The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-12-28
From our London Correspondent.


From the Emancpaor.
From cur London Correspondent.
LONDON, NOVEMBER 18Th, 1889.
Dear Brotber,-The Emancipator Of Octobe
Sd, has Just arrived, doubly interesting while
am in land of strangers, and the faithful herald
of the moral and religious character of my coun.
try, for whatever else is true or may have beer
true in former years, now consider it to be ar
UNREASONABLE fact, that the manner in which my
countrymen and countrywomen treat the slave
question, is the certain index Of character. Lei
who will smile at this remark as the indication
Of my ho56y. Hobby it should be for a Christian
to vndica.e the rights of God and of man; and
when both are trampled on by those who bear the
Christian name, it neither paates the crime,
nor commands respect or confidence from the in
tidel, for the aggressor 10 attempt to rife with
him who defends those rights. And hobby it
is, the gerry favorte object unhappily with many
of those who bear the Christian name, to say and
do what is known and positive SANDER upon all
which is peculiar to the genuine Christian faith.
1t is the shareholders hobby to fatten upon the
unrequited labor of brother; and the trades
mans hobby, to retain his favor by courteous an
ology for his crime. 1t is the hobby Of ministers
and churches, thanks for exceptions, to shut out
the slave from prayer, from sermons, from private
sympathy, from public coincidence from the proiec-
ton of law from the shield of the Bible, from the
sustaining power of truth. 1t is the hobby of &C.
cesiastica bodies to deliberate in view OF the pro-
tracted immolation of the natural civil and reli-
gious rights of one-sixth of the whole population
of the United Safes, and this amidst crueltes
and fortunes which might deepen the crimson on
checks OF the lnquisition, and in the wake of il
centionsness which the mother of harlots would
wipe with contempt from her skirts and content
themselves with the maintenance of very pru-
dent silence, or a testimony uttered in the subdu-
ed tone of minds afraid to speak the whole truth,
as if strangers to the sublime and unbending
claims of RIGHTEOUS upon its friends.
1t is the hobby of the statesman even to rampe
upon the ina'ienable rights of American citizens,
and thus TO strengthen the arm of the oppresSor
in his greedy and remorseless clutch upon his
prey. 1t is the hobby Of gentlemen of property
and standing, 10 carry themselves before the pop
ulace, that the mob-apir will, of course, find
vent upon the advocates of correct principles. 1t
is the hobby Of not few, over whom the spirit
of love weeps with sorrow, TO gather the abolition
lists into one general group Of enthusiasts, and
thus throw them out of the pale OF a wise mans
confidence, WHILE at the same time, with the
whole mass of shareholders at their heels clappng
and shouting, they complacently proclaim them
selves the genuine friends of American freedom,
seeming to forget that tyrants praise is never
layished upon the real lover of liberty. 1t is the
hobby of boards of trustees, and the faculties OF
colleges, academies, and theological seminarcs,
to aeny TO the black man the means common TO
all others as the air they breathe, OF acquiring
knowledge which all but he are invited by all the
eagerness Of spirited competition 1t is the hob
by of the great portion Of my countrymen, and
IF
name, and throw them around the colored people
as wall Of separation; to cast them off as dis
gushing race to tread them down as if color
were their crime, and degradation their inaliena-
BILE inheritance. And it has been the hobby Of
that spirit, which, from the ear y period Of Con-
gressional Legislatures, has, in fact, been the
Lord paramount to our national Legislatures, to
throw out its (eelers on every question oil great
public interest, and to secure in the result de-
cision that shall strengthen and extend the slave
interest; and hobby still 10 he ridden with
boot, and spur, and lance and rough shod, unless
some Unconstitutional Lion" be speedily aroused.
Let it, then be my hobby, to cast my limited infu-
ence against the oppregsor, and in sympathy
with the oppressed. Let me call the coored man
my brother, and the co!ored woman my sister, and
if need be, bear the reproach of going down TO the
coiored people staying with them, teaching them,
consoling them, providing for them the means by
which they can deveope their own native resour-
ces, and share in the common blessings of civil
cation and Christianity, as broher-as man
AS citizen-as a Christian; and then shall
have the satisfaction. of having done what |
could, to roll back from my country the deep re-
proach which her atrocious system of slavehold-
ing has justly brought upon her; reproach Of
he.nature, guilt and extent of which, but saml
number even of American Christians seem to be
properly sensible.
am happy to assure you that there is much
genuine deep seated, and permanent anti-slavery
feeling among the people of Great Britain. Be-
cause they live under monarchy, and still sustain
measures, and manners, and customs involving
immense expense, and witness in The midst of all
their splendor and wealth an untold amount of
squaid and Distressing pauperism it has been
thought that there is little love of liberty among
them, and that they have little of it in actual pos
session. The conclusion is false. There is the
strong love of liberty, and there is the enjoy
ment of liberty in English society and too there
is the quenchless purpose that this liberty shah&0e
and that superintendent disabilities