The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-09-28

G holders grasp. You cannot imagine, my dea
: brother the impulse this new development 0
$ England's power will give the Anti-Savery caus
e in America. 1t is just what we need to touch
e class of men who seem almost out OF the pale o
:. religious influence. Much as our efforts have beef
0 blessed-much as they have accomplShed-tho
truth has often hoated further on the shouts OF ;
| mob, than our feeble voices could have carried it
still, our progress has served but 10 show US more
clearly the Alps which lie beyond. The evil is
so deep-rooted the weight of interest and preju
dice enlisted on its side so vast-ambition cingne
to political power, wealth to the means of further
{ gain-that we have sometimes feared they would
be able to put off emancipation till the charter OIL
the slaves freedom would be sealed with blood
that our day of freedom would be like Egypt's
when God came forth from his place, his right
hand clothed in thunder and the jubilee of Israel
was echoed by Egypt's wailing for her flrst-born.
1t is not the thoughtful, the sober-minded the
conscientious, for whom we fear. With them
truth will finally prevail. 1t is not that we want
eloquence or Christian zeal enough to sustain the
conflict with such-and with your aid to come of
conquerors. We know as your Whately says of
Calico, that if Garrison could have been answer
ed he had never been mobbed-that Mays Chris.
ton frmness-Smith's worldwide philanthropy
-Chapman's daring energy-and Yields soul of
6re-can never be quelIed, and will finally kindle
public feeling, before which opposition must melt
away. But how hard to reach the callous heart
Of selfshness-the blinded conscience, over which
corrupt church has thrown its shield, lest any
ray Of truth pierce its dark chambers How shall
we address that large class Of men with whom
dollars are always a weighter consideration than
duties-prlces current stronger argument than
proof of holy writ But India can speak in tones
,,b; ot L., O,,~ L..
been entreaty-for the times in America are those
party tines when
Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg
Yea curb and woo for leave to do them good
But from India voice comes clothed with the
omnipotence of selfinterest and the wisdom
which might have been sighted from the pulpit,
will be to such men oracular from the market
place. Gladly will we make pilgrimage and
bow with more than eastern devotion on the banks
Of the Gauges, if his holy waters shall be able 10
wear away the letters of the slave. God speed
the progress of your society may it soon find in
its ranks the whole phalanx of sacred and veter-
an abolitionists. No single divided effort, but
united one to grapple with the wealth, influence,
and power, embatled against you. Is it not Schil-
Ter who says -" Divide the thunder into single
notes and itbecomes lullaby for chdren-but
sound shall shake the heavens so may it be
with you-and God grant that without waiting
for the United States to be consistent before
our ears are dust, the jubilee of emancipaed mill
ions may reach US from Mexico to the Potomac,
and from the Atlantic to the rocky mountains.
Yours truly, and most aheclonately,
WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Sir, if should now sit down. no one here
would venture to say had not made an eloquent
speech (Cheers.) | said the letter of Mr.. Phil
lips would bring me naturally to the subject OF
India: you perceive it has done so. Mr.. Phil
lips attaches great but not undeserved, import
ance to the question which, during the last twelve
months, have more than once had the honor Of
bringing before you. You are told that the sue
cessful prosecution of certain plans to raise and
regenerate India, seals the fate of the slave sys
TEN of America. This is iust-this is true. But
do these projects respecting India admit of sue
cess-are they such as recommend themselves to
reasonable and practical men? They are. First,
we point to the continents and islands of Amer-
ca We say, see there, nearly six millions of hui
MN beings in,slavery, under toruring lash and
a vertical sun. Look next to Africa-hourly rent
by wars, and plundered of her children-look at
the irrefragabe figures of Mr.. Buxton which
have demonstrated the soul-harrowng truth that
a thousand human beings are, during every Jour
and-twenty hours butchered with steel, or barter
ed for gold, that the slave systems of Christian
may continue. (Hear.) You ask, why
this bloody and inhuman sacrifice of helpless be-
this internal machinery of whips and
chains, and stocks & collars answer, that You
may clothe yourselves in cotton-that you may
drink coffee, and sweeten your draught with SUI
gar-that you may dine on rice, or regale your
selves with tobacco. (Cheers.) Sir, were man
to drop from the clouds, and to be told these
things. he would naturally infer that these arti-
Giles. were indispensable they could be grown
only in Amer;ca-that they could be produced
only by slave labor--that from Africa alone could
slaves be procured, and that they could only be
kept at work by the means now employed.
(Cheers.) What would he think-what would he
say, if he were told that these articles might be
raised in the country from which the slaves had
been dragged-that an honorable and extensive
might be carried on without the necess-
ity of wars, and without the horrors of slavery
(Cheers.) What would he think if told, that the
people who are the chief consumers and, there
fore, the principal supporters of American slavery,
have an empire of their own-whose beauty can
not be exaggerated whose extent is limitless-
whose SOL is exhaustlessly rich, and whose pop