slave trade, tried to rebut Clarkson's proofs of their
cruelties, by speeches, affidavits, and published
pamphlets, setting forth the accommodations of
the "middle passage," and their kind attentions
to the comfort of those whom they had stolen from
their homes, and kept stowed away under the
hatches, during a voyage of four thousand miles.
So, according to the testimony of the autocrat of along,
as partus sequitur ventrem, all her offsping were
declared free. Frank came home from the scene of
triumph, and announced his success to Mr. Scott.
" Well, master, we have gained our cause.
" Have you, Frank? well, I have no doubt jus
tice has been done. But what are such of you
as are with me going to do with yourselves ?"
" Why, master, as lor us, we can t leave you."
" But I cannot afford to pay you the wages you
will expect, Frank,"
V hv as to that, sir, there won t be much in the
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way. li e nave thought, taKe us an together,
little and big, old and young we would be worth
to you what we have been used to receiving all
Russia, he exercises great clemency towards the
Poles, though he exiles them by thousauds to the
snows of Siberia, and tramples them down by
millions, at home. Who discredits the atrocity
perpetrated by Ovando in Hispaniola, Pizarro in
But, Frank, that will never do. I can't agree
to that. You must have something for your work.
I must pay you wages ; at least, I'll try it for a
while."
Mr. Scott accordingly made an estimate of what
Peru, and Cortez in Mexico, because they filled he ought to pay them, ranrinjr from one dollar to
the ears of the Spanish Court with protestations
of their benignant rules ? While they were yok
ing the enslaved natives like beasts to the draught,
working them to death by thousands, in their
mines, hunting them with their blood hounds, tor
menting them on racks, and broiling them on beds
of coals, their representations to the mother conn- only in this way, that any
try teemed witn eulogies ot their paternal sway
The bloody atroeities of Philip II., in the expu!
sion of his Moorish subjects, are mattersof imper
ishabic history. Who disbelieves or doubts them?
And yet his courtiers magnified his virtues and
chanted his clemency and his mercy, while the
wail ot a million victims, smote down by a tern
pest of fire and slaughter, let loose at his bidding:
rose above the Te Deums that thundered from all
Spain's cathedrals. When Louis XIV. revoked
the edict of Nantz, and proclaimed half a million
of his subjects free plunder for persecution, when
from the English Channel to the Pyrennees the
mansrled bodies of the Protestants were dracp-ed
on reekinf hurdles by a shouting populace, he
claimed to be " the father of his people," and wrote
himself " His most Christian Majesty
Major General Scott.
In a recent number of the Emancipator, Mr.
Birney thus speaks of this veteran soldier.
In my last, you will remember, I told you, that
in coming to uoston l leu in with Ueneral Scott,
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wno was on ms way to luaine, that he had giv
en me a pleasant history ot the emancipation ol a
arge number ot slaves in Virginia and that I
nade something like a promise to tell it you. Be
fore doing so, however, let me say iudsinsr from
this interview in connection with his public life
he is among the most interesting men, with whom
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ii nas uuen my lonune, at any time, to meet, ms
views are large comprehensive such as are found
only in statesmen of a superior order. He hears
patiently impartially : answeres without haste.
and, apparently, without prejudice. When, in the
course ol our conversation, I saw, that he rightly
nderstood the influence of the religious principle
ii men uiai ne nau clear nercpntinns nt inhio-
f right, as rules of action, bindinrr, as well on o-ov
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i-jiiiucjHoaouii iiiuiviuuuis, mm neara iroin mm
that.indischarginghis late delicte & critical official
duties along our northern frontier, he had annealed
to his fellow-citizens through these great principles
the secret ol his eminent success waslully reveal
ed.
Whilst General Scott cannot be called an aboli
tionist, neither can he, a slaveholder. He has not
ad leisure, since the anti-slavery movement at
tracted much of the public attention, to give his
mind to jts examination. But should he, at any
six dollars a month. These emancipated slaves
remained with him from that time to his death,
which took place a short time since, except when
seeing one, who, by his industry and enterprise, he
thought could do better lor himself such an one
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ne wouia advise to seeK other employment, it was
left him. since the
death of his brother, Gen. Scott had understood,
they were seeking places in the neighborhood ;
which, he supposed, they would easily obtain, be
cause of the good character they always bore.
The foregoing instance of immediate emancipa
tion ought to put to flight many of the gloomy pre
dictions of our opponents; for
1. iNeither Mr. Scott, nor any of his family
had their throats cut.
