The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-07-20
PO E r R Y
From tho Herald of Freedom.

We are not in the habit of dealing with traders in the
wagon" Indeed, had occasion to rank them in oul
last weeks with the politicians, and say of both, tina
they generally prosavery But have since ther
lit one, as acre, who struck first sight ex
cepton to rule. lie seemed abotonistand ther,
nothing of the ordinary Locomotive traffic about his
cart his cut. In fact caught his eye savoreC
of the Z" fine frenzy than Of the dissoute ack-scr
Pile eer of the Bryce Snaloot brotherhood. lie had moth
ing that cared to buy and had nothing by us tt
pay wthal. But as we had talk >, we offered him
rather than not trade,' gears Herald, if he woult
reel us Off pair of antisavery verses OF his spin
ming, for we felt that the poet Says he
it's :" Bargain, and he glanced his grey eye g from
heaven to earthfom earth to heaven and handed over
those following, quicker than lightning shivered
white pine Thought we, mister Pedlar you areas the
musician Cried when he heard stroller strike the Harlem
organ-ether the &c Cd or Handel You are either
the unaccountable, Burns come back, or CowPer-on
the whole you are Cowper 1t is the keen argument the
significant SATIRE the Vesuvian fire of Poetry half smother
ad in the eruponhc restranings OF eating and OF con-
stutiona decacy. Finally, and on the whole, we char
ged our &c Pedlar' as the shade of Cowper
A Bargainy
Twelve hundred million dollars! Mr.. Clay
Says that's the price freemen ~ ought to pay
.(All levied from the free States by tax y
As compensation, if the south relax
Twenty -four hundred thousand negro backs
From their accustomed rate of raw-hide dressing,
And turn their slaves all loose with freedoms blessing
pretty bargain this for it appears
That slave clears himself once in five wears.
Take then, "a boy that is like most slaves bred,
Up with the light, and very late to bed,
Fed quite as FULL and clothed about as dirty
And, between fifteen years and Gve-and-thry,
If we have rightly reckoned in rhymes,
lie pays his master for himself four times!
For-for the masters tenderness and cares,
His kind attentions and his daily prayers,
His counsels, and his hominy, we ween,
lie is well paid before the boys ffecn-
So, at that age, says Equity, who sits
In judgment here,-the man and thing are quits
All beyond this, then, is clear profit wrung
From nerves and musces,-nerves and muscles strung
To their full tension by the twisted lash,
That on the limbs leaves many CORY cash;
And this that what the Lord ordained at first,
AS mans great blessing, may be reversed,
That the rich few, exempt from labor now,
May eat their ~ bread without sweating brow,
While the poor many must, with dropping head,
And sweating face, toll without eating bread
THINGS, then, of human aspect that survive,
The kick and cow-skin till they re thrty-fve,
Whether they've toil'd at cotton or at rice
Have four times bought themselves market price:
Yet, not limb muscle, bone
That God made for them is, as yet, their own;
Yet their fal hearts and brittle hopes shvcred
For, though they paid for, they DELIVERED;
And now, forsooth, before they go away,
(Such are the terms proposed by Mr.. Clay)
They, or their friends for them again pay!
1t is, indeed, very pretty sum!
State it again, &C it doth the mouth become"
Forty hundred million dollars, laid
Down at your feet-and yet you not paid;
But, Gro you open to the slave his door,
Must have twelve hundred million dollar more
Nay, friend, we think, if we the truth tell
This looks as though you did mt to SELL
We think that, dealing large q scale,
You might propose some better " terms of sale,"
For, if you don we cannot trade-we guess
Can't you, good sir, now, take LEEr1E less?
PEDLAR.