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THE VOICE OP FREEDOM.
W. Goodell, G. L. Brown, A. Seymour, W. Pitts,
V. T. Codding, L. Preston, W. Sabine, A. Saw
yer, J. W. Duifin, E. W. Roberts, D. A. Payne,
P. Shipherd, A. Larcorn, L. Cross, C. Avery, L.
Q. Curtis, J. Hatboway, S. A. Estec, E. Eldredge,
E. VV. Clarke, S. Keese, C. Dubois, A. R. Speer,
J.Cross, S. S. Sheldon, ElishaFisk, II. Fisk.
E. Manchester, J. T. Avery, A. Littlejohn, W.
P.Green, J. Hunter, D. Frost, Jr., N. T. Yeo
man, S. Edwards, A. Stewart, S. Martin, B. Paul,
D. Scott, C. H. Metcnlf, C. Pepper, Jr., G. W.
Peavey, R. Burrill, D. Worth, II. Fanning:, N.
Safford, II. Leet, L: Yeoman, II. E. Hayes, J.
Frank, D. B. Gibbs, T. C. Waterbury, A. V.
Bushnell, ' J. V. Mooers, E. Jan.es, P. E. Hall,
J. P. Beckley, W. Gilliland, J. Alden, J. Martin,
E. Putnam, S. J. Penniman, N. Van Alstine.
N. Jersey. N. Parkhurst, W. Flavell, S. W.
Buffum, J. D. Keiley, S.A. Condit, S. Aarcn, J.
Leavitt, V. H. Ellis, J. Lee, J. Gibbs.
Pf.nn. L. Coales, E. H. Corson, L. E. Cor
son, J. Roberts, S. Tyson, J. Wyman, G. F. Hor
ton, J. E. Longshore, J. W. Longshore, J. B.
Barrv, J. Earle, C. C. Jackson, J. S. Cavander,
D. L". Miller, Jr., J. H. Cavander, D. Neall, Jr.,
J. Wright, J. Pierce, W. Harned, W. C. Bradley,
G. M. Alrop, W. Justice, J. P. Foster, J. B.
Graves, S. Webb, J. G. Whittier, S. W. Black,
J. Paul, J. Wood.
Del. Thos. Garrett.
Ohio. Samuel Plumb.
, Mich. L. Barnes, Z. Piatt, 238.
NAYS.
Vermont. Milton Brown.
Mass. A. May.
Conn. E. Lyman.
N. York. A. Conklin, S. P. Hodges, A. North,
E. D. Culver.
N. Jersey. S. E. Cornish.
Penn. P. Vickers, N. Sugar. 10.
DECLINED VOTlNU.
Mass. TJ. Bradburn, B. Dean.
Conn. J. M. Pierpoint.
N. York. J. W. Knevals, S. T. Spear, P. A.
Bell,
N. Jersey, R. J. Judd.
Del. H. Gfbbons. 8.
George Bradburn, by leave, presented a paper,
signed by a number of members, expressive of
their concurrence in the Protest of Wilhain L.
Garrison, which was ordered to be printed with
the proceedings.
. The undersigned, members of the National Anti-Slavery
Convention, thislay held at Albany,
having read the foregoing Protest of Wm. Lloyd
Garrison, concur in the conclusions thereof, and
request that this declaration, with the names of
the subscribers, may be printed with the prceed
ings of the meeting.
Albany, Aug. 1, 1S39.
Residence.
Names.
Francis Jackson,
O. S. Murray,
Ellis Gray Loring,
J. C Hathaway,
Wm. P, Green,
W. H. Hayward,
John Bailey,
Geo. Bradburn,
Daniel L. Miller, Jr.,
John Rodgers,
G. W. P. Mellen,
Joshua V. Himes,
LindleyCoates,
Samuel Silsbee,
V. M. Noble,
Wm. M. Chace,
John H. Cavender,
H. K. W. Clarke,
Roswell Goss;
Andrew M. Macy,
Jacob Pierce,
Elias Hicks Corson,
Isaac Roberts,
J. C: Tabor,
Caleb Brinton,
A. R. Janes,
Geo. W. Paul,
Thomas'E. Longshore,
Samuel Tyson,
J. W. Longshore,
Isaac Winslow,
Nathan Winslow,
D. W. Burroughs,
Richard Hackett,
Thos. Van Raenslaer,
Louis Taber,
John H. Keese,
George C. Wilson,
J. G. Hale,
Mason Anthony,
Charles C. Jackson,
E. D. Hudson,
0. L. Shafter,
Jona.'P. Clark,
C. C. Tuttle,
Wm. Ashley,
Lawrence E. Corson,
Leonard Tuttle,
Jas. Chapman Eden,
Thomas Marshall,
Asa Anthony,
A. Farnsworth,
Parker Richardson,
Paxon Vickers,
Jesse B. Barry,
Samuel Keese, Jr.,
Nath. Snow,
Nathan Sugar,
James Paul,
D. Van De Werken,
W. A. Tweed Dale
Thos. Garrett,
Boston
Brandon, Vtt
Boston.
