The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-03-30
THE VOICE OF FREEDOM.
MONTPELIER, SATURDAY, MARCH 80, 1889.

Notwithstanding the constant discussion of the
slavery question, for the last seven years. in every
of debate from the school district club up to
the Senate chamber of the United States there are
still among us not few who contrive to keen
themselves in profound ignorance as to the foun-
daton principles of the anti-slavery reformation.
As it was in the primitive age of christianity, so
now men are ever learning and never coming to
the knowledge of the truth. And many, who
have become so far enlightened as to see men as
trees walking are yet too timd to take an atti-
tude implying change of views. Here is a man
who has for years been identified with the scheme
of colonization. He has joined in the discussions
of public meetings-made his speech at popular
anniversary and almost satisfied himself that
transportation to foreign coast is the only ration
al and christian method of relief or improvement
of the colored race He must have seen, that, for
the last few years, the grand effort of colonization
has been to array itself before the country as the
antagonist of emancipation. He is we'll assured,
too, that the entire class for whose benefit the
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more and more distrustful of its aims, and beg to
be saved from its transporting benevolence. But
how can such man brook the idea of confessing
his error? How can he run the moral gauntlet
in sight of that long line of titled and honorable
men, who have ranged themselves under the COL
onization banner?
Another, who would WELD to no one in his ha-
tired of slavery IN The ABSTRACT in the plenitude of
his good will to shareholders has taken up with
that peculiar Interpretation of the constitution
which deeds away and forever quit-claims the
heaven-descended rights of as many people as oc-
cupied the soil in 1776. His humanity and reli-
gion are unhappily under heavy mortgage to
slavery. The cry of fellow creature can meet
with no effectual response from him. His rule of
faith and practice is an alleged compact, by which
oppression, robbery and fraud were made the
great paramount interests Of a free and equal peo-
pie. He has almost persuaded himself that slave
fy is national pet, always to be guarded with a
Jealous care-always to be caressed with sleepless
anxiety under the sheltering wing of our noble
eagle In his chatechism, the first duty of man is
declared TO be to fear Slavery, and love and serve
him forever.
Another, forgetting the worldwide distinction
between man and thing, talks with all the vol
utility of merchant on Change of the rights of
always, the rights Of one class
only, and that the minority. Seized of the+nsane
,onceit, that that is property which the law de-
lares to be property, he talk of entailment Of
slaves through long line of ancestry, with the
luency of the wise men of Old Virginia. The
antquated notions of rights and duties drawn from
he New Testament, together with the old-fash-
oned dogmas of Blackstone and Mansfield, are
cast aside quite unsuited to the state Of advance
ment in which we find ourselves in the nineteenth
century.
Another fancies that slavery must needs exist
in many varietes'-from the good gospel slavery
of Dr. Ely, who became the legal owner of Am
Drose for Ambrose's good down to that of the I'M
christian dog of the Old Dominion who markets
MS own children, like poultry, by the pound
whereas, the slaves of the Doctor and those ofthe
Virginian are held by the same kind of tenure.
The painful inconsistencies of which the above
ire specimens, will, it is believed, find a remedy
only in the continued exhibition of truth to the
mind of the community. Men must be put upon
heir conscences, and pointed back to the elemen-
AIRY principles of moral and political philosophy
he supreme demands of Justice and the universal
equality and supremacy of natural rights