The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-11-02
MISC ELL A n E O u S
Letter of EliZur Wright.
Boston, Sept, "a, |

Boston, Sept. "a, 1889.
Dear Brother Codding,-l am sorry to say |
cannot be with the young men Of Me. on the first
of October only in spirit. need not state the
reasons-nohng short of an lmposslbIy should
deprive me of the pleasure oil greeting you and
Remond and scores of other friends, both known
and unknown to the outward eye, in the town en-
deared to us as the home of the father OF Name
abolitionism. | hope one or two from this quar-
ter will be with you who will more than COM
pensae for my absence.
Bid the Young men of Maine be of good cour-
age in this blessed cause. 1t is not theirs. They
are but auxiliaries in it of One whu moves sys-
TENS. He has evidently managed and guided
the work from the first. We mortals who have
tardily enlisted at his earthquake calls do but
blow little at the great anti-sIavery hre-brands
which He ever and anon, throws down into this
guilty nation. 1t was He that about score oil
years ago put live coal into the heart OF Benla-
min Lundy, as the chained cofle passed him in
the streets of Wheeling, which 10 floods could
drown, and which made him truly " the Genius OF
Universal Emancipation That most selG-deny-
ing man has gone to his rest,-but what fame
has he lived to see Think of the Providence
which sent Garrison to Baltimore, there to lash
with scorpions, Francis Todd his own townsman,
for freighting his vessel with slaves-to be i'm
prsoned and 10 wake up the sympathies OF such
men as Arthur Tappan! Think Of the Provi-
dence which sent Theodore D. Weld, to Alaba-
ma to ask James G. Birnoy by what right he held
his slaves and thus TO rouse a conscience which
after vainy seeking rest in Colonization, al last
coonzed its owner into the front rank OF the abo-
lition host-and of the Providence which sent the
same Theodore D. Weld to be a student in Lane
Seminary, to kindle fire which the alb lest OF
Ahithophe Is could not smother, and which, BY his
very attempts to smother ii, exploded and threw
the burning brands over the tops Of the AlIcgha-
MES! One of these brands, you will rcccoIlect,
fell near Nashville, Tennessee. What commo-
ton of the elements, as if Etna had boiled over
in the sea Law was not enough Up rose the
foundations of society-church and state-and in
concave more potent and awful than could be Gre
ated by law, declared that no man who believed
slavehoding sin should sell Cottage Bibles"
ia Tennessee. 1t was not without cause that
slavery CRASHED its teeth and blasphemed at the
PRAYER of Amos Dresser. Little VOTED the high
sheriff of Nashville how those stripes would re-
echo! Think again of the Providence which
made use of a remiss Post Master in New York
to send mass of Anti-Slavery publications all at
once into the Post Office OF Charleston, whereby
it was demonstrated that the Federal Government
is but the tool Of the slave power in all things
pertaining to slavery. By that bonfire thousands
were converted TO abolitonism upon whom the
same papers in any other way would have liule or
no effect: Tho God t:mpteth no man to evil he
doubtless often causes men to expose the evil that
is in them. Think then of the Providence that
has year after year brought out the savehodng
heart on the floor of Congress. What demoniac
demonstrations at the lthuriel touch of our petit
tons Why, the prudence of child should
have served to teach the south policy OF disarm-
ing us, by granting the comparatively triAng OBJ
ject of our prayers. Had they done it, the ma
ton would probably have been put TO sleep for
century and slavery would have made good the
number of its victims in month. God did not
permit them so to play the hypocrite-and now it
is too late. He, Oh young men of Maine, nerv
ed the heart Of your glorious Lovejoy to die
Martyr to LIBERTY and for LAW He has
formed martyr spirits even among the daughters
of proud South Carolina, and who have planted
arrows in the conscience of his nation. He
brought to our shores, when the friends of the
slave were weak and few, that most wonder
full man of this or any age, George Thompson,
pouring from his eloquent lips the news that
Britain had sealed the death OF slavery Throughout
an empire on which the sun never sets. And
with what sublimity Of wisdom has He conducted
that whole glorious process in the British Colo
MES, which the moles of our Mucirake phiIos o.
ply were pleased to call an experiment" 1t
was the other day that He, in the most unexpec-
ted manner, sent us John Scoble,--to do in three
weeks the work of an age. And now this Gulf
Stream has ffoaed on our shores The noble JINGUA
and his brethren 10 chains. The spirit of slave :
nv sits mute--o mutters naudibly, as if conscious
Of its meanness The acclaim of human sympa-
thy goes up on Gods original plan The nation