Farmington, N. Y.
Ballston Spa, N. Y.
Gilmanton N. H.
New Bedford,
Nantucket, Mass.
Philadelphia.
Boston.
Lancaster Co., Pa.
Bangor, Me.
Pittsfield, Mass.
Providence, R. I.
Philadelphia.
Dart. Coll. Hanover.
New York'
Nantucket, Mass.
Philadelphia.
Norristown, Pa.
N. Bedford, Mass.
Lancaster Co., Pa.
Providence, R. I.
Charlton Sar., N. Y.
Bucks Co., Pa;
Montgomery Co., Pa.
Bucks Co., Pa.
Portland, Me.
Manchester, Vt.
Boston Mass.
New York City.
Lincoln, Vt.
Peru, N. Y.
New London. Conn.
E. Hampton, Ct.
' Greenfield, N. Y.
Philadelphia.
Torringford, Ct.
Wilmington, Vt.
Dutchess Co. N. Y.
Prospect, Ct.
Newburyport.Mass.
Norristown, Pa.
. Prospect, Ct.
Bucks Co., Pa.
Hudson, N. Y.
Groenfield, N. Y.
Grolon.Mass.
North Andover, Mass.
Chester Co., Pa.
Philadelphia.
Peru, N. Y.
Cambridgeport, Mass.
Marshalton, Pa.
Montgomery Co., Pa.
Albany.
Wilmington, Del.
On
Henry Gibbon:
The second resolution was then taken up.
motion, the amendment offered by James G. Bir
npy was indefinitely postponed ; and on a divis
ion, 85 rose in favor and 75 against the post
ponement. The resolution was further discuss
ed. The previous question was then put and car
ried, and the second resolution was carried with
out division.
" The third resolution was then taken up, and af
ter debate-, was laid on the table.
A protest against the first resolution was pre
sented, read and ordered to be printed with the
reccords of the Convention..
PROTEST.
The undersigned, members of the Anti-Slavery
Convention, assembled at Albany, July 31, 1839,
who voted in the negative oa the passage of the
following resolutions, viz. c
"Resolved, That we will neither vote for, nor
support the election of any man for President or
Vice President of the United States, or for Gov
ernor or Lieutenant Governor) or. for any . legisla
tive office, who is not in favor of the immediate
ABOLITION OF SLAVERY,"
respectfully ask the privilege of inserting their
reasons for so doing on the Journal of the Con
ventionwhich reasons, among many others nre
the following:
First. The undersigned hold the right of suf
frage as one of the "inalienable rights" of every
citizen ; and cannot consent to forego or com
promise the free, unbiassed exercise of that right
in such manner as they shall judge conducive to
the best interest of our common country, of hu
manity and the rights of man.
The undersigned cannot consent, that the free
exercise of the right of suffrage shall be restricted
by the action of any self-constituted assembly, or
to place themselves in a position little or nothing
short of absolute disfranchisement. They protest
against me manner in wnicn tnis resolution was
pressed to a final decision, under the operation of
''the previous question, a course which they be
lieve to be unprecedented in any primary assem
bly of freemen professing abolitionism, and des
tructive of the great principles for which we are
contending the largest liberty ot the greatest
number.
The undersigned hold it to be manifestly in
consistent, and extremely unjust, to charge the
freemen of this country with slavish subserviency
to party interests, while at the same time - we are
organizing and perfecting a system of party organ
ization nol less exclusive in its character and ef
fects than the most rigid system hitherto adopted
by the well trained parties now desperately slnv
ing for political ascendancy in the country.
Milton Bbown, Windsor, Vt.
S. P. Hodges, Taberg, N. Y.
Sam'l E. Cornish, Belleville, N. J
Fuastus Lyman, Goshen, Conn.
