The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-04-06

les ofthree millions of slaves, but, like Jefferson,
they tremble for their country when they remem-
Der that God is just, and that his justice cannot
sleep forever. They have combined, and are COM
bining their influences, not to urge Congress to
violate the constitution in support of freedom, but
to persuade them not to violate it by enactments
in support of slavery and not to disregard its
spirit by refusing to do what it authorizes them to
do for the extension of freedom. They have com
bined, not to destroy their country, but to save it
not to dissolve the Union, but to preserve it not
to drench their country in blood, but to deliver it
from all fear Of such catastrophe; not to bring
about amalgamaton, as Mr.. Clay, without the
shadow of reason, affirms. They have not as
Mr.. Clay admits they have not, and even re-
proaches them that they have not, set the exam
pie, They wish rather to stop amalgamation.-
Mr. Clay asks, who is to begini it? Did he think
us such fools as not to know that it was begun at
the south before he was born and has been car
ried on to such an extent between white masters
and black slaves, that large proportion of the CO.
lored population is yellow? "Who is to begin
Il" Ask the Vice President Of the United States,
who is to begin it? Abolitioniss would protect
the black population in the enjoyment of matrimo-
NAL connexions among themselves, in all that pu-
rity which is the bond, which is the well-spring
of social happiness, but into which slaveholding
infuses deadly poison.
Mr.. Clay complains of our exaggerated exhibit
tons of the horrors of slavery, and our publishing
advertisements of runaways, and of negroes for
sale, and says the STAKEHOLDER is held up as the
most atrocious of human beings He also asks
if the affair of the liberation of six thousand negro
slaves in the District of Columbia is of sufficient
magnitude to agate, distract and embitter this
great comfederacy? AS to exaggerations. Let
Mr.. Clay himself declare if any representations
of slavery he has seen, give worse or deeper i'm
preston of its evils than he would realize if his
own children, with their posterity forever, were
consigned to such slavery as he believes to exist
under the worst class of shareholders in the south,
say the worst twentieth part of all the slave
owners overseers and drivers in the U. S.? As |
10 southern advertisements of runaways and ne
groes for sale, he will admit that they speak the
ruth but he may we'll dislike their being pub
shed at the north, for nothing is better calculated
% bring upon slavehoding, if not on shareholders,
he adherence of the whole civilized world. Our
whole country shares in the disgrace, and we
vonld not publish them, did we not hope to make
our southern brethren ashamed of practices so abb
1orrent to humanity. And as to the small affair
compared with three millions but we have never
bought, whatever Mr. Clay may think, that the
slavery of single individual was in itself small
affair, or that his restoration to freedom was an
unworthy object. Nor do we believe Mr.. Clay
would think so, if that slave were mis- own child,
he son or daughter of his own wife, and she of
'ure Saxon blood But Mr.. Clay knows that the
tx thousand, not like the three millions, are held
n slavery by the laws of Congressman this is
What makes their slavery so eminenty grievous
o us. And we know, too, (maugre the miserable
ophisry of this famous specify that Congress
ave power to set them free. And although, as
Ir. Clay says, we publish to the world that we
o for the freedom of the three millions, and mot
$ he says) use no masked batteries, we think,
eepy concerned as we are for the honor of our
ountry, that the emancipation of the sic thousand
Tould be good beginning. We think, too, that
IN years will not elapse before it will be done,
nd done with the concurring votes of southern
MEMBERS. {
Mr. Clay complains Of our carrying this subject
o the ballot box. No wonder he is alarmed at
his; for the ballot box is mighty engine in the E
ause Of freedom But Mr., Clay surely should t
OF wonder at us, for it cannot have escaped the S
Of so sagacious politician that, when I
eemen are engaged in bringing moral inAu- +
nee to bear on the community in favor of an OBJ ,
ct which must be accomplished Gfa ally by le- 9
isatve action, they will, if consistent, vote for
len who are in favor of such legislative action t
low the congressional legislative action called for
abolitionists, is, in their view, of no small i'm f
ortance to the great cause in which they have q
mbarked. If MIR. Clay does not know it, he is t
OF well schooed in the tactics of his brethren for
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