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THE VOICE OF FREEDOM. nfilip now veneration in the Sabbath school and. above all, our million tongued press. Through nil these shall circulate freedom's life-blood. In to every one shall be inwrought this glorious doc trine that MAN IS MAN. The judge before whom man is claimed as property, shall look to the hour when he himself shall he jii !ged. He shall say to himself, ' The founda'.ii:i of law is JUSTICE- A law which claims man as prop erty is radically and palpably unjust. It is a mock ery, an insult, an outrage upon law. No man can innocently obey it, nor innocently administer it. I shall recognize no such law. I shall take it for granted that all human law is consistent with that divine law which binds trie to love my neigh bor as myself.' The legislator shall think it his most important work to make the laws of ii is coun try such as to encourage honesty, and protect the innocent. He shall use all his constitutional functions to avert that ruin which is coming upon the whole country through the greatest possible perversion of law. The voter shall hold his vote sacred to liberty. It shall go for no catididate who does not honor his forehead with an anti-slavery frontlet; and for the beet man who does so, it shall go. No party shall dare to put up any other candidate. Pro-slavery shall be as fatal a heresy at the polls as public defalcation, or any other contempt of law. In all the multifarious teaching of a nation which is to govern itself, sla very shall be held up in the light of republican, Christian and human principles. Our youth shall be kindled with a holv enthusiasm to carry those principles triumphantly over the deadly breach in the walls of our American Bastille. Millions of tongues shall catch from this theme the eloquence of the heart That love of liberty which has flour ished with the mature generation a? a mere pre judice a prejudice brushed nway by the first con tact with the unjust gains of oppression shall be imbedded in their reasoning faculties as a self evident, fruitful, and indestructible truth. Oh, there shall be force enough in this phalanx of rising and growing mind, this irresistible onsweep of the coming age, to abolish slavery an hundred times over ! And then the literature that shall grow of all this, seeking vent in millions of channels, disem bowelling whole mountains-for the necessary type metal, shall rain upon slavery " hailstones and coals of fire." Shame, shame, shame, shall be the portion of those who will imbrule their fellow im mortals. From the sermon to the novel ; from the time conquering epic to the farce of an hour's laughter, slavery shall get its due. There is a "tide" in this " literature of the world." It is not yet high water. But when it is, what dykes are to turn it back ? This is the spirit and mode of action on the part of the North-which is to abolish slavery. Noth ing else will ever do it. The Anti-Slavery or ganization only labors to produce this result. Ab olitionists saw the hope of such a thing dying a wny. They saw the pro-slavery, colonization, non interference spirit creeping over the Nortli com ing up like the foul vermin of Egypt into the most sacred places, and polluting all that had been con sidered holy. They banded themselves for a res cue. They have labored night and day to entice, argue and shame their fellow citizens into the path of mercy, justice and honesty. They long to put on tuo nrmor, nut only in victory. Uet tue mass of the community move anti-slavery wise, in all its legions, and the dreaded organization, Simeon like, will consign itself to dust and worms. God speed tbj day when it shall thus be laid in the tomb oi history. Mass. Abolitionist. From the Youth's Cabinet, July 4. A Map of Busy Life.'' I have in my hands an interesting paper, called the "Sentinel and Herald," published at Colum bus, Ceort'ta, May JO, 1SJ9. Its motto is printed in capitals"! "WH HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE BORN EQUAL." On its first page is a very affecting story, entitled the "Faithful Slave." I have copied it under the head of the "Benevolent and Intrepid Eustace." That story shows, that at least one colored per son claims a rank among "all men." Let those who despise Gods colored children prove their claim to a rank above him if they can. The editor of this paper says he "utters the name of Washington with veneration." He talks about the "money aristocracy," and mani fests deep anxiety to prevent "injury to the work ing man." Now turn and read the story of the faithful slave, and there see how a colored man treated a white man, who was in his power. Then look at the motto again, and then read the following advertisements from the same paper, which show how the colored people are treated when in the power of the whites. SHERIFF'S SALES. "On the first Tuesday in June will be sold, two mules, also two negro girls, Mace