Joshua Leavitt, from the committee, reported
the draft of an address, which was adopted and
ordered lobe published with the preceedings of
the convention.
The following resolution was offered by Samu
el Webb, was discussed and laid on the table.
Resolved, That a Central General committee
be appointed with power to carry out the princi
pies and views expressed by this convention, by
such measures as may Irom lime to time be requir
ed, and to call another INational Convention at
such time and place as they think proper in the
year
The following resolution, offered by Ellis Gray
Loring, was discussed, amended, and laid on the
table.
Resolved, That a committee of one person from
each stale here represented be appointed to address
William Henry Harrison of Ohio, and Winfield
bcott, candidates ior tho Presidency of the U. S
inquiring of them their views in relation to the
further continuance of slavery in the D. C. to the
Slave Trade between the several states, and to
the admission of any territory or foreign state as
a state of this union, with a constitution tolerating
slavery.
The third resolution, laid on the table, was ta
ken up by a vote of 97 to 85. After further dis
cussion, the previous question was called and the
call was sustained, and the resolution passed by
a lartre majority.
The following resolution, reported by the Busi
ness committee was adopted.
"Resolved, .That a committee be appointed to
consider whether the duties upon such products of
foreign countries as are raised in this country by
slave labor, might not.be advantageously reduced
or altogether repealed ; and that they report to
the Executive Committee of the American Anti-
Slavery Society."
Samuel Webb, Daniel Neal, jr., and Thomas
bane were appointed the committee.
Sundry resolutions, which had been reported by
the Business committee, were severally laid on
the table.
The following resolutions, offered by Henry B.
otanton, were adopted.
" nesojved, 1 uat trie tnanics ot this Convention
be presented to the trustees of the 4th Presbyterian
church, of Albany, for kindly opening it for the
session ot this body.
" Ordered, I hat the Secretaries furnish the
Trustees with a certified copy of the above resolu
tion.
" Resolved, That the proceedings of the Con
venuon oe puunsneu under ine direction ot the
Secretaries, in such form as they shall deem prop
er, and that each member be furnished with a
cony."
On motion of Lewis Tappan, it was voted that
the thanks ol the Convention be given to Alvan
Stewart, Esq. for the urbanity, intelligence, impar
tiality and promptness, with which he has presid
ed over this Convention. The President return
ed an appropriate acknowledgment.
The Convention was then adjourned sine die,
and separated after a solemn prayer by Mr. North,
JN. V.
Joshua Leavitt,
C. L. Knapp, Secretaries.
Henry Gibbons,
of Otsego co
Afraid of the Light. Three young brethren,
who spent the last winter in Jamaica on account
of ill health, were obliged to return to the United
States by the way of Cuba, a Spanish Island,
where slavery still exists. They paid the Span
ish Consul at Jamaica nine dollars for passports.
He, by the. same vessel, wrote to the Governor of
Cuba, that they were suspicious, i. e. they were
abolitionists, or at least he suspected they were,
and advised the Governor to be on the watch, lest
they should find out something of the workings
of the slave system. The young gentlemen un
suspectingly and on the strength of their pass
ports landed at Cuba. But as soon as the Gov
ernor had read the "Consul's letter, in niter disre
gard of the faith pledged by the passport, they
were carried back on board the vessel and kept
under guard; during their stay at the Lland. The
editor of the Morning Journal ot Kingston, drily
remarks, that such on outrage could not have been
perpetrated any where else except in the United
States ! Oberlin Evangelist.
Brougham and Thompson.
It ought to make the whole nation blush when
they see- George Thompson complimented by
England's noblest intellect.. A man whom they
mobbed and hunted like a murderer whom they
stigmatized as a " fugitive from justice " and a
"cut-throat," receives from Lord Brougham a tes
timony of respect, of which we fear his enemies
here will never be found worth v. At the Brent
j D
public' meeting recently held in London, in rela
tion to British India, Lord Brougham presided.
In the course of his speech he remarked, " I here
is my respected friend George Thompson whom
to name is to honor whose devotion to the happi
ness of his fellow creatures is only equalled by that
extraordinary eloquence tvith which he is endoiv
ed."
The Chairman said he had always great pleas
ure in listening to Mr. Thompson, who was the
most eloquent man and the most accomplished or
ator whom he knew, and as he had no opportuni
ty of hearing him where he ought to speak, in
side the walls of Parliament (Loud cheers) he
was anxious never to lose on, opportunity ot hear
ing him where alone he could, in public meetings
like the present.