2. The emancipated did not leave the service
of the former master, and rove the country as idle
vagabonds.
3. They were content with moderate wages
supported themselves some were enterprising
and prosperous.
4. ihey prove the eagerness of those who are
in bonds, to be 1' KEE, in fact, that after they
had obtained their freedom, they were willing to
remain with Mr. Scott, without any other provis
ion than that which they had been acustomed to
as slaves.
5. It shows, also, the spirit which prevailed
among the Virginians of the old school, who re
garded slave trading as but a grade above pilfering,
or the robbing of hen-roosts in contrast with that
exhibited by Prof. Dew, when coolly calculating
the profit which Virginia derives from the annual
sale of six thovsand of her own natives or with
that of the editor of the Virginia Times, who in
I30 urged that the banking canital of the State
should be increased twelve millions that being
half the sum derived from the previous twelve
months sale to the South of forty thousand hu
man beings born and brought up in the land of
vvytneand Washington. Yours truly,
James G. Birney
Saturday, Feb. 17. Went to the collieries at
Kingwood. My bowels yearned toward the poor
comers, wno, as lar as 1 can una, are very nume
rous, and yet as sheep having no shepherd. Af
ter dinner, therefore, I went upon a mount, and
spake to as many people as came unto me. They
were upward ol two hundred. Blessed be God
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mm i nave now broke the ice : 1 believe 1 was
never more acceptable to mv Master than when
was standing to teach those hearers in the open
neius.
Cheapston, April 7. O how swiftly has thi
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weuii. jiuasuu uu i to me it has Deen but as one
day. How do I pity those polite ones who com
plain that time hnngs heavy on their hands ! Let
them but love Uhnst, and spend their whole time
in his service, and they will find no dull, melan
choly hours. Want ol love to God I take to be
the chief cause of indolence and vapors. O that
they would be up and doing for Jesus Christ
they would not then complain for want of spirits
August lb. Un board ship, bound for Ph
delphia. Began to put those of my family whom
I thought prepared ior it in bands Ii. e. classes
for instruction. The conversion of one of th
rnen is remarkable. Not long since, he was mas
ter of a ship, which was lost near the gulf of
1' lorida. Providence was pleased to throw him
and his crew upon a sand bank, where he contin
ually expected the waters to overwhelm him. At
the end of ten days, they saw a ship, and made a
signal of distress. Ihe ship made towards them
and he went out with his boat, and begged a pas'
sage for himself and men. It was granted him
on condition he would leave some of his men be
hind on the sand bank, but he would not consent
At length the other commander agreed to take
them all. But as soon as ever my friend put off
his boat to letch them, the ship made sail and left
them. All this seemed quite against ; but in the
end, God showed it was intended for the good of
my friend. After thirty days' continuance upon
the sand bank, having fitted up the boat with some
planks they had took of a ship which had been
lost, nine of them committed themselves to the
providence of God. The others cared not to ven
ture in so small a boat. Having sailed about 140
leagues, they at length came to lybee island, off
Savannah. An inhabitant being near that place,
espied them, and brought them home with him.
Being then in Georgia, and informed of what had
happened, I invited the captain to breakfast with
me, and reminded him of the goodness of God.
He then seemed serious ; and coming very prov
identially in the same ship with me, when I re
turned to England, God was pleased to work more
effectually on his soul : anil he is now returning
with me to Georgia again.
Uct. Landed at Lewiston, situated in the
southern part of Pennsylvania. In view of at
tentions received from the inhabitants, he writes,
God is the great householder of the whole world;
all places and persons are so many little parts of
his great family. 1 pray to him before l go, and
find in answer to my prayer, he always commands
some or other of his household to take care of and
provide for me. I bless God, all places are equal
to me, so I am where God would have me to be.
I hope I shall never account myself at home, till
I arrive at my heavenly Father's house above.
New Brunswick, (America,) Nov. 20. Preach
ed about noon, for near two hours, in worthy Mr.
Tennant's meeting-house, to a large assembly ga
thered together from all parts. About three in
the afternoon, I preached again,' and at seven I
baptized two children, and preached a third time
with greater freedom than at either of the former
opportunities. It is impossible to tell with Avhat
pleasure the children of God heard those truths
con firmed by a minister of the church of England,
'which for many years have been preached to them
by their own pastor. Mr. lennant s opposers
mouths were stopt ; several wtre brought under
strong convictions, and our Lord's dear disciples
were ready to leap for joy. Among others fhat
came to hear were several ministers, whom the
Lord has been pleased to honor in bringing many
sons to glory. One was a Dutch minister, named
Freeling Housen, fFreelirurhuvsen.l nastor of
congregation about four miles off from new Brun
swick ; he is a worthy soldier of Jesus Christ
and was the beginner of the great work which
trust the Lord is carrying on in these parts. He
has been strongly opposed by some persons, but
God has always appeared for him in a surprising
manner, and made him more than conqueror
through his love.