and Vilate, Mace about eight years of age, Vilate about five, taken as the property of Joel L. Scarborough, de ceased. B. 0. Keaton, Deputy Sheriff. Other Sheriffs sales on the same day include Hannah, about 18, Isaac 45, W'estly 14, Ann 13, John, Ben, Abb, Maria., and Grace,, "all young and likely," one girl, IS or 19 years old, Ned 45, Harrison 21, May 14, Judy IS, and her child, and a woii.an named Nancy, age not mentioned. On the first Tuesday in July, (the day before yesterday,) the following persons were to be sold by the sheriff, while you at your happy home, were preparing ta celebrate American freedom: "a negro girl levied on as the property of J. C. Calhoun," "George about 20 years of ago," "Pat a woman, Chaise a woman, and Leander a girl, sold as the negro property of Benjamin Briggs, deceased." On the first Tuesday in August, (remember it when the day comes,) the sheriff will sell three girls, "Amelia, Nancy and Priscilla, levied on to snhslv a mortgage." Among the other property advertised in the same "lots," are "three cows," "one sow," "two pots," "one roan horse," "one bay mare, "one pi nno forie, one marbletop side-board, one sofa," &c. Perhaps the waiting maids who were part of the furniture in the same house with, these Ir.st named articles, were sold to planters to be lashed by drivers, instead of being kept in parlors to Washington gave his dying example iu ho had ji vt;n his living voice to the cause of eniancipa:on. In tlio. Uevolution, when the. army was encamped at White Plains, he gave as a toast, "Health to the sick anil wounded, honor to the brave, success to the American flag, and FREEDOM TO THE gLAVE. show Northern visiters the happiness of slaves. Among those who are advertised as having made use of their "equal" and "self-svidpnt" "right" "to the pursuit of happiness," there is "one boy named Junius, blind of one eye, and a pearl on the other." Yet'it seems he had seen (or felt.) so much of the horrors of slavery that he de- tcnnined to grope away irom it. tie is oi so lit tle value that only five dollars reward is offered to anv one who will bring him back to slavery. Perhaps his master wishes to make an example of hi.n. One man who had escaped is a bright mulatto, a blacksmith by trade. lie probably thought he had as good a sight to travel North as his white father and half-brothhrs, especially as he worked at the anvil for the money which they spend in travelling, and then he had to bear his own ex penses when he travelled. One traveller is "a likely neoro boy named Ben, 45 or 50 years of rtge.-hair considerably gray. No other mark particularly remembered. He is also inielligeiil." Too intelligent to be a slave, it seems. So much for one Southern paper. This last advertiser, perhaps, did not remember marls so well as the one who advertises in the Southern Whig of June 14, 1S39, as follows : "Ranaway my man Bill. He is a carpenter. He was rais ed in WASHINGTON, Georgia, nnd is suppos ed to have a wife there. Hols VERY MUCH MARKED WITH THE WHIP." Whether the carpenter has a wife or not seems to have been little thought of, but ho is "supposed" to have one. Perhaps he got his "marks' because he tried to go and see her. Let us think of these things while we sing, "Hail Columbia ! Happy land !" THE VOICE OP FREEDOM. MONTPEIiER, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1839. Mr. Tracy Pertinent Questions. The following article from the venerable father in the ministry, Ki.ui Bailey, is in all sincerity commended to the notice of the editor of the Ver mont Chronicle, and all others, who professedly hold slavery to be "a moral and political evil," and still maintain an attitude of avowed hostility to the American Anti-Slavery Society and its auxiliaries. The importance of the principles in volved in te subject-matter, as well as the high respectability of the source whence the inquiries emanate, should gain for them a careful consider ation and candid answers. That the editor of the Chronicle recognizes the duty of associated, sijstcmalic efforts for the removal of "moral and political evils, is manifest from the uniform sup port he has yielded to associations formed for the suppression of intemperance, not to mention oth er examples. He finds it neither difficult nor in consistent to rally under the banner of total ab stinence, shoulder to shoulder with such men as Russell Streetev ami Warren Skinner. He has no notion of halting in the tempcarance march to bandy words with such "leaders." Their enlist tnent under the total abstinence banner is, rather. hailed as a happy augury of success in the com mon cause. I he Chronicle gives no qnartcr to Dr. ' Hopkins' notion of separating tares and wheat, or of straining out the leaven.' Muc less does the editor go with Dr. Channinr the full length of repudiating all associations for re form. We repeat, the Chronicle goes for associ ated action against most of the acknowledged popular