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

: glory, as to their military and naval heroes. l
II The Council chamber in the city OF London, tn
busts Of Granville Sharp, Wellington and Nelson
have long stood as the presiding geniuses of tn
e place. was present a few days SINCE when, 70
the fret time, the elegant bust of Clarkson, still
living was placed on its marble pedestal upon tn
left side of the Lord Mayors chair, and istene
to the remarks which were dictated on the occa
sion. 1t was scene Of thrilling interest, ant
spoke understandingly respecting the views D
Englishmen on the grave question of persona
| rights and personal liberty. With my colleague
in labor was called to the bar, just at this time
while the paper which we had submitted to Thu
honorable body respecting slavery, was attentive
ly read, and prompt and respectful response wa
returned.
That portion of the English people who ii
fact constitute the strength and stability of the
nation, and who indeed hold the purse-strngs
have set their faces most firmly against negro
slavery and the slave trade. They have cxpen-
ded too much time and thought, and money, tc
allow them to look upon the subject as light and
trivial. Having gone thus far, their only and
steady look is onward, and you may rely upon it,
that Great Britain will! never retire from the field
till The last slave ship has left the coast Of Africa
and till the letters have fallen from the last slave.
The more mngle in English society, the more
ain strenghcd in this conviction.
| The ant-savery community in England,
though constituting one body, able, extended and
extending, are operating with the same grand
object in view, in different channels.-They all
lift the battle axe against slavery and the slave
trade. Butthey do not all think alike respecting
the exact locality of the monsters head and
heart They all strike heavily, and are unwaver-
ing in the purpose to multiply their strokes thick
and fast. They all united in the details of the la
Dor which so happily resulted in the recent great
emancipation act. But now--one portion deems
it best to direct ,hesr energies TO the pcrecimg Of
| the splendid work begun in the West Indies; to
secure to the free negro the blessings Of freedom
to stay by him till the griStle of this creature
shall have become muscle and bone-till the slave
holder she recent tyrant, shall have learnt to
submit to law, side by side with those whom he
had long reckoned as brutes, but whom British
philanthropy has elevated to men, and whom
British authority now requires them to respect as
citizens; and till the whole structure of colonial
society shall have become adapted to a state
of rational, chastened, and confirmed freedom
This end must be obtained, or slavery will still
struggle in the hope of reinstatement OF course
this class Of phianhropists are legitimate an-slave-
ry men, and are enabling themselves in an en-
terprise which cannot be abandoned.
Another portion are directing their attention
and energies TO the British East India possessions,
with view TO bring the fertile plains of that al
most illimitable territory under well directed
culture, and 10 render its twenty millions ofinhabit-
ants, Industrious citizens, productive Iaborers,
owners of land, & the controllers of their own per-
sons, and TO spread over them the blessings, as
we'll as the power of British laws.
In this result, they expect to bring into the mar
ket Of the civilized world, all the articles, as the
product Of free labor which are now sent as the
product of Stare labor; aud as successful compe-
titors TO drive from it every article Of rnerchand
izc which has been touched by the hand of the
slave, or come up under the scalding testimony of
his tears or within the reach Of his suppressed
signs and groans; and which has ever received
the mark of a shareholders ownership. They are
sanguinc that soon cotton of the very best quality,
grown in India, can be offered at Liverpool and
Manchester, at price which shall leave IN the
hands of the purchaser very large amount a.
eanst the cotton fields of slaveholding America.
The project is splendid one-the enterprise is
gigantic. To further its interests, our mutual
friend George Thompson is very effectively con.
ributing his influence. The movements, in pros
pcct, one of rare fecundty, India alone consider
ed, the enterprise invites, by considerations Of i'm
mense interest and grandeur, for it involves the
driving back the tide Of human suffering, the res
cuing annually from the jaws of death, by hunger,
many thousands of her population; and the ac-
tual restoration of her numerous myrlads to the
comforts of quiet and protected home-trained
in the arts-schooied in the morals of the Bible
receiving salvation through Christ and his blcs-
scd Gospel, as the charter of their liberties, both
in the present and the future world; and at pc
Rod which shall hasten on its arrival the actual
Of vast kingdom, rich in industry,
agriculture, manufactures and commerce; and
still more rich in the virtues of the gospel, in spir-
itual consolation, and in deeds of charity, accom-
panied by the re6nemeuts Of science, and the en-
beIlishmens of literature. And to hnoa0 as its
friends do, or as they truly think they do, that
their success will necessarily annihae the holding
of man as property, in all parts of the world, is
enough to arouse their strongest sympathies, and
10 put in immediate requlshon all their resources.
confess that | love to become convert TO their
conclusions; and that do exult to see, though in
the fell monster SLAVERY upon the
block of execution, and his hard huge neclr barred
or the axe; and the whips and thongs, and pad
lies, and thumb-screws, and tread-mils, and mer-
,iless laws, and bIoodhounds. and every memo
-ia of his despotism and being foated upon the
lark deep river Of blood which pours from his