The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-11-23
From the Pennsylvania Freeman
Lonis, lille (Ky.) Bulletin.

, la wonder to us how such men as Whlllier, ana
some others, could ever have advocated a doctrine
so false in feeling-so destructive TO the country
and so mad in the very abstract. But the torch oil
abolition has almost burnt to ashes and God send
THAT it may never again threaten our political edi-
conclusions from the milder and less sedltious
tone Of the emancipating papers of the East"
1t is by no means a new thing to hear of abo-
litionisn "talIing bach," or "dying alcay." AT
least as often as semi-annually, since the forma-
ton of thu Aercanm Anli-Slavcry Society, the
friends Of that doomed institution, so appropriate
| ly denominated "pecuhar," have consoled them
selves with the idea that the opposition was loos-
ing strength and "dying away" If the pro-
slavery press generally is 10 be believed, we have
been totally discounted some score of times, and
is hardly decorous for us 10 presume TO exist al
all, after so many gricvous paper annihiations,
Our sorthern friends certainly have reason to
marve. at cur perlnacious adherence to vitality,
and to excaim with Macbeth, when the slain Ban
quo pushed him from his STOOL"
-" The time HAS been,
| Tha, when the brains were out the man has died.
The readiness of our southern friends to give I'M
pIcit confidence to the boastful bulletins Of their
northern allies has often amused u.s. The pelting
| Of an Anti-Slavery lecurer-the chivalrous dis
persion of female Ant-Slavery Society-reso-
lutions from cotton spectators, and northern
merchants in the southern trade, and even the pat
riotlc ou!bursts of Yankee pedlers and clock ven
ders, in behalf of our glorious Union and their
southern cusoln-have been hailed one after an
other, as death blows to Fanatcism." At one
time aboIitionis is represented as expiring under
the heat of ecclesiastical power; next the Wings
celebrate its funeral obsequies at Fancu Hall;
and finally the democracy Of the Regency State
hold death-dance in the wigwam Of St. Tam
many. If Methodist Bishop refuses TO license
an abolition candidate for the ministry, slavehol
ders from the Potomac to the Mexican Gulf con-
graduate each other upon the dying away Of
abolition. If a northern theological professor
with the prospect of southern students and slave
holding patrons, with well lined pockets before
his eyes, takes up the Bible to prove that the
apostle Paul turned slaye-catcher for his friend
Philemon, the SAVIOR of his sanctity rerfeshes the
entire South, and it is confidently predicted
that abolition cannot long survive the battering
ram of such biblical exegeSis. Was not the
veto message Of Presidcn; Van Buren, hailed as
the certain precursor of the death Of abolition
Was it not killed outright by Pinckney's report
and did not the tie deums of victory over it, fol-
ow through the south the news of the passage of
Paton's gag law? Did not Calhoun resolve it
10 death in the Senate three years ago! Did no,
Anterior stab it under tho fifth rib Lass winter
and Henry Clay perorate and gestculate over it
with his drawn digger? Was it not scourged in
the person Of Dresser by the Nashville chivalry
hung, in anticipation, by Senator Preston
drowned in the Ohio river, in the shape Of types
and printing presses, by Kentucky slave traders and
Buckeye duegh faces! Has it not been tarred
and feathered, until like the hero If T,,mbull's
'McFingal,'
" Not, Mais son with wings for cars, s'
Such pumes around his vsage wears,
Nor Milton's six-winged angel gathers,
Such superauty of fea;hers'
And allthat can be said Of it at the present time,
is what has been reiterated for tho last FIVE years.
with perseverance worthy Of all admiration
it is " falling back, "-"dyilg away" To cacu-
late how long period would be required to put
an end to it, at this rate, would tax the arithme-
Teal genius of another Zerah Colburn.
The editor of the Bullslin is inclined to marvel
at the fact, that we could ever have advocated the
doctrine of abolition. We will have the chart
ty to take it for granted that he does not know
what that 4" doctrine is Il is no new thing -
but is all summed up in the Kenncky bill OF
rights: that each noral agent has tie right Of
personal ownership--lhat each human being has
the rights of life, liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness; and consequently, that slave
ry, the antagonist of this doctrine, is wrong in it
self, or as a celebrated Kentucky lawyer said in
1886, it is ''aN wrong, aqd no circumstance can
make it otherwise" 81"
But the doctrine is false in feeling" Is it
then wrong to love the cause Of i'reedom-to give
our sympathes to the oppressed? Is is tie same
feeling, sancliGed and purified, as We trust, on
the part of the nbohonists, by its manifestations
only inApeaceful and moral efforts which urged
Israel from her Egyptian taskmasters: which has
every spot where man has slrven for
his righ,s-the .Thernopylns, the Marathons
the Bannuckburna, the. gtons-which has
worn with the pressure OF pilgrim sandals, the !
grass around the grave Of the sleeper Of Mount
Vernon: which swclls the hearts Al, The mention of
he DeWits & Van Arterellis OF Holland, the Sid q
leys and Russells Of England the Emmets and
Fitzgcrals of Ireland the Grecian Botzaris, the
Hell, ear Hoftr and Wnkelred, the Haitian {
TO. verture--which has made the field of Run
lymead, the rock oil Plymouth the Polytechnic
choo Of Paris, and the old Hall OF lndepen- T
lence now before us, dear to the lover Of freedom
throughout the earth
-" To the Palcs.ines
And Meccas Of the mind"