The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-08-10


it-but the contrary. Instead of attacking the
slave trade Cartson should have assailed the
West India slavery as George Thompson did
There is no need Of the British navy now to pre-
vent slave trade between Africa and the Yves
Indies. The fountain Of it is dry and the stream
perishes of course.
~ But as they are not impeded at all, cooni-
cation either does not intend to impede it, or does
not at all prevail on the coast. 1t is easy to say
that colonization impades the slave trade. 1t is
sufficient to say in answer that the trade ant I'M
peded by colonization or navies, or all the POM
pous display ofpower arrayed against ii by states
men and admrals who never had any phllanthro-
ply in them after all. The British parllament
takes great credit to itself for declaring ai'er 10
years refusal, that their own ships shoula not DC
employed, lawfully in that accused man-'raoe.
They had better confess that they held out so 'ong
against Clarkson, and that they had legalized the
trade before that, from time immemorlal. Brit
tannia carried on the trade over a century, and at
last (nerbaps when as in this country ii was for
the interest of slavery that it should be stopped)
upon Is years importantly passed an act that she
would not carry it on any longer. Then her po-
cts glorfed her humanity. Why did she ever
suffer herself to carry it on? And after outlawing
the trade, why did she continue a slavery that
would inevitably keep it up, and which was itself
as atrocious as the trade? 1t is idle to talk of the
colony's impeding the slave-trade. A traffic that
transports $4,000 victims year, interrupted by
a half-starved colony, barely able to keep itself
alive if it can do that? The trade would be more
likely TO impede the poor colony if it was in its
way at all. 1t seems to us eXtravagantly chimer-
ical to expect that poor little mock republic of
goods and chattels that could not pass muster for
humanity here to arrest or affect greedy trade
that all the British navy can't impede. The trade
is by law piracy. The British and American ma
vies are pledged to putit down-to scourge it from
the ocean. They can't mitigate it even. They
could not if they had navy for every single PROV
they now have. 1t is ridiculous then to talk of
those poor forlorn colonized castaways checking
the slave trade. Why they have something else
to do Ifthey keep their own footing there against
the natives, the famine, and the climate, it is more
than most white folks could do, in their circum-
stances Their suppressng the slave trade is one
of those foolish ideas that sensible folks will utter
when they stand in silly position (and wicked
one) and resolve to maintain it. What should
we think of the Concord towns poor undertaking
to erect three new bridges over the Merrlmack
that the tom can't erect, and then, rather than be
idle, volunteer detachment and go and drive Sir
John Harvey and his Nova Scotia men off the
Madawska timber lands. We might as rational
ly expect them to impede the timber trespassers
in their encroachments, to expect the poor scare
crows of Liberia to check that man trade that de-
fes the world.
a. Perhaps they would. But we have no
doubt that many of those who have been sent
there from the plantation would be glad to get a
board the slave ship, and run their chance TO see
the old spot they left. than stay and pine where
they have inconsistencies without freedom. The
exile there, don't feel as the fugitive in Canada
He offsets inconsistencies with liberty. He finds
liberty at Wherefore. Think you any slave
would run to Liberia, if good foot path led the
way there No, not if he could run any where
else Liberia is the pound where these strays a
mong the human family are shut up, 1t is the
" Niger Pew of the great earth temple. They
are put in there to get them out of the way of
proper people.
~ Why surprising, neighbor Panoply? Is it
more surprising that an in6del merchant should
import slaves than that doctor of divinity should
buy them of him-that an unprncipled mercena-
ry trader should be slave importer, than that
christian churches, doctors of divinity and mission
airy boards of commissioners should be SaUe-con-
sinners. Not so SURPRISING to as.
(6) Oh accused" man-hatred, pride, love of
dominion, poPERY. "Tbirst for gold is tender
mercy to these.
az Pretty we'll, we are glad to hear word from
the Panoply against the home slave trade. awe
do not extenuae the guilt of the traffic in our
Do not ertenuate it! Why 1t would be
da6olicaz to ertemuate it. But WHY do you not de-
nounce it? Why do you not disquiet the guilty
land that carries it on, and that defends it, and
why do you not lend your hand to put down the
heaven daring system that feeds the trade! " Here
and eoeryaohere,' says the Panoply. The eoery-
sohere comes in, in a twinkling, to keep the mind
from dwelling on the "here" BE temperate in
all things says the tipler when you urge him to
be temperate in the one thing. May he be set
free from his letters" prays the pro-savery divine
when he wants to prove the abolitionist liar for
charging him with Indifference to the slave. MAY
he be freed from bondage, but especially be freed
from the more calling letters Of sin the latter
suppcalion superadded with impatient quckness
as merger of the former But the prayer for the
latter blessing would be more honest if connected
with prayer and effort to give the slave manhood,
where the blessing of salvation can reach him.
A slave is not subject of gospel preaching.-I
There is an absurdty in treating him as a moral
agent. You might well preach to truck hors-
es. Slaves worship their owners. They have
no other God before " them. The slave system
demands absolute subsection of the slave to the