Neshamini, Nov. 22. Found above 3000 peo
pie gathered together in the meeting-house and
yard.and Mr. William Tennant preaching to them
When I came up, he soon stopped, and sung a
psalm ; and then I began to speak, as the Lord
gave me utterance. At first, the people seemed
unaffected ; but in the midst of the discourse,
felt such a struggling within myself for the peo
pie, as I scarce ever felt before. After the exer
cises, God was pleased to humble my soul, so that
1 was obliged to retire for a while ; yet we had
sweet communion with each other, and spent the
evening in concerting with each other what meaS'
ures had best be taken for promoting our dear
Lord's kingdom.
Let all the members of your family be regular
ly washed and combed before breakfast ; never
permit them to treat you with so much disrespect
as to appear at your table in a slovenly condition.
It should ever be remembered that the highest re
spect which a child can pay is due its parents.
This respect may be insured by forming correct
habits in youths
' Resist in time all medicine is but play,
When the disease is strengthened by delay."
Never overload the plates or stomachs of your
children ; give them sufficient and suitable food. '
Recollect " milk is. for babes," and " strong meat
for men."
Watch against the practice of leaving portions
of food on the plates oy throwing them about,
which begets a habit of wastefulness highly per
nicious, " Waste not, want not," is a goodprov-.
erb, and should be kept in mind.
Be yourself the judge, both of the quality and.
quantity of food your children should eat. There
are many things which may appear, to the eye of
a child, " pleasant and good for food," which, nev
ertheless contain the seed of disease and death.
Entirely refuse them sweet and rich cake.
Let neatness and order regulate all your owt
movements, and then you can insist, with Droprie
ty, that your children have a proper place for ev
ery thing, and that every thing be kept in its place.
Read to your children as often as practicable, fa
miliar stories, and explain and illustrate what you
read. This plan will both amuse and improve
them.
Encourage the natural curiosity of vour chil
dren. This will, at a very early age, develope
the peculiar traits of their character.
Always take care to blend instruction with,
amusement no amusement without instruction.
Bo methodical in all your domestic arrange
ments. lhis adds most essentially to the com
forts of a family.
Let the hours devoted in family devotion be held
sacred ; suffer no visiter or company to put them
aside.
Never allow your authority, as a parent, to be
disputed ; be firm, dignified, mild and composed.
Be careful to decide lustly between your chil-.
dren, when disputes and difficulties occur. Re-
member the many cdlored coat of Joseph.
.Never compel your children to commit portions.
of Scripture to memory as a punishment. This
unreasonable practice has ruined many a youth.
Always impress the minds ol your children
with this truth that allowing them to learn is a
favor.
Never treat as a matter of indifference a dispo-
ltion to practice cunning or equivocation, which
is the first developement of a disposition that, if
uncontrolled, will form a most degraded character.
Never threaten' without
promise without performing.
punishing ; never
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ICP Office, one door West from the Post-OlBce State it.
Montpelier, January 5th, 1839.
Wliitefield, a Hundred Years ago.
A friend has furnished us the following extracts
from a journal of the celebrated Rev. George
vvniteheld, which appears to have been written in
17jy. fastors Journal.
London, Jan. 3. Staid at home, to receive
those who wanted to consult me. Blessed be God,
from seven in the morning till thiee in the after
noon, people came, some telling me what God
had done for their souls, and others crvino- nut
" What shall we do to be saved ?" I referred sev
eral till Thursday. How does God work by un
worthy hands ! His mercies melt me down !
Short Maxims for Young Mothers.
It is impossible for us to present our readers
with abstracts from many excellent publications
which come immediately under our eye. It is
sometime since we have enriched our columns
with any thing from the Mother's Monthly Jour
nal, published at Utica, by Bennett and Bright,
and edited by Mrs. Conant. It is an excellent
work as .will be seen by the following extracts.
Lhr. Watchman.