evils, moral and political. We respect fully but earnestly join our venerable father, in the inquiry, why is an exception made of the moral and political evil of SLAVERY ? Why does the Vermont Chronicle, the accredited or gan of Congregationalism1 in Vermont, cast the whole weight of its influence against the only association in the United States having for its ob ject the overthrow of the "moral and political e- vil"of slavery- an evil too, of which "all men are bound to attempt the immediate and entire re nioval ?" Why is the existence of slavery in the church treated as a peccadillo, hardly demanding an hour's discussion in thennual conference ? Why no cheering on of the host who have en isled in a most righteous but unpopular cause ? Why this cold, stiff, distant aspect, when such an evil is bearing down with mountain weight up on the land ? Why no response to the wail of millions of American heathen ? If the present organization for the overthrow of slavery is so faulty on the score of its principles or its meas ures, that men cannot join the anti-slavery pha lanx, let them form another grand division of the troops. We are willing that the new division, ll they want "leaders," should make their election, Let them equip with arms of their own choosing. Let them adopt distinctive badges, so that no. man may mistake them as belonging to the old conti nental line. Raise your flag! Open your re cruiting rendezvous ! Beat up for volunteers ! Let no man, who holds that "slavery is a moral and political evil," ask to ke an "exempt." We i .... ... nnve no privileged exempts m this, war no furlough during the revolution, For the Voice of Freedom. President Lord's Letter Mr. Tracy, Mr. Editor, In his excellent letter, published in the Vermont Chronicle, July 10th, 1S39, Pres dent Lord says, "I am an abolitionist. I hold to the moral nnd political evil of slavery; and to the corresponding obligation of all men to attempt the immediate and entire removal of it, according to their best judgment, and in such modes of action as are proper in respect to other moral and patri otic enterprises. I am as truly for abolition as for Christianity, believing them essentially related." And in the same paper, the editor says, "In regard to slavery and emancipation, &c, President Lord and the Vermont Chronicle, so far as we can see, agree entirely." This is good, and I cannot see why Brother Tracy, and others, who hold to the moral and political evil of slavery, should not manifest their faith by their works. For they know that " faith without works is dead, - being alone." If slavery is a political and moral evil, and all men are bound to attempt the immediate and entire removal of it, why should not every man put his hand to the work ? I can easily see why a man should not act, who sees no evil in slavery, who believes it sanctioned by tho Bible, or who cares not what its moral character is ; but really I cannot see why a man should not carry out his convictions into practice, and prove the sincerity of his faith by his works, But those " journalists and other leaders, who figure in the present nntislavery movement" are suspicious characters, and must be avoided. Well, Brother Tracy, look around on the journalists and other leading men, who are figuring in the anti slavery movements, nnd if you can't extend your charity to them, or unite with them in their hon est attempts to put down a lad cause, a cause which you admit is both politically and morally evil, then attempt to do the work in your own way. We should be glad to have your counsel and assistance in putting down slavery ; but if we are so bad, that you can have no fellowship with us, then turn to the right hand, or to the left. The whole land is before you, and you may oc cupy what part you please, organize as you. please, and act against the enemy in your own way, and under your own leaders. Only act against slave ry "according to your best judgment," with an honest desire to put it down immediately and en tirely, and we will rejoice, and bid you God speed. We will not throw obstacles in your way, hedge up your paths, or sit indifferent spect ators while you are facing the enemy ,and jeopardi zing your lives upon the high places of the field. And why should you not come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty? You must be sensible that the battle is waxing hotter & hotter, & soon there will be no neuter ground.on which a man can stand with safety. And why should you wish for such ground, when you hold with President Lord, that all men are under obligation to attempt the immediate and entire removal of slavery, and that abolition and Christianity are essentially re lated? This 1 belive, and therefore I act. If you embrace the ssme creed, why should you not act also ? You say that slavery is a political and moral evil, and that you, and every other man, are under obligation to attempt its immediate