The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-06-15

can, therefore, no longer hatter myself with
the expectation that in the short remnant of my
life slavery WILDE abolished in the States of Virginia
and Maryland by their legislatures and whit he
consent of the people themselves and have new
Ell contemplated, any other mode of abolition as
desirable or susceptible of receiving any coun-
tenance from an American citizen faithful TO his
country, and friendly to the continuance of the
Onion. So long as the people ofthose two States
shall be so decidedly averse to the general aboli-
ton of slavery, there is very little ground hope
that the People of the District of Columbia will be
favorable to it among themselves
That change of sentiment on this subject will
in the course of time, take place both in the States
and in the District, still hope though have 1T
tic reason to hope that it will happen IN my 'Ine'
The danger which believe at this time most
imminently threatens the Union, anSeS from the
struggle of the States in which slavery has taken
too deep root to be peaceaby eradicaed to preserve
extend, and perpctuate that peculiar institution,
The principles assumed are so earnestly main
tanned by them that neither the People Of the
free States nor Congress have any right to inter-
fere in any manner with their institutions, is not
sufficient to serve their turn. They are continu-
ally summonng the free States to sacrifice their
own principles to sustain the institution Of slave
nv. We have seen them call approximately upon
the free States for penal laws to punish their own
citizens for harbofing or performing the Offices Of
olAmon,humanity to fugitive slaves. We have
witnessed a negotiation of seven years, claiming
from foreign Government indemnity for slaves,
liberated by shipwreck beyond the jurisdiction Of
the slave State itself, and encroaching upon the
free jurisdiction of the loreg gil State We have
seen the sacred protection of the post office violated
with impunty, and with the avoWed conniVance
ofthc officer at the head of the Department, to
whom was committed the trust of that protection.
And we have read resolutions Of a slave State
Legislature threatening vengeance against sister
State should she persist in refusing to deliver up
for mcrciless punishment not fugitive slave, but
one Of her own citizens charged, without proof,
with conniving at a slaves escape. The demand
for the enactment Of penal laws in the free States
to rivet the chains Of the slave, has not always
been unsuccessful. The Legislature Of the Sta:e
of Ohio, at then very last session, at the demand
of the Legislature Of Kentucky, enacted law for
the delivering up Of persons claimed as fugitive
slaves by the fiat of single magistrate, and de-
nying to the arrested party the benefit of trial
by jury, and made it an offence punishable by fine
and Imprisonment to obStruct or impede the pro-
cess. 1t is also q notorious fact that the same
Legislature, by a majority devoted to the present
Administration of the General Government dis
missed from their service as a member the Sen
ate Of the United States, an individual of their
party, for no other cause than that he adhered
to the principles of the Declaration of lndepend-
cnce, and spurned a proifered pledge of servility
to the peculiar institutions
The policy of the South with regard to the af
fairs of the Union is exclusively devoted to that
object. That was the impulse under which they
effected the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Mexico, and the es-
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that plan, as You now know, was to annex TO this
Union the new Republic, with an additional belt
of five degrees Of latitude across this Continent to
the South Sea. Had that plan been cosumma-
ted, territory sufficient for the foundation of ten
States with the new brand of irrevocabe slavery
upon their broMs would have been brought to sit
like an incubus upon The nation, ana nothing less
han the inextnguishable. energies of freedom
could have saved you from the Reconstructed curse
of slavery upon yourselves. 1t may serve as con.
ISOLATION and encouragement to you, under the con-
emptuous treatment of your petitions, that slight
I'd as they were, they avered for time that i'm
bending ruin. | say for a time; for you will do
we'll not implicitly to trust that osensibe with i,
travail by the Republic of Texas of her solicita-
ion for the annexation of herself to this Union: -
The fraud and duplicity with which that whole y
project was conducted from the first mission of Mr.
ANTHONY BUTLER to Mexico, and the confidential
etters of the late President to the Secretaries of
Arkansas and Florida, down to the last session of
Congress, whena your petitions against this mer-
9tricious anal gamation were lad unheafd and UNI
read, upon the table, are still at work, and with
,xerons as active as ever. At the late session of Il
Congress, the whole South, and the Admnstra- 5
ion part of the North combined to suppress all de-
cate and all discussion upon the subject of Texas
out if the projected annexation had been honestly
and fairly abandoned, there could have been no q
possible motive then for refusing hear, to con-
:der and to answer, the petitions against it. The
present purpose of the Carolina party apparently :
ooks, however, to double process of Texian It
lmalgamation and of separation from the North. |
You will understand who | mean by the Carroll q q
IA party You are aware that within few years Il
political sect or faction has arisen in the State
If South Carolina under the guidance of very }
small number Of highly talented, ambitious, and .
men, Of that class Of politicians the "
natural production of all great Republic and char
,ccrzed nearly two thousand years since by Ro-
nan historian in four words Salts eIoquentip D
;apientin acknowledgement, not wise. The first u
disclosure of their aspirations was by an osenta-
ious and persevering attempt to supplan Virgin II