The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-05-18
MONTPELIER, vERMoNTs MAY IS, 1899.

ence, can or do eUer enter into oar political affairs!
THEY NEVER DO, NEVER WILL NEVER
CAN"
Professor Dew, of William and Mary College
in Virginia, speaks of slavery in the following
impious strain:
II would say, then, let Us cherish this institu.
ton which has been built up BY NO SIN OF OURS
Let US cleave to it as the ARK OF OUR SAFE
| TY.-Expediency, MORALITY, and RELIGION
alike demand its continuance and perhaps
would not hazard too much in the prediction, that
the day will come when the aOhole Contederacy
aOiU regard 1t as the sheet anchor Of our countsy's
LIBERTY" Again he says:
Domestic slavery, such as ours, is the only in
stitution which | know of, that can secure the
spirit of equality among freemen, Ii. e. among the
|arstocracy, so necessary to the true and genuine
feeling of repubcanism, without propelling the
body polite at the same time into the dangerous
vices of agrarianism, and legislative intermeddling
betaceem the la6orer and the capitalist. The oc-
equations which we follow, necessarily and una
voidably create distinctions in society. To say
that all confer equal honor, if well followed even
is not true. THE HIRELINGS WHO PER
FORM ALL THE MENIAL OFFICES OF
LIFE, WILL NOT AND CANNOT BE
TREATED AS EQUALS BY THEIR EN-
PLOYERS. And those who stand ready to ex-
ecute all our commands, no matter what they may
be, for mere pecunary reward, cannot feel them
selves equal to OTUS+C1 in reality, however
much their reason may be bewildered by the
voice of sophistry." Professor D. then goes on
to denounce universal suffrage in State where
there are no slaves.
Political power lat the South is thus taken
from the hands of those-who might abuse it, and
placed in the hands of those who are most inter-
ested in its judicous exercise, i. e. the savehod-
ing tyrants. HOW CAN HE GET WISDOM
THAT HOLDETH THE PLOUGH, THAT
DRIVETH OXEN AND is OCCUPIED IN
THE LABORS, AND WHOSE TALK is OF
BULLOCKS? But whilst the politi-
cal effects Of our social system are so perfectly
beneficial, the MORAL effects are no less striking
and advantageous C)-I have no hesitation in af-
irming that the relation between the capitalist and
laborer in the South, is kinder and more produc-
tive of genuine attachment, than exists between
the same classes any where else on the globe CD |
Free from that constant feeling of insecurity,
hat continually haunts the poor man of other
countries, he moves on* in the round of his ex-
stence, contented and happy"
Fourth. Slavery IS dangerous to political lib
rty from the pernicious influence it erertS IN the
aational council
Educated as shareholders are to look upon labor
is servile employment, belonging to the igno-
ant and degraded, and considering themselves as
'orn to command the wealthy among them cul-
ivate exclusively those arts which will enable
hem most effectually to exercise an influence over
heir fellow men, and increase their power. Does
lot the history of our government furnish mel
ncholy proof with what success they have culti-
ated those arts The unequal representation in
ur government, obtained in its organization by
he profer of bonus, Ia taxation proportionate)
which they subsequently eluded paying, is the
rst proof and one in point; not content with this,
hey have doubled the number of slave States,
nd thus increased their unjust representations
md although yet in the minority on the floor of
congress, the South may be said to rule the ma
ion, for she has carried every important measure
n her own way. Even the constitution itself op-
oses no barrier to the accomplishment of her
wishes, her thirst for dominion. Witness the ac-
uisition of Louisiana and Florida land her more
ecent attempts to add that of Texas,) the embar-
.o-the late war-the violation of Indian treaties
the tariff and its repeal, and more recently the
1AG Resolutions of Mr.. Patton, forced upon the !
House without permitting debate, by the mandate :
f the Convention of Southern members:- The
doption lin substance) of Mr.. Calhouns Resolu-
ions in the Senate The indefinite postpone
lent or rejection, by the same body, of MIR. Nor
is and Mr.. Smiths Resolutions in favor of free
ON of speech and of the press;-the Resolution ,
f Charles G. Anterior, the Northern assassin of
berty, introduced at her bidding, on the 18th of u
Zee. last. .
When the constitution provided for the repre- Il
entation of slaves, it was alleged that the South .
ad not her share of power in the Senate, and that
avery would soon cease. Now, when 100000 d
zee inhabitants of the South have the same pow {,
r in the Senate with 100000 at the North, the
eople of the South have "a representatives for 0
ler property In 1888, 3,797,577 free inhabi- P
nts of the slave States had the same power in q
Congress- as 1854, 1873 free inhabitants of the free
tates, j. e. 2 at the South oUerbalanced at the {
Torth, and this dsproporton constantly increases ',
hus we give them power over US as bounty II
q slaveholding.
If Northern freemen were as largely represent e
as Southern shareholders were in 1888, 1885, y
70 inhabitants would be entitled to our whole .
over in Congress- thus leaving 2,450,965 virtu- a a
ly UNREPRESENTED, a population which II
the average of Southern representation, would +
entitled to Is Senator's and SO Representatives.
he effect in all questions where freedom and sa-
Try come in collision, is the same as if all New
ngland and Ohio were unrepresented -!
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