The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-06-15
THE VOICE FREED

the United States in 1925; and when, with PLAIN
common sense he answered that the Presidency
was station neither to be solicited nor refused, II
was sounded and resounded with trumpet tongue
us prodigious eXemplilicallon OF disihlefedheSS
and patriotic sell-devotion.
Mr.. CALHOUN and his friends, however, were
not satisfied with this nominations ana just at the
close of the same year, 1921, Congressional
counter-nomination OF him, was projected at Wash
inoton. but after deliberate considerations postpon-
ed as premature. Mr. LowNDEs shortly after
wards died, and the Legislature OF South Caro-
Eno always alert in the purpose of furnishing a
President for the United States, delayed not for
mally to 7,ominate Mr. CALHOUN. This nominal
ton was, indeed, not more unsuccessful than that
of Mr.. LowNDEs, but it gave way only for third
native of South Carolina for whom pledged
ticket of electors was chosen by the Legislature
of that State in November lS2l who according
ly voted for Gen. JACKSON as President, and Mr..
ECMHoUN as Vice President of the United States.
The election of Mr.. CALHOUN as Vice PrcSi-
dent then succeeded, and, by coalition of the
Carolina party, under his auspices, with another
Southern, or the old Virginia party, till then his
most bitter opponents, marching under the lead OF
Mr.. VIM. Fl. CRAWFORD, at the election Of De-
ccmbcr 1925 they seemed to have attained the
summit of their ambition, by placing natives OF
South Carolina in both the offices of President
and Vice President, with the distinct understand
inc that the succession TO the highest station was
to be- after four, or, at most, after eight years. in
the same line.
But now came the fable of the mIIlmaids pail.
Not one year of Gen. JAcNsoN's administration
had passed away before Mr.. CALHOUN found him
self Involved in personal controversy with the
heroic chetain, for having, some twelve years
before, been much inclined to punish him by a
military tribunal for his exploits in the Seminole
war. The General had just made the discorery,
by the timely advice of some of Mr.. CALuoUN's
but recent associates in the achieve
ment Of raising the two South CaroIiAians to the
two highest dignites of the Union. An eXpla-
nation and rupture ensued. The Vice PreSdcn-
cy was no longer in the line of succession Mr..
CAInoUN resigned the Office and came back
Senator from South Carolina not only an anti
ariiiite and strict constructionis but Il nuiIifer,
by South Carolina supremacy OF the laws of the
Union; Wig, armed at all points against Ey-
ecutlyc power and patronage, and compromser
between the American system and the separate
sovereignty of South Carolina
In the mean time, the operation of slavery on
the politics of this Union was assuming new as
pect Denmark VcscyS projected mutiny Of a
few slaves al Charleston had some years before
been smothcred in blood The Southampton IN
in Virginia, while Illustrating the hap
pY state of contcntmcnt Of the condition of the
slaves in the South and their allectionate graft
ludc for the kind treatment of their masters, left
upon the latter deep impression of terror at the
danger always impending over their heads. The
debates in the Legislature of Virginia upon the
proposition of Mr.. TnoMAs JEFFERSON RANDOLPH
for the gradual abolition of slavery upon the plan
recommended by his grandfather in the Memoir
of his life, written by himself, were soon followed
by the Dissertation upon Slavery by Professor
Dew of William and Mary College, under the
form of review of those debates.
This work forms n new era in the history Of
the United States md of North American politics +
and morals. 1t is the eleareSt and most striking
illustration of the. essential Il immcd;cable nature
Of slavery ever exhibited. Ii is worthy Of having
Dcen devised by the tortured spirits of Millions
Pandemonium. 1t is the offspring of Despair,
bidding defiance to the e'odof Heaven,
1t begins by abiuring the selI-evident truths of
he Declaration of Independence, and with them
he elementary truths OF the Christian dispersal
ion-the natural equality of mankind. 1t main
aims that the African is different and inferior
ace TO the White European, and bonn and destin-
d by Nature to live in subsection under him.
on will perceive that this position, ad MS the
ass of an argument to sustain the institution OF
lavery, denies to the coored man the possession
f an immortal soul. This must, indeed necessa- h
lily and unavoidably be the foundation of every
leory to justify slavery. Forif
The SOUL secure in its existence, smiles
AT the drawn dagger, and dcGes its point, Il
ne soul of one man can never be made the prop
rty Of another 1t is the soul that constitutes
he man. ana, by the laws of Nature and of Ma
res God, you cannot make n human being your I
lave without dcpriying him Of his immortal soul, ,
nd degrading him to the level of the grazing OK. 5
he teacher Of the new school of William and 6
larry and his followers tell US that this has been
ono already; that God-yes, they use the name $
f God has made two varieties Of theahuman 70
ace-one TO be masters, and the other to be slaves
one to loll upon down, and dream of moral phi +,
1sophy, the other to be beasts of burden to pam ,
er the idle and worthless existence Of their mas
srs. pass over the revolving character of this Il
rst principle; the irrcconciabIc opposition to the
ital principle Of Christianity, to do unto others as
on would that they should do unto you; its fiat +
onradicton to that express declaration Of Divine :
SEPARATION, that God hath made of one blood all f
atoms of men, its reliance upon brutal physi- /
al force as the ultimate arbiter Of the relations