The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-04-20

utaton, --and yet they, who plumber them of al
these, would fain make us believe that their sof
hearts ooze out so lovingly toward their slaves
that they always keep them well housed and wei
clad, never push them too hard in the field neve
make their dear backs smart, nor let their dea
stomachs get empty.
But there is no end 10 these ridiculous and con
temptible absurdties. Are shareholders ounces
or do thew take all the rest of the world to be, tina
thew think to bandage their eyes with such thin
oonzes as these? Protesting their kind regard
for those whom they hourly plumber of all they
have and all they get What! when they have
seized their victims land annihiated all their rights
still claim to be the special guardians their hap
piness Plunderers of their liberties, yet the care
| full suppliers of their wants Robbers of then
earnings, yet walchlul sentines round their inter.
ests and kind providers for their comfort Fitch
ing all theirtime, yet granting generous donations
for rest and sleep? Stealing the use of their mus
cles, yet thoughtful of their ease Putting them
under drioerS, yet careful that they are not hard
pushed Too humane forsooth, 10 stint the som-
achs oftheir slaves, yet force their minds to starve
and brandish over them pains and penalties, if they
dare to reach forth for the smallest crumb Of
knowledge, even a letter of the a phabet :?
4. 1t is no marvel that Shareholders are always
talking of their kind treatment of their slaves
The only marvel is, that men of sense can be gull
led by such professions. Despots always insist
that they are merciful. The greatest tyrants that
ever dripped with blood have assumed the titles of
most gracious,'' most clement most mercitlli,
&C.. and have ordered their crouching vassals to
accost them thus When did not vice lay claim
to those virtues which are the oppostes of its ha-
btua crimes ? The guilty, according to their own
showing, are always innocent, and towards brave,
and drunkards sober, and harlots chaste, and pick
pockets honest to a fault. Every body under
stands this. When mans tongue grows thick,
and he begins to hiccough and walk cross legged,
we expect him, as a matter Of course, to protest
that he is not drunk so when man is always
singing the praises of his own honesty, we in
stinctively watch his movements and look out for
our pocket-books. Whoever is simple enough to
be hoayed by such professions, should never be
trusted in the streets without somebody to take
care of him. Human nature works out in slave
holders Just as itdoes in other men, and in Amer
lean shareholders ust as it does in English,
French, Turkish, Algerine, Roman and Grecian.
The Spartans boosted of their kindness to their
slaves, while they whipped them to death by thou
sands on the affairs of their gods. The Romans
Iauded their own treatment of their bondmen,-I
while they branded their names on their flesh
with hot irons, and when old, threw them into
their fish ponds, or like Cato the just stoned
them to death. 1t is the boast of the Turks that
hey treat their slaves as though they were their
children, yet their common name for them is
dogs and for the merest trifes, their feet are
to a jelly, OF their heads clipped off
With the cimetar. The Portuguese pride them
selves on their gentle bearing toward their slaves,
yet the streets of Rio Janeiro are filled with ma
ted slaves, yoked in pairs to carts and wagons,
md whipped by drivers like beasts of burden.
Shareholders, the world over, have sung the
praises of their tender merces towards their
slaves. Even the wretches that piled the African
lave trade, tried to rebut Clarksons proofs Of their
ruelties, by speeches, afidavits, and published
'amphlets setting forth the accommodations of
he middle passage" and their kind attentions
o the comfort of those whom they had stolen from
heir homes, and kept slowed away under the
atches during voyage of four thousand miles
So, according to the testimony of the autocrat OF
Russia, he exercises great cl emency towards the
Poles, though he exiles them by thousands to the
nows of Siberia, and rampes them down by
billions, at home. Who discredits the atrocity
erpetrated by Ovando in Hispaniola, Pizarro in
cru, and Cortez in Mexico,-because they filled
lie ears of the Spanish Court with protestations
their benignant rules? While they were yol-
g the enslaved natives like beasts to the draught
orking them to death by thousands, in their
lines, hunting them with their blood hounds, tor
entng them on racks, and broiling them on beds /
Goals, their representations to the mother coun- {
y teemed with eulogies of their paternal sway d
he bloody atrocities of Philip H., in the expul-
on of his Moorish Subjects are matters of imper- V
liable history. Who disbelieves or doubts them? c
nd yet his courters magnifed his virtues and
lanted his clemency and his mercy, while the t.
all of a million victims, smote down by tenn, d
'st of fire and slaughter let loose at his bidding,
Sc above the TIE Deums that Numbered from all b
pains cathedrals When Louis XIV. revoked
e edict of Nantz, and proclaimed half million o
his subjects free plumber for persecution,-when V
'm the English Channel to the Pyrennees the
angled bodies of the Protestants were dragged S
reeking hurdles by shouting populace, he a
aimed to be " the father This people," and wrote
mself" His most Christian Majesty" il
Major General Scott. IT
In recent number of the Emancipator, Mr.. il
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