The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-02-23

70 urge upon your attention the above, which you
Will see is one of our resolutions. | feel with
you the wrongs which are heaped upon the two
and halt or three millions of enslaved Africans
In the midst Of you. tender you my sympathy,
and bid you God speed in your truly benevolent
efforts TO deliver these unhappy men from bondage
to elevate and save Them Go ON and prosper, and
the Lord God be with you, and your coadiutors, in
this good work. But you will not forget, nv
dear brother, that there not less than 500 00O
lOO0 of your telow-men who know not the God
who made them-have never heard of the Saw
Jour of sinners-are the bond-men of the devil
and in all the pollution of sin, and sinking to per.
dition. And now, ask, does the existence of
three millions of heather at home, furnish an ex-
cuse why the friends and adversaries of immedi-
ate abolition, should be slow to aid in sending
the gospel to the 50O,QQ0,OOO equally degraded
and sinful men? No, no, my dear brother, you
cannot think it, and you may not refuse to aid to
the extent of your ability in sending the gospel of
Christ to the ends of the earth.
! wish to say to you my dear brother, that / am
extremely anxious that the men who belong to the
A. A. S. Society should be foremost in the ranks
to fill the earth with the knowledge and glory Of
God. | am DESTROYS that you should take this
stand for many reasons: LIST, that my opinion of
you as a class of citizens, may be confirmed. l
have thought and do still think, that no body of
men in the whole country can be compared with
aboitionists for the possession of high moral prin-
ciple, patriotism, unshrinking fortitude, aud genu-
inc devotedness. How should rejoice to hear
that you are burning with zeal to bring the dying
nations to the Saviour's feet-that the slaves of
superstition and sin of other lands, are objects of
your tender solicitude l think that shall soon
hear that such is the fact. Cd, am anxious that
your enemies and the enemies of the poor slaves
should gain no advantage over you, as they will
be likely to, if you stand back from the work of
converting the nations. They will say-are be-
ginning to say so already-that you are contrac-
ted in your views. You cannot, dare not go to
the South to preach your dodtrines-can do moth
ing directly for the benefit of the enslaved-all
you can do is to preach to the North, and occas-
ionally speak to the South by means of the press.
You are therefore greatly prescribed in your eff
forts, while they forsooth, are acting on more en-
larged scale ARE toiling for the conversion of the
world Now, if these sayings were confined to the
chivalry of the South it would be Of little conse-
quence but men among you at the North-your
own brethren, ministers and Christian editors, say
them. Now wish you to show to the world that
all these insinuations, are entirely without founda-
ton. You have some fifty agents, am told, now
the United States This is well: but how many
have you in heather lands, pleading with the
500,00O,000 of besotted pagans to abandon their
idolatry and superstition, and look away to the
Lord Jesus Christ for salvation? l pray that
may soon hear that you have hundreds toiling for
Christ and souls in every cline. Be it ours
dear brother Christ assisting, to break from every
captive under heaven the CALLING chains of servi-
mde, and to raise up degraded men to an equality
with the happiest, purest most thoroughly Chris
tan nation on earth. Sd, am DESTROYS that you
should take this stand-be thorough-going in your
efforts to evangelize the world-be found in the
foremost ranks of those who are laboring to send
the gospel to every creature, that Christ may be
wholly with YOU And in no way, I venture to
affirm, will you so assuredly secure his favor as
by preaching the gospel to the heather. This
work he has consigned to you and me, and to all
his peoples and he has promised us his co-opera-
ton and blessing. l am we'll aware, that your
hearts are bleeding in view of the wrongs inflicted
upon the poor trodden down slaves, by men pro
Tossing to be the friends of the Saviour. do not
wonder that they bleed. He has heart of stone
who can think of these his suffering fellow men,
and not feel inexpres sible anguish. | would not
have you feel less for the enslaved of the United
States, but would have you remember the many
millions, as the dying Wisner said, and labor to
rescue them from the fires of perdition. The Sa-
viour would have you feel for the afflicted poor of
your own country; but he would have you feel
and labor for all who know not God-for all he
purchased with his precious blood! Now take,
beseech you, the stand precisely that Jesus Christ
would have you take, and OH what rich blessings
may you confidently expect from his gracious
hands. His favor is life. He can succeed your
efforts, and he can carry your purposes headlong.
May he enable you to do your whole duty, and
may his great and adorable name be glorifed in
and by you.
am aware that you can state many plausible
reasons why you should push your enterprise with
all your strength, and let others who have no pity
for the onslaved, conduct the work of missions to
the heather have very serious objections to
this. For one, do not wish to be supported by
negro haters. And if the aOork of conducting
missions to the heather as to be left scih men Uho
haze no pity for the enslaoed, the cause wiN not
succeed. IaOoald as consign the protection of
thehelpless sheep to the mercy and care Of flock
Of aOoloes You may not desert the cause of mis-
sions. Christ will not smile upon you, if you do.
But you object that you cannot unite with pro-sla-
very men in the work of spreading the gospel
The price of blood is put into the treasury of the
Lord. WE'LL then, have board of your own