The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-06-15
MONTPELIER, VERMONT, JUNE ID, 1880.

Other and recent circumstances, little noticed
hitherto by the Public, have raised new question
with regard to the undertakings of the Colonial
ton Societies, which, without attaching undue i'm
portance upon them, have bearings of very seriou
aspect upon the principles of our own Government
In the course Of the last year the American Colo
nizaton Society has been Reconstructed under new
organization, and its directors have undertaken b,
self-assumed authority, to constitute Republio O.
Llberia, and to confer upon the people of that Re
public the sovereign powers of declaring war con
GLIDING peace, and regulating commerce, with
legislative, executive, and judicial departments O
Government, all subject to the absolute and arb
trary control Of the Directors of the American
Colonization Society. And will you believe thai
when, during the late session Of Congress, | was
about TO expose this enormous assumption of pow.
er by private association of American citizens,
was called to order, and not permitted to proceed
by the arbitrary nterdict of the Chair, because
forsooh it was not relecant to the question wheth
er the Republic of Hayi should be recognized as
public of Liberia, under the protection and con-
troll of the American Colonization Society! Mr..
VAN buren, has been severely censured for de-
nouncing, in his last annual Message to Congress,
the antiropuhican tendencies of associated ,realh
If the imputaton of anti-repubican tendencies
had been extended to all partial associations, it
would have been more just and less exceptional
| BILE.
For what is the republic itself but associated
'cealth /? The very name of Republic is compound
ed of two Latin words, RES PUBLlCA, signifying
the associated wealth the People aud the word
Commonwealth is but the literal Anglo Saxon
version of the same elements. The Republic.
the Commonwealth, and associated wealth, are
terms precisely synonymous, and TO charge asSo-
ciated wealth with anti-repubcan tendencies is to
say that the Republic itself is ant-repubcan.-
The very derivation Of this compound word. both
in the Latin and English languages, proves that
the institution of civil society is identical with as
sociated wealth. as its great purposes are to pro-
tect and secure the rights Of property as well as
of persons.
But as the Republic itself is one great commu-
nifty of associated wealth, may be said with strict
proprety, and all experience will confirm the OBJ
servaton, that anti-republcan tendencies are Incl
dental to all partial associations for the promotion
of jects other than the good of all. The ten
denotes of associated wealth are, therefore, not
more an-repubcan, perhaps not so much so, as
those of associated poverty. The anti-repubican
tendency consists not in the wealth or the poverty
of the parties, but in the principle of associated
it had been proposed to the President of the Unit
ed States to introduce into his annual Message
note of censure upon the anti-republcan tendcn-
cies of Trades Union, he would have perceiv-
ed instantly the invidious complexion which it
would have given to the Message. But if anti
republican tendencies were manifested by sclf-con-
stituted associated power, tell me when, and where
it was, if not in the undertaking OF the American
Colonization Society to constitute sovereign ne
GRO Republic in Africa.
Thus far then, concur in the sentiment of Mr.. |
VAN buren,, that all partial associations, organic
ed for action to influence the course of the Gov
eminent, haze certain anti-rcpubican tendencies,
which require watChful eye and a rcsolute pur-
pose in the guardians of the public interests, to
keep them under control. And of all the combi-
nations of associated wealth existing in this Union,
that which is the most formidable to the Union it.
SELF and to all its fee institutions Is the assocat-
ed wealth consisting of three millions of human
beings, forming a capital estimated at twelve hun !
dred millions of dollars. OF the anti-republican
tendencies of that associated wealth there can be
no doubt, and President of the United States
anxiously DESTROYS to signalize his administration
by uncompromising hostility TO anti-republican
tendencies, may find ample occupation for his pat
rotsm in resisting the usurpaton of that associat-
ed wealth. instead OF plgmy warfare with the
tendencies of exchange brokers,
insurance companies, and cotton factories
consider the assumption Of power by the Am
erican Colonization Society, in constituting the
sovereign Republic Of Liberia, rs one of those
of that associated wealth by which,
and for whose purposes the Society was institut-
ed The world has seen with IS on shmeat an
English East India Company exercising sovereign
authority and dominion over millions of the peo-
pie of Asia, but the English East India Company
have never constituted sovereign Republics. The
American Colonization Society, without even
charter from Congress, confcrs upon few hun
bred negroes on the coast of Africa,the power of
making war and peace, of regulating commerce,
and of doing whatever sovereign,and independ-
ent States may of right do, but all subject to the
control of this Amcrican private association. III
the People are the source of all lawful Govern
ment, how can private society in these United
States bestow a Government upon the Republic
of Liberia, in another quarter OF the globe! III
the Republic of Liberia is sovereign state, invest
ed with the power of making war and peace, how
can they be subject to the direction and control of
a self-constuted company of North Americans Il
All the theories of the rights of man upon which
our political institutions are founded all the repub-
co nrinrnleS of civil ihorfv md ealc porarnnnnt