The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-09-21

are the inaenable rights of all-hat is, all mer
women, and children, are the religious, the phi
! losophic, and sublime sentiments to which W
have subscribed. No age, no color, no country
and persons of no circumstance excepted. Thi
selfevident declaration is proclamation of GU
Fl honesty or hypocrisy. One ofthese extremes W
must follow No middle course can be found
No sooner have those noble principles passed on
lips than the slave system stands erect before us
and we have to bind our fellow men in hopeless
bondage, and doom them to life of bitter toll ant
unrequited labor else to appreciate the conduc
of those who do and thus let the sun bazon gu
our hypocrisy to the universal scorn of mankind
Or to withstand our slaveholding fellow citizen tt
the face and tell him, you are guilty of wrong
a most grievous wrong, and our principles com
pei US to condemn your conduct as most vile, ant
to use every effort to knock off the letters of you
slaves. 1t requires no uncommon penetration to
perceive, that the inconsistency of the protested
principles and habitual practices Of the men of the
south is felt to be yoke too calling to be borne
and that they are rapidly embracing and propaga
ting principles more in accordance with their con-
duct, as consequence yes, most portentousl rev
olution in political sentiments is now in progress
a revolution which will eventually dig grave for
the North or, should the North stand true to her
best interest and that of her descendants she is at
this moment forming grave sufficiently capacious
to swallow up the peculiar institutions" with all
their vile instruments of human torture, and sufi
GENTLY deep to stihe for the signs and groans
of the oppressed and wronged. Lawyers of the
first talents professors filling the highest seats Of
learning, and statesmen Of brilliant powers and Of
gigantic influence in the general government, are
rendering nature, and the arrangement of. Provi-
dence, and the unavoidable graduation of society,
tributary to this revolution principles. IT'S
time for Northern freemen to take the alarm to
open their eyes; to study once more the first prn-
cples of free society; and to buckle on their ar
NOR, unless with dastardly and cringing humil-
ity and submission, they mean to bow their neck
to the southern yoke.
Beside the moral obligation under which the
Declaration of Independence places every member
of this Republic, an obligation so nice and so
binding as to preclude the impossibility of the
American people being any thing on the one hand
but most false to their avowed principles, or, on
the other, the most staunch and active friends for
human rights without limitation and without dis
tinction of rank and color party spirit will COM
pei every individual to throw some influence on
abo1J i,, IN
south and their numerous and active friends in
the North, together with the antslavery party, and
the hustle their firm and benevolent doings are
stirring up among all parties in both church and
state, are at this present moment operating on the
whole mass of mind, like the tornado that not on
ly whirls the atom and thunders over the hills,
but heaves the very rocks from their base, and
roars in the very caverns of the mountains. This
party feeling, say, is not only universal, but so
strenuous to gain proselytes, thaty must choose
sides; and my solemn exhortation is, choose the
side of TRUTH mercy and righteousness, for these
only can holy God approve. repeat it, and ire
peat it most solemnly, that if you would avoid the
singing reproaches of an enlightened conscience,
not find thorns in your dying pillows, and not
have to meet your Judge with dismay when he
ascends his awful throne to give you as your works
shall be, in your domestic duties, in your inter-
course and influence among your fellow men, in
your prayers to heaven and petitions to men, and
at the ballot-box, and in all your political influence,
stand firm like brazen pillar by the side of
truth, mercy, and righteousness. Yes, we are
arrived to such pitch on this question, that our
silent men, and we have not a few of them, are
among the best friends of the slave party the very
friends they want, and at the same time, they are
he btterest foes to the poor trodden down slave.
What, maintain profound silence because you will
lake no sides on this subject! Never was a
stranger delusion. If silence ever gave consent
if silence was ever construed into appreciation and
made to bear an important point, yours has that
bearing in the support of American slavery thro'
The wise among most of the slavehoding party
i bids the STAKEHOLDER hold on his property in hui
nan bodies and souls-it bids the human flesh
MERCHANT proceed his nefarous practice buying
and sall;no No the natural brute Gods own image