Rise o early in the morning that you may be
able to secure at least half an hour for reading the
Scripture and prayer before your domestic con
cerns require your attention. You will find these
exercises admirably adapted to prepare oc strength
en you to encounter with a becoming temper and
spirit, the trials and vexations of the dav.
Accustom your children to make prayers and
praise to God, the giver and preserver of life, the
first employment in the morning and the last at
night.
Remember that the duties of a mother are un
transferable ; therefore, except in cases ol una
voidable necessity, never suffer the devotioual ex
ercises of your children to be superintended by
another.
See that your daughters rise early, and that
they employ themselves about such domestic af
fairs as are "suited to their years and capacities.
Never suffer young children to requiro services
from others which they can perlorm lor them
selves. A strict observance of this rule will be of
incalculable advantage to them through every pe
riod of life.
POT-AS II KETTL.ES !
OF superior quality, and exra sized Caldrons, suit
able to set in Arches, for sale by the Brandon Iron
Co., at the Foundry, and by their Agent, Zenas Wood,
at Montpelier. Al'so, CORN S11EIXERS; IMPROVED
PLOUGHS; CULTIVATOR TEETH, and a general va
riety of STOVES. Including the Improved "Conant Pa
tent," which is believed to be superior to any of the mod
ern stoves with small fire arches.
Sheet Iron, elevated ovens will be furnished both at
Brandon and Montpelier for the Conant Patent, Rotary,
& V ermontCook, which, with the Cast Iron Oven attached
to each of these Stoves, renders them the most desirable
Cooking Stoves now in the market.
The cost of the corn sheller will be saved in labor by
ordinary farmers in two seasons, besides the saving of room
they afford in getting out corn.
JOHN A. CONANT, Agent.
Brandon, Jan. 1839. 3 tf
Wanted
IN payment for The Voice of Freedom, by the subsci
bers, a lot of good dry Wood, also, for accomodation of
town subscribers, they will take all articles of produce, us
ually consumed in a boarding house.
ALLEN & POLAND.
Boarding
House !
FEW gentleman boarders can be accommodated with
board, with single rooms if desired, on reasonable
terms. A. CARTER.
Montpelier Village, Jan. 5, 1839. l:tf.
ANTI-SLAVERY ALMANACS FOR 1839, F sale at
this office.
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AGENTS.
Derby, Dr Richmond.
Pcrkinsville, W M Guilfori,
Brookjield, D Kingsbury Esq
Randolph, C Carpenter, Esq.
East Bethel, E Fowler, Esq.
H'atcrbury, L Hutchins.Esq
E S Newcomb.
Waitsjield, Col Skinner.
Moretown, Moses Spoflbrd,
Warren, F A Wright, Esq.
Water ford, R C Benton ,Eq
East Roxbury, S Rugglcs.
Fcrrisburgh, R T Robinson.
Vergennes, J E Roberts.
IVestfield, O Winslow, Esq.
Corinth, Insley Dow.
Willtamstown , J CFarnam.
Chester, J Stedman, Esq.
Springfield, Noah Saflbrd.
Franklin, Geo S Gale. -
Waterville, Moses Fisk , Esq.
C ClHydepark, Jotham Wilson,
Klmore, Abel Camp, Esq.
Hinesburgh, W Dean
Burlington, G A Allen. Esq.
Montgomery, J Martin.
Lincoln, Benj Tabor.
Calais, Rev. Benj. Page.
Sudbury, W A Williams.
Pomfret, Nathan Snow
Brandon, Dr Hale.
Jamaica, h Mcrrifield, Esq
IIiMardton,WL Denison.
Norwich, Sylvester Morris.
Hartford, Geo. Udall, Esq.
Tunbridge, Hervcy Tracy.
Strafford, V Sanborn, Esq
Barnet, L P Parks, Esq,
Morrist otcn.Rev S Robinson
Morrisville, LPPoIand, Esq.
Cornwall, It t Haskell.
Craftsbury, W J Hastings.
Westford, R Farnsworth.
Essex, Dr J W Emery.
Uunderhill, Rev E B Baxter.
Barnard, Rev T Gordon.
East Barnard, W Leonard,
Walden, Perley Foster.
Starksboro' , Joel Bat ley.
St. Albans, E L Jones, Esq.
Rutland, R R Thrall, Esq.
Royalton, Bcla Hall,
Carter.
Danville, M Carpenter,
Glover, Dr Bates.
St. Johnsbury, Rev J Morse.
Middlebury, M U Imrdon.
Cambridge, Martin Wires.
Bristol, Joseph Otis.
Hinesburgh, John Allen.