The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-04-27
From the Massachusetts Abolitionist.
Clay and Van Buren,.

Some of our readers have inferred, from the tone
of our review of Mr.. Clay's Speech, that we are
less friendly to his elevation to the Presidency thar
to the reelection of Mr.. Van Buren,. There coulc
not be greater mistake. Both of these gentle
men are ncurably obnoxious to true friends of the
slave. AS to the two great political parties abo
litonists have, fear, but little to hope from eli
Their of them. AS yet, the Van Buren, party has
stopped much the lowest in subserviency to Slave
ry Read the following and then Judge. Speak
ing of the New Hampshire election, the Boston
Post of March 18th, says;
"The effort to lessen Mr. Atherton's vote in
consequence of the manly stand he took in Con-
gress relative to the Abolition question, has result
ed in securing his reelection by an increased ma
jority This is an indication of the feeling of the
Northern Democracy on this subject, which Wing
sophistry cannot pervert We call the attention
of our Southern friends to it."
The Nashville (Tenn.) Union, Van Buren, pa
per, on the 9Th of March, copies this article from
the Post and says:
"The democracy of the North have seen enough
of this Observation-Disclosures and they are deter
mined to crush it. They will show it no quar-
ter. We can tell the friends of the Admin
istration at the South that the Northern democra-
cy are now more sound than ever on this mpor-
tant sub ect."
Says the Richmond Enquirer, of April A.
"Mr Van Buren, and his friends have fought
the battle for us Shareholders The large mass
of the friends of the Wing candidate [Mr Clayl
in those regions [the North are against us-the
great mass of Mr.. Van Buren's friends are with
us. How can we hesitate in our choice? Mr.
Van Buren, is the Northern man with Southern
feelings" He is strong for us THE shareholders
where the danger is greatest against u.s."
We cut the following from the last Oberlin
Evangelist We are intimately acquainted with
brother Ingraham. He is a gentleman of close
observation, and the stricest integrity now Mis-
sionary in Jamaica. He was formerly member
of Lane Seminary, and more recently of the OBJ
erlin lnstitute.-MaSs A6olitionist.
West Indies.
DEAR BRoTHER,-The following is an extract
from letter lately received from Rev. D. S. In
graham, written at Kingston, Jamaica. You are
at liberty TO make such use of it as you think
best. Yours, &c. AD
{" ! presume you hear many doleful stories about
the lazy niggers' of this island. There is much
said here, about the peoples not working. Now
the fact is this. do not know of any one who
refuses TO work. who is offered any thing like
fair wages. Many offer to their people only eigh-
teen cents per day, and then make great ado be-
cause they will not work The people feel, as
well they may, that they have worked for moth
ing long enough, and begin to say M0sSa mus glib
Twenty-Five cents a day. or do he o,on Vorh.'-
Though many are at work for less, yet some of
them will not work under that price-and who
would?
/" In addition to the eighteen, or twenty-five cents
per day, they receive, in Clothes &c. what is
equivalent to about twenty -four dollars per year.
And even this, you see, is very low wages. |
think more are at work for eighteen cents per day,