The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-06-22
Hints for A bOIitiOnists.

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Hints for AbOlitiOnists.
AnH- &auery NeqcS is very cheering, to be sure
but if some Of the anti-slavery folks don't dc
something besides tell the cheering ne1DS, and
chucke over it, there will soon be no ant-slavery
news TO tell. Every thing in its place, and pro-
portion, and season.
Tall ships with streamers flying, will always
command more attention than the hand barrows
that must carry off the dirt, and excavate the ca
nal, before the tall ship can come along. 1t is
more pleasant to tread the quarter deck and ride
than to lug the hand barrow. But somebody must
do the work. Reader! Are you willing to be a
,oorhing aboionst?
1t is interesting to know what the southernerS
are doing-and what the politicians are doing
but is more important to know, and have it fully
settled and determined what the northern 0boli-
tionists acM do--what they will do at the polls
what they will do in their churches-what they
will do in their conventions and meetings. Rea-
der do you love early news ? Would you know
year before hand, what the southerners, the pol.
ilicians, &c. &c. will do, next year? Find ont
what the abolonists are doing noac, at the North
Help them do it. Determine what shall be done,
how it shall be done, and when it shall be done,
at the North, and you may know well enough
what will be done, year or two hence, at the
south. sa
IF you want your abolition news fresh, help
male IL! In this way. some abolitionsts have
their anti-slavety news before it is printed-ves F.!
before the events take place, by foreseeing them
in their causes. The more you study principles
and help produce effects, the less occasion will Won
hare for minute and never-ending details of more
aeacS. You will not read news, then, for mere
Y ! / L
You will only want news enough to let you know,
by sight as well as by faith that your works are
coming after you news enough to certify you
that the lynch pins of old father Times chariot
have not fallen out, and let the wheels run off in
telling and hearing some new thing. There are
gossps beside the Athenians and the frequenters
of beer and BARRIERS shops There is political
gossppng-and gossipping ecclesiastical. Abo-
itionism, too, has its gossps-its slipshod, morn
iug-gown saunterers, who think an anti-savery
editor has nothing to do but 10 cater ne,cS for their
amusement--to relieve the tedium of their eunui
10 supply them with an agreeable dish of small
talk, along with their coffee and tea-to furnish
them with pleasant relaxation from their COM
mercial or professional cares. II never comes in
to their heads tina; an abolition editor should spend
any portion of his strength, or occupy any space
in his columns, in attempting TO produce any re-
suits Oh no! They considert his part to cHron-
icze events when they take pace-and somebody,
they don't know who, is to carry the work on
Not so with your real " bone and muscle" abo-
+" working men, Of the sounding
shops and sunny hill sides! they want to read
through discussion they wish TO dig into first
foundations plans-car-
ry on operations-strp off artu disguises-de-
,ect enemies in ambush-give pitched battle to the
grand adversary--in word-fnd out how to do
the acork-Do 1T, and let those who choose to do
nothing give all their time and attention to the
records Of what has been done-and what is said,
and what the gentity think Of H.-Friend of
Man.