Lord Brougham then left the Chair, which wa3
taken by Sir C. Forbes.
Think of this, Americans, and then think of
yourselves ! Pa. Freeman.
THE VOICE OP FREEDOM.
MONTPELIER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1839.
General Convention.
The General Convention of Congregational Min
isters is to assemble at Montpelier, on Tuesday,
the 27th inst. It seems to be taken for granted
that this body will be called to take some action
upon the agitating question. Indeed it is known
that several conferences and associations have ta
ken the necessary steps to bring the matter before
the Convention by memorials, and that commit
tees have been chosen with the expectation that
they will endeavor to procure a full hearing on
the whole subject. What course the Convention
will take, remains to be seen. Judging from what
we have seen and heard, the convention will be
divisible into three parlies on the subject-matter
of the memorials.
1. An inconsiderable number of the body, per
haps one-tenth of the whole, will be for maintain
ing a dignified silence, under the plea that the
convention, being a body without any constitution
al authority, is not called upon to take cognizance
of the peculiar institutions of the southern states.
It may be urged, (as, indeed, it has. been, in ad
vance, by a correspondent of the last Chronicle,)
that " at present the churches in Vermont are pla
ced in circumstances most unpropitious for any
favorable action of this kind." Says the writer
alluded to, " The churches in any other Christian
nation, or even in any other one of these United
States, might address the south with more hope
of doing them good. But the name of Vermont
is peculiarly odious. The state is politically abo
litionist, and is so considered. We are not so con'
nected with the south that the sin of slavery per
tains to us, and they will not thank us for offering
to share the guilt with them," &c.
2. Another class, more numerous than the first,
will go for a letter of admonition to the southern
churches, but they will insist on couching it in the
true spirit of non-committalism. They " would
attempt to settle no abstract questions of nice cas.
uistry, as whether the holding of a slave-.is in all
cases necessarily sinful; but address them south'
ern churches on broader and lets questionable
grounds"! A form of memorial, embracing the
above quotation, is furnished to hand in the last
Chronicle. The grand aim of this class, inclu
ding the Chronicle school, will be to avoid brand
ing slavery as a sin in itself which ought to be
immediately repented of and forsaken.
3. A third class, we hope larger than the first
and second united, will be for dispensing with tin
tempered mortar altogether and planting them
selves on the high ground of God's word. They
will contend for as high a standard of ethics as
has been recognized by all consistent politicians
for the last five years. They would speak of sta
very as a usurpation of the prerogatives of God
lending to blot the divine. image from the soul of
man degrading him from the dignified rank his
Maker gave him in the scale of creation, and sub'
versive of all the social relations which God and
nature have made essential to his earthly enjoy'
ment. They would affectionately but earnestly
implore slaveholding professors of religion to'un
do the heavy burdens and let the oppressed go
free.' They " would prescribe no particular course
of action for" slaveholders, further than the word
of God plainly enjoins.
If the Congregational ministers of Vermont are
not prepared for this, we sincerely hope they will
wait another year. Meanwhile, the politicians of
the North will continue to " cry aloud and spare
not," whether men will hear or whether they will
forbear living and laboring in hope that the cler-
ey will be able, by the grace of God, definitely to
settle the question whether or no slavery be a sin,
before the Millenium is fully ushered upon the
world.
Anti-Slavery NoticesKeeping Dark.
Instances have bqen rare, in this state at least,
n which those clergymen who are known oppo
nents of the anti-slavery movement, have gone to
the extent of refusing to read from their desks no
tices of anti-slavery meetings, The reading of
notices for all the professedly benevolent enter
prises of the day has become so much, a matter of
course, that a clergyman is by no means consid
ered as favoring the object of a proposed meeting,
merely because he reads a notice. A refusal to
read a notice, under such circumstances, is there
fore, tantamount to an open avowal of opposition
to the object of the meeting, especially if such re
fusal be made without any satisfactory explanation.
We are constrained to allude to this subject now,
in view of a recent refusal to read an anti-slnvery
notice, by a clergyman of this county a clergy
man, too, who took an active part in procuring the
adoption of a series of strong anti-slavery resolu
tions in a late meeting of the Washington County
Conference of Churches ! As it i3 fit and proper
that the responsibility in this case should rest
where it belongs, and as we regard the refusal in
the light of a gross discourtesy to the anti-slavery
cause, we shall state the circumstances with all.
plainness.
