The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-08-03
MONTPELIER, VERMONT, AUGUST 8, 1899.

classes of persons in the free states are palsed by
i the slaveholding influence of the South-that pat
ronage, the interests of trade, denomnaed sym
tpathies and struggles for power political PARTIAL
alites and strife aristocratical afinties, marimo
NAL connections and nnumefable ties OF social re-
lationshp with shareholders, have perverted the
public sentiment of the free states on the subject
of slavery, either bribing it to silence, or silmula
ting it to defend the system and assall the doc
trines and measures of abolitionists.
l The information thus procured, they designed
to publish in pamphlet exhibiting in detail the
relation of the free states to slavery. The prep
aration of the pamphlet was in state of for
wardness some months since, but its publication
has been delayed because the returns expected
from the circulars were indispensable, not only to
the completion of the work. but to its highest use
fulness.
The Committee are sorry to add, that they have
been forced to suspend the publication of the pam
phet in consequence of receiving few returns to
these circulars. This they exceedingly regret,
believing such work to be of great importance at
the present moment. But they are not discoura-
ged they believe that there are in all parts of
the country, abolitionists who rejoice to aorh for
the slave, not merely to luxuriate in the excite
ment of public meetings, but to WORK out Of sight
in the humble pains-taking capacity of fact gath
ererS Upon such men and women, in every city,
town, village, hamlet and neighborhood, the Com
mittee call for FACTS. In the name of the slave
we ask you for answers to the preceding questions
Do not wait for your antislavery societies to move
in the matter. Do not say that A. B. or C. can
do it better than you we ask YOU to see that IL IS
done. Begin NOW. Look over the preceding list
of questions and write down on the spot all the
facts in reply that you think of, then sally out
aud get others, and write them down, then get
others, and keep on till you have got all that are
to be had, then sign your name to them and for
ward them without delay by mail. If your town
is so large that you will need help in procuring
the facts get 1t, and as much as you need; If
you set about the work in earnest, you will find
help enough, and of the right sort. When you
have written down all the facts concerning YOUR
own village township, or city, add as many others
as you can get, put down the names of all the
ministers, lawyers, doctors, college professors, ed
itors, &C., natives of any of the free states who
now live in the South, of whom you have person
al knowledge or information from the testimony
of responsible persons.
All cergymen have peculiar facilities for furn-
ishing the pro-slavery statistics of their own de-
To those of them who are abolition
lists we confidently look for such details. Shall
we look in vain
Students of colleges and theological seminaries
might, with little effort, make out list of those
graduates of their respective institutions, natives
of the North, who live in the slave States or have
become Shareholders. Are there not ten abolition
lists in every college and theological seminary in
the free states who will resolve to furnish the
Committee with such list of the graduates off
their respective institutions and tit7 their resozu-
ton? If ten cannot be found 10 undertake it, |
surely fire can be, and if of these five there be but
ONE that will take hold Of the work, with only
fraction of the yea that propelled Clarkson through
the lanes and garrets cellars, dociyards, and mer-
of the three kingdoms for facts with
which to kill the slave trade, THE WORK WILL BE
DONE.
The Committee offer their grateful acknowl |
edgements to those abolionists who have furn-
lshed returns to their circulars-for the most am
pie returns yet received they are indebted to the
energy Of Gnti-SlaUery aoone-they are also great
ly indebted to STAKEHOLDER in the extreme South
for the names and residences of large number of
Presbyterian ministers, natives of the North, who
have become shareholders in Georgia, Alabama,S S.
Carolina and Florida.
Finally, to every man and woman who sees inn
every slave brother or sister, the Committee
make their appeal for FACTS, What thy hand
fndeh TO do, do it aoiM thy might, & do it NOW. |
Communications may be directed to Theodore
d. Weld, 142 Nassau street, New York. Will
the editors of ant-slavery papers please give the
above an insertion?
P. S. Persons forwarding communications,
will please subscribe their names to them this is
necessary to secure the Committee from imposi-
ton. The names of those who give the inlorma-
ton will not be published without their consent,
and in most cases will not be necessary. The ut
most care should be taken to ensure strict accura-
cy in the statement of facts.
Political action against Slavery.
What do ace mean by political action against
S1UeTu?