The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-05-18
To the Manufacturers, Mechanics, and Labor
ers of the u. States.
CONCLUDED

CONCLUDED.
Third. Slavery IS inin,ical to liberty from tht
permicious influences it erertS upon the moral sen
tinemts of Shareholders themselves.
Take for example the following proofs:
Chancellor Harper, of S. G. in an address de-
ivered before literary society in S. Carolina as
serts
6 1t is'the order of nature and of God, that the
being of superior faculties and knowledge, and
therefore of superior power, should control and
dispose of those who are inferior; it is as much
in the order of nature that men should enslave
each other, as that animals should prey upon each
other
Hence, we may infer the reason why those pos
sessing the power deem it necessary to prevent as
much as possible the acquisition of knowledge on
the part Of those subjected to their control lest
they should become troublesome chattels A prac-
teal commentary is furnished us, in the fact that
in majority of the slaveholding States, there ex-
list severe penal laws prohibiting the laboring cas
SEES from acquiring the knowledge Of letters, or
the art of reading 1t will be observed, in the
above abominable sentiment of Southern Judge,
no allusion is made to color as constituting bar.
rier to the encroachments of tyranny. In fact that
distinction if it ever did exist is fast fading away
in that polluted region under the operations of a
system that places the children of the same father
in the ncongruous and unnatural relation of mas
ter and slave, and that mingles the worst pas
slons OF human nature with the ties of blood
They have become so accustomed to the spectacle
of white slaves that they contemplate Northern
operatives (he farmers and mechanics of the free
States) in any other light than as the legitimate
property of the capitalist, to be bought, and work.
ed, and fogged, and sold* at the will and pleas
ure of the master.
Governor McDufie, in his annual message to
the Legislature of South Carolina, little more
than two years ago, said
No community ever existed without domestic
servtude, and we may confidently assert none
ever will. In the very nature of things there must
be classes of persons to discharge all the differ
ent offices of society, from the highest to the low
est. Some of these offices are regarded as de-
grading, though they must and will be perform
ed. When these offices are performed By members
Of the political community, A DANGEROUSI
ELEMENT IS OBVIOUSLY INTRODU-I
CED INTO THE BODY POLITIC.
1t will be fortunate for the slavehoding states,
if they are not, IN LESS THAN A QUARTER
OF A CENTURY, driven to the adoption of
SIMILAR INSTITUTION, slavery or to take
refuge from robbery and anarchy under military
despotism. In word the institution of
domestic slavery superSedes the necessity of an or
der Of nobility. CD
We do not find here, either, any ausion to col
or, on the contrary the laborers of the North are
pointed out as fitting subjects for the slave trader
A dangerous element" according to this high
is introduced into the body polite,
when they are permitted to be represented or be-
come members of a community. These are not
he opinions of solitary individual, they were
responded to by the Legislature of South Carroll
na, and are held in common by the leading poll
icians and statesmen of the South. One of them
old Senator Morris (see his letter to the trustees
If the Pennsylvania HalD that it was one of the
laws of Providence that one man,
hould lire upon the labor of another, and that
American slavery was the best modification of
hat unalterable Decree"
Mr.. Leigh in the Virginia Convention of 1929,
aid
"There. must be some peasantry; and as the
country fills up, there must be more-that is, men
Who tend the herds and dig the sol who have
neither real personal capital of their own, and
Who earn their daily bread by the sweat of their
*The following advertisements extracted from Southern
papers, will serve to show the working of the system at
he South, and give insight into that contemplated
embrace the laborer of the North
GREAT BARGAINS. SPLENDID PROPERTY ON
y y A full set of FIRST RATE MECHANICS, -
large stock of horses, mules, SC. H. STIDGER.
Gvicksburg, (Mi) Register, Sept. 26, 1861
HNOR SALE, MAN, who is we'll acquainted with run
III ming steam MILL Those wishing to obtain so
,aluable a BOY, &c. THO II. MERRILL
North Alabama, Tuscumbia, May IL, 1885, S
WANTED to purchase two first rate SEANSTRES-
w SEES not over % years of age. Apply to s
DOUGLASS g. PHlLPOT G
Mobile Morning Chronicle, June 8, 1888.
Here mother and child advertised to be sold sep
ratey' or in lots /
WXTILL be sold at Public Auction without reserve, e.
Wv lott, 35 years of age, Tom, IA years of age, yell
ow, Clarng, II years of age with child, born Aug H.
S37 Charlotte, 10 years of age, Mahay 81 years age
Will be sold together separately in lots suit pur-
hasers 7
FIJI DOLBEARE & co. Auctioneers.
Enquirer, Columbus, Geo. May "a, 1888
- A DOLLARS REWARD.-Ran away, a man nam
~VY Hambeton, limps in his left foot, where he had
een shot but few weeks ago. ,chHe running d1Uay. {
THOMAS HUDNALL. p
Vicksburg Register, June 49, 1888. a
a D UNAWAY, Mary black woman, has a her a
0back and right the shoulder, caused by
Rifle Ball. ASA B. METCALF. II
Southern Argus, Columbus, (Mi) June 5, 1888.
If you imagine your complexion will secure you and Z
children from being the subjects of similar advertise
nents, read the following from the New Orleans Bee