destruction. This is the very thing that we wish you and every man to do. Attempt the thing, and attempt it according to your best judgme nt. We earnestly request you to make the attempt. Unite all your strength, assemble and consult, and act. We ask you again, why you will not carry out your own declaration, attempt what your duty requires, act with a fixed determination to remove the great evil of slavery ? And we confess, that we nre utterly at a loss for a good reason, why all, who agree in the views of President Lord should not be actively employed to put down sla very, which according to their own showing both a political and moral evil. Kiaii Bayley. The Enemy Housed! The latent opposition to the cause of emanci pation is beginning to manifest itself with a bolder front. The Abolitionists of Vermont may be as sured that the "tug of our holy war is yet to come. A lew leading colonizatioiusts, startled at the progress of anti-slavery sentiment, seem de termincd to make a desperate effort to cripple and cry down every man who cries aloud lor the dumb, and snares not the time-serving. The on set was begun at Montpelier very soon after Mr Seely entered the field as an anti-slavery agent, In the opinion of some who had been among his warmest friends and admirers, his enlistment in this cause would injure his influence, curtail his usefulness, and all that. Such prognosticators have since been busy in circulating calumnious reports. It seems a kindred spirit has developed itself on the We3t of the Mountains. The fol lowing, which we copy from the last Telegraph, is quite as well culculated for the meridian of Mont pelier as that of Brandon. Those who have un lertaken to cry down Joab Seely by wholesale clamor will find in the end the fulfilment of the scripture "one shall chase a thousand." We a gain commend this brother to the best regards of the friends of God and man. From the Vt. Telegraph. A Challenge to certain Slanderers. Rash and severe as I have by some been sup posed to be, my readers will bear me testimony that I have not often used the word "challenge. It is not a word for ordinary use. And yet it is a very proper word for its proper place on proper occasions. Such an occasion I think there now Y , r 1 .1 .... 7 7 is. 1 am, tnereiore, aooui u uiiow uui tt lenge ! JoAn Seely, known extensively in Vermont, heretofore, as an agent for the Bible Society, hps recently been prevailed upon by the Executive Committeo of the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society, to become their General Agent, with instructions to lecture and collect funds. In performing his official duties, brother Seely came to Brandon, two weeks and a half ago, and commenced operations. lie has spent a considerable part ol the time since, and has succeeded wonderfully having received subscriptions amounting to more than three hun dred dollars .' This unparalleled success in the cause of right eousness, in our town, has made the "enemy of all righteousness" exceedingly mad, and agents have been enlistc-d to do his diabolical work, or whom better things ought to have been expected. Certain slanderous reports have been maliciously and dilligently circulated, until sorry I am to learn it, individuals belonging to the "respecta ble" part of our community" have so far lost their sense of propriety and decency, and their regard for the good people of this vicinity, as to indulge themselves in rude, unchristian and umanly con duct towards one who has given them no cause of provocation. I beseech these my fellow towns men to pause and reflect, before they plunge themselves deeper in shame and guilt. And now, to set the matter all right, at once, as one of the Executive Committee of the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society and I venture to speak in behalf of the whole Committee I challenge each and every person who has been engaged, or is en gaged, in circulating charges or reports against Joab Seely, with a view to injuring him person ally, or the cause in which he is laboring, to bring facts, or a single fact, to substantiate any of these charges or reports. 1 he 1 elcgraph shall be your medium of commvnicution. Sustain yourselves, therefore, or suffer yoitrselvcs hereby to be branded as slanderers ! I have delayed the press, to say thus much on the subject, at this time. More, hereafter, if there be occasion. Colonization Elliot Cresson. We learn by a notice in the Vermont Chroni icle, duly signed by the President of the Vermont Colonization Society, that the redoubtable Mr. El liot Cresson, " a gentleman of great respectabili ty," who formally presented the project of re building Pennsylvania Hall as a public nuisance, is about to revisit Vermont " to give information on the important subject of African Colonization," &c. Information ! Why, Mr. Cresson, the people of Vermont are already in possession of quite too much information on this subject to allow of