Mr. Seely, agent of the Vermont Anti-Slavery
Society, being in town on the last Sabbath, ar
rangements were made for an anti-slavery dis
course at the Free Church, at 5 o'clock. Notices
to that effect were sent to the Brick Church, and
to the Methodist Chapel. The pastor of the Brick
church being absent from town, the notice for his
congregation was handed to one of the deacons,
who caused it to be placed in the hands of the of
ficiating clergyman, Rev. Mr. Stone, of Water
bury. The notice was duly given but at the
Methodist Chapel, as usual. Mr. Stone, at the
close of the afternoon service at the Brick church,
read such notices as had been handed in, with the
exception of that for Mr. Seeley's lecture at 5 o'
clock ! When inquired of as to the reason of the
omission, the deacon was gravely told that the
notice was not signed! To another brother who
made inquiry, Mr. Stone hinted that he had oth
er reasons for keeping back the notice, which,
however, he did not think proper to disclose.
This may be regarded by some as a small matter.
We view it far otherwise. We are pained to see
any minister of the gospel even attempting to play
the neutral on the great question of human rights.
But when a professed friend of the cause, like Mr.
Stone, finds himself in the frigid atmosphere of
colonization, how greatly does he dishonor the
precious cause of the slave by such recreancy as
we have felt ourselves bound to rebuke! The
times are out of joint.
Col. Miller's Lectures.
Our citizens were well entertained by two antl
slavery lectures from Col. Miller, delivered to good
audiences in the Free Church, on Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings. The first lecture wo3 chief
ly occupied with historical and scriptural eviden
ces of the natural equality of the human family, to
gether with an array of proofs, tending to show that
the colored race as such, taking in the whole range
of history, are not a whit behind the Anglo-Saxon,
as it relates to progress in the sciences and arts
Though it is not for a moment to be conceded that
any man's right to liberty is based on mental or
physical endowments, yet we were well pleased
to see a little even-handed justice meted out to a
class who have long enough suffered under impu
tations which nothing but ignorance itself could
have cast upon them.
The second lecture was a view of the origin of
slavery in America, and its progress to the present
period.
We understand that several gentlemen from the
south were present ot the first lecture one, at
least, at the last.
Col. Miller delivers another lecture at the Free
Church this eve., (Friday) commencing promptly
at half past 7. Weld's new work, entitled " Sla
very as it is," will be for sale at the meeting.
Let us have a full house.
N. B. Subject of the lecture this evening
The Remedy.
. OCCol. Miller will lecture in Middlesex village
on Sabbath afternoon next, commencing at 5.
For the Voice of Freedom.
To the Rev. Ira Ingraham :
Sir A great deal of useless argument might
have been saved, in relation to my Middlebury
lecture, if you had clearly understood and correct
ly reported me, as it was your duty to have done,
in as much as I gave an invitation to any one to
make remarks upon any thing I might have ad
vanced that was wrong, or that was thought in
correct. This invitation you did not see fit to ac
cept, but came forth with your notes in due time,
concocted after your own fash;on,-and moulded to
suit your pro-slavery feelings. I used the most
precise language to convey my meaning. How
then could you so misunderstand me?
Your principal charge amounts to this: " That
Col. Miller is the enemy of the American Board
of Foreign Missions, and as such, has attacked it
in a public lecture, and held it up to ridicule through
the person of Dr. Anderson." I was, at the time
I delivered the above lecture, and am still, a life.
member of the Foreign Missionary Society, and
clearly and distinctly stated that I was a friend to
the cause of Foreign Missions that I had visited
several Foreign Missionary stations, and that I
believed they were doing great good. These re
marks you did not see fit to report. They would
not answer your pro-slavery purposes. I did
state in that lecture, and now clearly and distinct
ly state, both to you and to the world, that in my
opinion, the selling of indulgences to commit sin
in the Roman Church, for the purpose of building
St. Peters, at Rome, 312 years since, was not so
great a crime in the sight of a holy God, os that
of knowingly taking the price of a human being,
or the proceeds of his unrequited labor, to spread
the gospel of Christ among the heathen. Was
not this my language upon that occasion ? Did I
not, in the clearest manner possible, endeavor to
show what I considered would be the good effect
upon the consciences of the slaveholders, if Dr
Anderson, knowing the money presented for mis
sions was thus obtained, should return it, with the
Christian admonition, that the treasury of that
God who has said, " he that stealeth a man and
selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, shall
be surely put to death," cannot be polluted by any
such gifts ? Permit me to ask you, further, if the
whole of my remarks upon this subject were any
thing further than an illustration of the abhorrence
with which, in my opinion, the church of Christ
ought to hold the sin of slavery ? If you did so
understand me, why then, let me ask, did you,-Jesuit-like,
come out and so pervert my meaning?
