The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-05-11
Charles l.. Remond.

This young man is noticed IN the very able re-
port of the Maine Ant-Slavery Society, in high
ly commendatory manner. He has been for the
past year engaged as an agent of the American
Anti-Savery Society in Maine, where, in con
junction with his friend Ichabod Codding, he has
abored with great credit to himself and to the So
ciety of which he is an agent At the annual
meeting of the State Society, his speeches were
commended by the best Judges, as fine specimens
of eloquence and sound reasoning. Although one
of the prescribed class of American citizens-a
colored mamie has been every where received
among the abolitonists with affectonate kindness
and, we understand, has met with little or no diff
6culty on the score of pre- udce in any part of the
state. The report says: "Many, it is believed
have been induced to attend his lecture, who 9th.
erwise would not have been brought within reach
of the truth, from the manifest proprety general
ly felt and acknowledged, that the colored man
should himself plead the cause of his suffering
people"
We rejoice to be able to record this instance in
which talents, moral worth and gentlemanly de-
pertinent have triumphed over that insane and
cruel prejudice against color, which is the pacu
liar disgrace of our republic. We record it as an
omen Of the dawning of better day for the OPP
pressed American, it is an evidence Gf indeed
such evidence were wantng) that prejudice is
, vncible-that the disgraceful barrier of caste in
the church, the public conveyance, and the school
house, may be thrown down without endangering
the peace or the happiness of any class in the
community If we are met here by the question,
Are You an tauor Of amalgan,ation? We answer
NO. We loathe and abhor its prevalence in the
slave-cursed South, where alone, to any extent, it
manifests itself. But we are in favor of estima-
ting our fellow men, not by the color of the skin
but by their moral and intellectual qualities. We
have no fellowship whatever with that brutal spr-
it which would shut our colored fellow citizens out
Of all honorable employments,-whichc closes a
gainst them the door of the school-house, and the
pew of the meeting house which reviles them
for their degradation, and mobs them for seeking
to elevate themselves morally and intellectually
which reproaches them with their ignorance, and
burns their schoo-houses over their heads; which
condemns them as immoral, and bolts the door Of
the Westinghouse against them; which stigma
Ties them as beggars, and kicks them from the
threshold for offering to earn their bread! We
look with horror upon that fendlsh hatred which
would separate our colored brethren every where
from the couresies and companionship of those OF
another complexion-whch, in the language OF
NJ. de Beaumont, one of the philanthropic authors
of The Penitentiary system of the United States,
Woulu MAKE ~ separation DetWeeI TIE CooTeu
and the white in the hospital achere humanity
suffers; in the churches aohere 1t prays; an TIE
prisons achere 1t repents; an the grareyards where
it sleeps the eternal Sleep"
We have heen led however from our original
object in commencing this article. We intended
to express our conviction that the cause of the
slave can be pleaded by none more successfully
than by those who are " allied to him by the ties
of consanguinity, of suffering and of wrong."-
Who shall dispute the rights of the free mother
to plead for her children still pining in captivity
half of his mother, driven daily beneath the lash
of the driver in the Southern cotton fields? Who
deny the wife the privilege of asking compassion
for her husband, sold from her to the valley of the
Mississippi, and wearing out his life on the fatal
sugar plantation Penn. Freeman.