The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-08-17


us on the platform, from the United States, felt
the rebuke to be wel-timed while we were put
to the blush that it should be needed.
The Philanthropists in this country now feel
that their direct efforts in the cause of Negro f.
Emancipation are no longer demanded. But in
their abors for the abolition of oppression in 9TH
er forms and aspects in the British dominions,
they will feel growing interest in the speedy
and universal riumnphs of genuine abolition prin-
ciples They acknowledge their duty to India,
and that there too the bonds of oppression should
be broken. And they also perceive that in the
success Of their effort for India, they unavodably
strike very hard, if they do not give the death
blow to slavery in the United States. In the
yearnings of their benevoence for India, they Sc
Iect the channel through which they can, under
present circumstances, the most effectually oper-
ate for the benefit of the world. Nor is it lanati-
cism or misanthropy in them to derlare, that the
shareholders IN the United States may be starved
from their course when the free labor of the l0O,-
100000 of India shall compete with the uncona-
pensated labor of the 100000 in the valley of
the Mississippi, and on the plains of (Carolina,-
when the Bombay cotton-when the indigenous
cotton of India shall, in the Liverpool market IN
derse1 theirs. Then, shall political economy con-
strain them to do that which justice and religion
ask in vain at their hands to-day Let the eye of
liberty be seepless the reward is certain, and it
shall be glorious.
This movement for India, coming up as the
rUt Of their successful warfare against the slave
trade, and against slavery in the West Indies
cannot so divert the current Of feeling to a new
channel, as to prevent, or even to hinder the en-
tire completion of the work in the Islands, or dry
up, or even diminish their sympathies for their
struggling transatlantic brethren. No. British
feeling on negro slavery and negro emancipation
is strong. British sympathy flows quick and deep
for the imbruted colored man in the United
States, and for those who freely expend their love-
and money and energies for his deliverance. At
the meeting for India to-day, and in the full tide
which flowed out'for the redress of her wrongs,
even the mentioning Of American slavery produ-
ccd the cry, hear, hear: and at the presentation
of the guilt of the United States for tolerating it,
and of the prospect of its total overthrow there,
the assembly poured forth their strong, hearty &C.
clamation.
This movement for India is the commencement
of a gigantic moral enterprise. Its results, if sue
cessful, outrun all calculation, even when regard
ed only as the saving of human life, and the in
crease of human happiness there but especially
when you append the influences which it must
produce upon the general cause of benevolence.
1t should receive the corporation of every philan-
hropst. The dear brethren here, who have COM
menced it, we doubt not, will receive the hearty
sanction of our American brethren, and who in re-
turn for British sympathy, as also for the merited
rebuke of the STAKEHOLDER, and the time-serving
course of his apoogist, will send back response
which shall cheer them in their labor of love. We
will look for its speedy arrival, rejoicing, mean
while, that the friends of Human Rights on both
continents, may hasten on the accomplishment of
their glorious object by their mutual prayers, re-
monstrances and appeals.
Slavery as it is is received and read here
withf great interest. The Development of facts
produces the greatest astonshment and is waking
up fresh and mighty indignation against Amer.
lean slavery. Many are saying that now we have
proof that O'Conne and others have not laid their
charges against the slave-breeders and slavehold-
ers of America too high.