The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-03-23
From the Herald of Freedom i,
Anti-slavery Divisions.

Anti-Slavery Divisions.
Discord, alienation, and open feud, breaking ou
In the anti-slayery camp. Not differences of opin-
ion,-not mental Disagreement iscussion-de
bate,-but hostility, distrust and mutual crmina-
ton and among such men-Stanton, Garrison,
Phelps,-and such bodies-the Executive Com
mittee of the National Society and of the pioneer
society of the old Commonwealth. We lament 1t
are grieved- morti6ed-alarmed at it. Breth-
rem concerned, lis this aOarranta6le! Is ms
time for internal divisions When the eyes OF
the disquieted, agitated, awakened world are just
opened upon us-when, by the help of God, we
have lust arrested to our doings and our cause,
the unheeding current Of mankind shall We now
amuse them with gladatorship of our champ-
ons And is it time of truce, that we may in
dulge in private encounters upon the wall Now,
when our despairing adversary, terribly enraged,
is gathering himself amid mortal wounds, for the
final struggle, and Clay leads on The torzorm hope,
Napoleon himself, charging with the Cid
Guard, which never charged, but when the field
was an Austerlitz or Waterloo Is this the time
for our champions to turn their steel on each 9TH
err in sight of both hosts 1t must not--nay it
SHALL not be. We demand of our brethren, that
it cease. We call on the Voice of Freedom and
the Advocate of Freedom, our strong northmost
brothers in arms, on Maine and Vermont, to Join
us in this remonsrance. We who stand afar back
here to watch the frontier-along these Canadian
borders-our brerhren will allow US this license Of
position. These conflicts must cease. We in
quire not the cause. We demand cessation of
the effects. We had heard of anticipated troubles
before the Massachusetts annual meeting-but
dreamed Of nothing like this. We apprehended
nothing but some repetition of clerical appellacy.
We knew nothing of names. But alas, it is deep
er than that How deep and how wide we know
No o1p nd Il.
toniss-every man of them. Our admiration
has been thought by some apprehensive brethren,
to SAVIOR of HOMAGE Perhaps it was over-ardent-
ly expressed. But we aver to our bold and IN
acorshippimg brethren that we feel not the slight
est inclination to do homage to any body,-to any
man or number of men, individuals, naajorities, or
the entire anti-slavery "brotherhood "a divinity
this last-much more likely to be worshipped,
in our apprehension than any individual in such
an enterprise as ours.
We have admired our "mighty men," Our
heart has swelled within US, as we have seen
them strike for the slave. Though never aspi-
ring to the front fight among them, these sons of
Jehoida,-the "Three" or the "Thirty Chief
yet we have partaken in the STORMY JOY" as one
and another of them has done deathless deeds =
as lone has lifted up his spear against eight hun
dred ;'-another "smitten the Phillisnes till his
hand was weary and clave to the sword ;'-ohers
broken Through the host to the we'll of Bethle-
hem ;"-"slain lion-libe Moabites-or lions them
selves, in pits in time of snow ;'--the Abishais-
the Benaiahs-the Tachmonites. We have seen
their deeds from our watch in the mountains-and
with joy have skirmished along their distant out
skirts. Now we behold them at each others
breasts, and the enemy rejoicing like the lions at
the feuds OF Agamemnon and Achilles.
We assume not the compromiser or the pacif
icoto ipcli to Of
we were entitled to their exercise. But we have
word to speak, e.r positione Will not our gal
liant brethren of Maine and the Green Mountains
back us up in it? We speak impulsively-we|
trust not unadvisedy" This division among
our anti-savery brethren,-let ii cease-let it not
be. Let every diSSentient brother-each for him
sell, at once dives his spirit of every spark offeel
ing that lies aorongfllly in the way of an immed-
ate reco-operation of the whole band. Let each
heart be sternly and in secret, sef-examined, be-
fore God, and prayerfully purified of all error in
this behalf, in the impartial and charitable spirit
of the disciples of Christ. Whatever this may
ford 1t. Whatever difficulties lie in the way
abolitioniss have been nurtured on difficulties,-
whatever obstacles,-these, for years, have been
their daily bread. The word "impossble," how
ever good English, or even "good French" it may
be-can never be good anti-slaUery As our po-
siton authorizes or toerates us in making this de-
mand,--the important, the cital position of our
contenaing brethren demands of them compliance
with our entreaty. 1t is but to be wlled and it is
done. We speak to ABoL1TIoN1sTs and to CHRIS
TIANs-and we speak "tor the suffering and the
dumb" Our prayer answered, let thick oblivion
rest upon the past-the recent past only-for on
these latter years of our time shall human remem-
brance settle and abide in the imiable future
Let not these "vapors," BRETHREN "foul, pestent'
and comgregating, deepen into clouds to obscure
the glorious rerospecton.
SLAVERY VS.. MIssIoNs.-It appears from South
Carolina papers, that few months since, remon-
STRANGE was addressed to Rev. Mr.. Turpin," pro-
testing against the operations of Home Mis-
sions." In this Remonstrance, (Which was sign