Did. your zeal for the domestic institution of Amer
ican slavery hurry you into this indiscretion, or
the love you bear your slaveholding relatives at
the South excite you to it ? Alas, how have the5
mighty fallen in the midst of the battle, for the"
support of an institution that is a disgrace to the'
civilized world !
I cannot leave the work to come down into the
valley to hold a lengthy conversation with San
ballat. If I could, I would simply inquire of . the
Domestic Missionary agent of this State, my
friend Ingraham, how he can fin so much leisure
to luxuriate in our more populous towns, write es
says to support domestic slavery, and leave so
many of our fellow-men in remote and smaller
towns, destitute of a preached gospel ? I will notr
however call upon the Board to dismiss my Rev.
friend, whatever faults I may think I see in his
course; but rejoice that the day has passed, and
too far gone by for clerical influence to re-light
the fires of Smithfield, or justify the oppression of
men for the glory of God.
J. P. MILLER.
Montpelier, August ISth, 1S37.
For the Voice of Freedom.
C. L. Knapp, Esq.:
Dear Sir, If ever there was a time which de
manded the united, untiring efforts of the friends
of human 'liberty if ever there was a time that
every man should be up and doing, that time is
the present. In proportion as our cause advan
ces and our numbers increase, should our ener
gies be put forth.
Every man, woman and child, can be, if not a
public lecturer, a distributer of books, pamphlets,
and papers, which will do the work of abolitioni
zing the whole country in the most sure and least
expensive way.
Among all the publications issued from the anti-slavery
press, nothing is half equal to ' Slavery
as it is.' I have purchased between one and two
hundred, and sold most of them. It is a book of
incomparable interest disclosing more systematic
oppression and cruelty, more high-handed villany,
robbery and wrong, more ineffable meanness, than
was ever justly chargeable to any other nation in
any age or country. And will the people consent
to remain in ignorance upon this awful subject,
till wrath coine upon them to the uttermost ?
Shall the tale of the immeasurable wrongs of
the colored man, too shocking to dwell up
on, longer go unheeded? Shall the poor slave,
far worse off than the man who fell among thieves,
cry for deliverance from the bottomless gulph of
degradation and woe to which he is reduced by
cruel laws and sacrilegious hand, and cry in vain ?
Let those who believe that abolitionists overrate
the horrors of slavery, and consequent cruelty of
slaveholders, READ THIS BOOK.
Let him who stands at the parting point of
those who acknowledge slavery on evil, (excusa
ble uuder certain circumstances) which must be
endured forever, and those who believe it a crime
of the highest order, and should be repented of
immediately READ IT.
Let the Sanballats and Tobiahs, who would
fain seek fresh cause to cavil, sneer and rage
READ IT.
Let the Scribes and Pharisees, High Priests of
iniquity, and Pharaohs, who will not let the peo
ple go yea, and all other3 who plead the cause
of tho oppressor against the oppressed READ
IT.
READ IT on any terms.: hold it up to the
gaze of the world : compare the professions of
this nation with its practices, as disclosed in this
book; and then if you please, cry at the top of
your voice, at the corner of every street and upon
the house top Fanaticism ! Fanaticism ! ! or
blush for your country's shame, and mourn for
the degradation of these millions of your fellow
men, as shall best suit the occasion.
Yours for the slave,.
JESSE STEDMAN.
For the Voice of Freedom.
Hardwick, August 0th, 1S39.
C. L. Knapp, Dear Sir:
Yesterday morning " a thing," in the shape of
a man,' which had traveled all the way from N.
Carolina, called upon us, took breakfast with us.
and then started for the dominion of queen Vic
toria running from the land of slavery to the
land of Liberty. What a comment on our Repub
licanism ?
Thi3 southern thing appeared to be about 30
years old, well formed, smart, active, and shrewd ;
his skin well tinged with white, and bearing some
marks of the patriarchal institution; was born in
Virginia near the grave of Washington; had chang
ed masters several times, and had evidently been
under the influence of well-bred society ; had been