The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-02-09

passion may purchase its qualification, nsures vigorous
growth of all those propensities in which al
lied to the brute. This is often fatal to all parties both
bond and free nfuses poison into the cup of connuba
happiness ihvades the family circle and murders its do
mestc joys, snaps the ties of kindred and affection, and
proves destructive to the general interests of society The
instances of fathers selling their yellow offspring into
foreign sevitude not unequent like angels visits
few and far beween and this circumstance most wildly
depicts that wreched and awfuy hopeless state of society
which provides such victims and exacts such sacrifice.
! INTERSTATE SLAVE TRADE.
Another formidable evil the legitimate fruit of slavery,
is found in the domestic slave trade which has within
few years grown such magnitude shade of
gloom our whole land 1t has been computed by a
Vrgnan that least forty thousand slaves have been
ported in single year from that alone The traffic
is also Aourishng in Maryland the District of Columbia,
North Carolina and Kentucky, that probably eighty or
hundred thousand are now annually from their
friends and their native land and sent hopeless and ag
gavated servitude in the swamps and plains of the
states of the southwest The fertility of soil in these
states, auduenty forciby taken from the aborignes
and recently opened to cultivation, the value and mpor
lance of their products, the unusual exposures to which
the slaves eced, the awful of mental suffering
they bring along with them the dread prospects of hope
less despair which lie before them-combning to shorten
life and terminate their pain insure continuance of this
traffic, unless the people, aroused of their guilt
and danger, the walls of Almighty wrath in righteous
dignaon poured upon guilty land shall end it, Well
may the patriot excaim with Jeferson Indeed
BILE for my country when recollec that God just, and
that his justice cannot sleep forever
few years since the slave growing making
rapid advances toward condition which promised speedy
abolition of slavery within their lmts but this trade
ry where, except in free, happy blessed chris
tan t0d, denounced piracy has put them back the
farhest point of opposition. Good merchanabe slaves,
fitted for the southern market of either SEX from ten to
thirty years of age will readily command an average six
hundred dollars; that noble, hgh-minded chipaLric
Virginia, by this nearious business, annually brings her
Golfers twenty-our millions Can her sons give up this
traffic, profitable merely the ground of its being
nhuman and rebeious against God? Can they undo the
heavy burdens and let the oppressed go fee merely
God commands it? The love of money is the root
of all evil and slavery in all its aspects visible and
abiding proof of the truth of this text.
replenlshed
with Slaves longer furnish acceptable mar
ke the extensive country of Texas reacherousy wresed
from Mexico free state, by the and of renegade
Americans, and doomed hereafter be cursed with slave
ry, opens another and ample field which avarce and nge
nuity combined cannot Immediately fill.
MoBocRACY.
Another evil of great magnitude and of aspect exceed
ingy poenous and threatening, found in the hostility
manifested in the savehodng against that portion
of the population of the other who have dared to
think and speak and write upon the subject of Slavery
Thanks be God have dared thus do and have
published the sentiments of adherence which the subject
inspired. They have in the midst of conumely and re-
proach, prosecuted their researches and eectuay expo
sed the denominations they discovered These expositons
have gone abroad and shed their light many parts
land. Like the Ephesan craftsmen when exposed by the
intrepid APOSTLE the Hotspurs the south thoroughly
aroused and by mor riot and mobocracy threaten with
awful doom all who shall have the temerity
tinue the investigation Decency, humanity, order, law
and the constitution have been tramped upon in their mad
Their has been marked by the wanon
waste of property invasion of personal liberty, violation of
personal security, and the destruction of life ITSELF indica
ting that they additional infusion of any malignant
spirit they only want the poDer to accomplish all they
have threatened. The Lynch law operations in of
the states the riots and mobs in Others the denunciaons
of Hon. Senators and Representatives in Congress- the
solemn and repeated enacon of gag law through whose
operation the prayers of the people spurned by the
peoples servants papabe and awful indications of the
presence and power of fell spirit engendered in the hot
bed ofsavery, which righteous God suffering scourge
us. These dire porents of evil magnfed thousand
fold by the fact that necromanc influence is exered by
the Representatives of the slave states those who
this particular at least, msrepresent the free
PERNIcIoUs INFLUENCE OF SLAVERY UPON CON-
The House Of Representatives consists of two hundred
and tory-two MEMBERS there being hundred from the
slave states and hundred and forytwo from the 9TH
ers The nearly universal sentiment of the free states is
that slavery is an evil and bitter thing and ought to be
aboshed that freedom of speech and of the PRESS and
the right of petition, by the constitution
paramount value, and ought be held sacred yet
tyeigh only of their hundred and orty-two Repre-
sentaves found at their posts on the 18th Dec last
ready to and maintain these sentiments What but
magic could make three from Mane four from New Hamp