The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-03-30

ders IN the breast OF the master. 1t is IN perfect
keeping with the threat we almost daily hear
that if petitioners do not cease their efforts in the
exercise of their constitutional rights, others will
dissolve the Union. These however, ought all to
be esteemed idle assertions and idle threats.
The Senator tells us that the consequences aris-
ing from the freedom of slaves, would be to re-
duce the wages of the white laborer. He has
furnished us with neither data nor fact upon
which this opinion can rest. He, however,
would draw line, on one side of which he
would place the slave labor, and on the other side
free white labor and looking over the whole as
general system, both would appear on perfect
equality. have observed, for some years past,
that the southern STAKEHOLDER has insisted that his
aborers are, In point of integrity, morality, useful
ness, and comfort equal to the laboring population
OF the North. Thus endeavoring to raise the
slave, IN public estlmalon 10 an equality with the
free white laborer of the North while, on the
other hand, the Northern arstocrat has, in the
same manner viz by comparison, endeavored to
reduce his aborers 10 the moral and political con-
dluon Of the slaves of the south. 1t is for free
white American citizens to determine whether
they will permit such degrading comparisons Ion
ger to exist. Already has this spirit broken forth
in denunciaton of the right of UNIVERSAL SUI
FRA3E. Will free white laboring citizens take
warning before it is too late
The last, the great, the crying sin of abolition
lists, in the eyes of the Senator, is that they are
opposed to colonization, and in favor of amalga-
nation. 1t is not necessary now to enter into any
of the benefits and advantages of colonization !;
the Senator has pronounced it the noblest scheme
ever devised by man he says it is powerful but
harmless. have no knowledge of any benefits
resulting from the scheme to either race. | have
not doubt as to the real object intended by its
founders it did not arise from principles of hu-
mainly and benevolence towards the colored race,
but desire to remove the free of that race be-
You'd the United States, in order to perpetuate
and make slavery more secure. The Senator fur
Their makes the broad charge, that aboitionists
wish to enforce the unnatural system of amalga-
nation. We deny the fact, and call on the Sen
ator for proof The citizens of the free States,
the petitioners against slavery, the abolitonsts of
the free States in favor of malgamation! No,
sir! If you want evidence of the fact and reason
ing in support of anal gamaton, you must look
into the slave States it is there it spreads and
fourishes from slave mothers, and presents all
possible colors and compilations, from the jet
black African to the scarcely TO be distinguished
white person. Does any one need proof of this
fact Let him take but few turns through the
streets OF your capital, and observe those whom
he shall meet, and he shall be perfectly satisfied
Anal gamation indeed The charge is made
with very bad grace on the present OCCASION
No, sir 1t is the negro con'a, it is the SlaUe and
and the concentrating influence of slavery, that
is the mother of ANA gamation. Does the gen.
eman want facts on this subject Let him look
at the colored in the free States it is rare
occurrence there. A colony of blacks, some three
or four hundred, were settled, some fifteen or
twenty years since, in the county of Brown,
few miles distant from my former residence in
Ohio, and was told bya person living near them,
a country merchant with whom they dealt, when
with him on this very subject, he in
formed me he knew Of but one instance of a mu-
atto child being born among them for the last ff-
Teen years and | venture the assertion had this
same colony been settled in a slave State, the cas-
es Of like kind would have been far more numer-
GUS. repeat again in the words of DR.. Chan
ming, it is slave country that reeks with licen-
ousness of this kind, and for proof refer to the
opinions of Judge Harper, of North Corolina, in
lis defence of southern slavery.
The Senator as if fearing that he had made
lis charge too broad, and might fail in proof to
ustain it, seems to stop short and make the in
uiry where is the process of anna gamation to
egin ; he had heard of no instance of the kind
SaliSt aDoluohlStS tney, (tne aDOlluonlStS,)
'ould begin it with the laboring class and if
Understand the Senator correctly, that abolitonsm,
y throwing together the white and the black la
orers would naturally produce this result. Sir {
regret, deplore, that such a charge should be
nade against the aboring class-that class which |
lis the ground, and in obedience to the decree OF
leir Maker, cat their bread in the sweat of their
lce--that class, as Mr. Jefferson says, if God I
as chosen people on earth, they are those who
lus labor This charge is calculated for effect,
} induce the labouring class to believe that if |
Emancipation takes place. they will be, in the free
tates reduced to the same condition as the color
laborer The reverse of that is the truth of
lie case. 1t is the STAKEHOLDER NOW, he who ;
,oks upon labor only fit for servile race it is
i'm and his kindred spirits who live upon the la t
or of Others endeavoring to reduce the white la
orer to the condition of the slave. They do not
ct claim him as property but they would exclude
i'm from all participation in the public affairs Of
he country. 1t is further said, that fhe negroes
'ere free, the black would rival the white aborer
n the free States. | cannot believe it, while so {
oany facts exist to prove the contrary. Negroes,
Ike the white race, but with stronger feelings, are
ttached to the place Of their BIRTH and the house
f their youth and the climate of the south is
ongenial to their natures, more than that Of the