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

AMERICAN SLAVERY AS IT IS ;-IESTrMoNY OF
THOUSAND WITNESSES. vol, New York;,
has been pleasantly said Of our Pilgrim Fathers
we know not how truly--that, on their first land
ing in this country they decided, with dle sol
emnity, that they would be covered bv the laws
of God, until they could take tin 10 rtter.
We find ourselves under the Necessity, in regard
to the work at the head of this article, of pleading
in some sort the example Of these excellent and
honored men. So, for want Of time TO take the
extended notice ofthe work, which the Importance
OF the subject of which it treats obviously de-
minds, we must content ourselves with The fol-
lowing notice of in the last number Of the Chris
tan Examner--at least, until we can get time to
prepare better:
"A very remarkable and terrible volume. We
do not know but it should be regarded as the most
decisive exposition of the Great Evil extnnt. 1t
is drawn from the most authentic sources, princi-
pally the testimony of southern men, and is large
Iy made up Of advertisements from southern pa.
pers which certify in the strongest terms, to the
prevalence of all the hcinous ills which have
been charged against the system. Nothing can
and we do not thlnk that any exception can be
taken to the manner in which it is arranged and
upon"
The above notice is multum in parro. Whilst
it says great deal, but, by no means, word
more than was due, those who are much interes-
ted in the GREAT suBJEcT-(and if any one IS not.
we tell him, he ought to be) which has agitated
the country for four or five years, and will most
surely continue to do so, till it is properly dispos
ls of, would much have preferred that a work on
this subject, prepared with so much care-with
its facts so thoroughly authentic-its topics ar
gued with such uncommon force and abllity-had
been subjected to full ReuieW, by some one of
The many hghly-gifted contributors to the able Pe
riodical in which buta notice" of it appears.
If, after what we have witnessed for the last
half dozen years, any fresh proof of timidty-toI
use the leas, offensive word with which our regard
for truth will be contented-even among our lit
erary men, when handling any subject which
seems to press, in the slightest manner, on the
slaveholding interest," and the niquitous system
which supports it, could astonish us, we should
now have ample room for marvelling how it has
happened that the foregoing "Notice of Ameri-
IAN slavery it is, is the only one, good bad, or
Indifferent, with which it has been our fortune to
meet in any of our Monhlies, or Quarterlies, po-
ical, literary or religious. If an exposition,
founded on facts, equally undeniable, and recon-
mended by a train of augmentation equally
were to be published among US,
d RUSSIAN SlaVery-or, OF turkish Slavery-or,
Of Chinese slavery-or even of slavery in Africa
in fine, Of any slavery but the Identical one with
which we have something to do or, if the indus
Try and talent here employed in revealing i'll the
full sunlight of heaven, the o rors f our south
ern prison-house had been exercised in furnish
ing forth the adventures ot some lewd mink, who
had, for the 6lteth time, forgotten to bring away
with her, her Uirtue, from the last Convent or
Monastery in which she had been protected-the
fruits of such industry and talent, we say, would
have been looked upon, by most of our sorans,
or merely literary, as BAN
luet to which they would eagerly have rushed,
and from which they would have brought away
many piquet and choice dishes. to serve up to
their friends and neighbors with all due care, and
without any unnecessary delay. But when the
South struts before their vision, menacng them
with the words Of the Prince Of Morocco TO POr-
Tia,