The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-06-08
NUM- BEER 23.

In my own Judgment however, you will get
more money by this course than by any other.
Were it adopted and persevered in, | could most
cheerfuy say, that you might expect $4,000 from
me between this time and first of next May and
4 $4,000 in the year following. Were it adopted,
many would make their contributions directly 10
your treasury, whilst many would prefer, and with
equal liberty, that theirs should go to the treasu,
res of the State Societies. mention these things,
not because they are of themselves sufficient to in-
duce the adoption of the suggested course, That
adoption must be mainly determined by higher
considerations. | mention them but to illustrate
the probable and advantageous consequences Of
the course"
PLANS OF FUTURE ACTION.
i In proposing plans for future action, the Cons
mittee assign the first place to the'labors of living
agents, Leaving out Of view, for the present, the
amount of agency which it may be necessary for
this Committee to employ in the States of New
England and New York, over and above the la
bors of our auxiliaries, we come to the State Of
New Jersey, still slaveholding State though
called free; which requires several additional
agents. Pennsylvania will expect efficient aid to
hasten the restoration of forty thousand disfran-
chised citizens to their rights Delaware, though
small in territory, is yet of great importance, as
presenting the only open field we have among tho
thirteen slave States. There are already many
abolitionists there and it is believed that with a
small amount of labor judiciously bestowed, Del
aware NAV be made q free State, and thus turn
the scale in the Senate of the United States,
THE WEST,
But the great-the growing West demands our
special and speedy attention Westward, the
star of empire takes its way" The question is
soon TO be decided whether the standard of Lib
erty, or that of slavery, shall wave over its vast
praires, stretching out to the setting sun, The
Shareholders are looking to that section. for aid in
sustaining their idollzed institution BY their
political maneuvres, their railroad projects, and
other plans they are seeking to chain these grow
ing republics to the of slavery, and make their
free citizens the bailifs and bnodhounds of oppres-
sion, Already the South has dictated laws to
Ohio. The passing of such SEnvnE BILL, by
the last legislature, will remain lasting monu.
ment of the decline of the spirit of liberty among
the statesmen of this generation. The State So>
cety have earnestly solicited the Executive Cor
mittee to occupy the State with lecturing and cor
Letting agents.
Illinois is greatly under the inference Of south
sra esIiugs. and large portions Of her pops alIon
Iare ofsouthern origin. But there is noble band
lof abolitionists in that State and on her soil the
first martyr of our sleeps in his bloody grave
by the banks of the Mississippi. In Indiana, a
serve Legislature has repudiated the great princ,
piles of liberty upon which its Constitution is based
Yet we have no where truer friends. Michigan
is rapidly rising in Importance; and a powerful
tide of abolition feeling has already manifested it,
self, requiring only moderate degree of attention
TO make all its public action worthy the name of a
free State. The new and beautiful territories Of
Wisconsin and Iowa invite our labors, to eradicate
the slavery which has already been surreptitiously
introduced among them, in open defiance of law,
and to secure their influence in favor of liberty,
when they take their places sovereign States
among the sisterhood of this Union.
We feel that we but echo the sentiments of ev,
cry intelligent friend of the cause, when we say,
that these fields MUST BE OCCUPIED. And if prop,
erly and seasonably attended to, it must be through
the liberal benefactions of the friends of liberty in
the older States. The newness of these settles
ments, the scattered population, the want of dis.
possible capital and the multitude of calls for ex,
pense in establishing the means of communication
and the indispensable institutions of society, for
bid the expectation that those States will them-
selves furnish at once all the means of carrying on
the abolition enterprise in their borders. They
have done much, and will do more But there Is
the same necessity for the abolitionsts to send aid
to the West, that there is for the various religious
communities all of which are engaged in collect.
ing donations at the East to assist in establishing
their respective interests at the West,
PUBLICATIONS.
Another important branch of our plans is the
wide diffusion of our ant-slavery books and peri
odicals In reading population the influence of
the press is indispensable to permanent reform in
society The contributions of the Ant.Slavery So
ciety to the literature ofthe age and of Liberty,
are of priceless value. The cause of Freedom
requires that the public mind be drenched with
such pure and just sentiments. We wish to ex-
tend the Library system to every town and hamlet
in the free States. The circulation of our princi-
pal organ, the Emancpator, by subscription and
grauous, ought TO be at least ten thousand copies
weekly. As a vehicle Of information respecting
the progress of our cause, and of the events that in,
fuence it both at home and abroad and for COM
municatng to every part of our extended host the
plans and impulses of the whole we are satisfied
that il has an important place in our machinery,
without at all encroaching upon the usefulness of
the valued coadutor papers, published under tho
auspices of the State Societies
Among the recent publications specially impor.
tant to be circulated, we would name Thome and
Kimball's Emancipation in the West Indies, with