The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-12-28
LETTER FROM MIR. SEELY.
Dec. 90, 1889.


SHoEEHAM, Dec 90, 1889.
Dear Brother Knapp,-Tell my friends
that am alive, and trying to "redoem TIT
time, because the days are evil" Yea, tht
time is short, and if anything is done for the
poor slave, or his poorer, guilty master, i
must be done quickly. Nay, if anything is
to be done to save our guilty nation from
being whemed in red sea of blood, it must
be done without further delay. "The Kings
business requires haste" and it requires Wig
orous, daring action in this mighty, moral
Contest. Every abolitionist ought to keep
prominently before his eye this motto :-'Wo
to him that soWs discord among brethren.
w hatever other errors or defects may be dis
covered III my course, | do most earnestly
and devoutly pray the Lord to deliver me
from saying Or doing, and from leaving any
thing unsaid, or undone, that would divert
the mind from the one great object and end
of the anti-slavery enterprize--the salvation,
temporal and spiritual, of the chattelized
millions of men in the bosom Of this christian,
republican nation. Strange paradox indeed!
But so it is-and we must bear the burning
rcproach before the civilized world, yea, and
the heather world, too, and the guilt before
God, until as nation we awake, repent and
put away the evil Of our domgs.
| left Montpelier, you know, at about 2,
P. NJ, on Friday, 10Th, (scarccly able and
quite untitled by i'll health, to be OUT for
Eergonncs, where had an appointment for
the Sabbath, Fine sleighing at NJ, but at s
o clock found myself at Richmond without
half snow enough to cover the hubs; and
thence on Saturday | dragged my sleigh to
EergcnneS, where arrived at little past s
in the eve, my health somewhat improved.
On Sabbath, gave the people three meals
of what [ call unminged abolition; and |
found the moral digestive powers of that
people in such a healthful state, that, instead
OF It's proving an over-pressurc upon those
delicate organs, Gas is too often the CASEY it
seemed to strengthen the whole body. On
Monday, | went with the worthy President
of the State Society, in violent snow-storm,
to Mlddlebuy. to attend a meeting of the
Executive Committee, and back at eve, to
Fergennes. On Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, | continued to serve ND
to the people the strong, plain but wholesome
abolition food, as on the Sabbath without
discovering the least evidence that it had be-
come stale to any rudely, as indeed it was,
spread out before them. Let no one suppose,
however, that have labored to entertain the
people with novelties, to please the curious.
My steady aim has been to present this sub
Ject DIS inSeparably connected with "pme
and anadefled rehgion"-that religion taught
and exempli6ed by it's divine Founder and
his apostles and immediate successors. Here,
and here alone is my hope for my brethren
IN bonds Here alone is my hope for the
church, crimsoned with the blood of the
poor innocents' here alone is my hope
for my beloved, guilty country.
Now for results. At a time of unprece-
dented pressure in the money market, felt
alike by all classes of the community, the
friends of humanity in Vergennes and imme-
diate vicinity have promptly responded to
the cry of the Lords suffering poor, in
manner that would have been truly credita-
BILE in more prosperous times. At 1-2 past
3 on Saturday, left Vergennes for Shore
ham, with donations and pledges from that
dear people, to aid the Vt. Anti-Slavery So