The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-11-16

1t is selt-created, voluntary association. A man
may be member to-day and tomorrow he may
discard all relation to the society; to-day man
may be director of the society, tomorrow he
may leave its most important concerns 10 take
care of themselves. There is no bond of Union,
responsibility no power, no right to make laws,
or to enforce obedience. Every man may 90 what
is right in his own eyes. And yet by this vol
untary, irresponsible association, government is
to be formed, laws enacted, governors and other
officers appointed, credit sustained, treaties con-
cluded, wars carried on, and the concerns of the
colonies controlled. And how is all this to be
ly tell but the history of the past may help us
to Judge Of the future. And common sense may.
tell, that when the building rests upon the sand it
must tumble down. But if we admit, that the
days of miracles have not gone by and that the Az
ricon race are 50 tracable, so easily elevated re-
fined, and governed, that under all those forbid.
ding circumstances, the colonies may vet take root
downward, and spread on the right hand anl on the
Iet--what, then, would be the result to the tribes
around them? Can any one doubt If the col.
osts are not more righteous and humane, than
their masters in this country, they will be willing
to raise slaves for foreign market, and feel no.
objection to the slave trade provided they can d.
vide the profits with the SLAYER. As the colonsts
increase they will need more territory, will in
trude upon their neighbors, hatch up war, kill
and drive from their possession their old neighbors,
and they will play this game over and over again,
until the natives are driven from the earth. Be-
hold our poor Indians driven from post to pillar,
and from pillar to post, exterminated by civilized
man, pushed away from the graves Of their fa-
theirs, and pushed over the big waters by Chris
tan people. Will the coonists be more righteous,
or humane or merciful, than we have been ?
Have they not lived long enough under our in
struction to learn our policy? And will they not
be ready to follow in our evil ways? Tothe Az
rcan tribes we may be sure, then, that the colon
les, if prospered will carry war, desolaton and
ruin. And the fact, that they are ofone race, will
no more prevent them from depressing and ex-
terminating the native tribes than the fact, that
are Of the same blood with the Indians, has pre-
vented us from depressing and exterminating
them. The lore of gain is the root Of all eva.
And sel6shness will produce the same fruits in
Africa, that it has produced in America. For as
face answereth to face in water, so does the heart
of man 10 man. Nor is there any reason to ex-
pect, that the result will be any better, if we
suppose, the colonists TO be civilized, re-
fined, and religious as their Anglo American mas
ters We must suppose them far better race
than ourselves, or we must expect that they will
follow our example, and by one mean or another
extermnate all the native tribes that stand in their
way.
Admitting, that the colonies prosper, that their
numbers increase that their borders are enlarged,
that the neighboring tribes melt away before them,
that cities spring up, and that their trade is i'm
portant: are they to remain under the supervision
of the Board of Directors, to receive their govern
ors from America to have code Of laws prepared
for them, and to be held as the vassals of the shift
ing irresponsible, societies Of the coonzationsts2
This would be worse than the government of the
Jesuits in Paraguay, or of the East India Com
pany in India.
There is another point of view in which this
system of colonizing should be viewed. II the
colonists spread out, they must come in contact
with the colonies of European Powers, and hos
tiIities will follow: and should their trade become
important, other nations may wish to enjoy it, and
may take possession of these American colonies.
Would they be tamely surrendered? Would not
an appeal be made to the worst passions OF their
natures? Would not every effort be made to in
dnce the national government to interfere? And
would they not do it? Thus we should be involved
in foreign war; and spend our blood and treasure to
protect those in Africa, whom we had virtually BAN
ished from our own land and the irresponsible
directors of the society might at any time IN
volve us in foreign war, and change the tunda-
mental principles of our free institutions. For
colonies cannot be held and governed on Repub-
lican principles. Surely then, Christians and
philanthropists should we'll consider before they
give countenance to measures, that may produce