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

our interests and then for our duties we shall GER
talnly err We can never see the right clearly
and fully, but by making it our first concern. No
Judgment can be just or wise, but that which is
built on the conviction of the paramount worth
and Importance of duty. This is the fundamen-
tai truth, the supreme law of reason and the
mind which does not start from this in its inuui-
res into human affairs is doomed to great, per-
haps fatal error Claiming.
(c) A rash, precptate business, truly for aboli-
tionists to reiterate sentiments that have been en-
tertained and published by national, state and
county anti-slavery meetings for the last three or
four years.
(d) At the top of the same column of the Her
aid wherein this "great aversion to slavery is
protested, stands the name of Henry Clay the
editors favorite candidate for the Presidency. Mr..
Clay in his late speech protests that he is no
friend of slavery albeit he is the legal owner of
some forty odd human beings, and AYERS in the
same speech, that what the laao makes property,
as property" Mr.. Fay is certainly to be COM
mended for his avowal of "great aversion to sa-
very" We can only account for his frankness
but on the supp0sition that he had just perused
the speech of Henry A. Wise on the subject o:
duelling, wherein the Virginian expresses his
great aversion to duelling-in the abstract =
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(e) righteousness exalteth nation" This
is discovery not of modern times, but its truth
has been verified in all ages of the world.
Our means are the Truth,-the Power under
whose guidance we propose to carry our views
into effect, is, the Almighty. Con6dng in these
means, when directed by the spirit and wisdom of
Him who has so made them as to act on the
hearts of men, and so constituted the hearts of
men as to be affected by them, we expect, l. To
bring the church of this country to repentance for
the sin of oppression. Not only the Southern
portion Of it that has been the oppressor-but the
Northern, that has stood by, conserving, for half
century, to the wrong. 2. To bring our coun-
trymen to see, that for a nation to persist in nu
tice is but to rush its ruin-that to do JUS
tice is the highest expediency-to love mercy its
noblest ornament-Birmey
(f) Will the editor of the Herald be so kind as
to inform the public achat part he is prepared
to act in reference to this great national question!
His course, thus far, reminds one of the clown in
the play, who, when questioned as to the "part he
was to take in the nights entertainment, grufly
replied, "Au parts, my lord"
(g) Every terrible" For religious and civil,'
read irrelgious and serrile.
ny The editor refers to the memorable contest
of 1888, we presume prescribing and disfran-
chising," indeed Wonderful stretch of Jack the
Giant-Killer The abolitonists are going to -
vote and in favor of liberty! and against an adj
vocate of perpetual slavery and duellist! Here
is work for our grand jurors. Condign punish
ment must be visited upon all such malefactors!
(O The rascals!
% Our business is with the living, Mr.. Fay.
(k) And Mr. Fay, with all his horror of Van
Burenism, almost seems to say My heart stops
me to drop the tear of sensbility.'
" Why all this trepidaton and outcry, then?
The Herald is assured that these resolutions were
adopted very deliberately after ample discussion
and with great unanimity. We believe that they
will be heartily responded to by many thousands
of our citizens, who would not be behind any in
their devotion to their country's true interests
We venture word further. Those politicians
who count on carrying the vote of Vermont for
Henry Clay, or any other pro-slavery candidate
for the Presidency, will yet see their mistake
"A people like those inhabiting the green hills
of Vermont will not go it"
10 The adjourned anti-slavery meeting, held
at the Free Church on Friday evening, l2th' was
very fully attended 1t being Court week. a good
ly number of strangers awaited themselves OF the
opportunity of hearing the claims of the antl-slave-
ry cause. Mr.. Upham occupied about one hour
and half in the delivery of well-written ad-
dress, explanatory of the compact of the consti-
tuition. We think he must have convinced his
auditory of the truth of his main proposition-that
the Constitution of the United States so far from