their being duped by the Janus-faced abomination. The intelligent and philanthropic citizens of this state have found out a more excellent way of ap propriating their charities than for the purpose of shipping Americans to the slaveholder's Botany Bay. If colored Americans must be sent out of the country, in mercy send them to Upper, Cana da to join the 10,000 self-emancipated men and women, who have run the gauntlet thro' the free North to Victoria's dominions ! There, they may enjoy in reality, what lias only been held out in prospect by the gubernatorial speculators of Bassa Cove. Or, what would be still better, let them be furnished with the means of removal to Anti gua or Jamaica, where they are wanted to work out the experiment. We here throw in an item of "information" from the Society's official magazine. It is from the pen of his X L N C Governor Pinncy, who has figured as a champion of Colonization in Pennsylvania for some time past : Extract of a letter from Mr. Pinney to the Secre tary of the Western Foreign Missionary Board. " The Colonists are very ignorant of every thingabout the interior; except of the tribes along the coast, nothing at all is known, and of them little but their manner of traffic. Nothing has been done for the natives, hitherto, by the colo nists, except to educate a few who were in their families in the capacity of servants. The natives are, as to wealth and intellectual cultivation, rela ted to the colonists as the negro of America is to the white man ; and this fact, added to their mode of dress, which consists of nothing, usually, but a handkerchief around the loins, leans to the same distintlion as exists in America between colors. A colonist of any dye (and many there are of a darker hue than the Vey, or Dey, or Kroo, or Bassa,) would, if at all respectable, think himself degraded by marrying a native. The natives are in fact menials, (I mean those in town,) and sor ry am I to be obliged to say, from my limited ob servation, it is evident that as little effort is made by the colonists to elevate them, as is usually made by the higher classes in the United States to better the lower. AJrican liejms. vol. l,p. 00 The above needs no comment. In conclusion we ask the attention of honest colonizationists the following interrogatories, originally propound ed to the public by Charles Stuart : 1. How long will it take to christianize heathen nations, by sending the most corrupt, depraved & abandoned people ol the United btates, as mis sionaries to them ? 2. If benevolence to Africa be our motive, can we send the worst part of our population thither? J. 11 benevolence to ourselves be our motive can we send away the best of that worst part, lea ving the worst without any leaven of good, to pu trify and rankle among us ? 4. If benevolence to that worst part, be our mo tive, can we send them away irom our liberty and our light, and our laws, and our power, and our benevolence, to a loreign, uncivilized, and heathen land ? 5. If gratification of prejudice be our motive, how much better is it, to yield to prejudice than to crucily it to Hatter, than to give it no quar ter? 3. If it be true, that every sinner must repent or perish, what must be the fate of those who strive to put away the annoyance produced by an evil, without repenting of the sin w hich produces it? Vt. Colonization Society. About ten days previous to the meeting of this society, last October, the then Secretary, Mr. Thacher of Tunbridge, notified the President that he should be unable, in consequence of other en gagements, to prepare a report to be submitted at the coming meeting. Whereupon the President addressed a note to Rev. Mr. Wright, the former secretary, requesting him to perform that service. Mr. Wright did prepare a report, which was for warded to be read at the annual meeting, but. the report was not read, Possibly it did not arrive n season, or, possibly it was too thoroughly satu- rated with abolition sentiments to serve the cause of colonization. To provide against any failure of this sort in future, the society, at the last meeting appointed two secretaries, viz. Rev. Austin Ilazen, of Ber lin, and Piev. Daniel Wild, of Brookfield. Both gentlemen, we have been told, were absent at the time of their appointment, and have since express ed a wish to be excused from the service. Mr. Wild has just made his determination public in. the following note to the Vermont Chronicle : Mr. Tracy, It is well known to the readers of the Chronicle that my name was made use of last fall as Secretary of the Vt. Col. Society ; and as I was ignorant of this till the Chronicle inform ed me of it, I wish through the same medium, to decline that service ; at the same time, expressing my gratitude to the Society for this expression of their confidence. One reason for my declining, is the pressure of other duties. I wish further to state that I have intimated to some an intention