The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-05-11

dorsenent and adoption by the Secretary of the
American Colonization Society," is from the pen of
Professor Wright.
" A6olition Seduion; By a Northern Man.
Philadelphia, George w. Donohue, 1882 II
mo. PIP. ISL"
We have not heard whether the author Of this
little book occupies lodgings in an Insane Hospi-
tai or not, but we know several worthy men who
do, whose minds are in better order, 1t is very
fortunate for aboitioniss, at any rate, that the type
of insanity under which he labors is not very COM
mon. Had it been so forthe last half dozen years,
what forest Of gbbets would our land by this
time have presented? Opponents of abolitlonism
there have been too numerous to count-swarming
in moberatic legions-and furious wild bulls in
a net, but their inteects seem to have been pre-
served from the halucination that abolition is
hangabe crime that there is any thing SedltaouS
in seeking to change laws by means OF the ballot
box. Indeed the best proof that we can think of
that abolitionists have walked in the path of the
constitution and the law, is that they have not
been made to suffer the penalty the law. There
has been no want of prosecutors and of prosecut-
ors who knew the law. Men of property and
standing with whom the law is favorite weap-
on, both of offence and Defence have broken the
law by resoring to fire and tar to suppress aboli-
ton; which they never would have done had the
law been on their side. This discovery of the
author as to the illegal and criminal nature of alb
oitonism, made after the city and county OF Phil
adelpha had run in debt forty thousand dollars to
the abolitonists for allowing their Hall to be burnt
down, it strikes US should be as good title to
lunatc asylum as if he had discovered the per-
petual motion, the philosophers stone, or gener-
al lcence in the statutes of Pennsylvania to rob
hen-roosts, granaries and banks. 1t may yet be
discovered and proved that the moon is made of
green cheese, but whoever shall make the dscov-
cry in regard to the Allegheny mountains must
expect to be asked, l, Why this was not discover
cd before. 2, Why cheese is shilling pound.
So we ask our author L. Why did not the law
yers find this out? g Why are the abolitonists
mnhumg? The general charge on which our au-
thor builds his book is brought as follows, italics
and all
We observe then that the American Anti-Sla-
very Society, under the authority and by the ac-
ton of which, this movement is conducted is
general and permanent political organization, self!
erected self go6erned, Independent and irresponsi
Die, having no connection NTH tie government OF
the country, but get uSurping the appropriate 6u-
stnesS Of the government
If ever we are tried for Sedition we hope this
green horn may be the indicter of our Indictment
as he will doubtless leave out the u CT arms, the
JOTCG UUU UTWS, w Z Slldl lluot tLCH W nave tHe
pleasure of hanging, if we hang at all, together
with divers large socities, such as those Of St,
Tammany, the Masonic, the Temperance, and
above all with King Caucus, and both the political
parties We do not see but the entire and univer-
sal people of the United States have committed
the crime of sedition. 1t might be enough to add,
that the whole book is worthy Of its imposing
foundation, rivaling the most magnificent of soap
bubbles in splendor and solidity but we will give
II single specimen or two of the superstructure.
The author takes great pains to prove that the
seditious organization is political-not however,
by going back to the fountain head, Where the
whole might be conclusively proved by quoting
the following from Inc Declaration of Sentiments
Of the Convention which formed the American
Anti-Slavery Society - We also maintain that
there are, at the present time, the highest obiga-
tons resting upon the people of the free States, to
remove slavery by moral and political action, as
prescrbedby the Constitution of the United States
Aud again, in the second article of the constitu-
ton of the said society, which certainly pins up
on it the political stigma!
The society will also endeavor, in a constitu-
tiona way, to influence Congress to put an end to
the domestic slave trade and to abolish slavery in
all those portions of our common country which
come under its control, especially in the District of
Columbia, and likewise to prevent the extension
of it to any State that may be hereafter admitted
TO the Union.
But it better suits this author to assert that the
society at first actually disclaimed its political char
acer to which point he quotes from a paper sign
ed by some of the abolitionists in New York, da-
,edJuly 10Th, 1884, in which they say that it has
been their aim to abstain from mingling the OBJ
jects of their our society wit1 either Of the polit-
cal parties' if there could be no political action
but in one or other of the political parties Then,
to prove that the society has seditiously burst its
concealment, he quotes circular which he says
is from the Ant-Slavery office in New York, is
sued for electioneering purposes in the New York
political campaign Of 1885 urging abolition vo-
tiers to attach themselves to the Wigs. Now, we
know that no such circular was issued from the
Anti-Slavery office. The whole was Pigment of
the Wing newspapers, Here is forgery brought
prove point which was confessed by the socie-
'y itself at its formation! Perhaps we may further
notice the book, if we find that the writer is going
at large.
" HERo1NE.-A lady living in Warren, n j.,
performed feat few nights since, which few wo-
men would find the fortitude to do, even under
such circumstances as compelled her to the per-
Torrance. The husband of Mrs w. was from