The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-09-14

4 " OEN W n r. k6 HA III
the 4th of july feel his soul swell with irrepres-
sible Indignation, and feel to swear, with more un-
dying hatred, eternal hostility to that most exc
cradle oil all vanies," which disgraces our land,
and is hurrying us, with accelerated impetuousity
into the yawning jaws of destruction.
Just God! and shall we calmly rest
The Christians scorn, the heathen's mirth,
Content to live the lingering Jest
And bye-word ola mocking earth?
Shall our glorious land retain
That which Europe to bear?
Shall our brethren drag the chain,
Which not cen Russia's mcnials wear!"
No! We cannot calmly rest in the midst Of
such rccollecons. 1t is treason to our natures
and treason to our country to keep silent The
drowsy ear Of The nation must be veXcd with the
alarm of freedom, until every listener shall be a.
wake TO his duty, and until the people, with null
tludnous voice, shall increasingly cry, like The
haunted Macbeth,
{" Sleep no morcn' slavery hath murdered sleep!
When witness the Indifference with which the
existence and progress Of slavery is received by a
large proportion Of my fellow citizens, cannot but
wonder and be ashamed at their apathy. Al their
zeal and energies are awakened by other, and
comparatively triding subjects Of Government in
public affairs, bat they have no thought or sympa-
thy for three millions Of pundered and mbruted
fellow beings: and have no fear for the influence
of the humln-chaueI system of the south upon the
institutions of their country. The prolessed dem
ocrat with his soul full Of fire for the eQual rights
Of the people, and his mouth full OF excavations a.
ganSt the prevalence and ovcrShadowing infu-
ence Of monopolies cannot have his patriotic soul
troubled with the contemplation of the robbery Of
- r ~ -,
possibility, see any monopoly in the appropriation
by one-haf Of the community, of the other half
souls, bodies, and ALTO their own use On the
other hand, the man whose soul is so full Of hatred
to tyranny, that be must needs assume to him
self the appelIation horne by the patriots of the
I3evolution-who sees the near approach Of des-
polism in the removal Of a petty postmaster from
oliice-who is haunted with the terrible apprehen-
sion that Erccut;rc 22tr0hage is about to swallow
up the liberties of the country-and who is horr-
fed at the utter violation of the rights of proper
ty by an attack upon the United States Bank has
no word of condemnation for that tyranny which
rohs man, not only of Office, but of himself, his
wife and children, and deSpoils him of every right
of property, leaving him not even the ownership
of the bones and sinews which God has given him
Both the democrat and the wbig are Jealous fol
rights. and have a most marvellous nice concep-
ton of their dignity and importance, if a specie
circular Or Il Sn6 treasury are in question; but
they cannot, for the life of them, discover why
black man is not better off with no rights at ALL
than he would be with all those which bis Crea-
tor has given him They are wonderfully alive
to the importance of maintaining the freedom of
speech and the press, and the right of petition,
where bank bills and dollars and cents are roncer
ned, but to talk and print and petition for the &" in
aienabe rights" of man smells most rankiv Of IA |
naticism, in their delicate nOstriIs! Now what
,an be more anomalous in the history of human
weakness and inconsistency? A nation boasting
of its liberties its free institutions it's regard for
human rights its hatred OF oppresson-and vet
one-half of the land inherited by sLAvEHoLDERs-
oae-sirM Of its whole population sLAvEs-and half
Of those who boast themselves neither slaves nor
shareholders, mohbing the other half for opposing
slavery, and denouncing and rdculing their doc
rincs and efforts as deusion and treason 1.-THE
BODY Of the people ofthe free states, of both poti
"a parties cannot be reused from such a state of
Indifference, to the principles Of human liberty,
md be won back to the heaIthful doctrines of ear
Ter days, the desnies of this republic are sealed
md we have only TO await in silence It's speedy
md terrible doom. TO each Of us it belongs to
,ear some humble but faithful part in this great
work, and 10 set ourselves to the task with an UNI
llterabc determination to endure, ami every dis
and trial, to The end. Like the war
hing prophet Of the Jews, when Jerusalem APP
,roachod its end, and was baIeaguered by foes
Without, and warned with portents from above,
We must cry " WOE WOE" in the ears Of the pco
DE, and, with steady and resolute hand
"Upon the nations naked heart,
Scatter the living Goals of truth
And cannot more appropriately close this let
or, than to add, in your own stirring language:
81 And upward to the God of Heaven,
An all prevailing prayer We'll send,
And in the strength that he hath given
For Truth and Right unawed conend
No peace shall vile oppressors see,
Till life shall fail, SLAVES be free!'
Truly yours, in the fellowship of
free principles, and independent
defence of them,
EDWARD d. BARBER.
FUNERAL OF A JEWISH RABBI.-The Funeral Of