to throw into the columns of some paper my views of colonization and slavery. But as these are very excitable subjects, as my language may be misconstrued, and I be obliged to reply and reply again, and have the mortifica tion of being misunderstood at last, I refrain, at present, from doing this. Meanwhile I would assure all, who may wish for my views on these topics, that they may have them freely, without duplicity and with good feeling, when called for,, on all suitable occasions. Daniel Wild. Brookfield, July 19, 1S39. We commend Mr. Wild for his good sense in resigning trje secretaryship. We regret that he does not see it his duty to state more explicitly " the reasons which impelled" him " to tho sepa ration." If he is satisfied that the American Col onization Society is an ally of slavery, pledged. against the cause of emancipation, immediate or remote, the avowal of his opinions might be use ful. We have no doubt there are scores of min isters in New England who are suffering painful lacerations of conscience on this same subject. How honorable would it be to their piety to break off from the strange alliance, openly confessing their error like the high-souled Birney or the be nevolent Gerrit Smith ! The readers of the Voice of Freedom doubtless suppose that they have in that paper the whole of the correspondence between the Rev. Mr. Bliss and President Lord ; whereas the editor has omit ted more than one third of it. Vt. Chronicle. The omitted part consists of a long letter pub lished by Mr. Bliss by way of rejoinder. Having given one letter on each side, there is no just ground of complaint. Besides, the second letter is little else than a repetition of the first, interlar ded with a few dashes of pro-slavery indignation.. Case of Holmes. The hearing in the case of Holmes came on in the Supreme Court for this county, on Saturday last. Present, Judges Royce, Cohamer, Red field and Bennett. Counsel for the prisoner, Messrs. Van Ness and Maeck ; on the other side, Charles Adams, Esq. The discussion occupied the whole day, and drew together a full house. The opin ion of the Court not having been announced, it would be premature, not to say disrespectful to of fer any remarks involving the merits of the case.. Pro-Slavery Argument. The following piece appears without comment in the last Rutland Herald, a Clay paper. " E. Child" writes much like a "child of the devil." Why don't he go to the South ? He is plainly out ol" his sphere among the freedom-breathing hilis of Pittsfield. He will yet be amazed that any man out of an insane hospital could write out such slavishness and subscribe it with his own name. Shame, shame on the recreant Vermonter ! To the editor of the Rutland Herald : In looking over your paper of the 15th inst. I noticed the doings of the Vt. Anti-Slavery Socie ty, at their meeting in Rutland, June 23th, 1339, and I am free to confess, that my sensibilities were greatly excited, in reading the expressions of that society. Such a set of abusive and childish reso lutions, wa3 perhaps never adopted by the most degraded demagogues in the United States. Had such reckless expressions escaped the lips of those splenetic missionaries who are engaged in the ab olition crusade, and fattening on the credulity of the uninformed, and who lire pensioned for their mirepresentations ; or even from the hirelings of the press, who smile at the simplicity and credu lity of their readers, pocket the dirty pence, and, like the Hollander on the coast of Japan, who to outstrip others in trade, trample on the cross of the Saviour, they would have merited scarcely a passing notice. Jjiu when contemplating the source from whence these resolutions emanated ; the hiffh stations enjoyed ; the holy vocations pur sued by a large number of that convention, (whose "professed object is persuasive,") we must at once admit the doctrine of 'total moral depravity.' That any oouy oi civinzeu men, out more especially pro r r a- u.i i- - i ii - . fessors of our holy religion, should with their scor pion tongues, b?eathe forth malice and wrath a- gainst brethren, in language applicable to no one except devils and damned spirits, 'stealing the li very ol lugli heaven to serve the devil in, in true style. The very first resolution adopted by that imaculate body of professors, is, in language like the following : " Slavery is the turn of all til lanies, the monopoly of all wrong, the first in the roll of infamy, inctiable meanness without a par allel, the daily transgression of every command of the Decalogue. Such is a specimen of abolition principles : such are the slanderous and libellous epithets bestowed on brethren who ask for nothing more than to live in theexcicise of those rights (?)and privileges pur chased by the blood and treasure of their ances tors, and guaranteed to them, their descendants, by the Constitution of the United States, fc. Child, Pittsfield, July 20, 1S39.