The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-08-24

: hearts, and hands, and firm hope in the help
: God and man, they should yet succeed and tr
] umph. God, he could not doubt, would bless
t too and millions of emancipated slaves, whe
: they tasted the sweets of freedom, would bequeat
the abolition enterprise as subject of prayer an
S thanksgiving to their children. And then W
should rejoice that God had given to us, and t
the States of the South, one constitution, on
, country, and one destiny.
; The question being put, the resolution wa
agreed TO.
MIR. Stanton, from the Business Committee
made report in part presenting for the adoption
of the Convention the following resolution
"Whereas the spirit of slavery pcrvades to
great extent, Church and State in our country
making the one scandal and reproach to Chris
tendom,-the other, libel upon repubcanism
and, uniting both in the bans of an unholy alliance
repugnant alike TO unadulterated Christianity anc
genuine Democracy Therefore,
"Resolved That we solemnly call upon al
those of our fellow men who love the principles
of undefiled religion to neglect no opportunity fol
purifying the churches or sects with which they
may be connected, from the pollutions of a system
utterly hostile to the precepts of the Gospel OIL
Christ, and to the fundamental doctrines of every
religious Sect and upon all our fellow citizens
who value free political institutions for themselves
or their children, to neglect no opportunity wheth-
er OF petition, remonstrance, rebuke at the BAL
LoT-Box, to cast out from the political parties with
which they may be associated, spirit which tram
pies in the dust the purest principles of both Con-
sentative and Radical Repubcanism." r
The Resolution was amended by striking out
the word wedlock" and inserting the word al
lance"
Mr. Miller of VT, moved, further, to amend it
IL ID LIE i
mocracy." He said the phrase radical detnocra-
cy did not suit him, because there was no such
thing. There was something opprobrious attached
in the community to correct an error however OBJ
vious and however injurious, he was Immediately
stigmatised as a radical it was applied, by many
10 aboitionists and all their proceedings. Indeed
whatever went to ameorate the barbarity of past
ages, was stigmatized by many as--radicasm.-
Repubcanism was founded on the principles of
Christ's Government, and if there was such thing
as radical repubicanism, that was it; but the
phrase was quite too radical for him, and he OBJ
jeced to the use of it.
Mr.. - did not rise to oppose the amendment,
but to explain the resolution as it stood. 1t did
not represent abolitionists as being political radi
cas-it went merely to declare, that if a man was
of that political persuasion he had no reason, on
that account, to be opposed to the enterprise of abb
clifton, and the same remark held good both of
Wings and Conservatives. Let man be Wing
or Democrat-Bank or Anti-Bank-C Conservative
or Loco-Foco it matters not; he was known in
this enterprise, only friend of man. If the
politics of the Radicals, or Conservatives, or Wings
stood in the way of the emancipation of the slave,
away with them ! let them be crucfed They
were known in this Convention as aboonists
only. They met on that floor neither as Baptists
nor Presbyterians, Epscopalians nor Methodists
neither as woman s-rights-men nor perfeconists
they met and they acted in the name Of bloodless
and of santiied peace; and their understanding
was of character to conciliate all, by whatever
name or distinction they might be called.
MIR. Garrison said he was sorry to contradict
the last speaker, brt was not true that they met
in that r,,ace as the friends of abolition-it was
true thew met as men, as superior beings but ;iot
as abotionsts They had deliberately voted alb
olitioniss should not vote they had expressly ex-
cuded from all participation in their councils, one
portion of the human race. He was surprised,
after such a vote, to hear the language which had
Just fallen from the brother
Mr.. Tappan appealed to the Chair, whether it
was in order again to discuss the proprlety of ad-
hitting females TO a vote
The Chair ruled it to be out of order.
MIR. Iappan SAID that the brother was guilty OF
misrepresentation. We do wish the cooperation
Of all the females in the land we fully appreciate
its value and importance, but we believe that 1t
will be far more efficient if they act in separate
capacity.
Mr.. Leavitt said, that, for his part, he was fond
of the word radical; the Divine Master of the
Christian Church, when he came down to elevate
and purify the world, had publicly announced
himself as Radical. Now" said he, " is the
axe laid at the root of the tree" This was radi-
casm in its perfection and the very sort of radl-
caism which Mr.. L. desired abolitionists every
to adopt. The world had been too long amused
and deluded by an attempt to cut away the branch
es of these noxious trees, whose root strikes deep
and strong into the rank soil of the human heart.
1t was a mockery-the more such trees were
thus pruned the stronger they grew; but when
Christianity approached them, she laid the axe at
once to the root. A great and good and venera-
bic man, whom all thinking men must unite to
honor, when speaking on this very subject had
said, i" will strike at the root Of this complicated
villany." John Wesley was radical Of the right
stamp. Unless they were all prepared to act as
radical abotionsts they were not in their proper
place in that Convention. The Constitution of
the Anti-Slavery Society was, itself, blow at the
very root of slavery. He supposed, however, that