The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-11-30

ished, / am an a6olitioniSt. For, so utterly do
detest slavery, that, were it to depend upon my
t single voice, this days sun should not set On a
slave upon the face of the whole earth. And, for
this single reason, that slavery is violation Of
, the eternal law of God and believe that what
: ever good things it is the good pleasure of God
$ that his creatures should enjoy upon earth, they
can better secure by keeping his laws than by
breaking them. have not yet felt ii to be my
; duty to preach upon this subject; and make this
declaration merely because, upon this or any 9TH
er, desire no concealment Of my opinion from
my people. When | do feel it my duty to preach
upon this subject, shall feel myself free to do so,
and shall try to preach so as 10 be understood
"That is all of my abolition preaching. That
is what said then say it now; only adding,
f that, as circumstances and times change, the
pressure of duty will be felt more or less impera-
lively to touch in the pulpit upon this momentous
question.
81 learned, soon after this declaration of seni-
ments, that had given offence by it. Very we'll!
[ thought it very likely might give offence by it.
But if gave offence to others feelings, gave
vent to my own and so long as can give vent
to my own feelings, by expressing them plainly,
others may give vent to theirs by finding fault
with me.
But why this senshveness now ? More than
nineteen years ago, when the great question was
before Congress whether Missouri should be adj
mitted to "our glorions Union" with the curse of
slavery entailed upon her, fervent prayer went
up, from Hollis street pulpit, that that black cloud
might be permitted to overshadow no more, than
It then darkened, OF our great and good land
At that time, there was enough of the love Of lib
erty, and consequently of the hatred of slavery,
alive among us, to make it impossible for the Rep
resentative of Boston feelings and interests, in the
Congress of the United States, to show himselfin
State street, on his return from Washington, with
out meeting some manifestation of the indignant
feeling that he had excited among his constituents
by his vote on that question. At that time, there
was no lntlmaton, from any quarter, that an anti
slavery prayer did not go up as ferventy from the
peoples hearts, as it did from the pastors lips
Then the extension of slavery threatened the in
tegrity of our glorious union. N0w, nothing is so
dangerous as its abolition! The former was then
the exciting topic ); the latter now. Have Gods
laws altered since that time-or is it the peoples
hearts? When few more lreemen shall have
been shot down, at the side of the printing press,
by the minons of slavery; few millions more Of
a free peoples petitions trampled under foot by
their own servants at Washington; and few more
free citizens of Massachusetts kidnapped for the
slave shambles of Virginia. the people of Boston
VIII DeSlU 10 tllnh lldt tuey NuCe SOIelulnR 10
with slavery; and if the clergy will have nothing
to do with it, they will have nothing to do with
the clergy.
GAS to the fears of the committee, that look for
ward to dissolution of our glorious Union as
the effect of the anti-slavery question, am happy
to say that do not sympathize in them. The
few fears that have, are all on the other side
While, in this country, there can be sustained a
free press, and free pulpit, have no fears for the
Republic. At any rate, this nation, like every
other, has less to fear from its righteousness than
from its wrongs. Dissolution of the Union for
sooth!-afraid of that, yet not afraid of muzzling
the pulpit and Stacking the press, in a land whose
greatest boast is its freedom, and whose only secu-
rity, its virtue! Dissolution Of the Union, by those
to whom their union with the free States gives
hats, shoes, and daily Bread and, after all, only
catnap sort of sleep! When | see the merchant
man at the Balize cut herselfoose from the steam
e, that tugs her up to N. Orleans the woodman
chop off the limb that he stands upon the town
pauper dissolve his glorious union with the select
men; or the honest tar, that has fallen overheard,
apply his jacl-knfe, with his left had, to the rope
that he holds on to, with his right,-then shall
begin TO fear that the slave States Of America,
will really fecede from their union with the free
At all events, union or no unoin will never be
slave. Yet, fI must be either pulpit slave or
plantation save-send me to the plantation"
1t is honorable both to Mr.. Pierpoint and to
Boston congregation, to record, that this bold and
manly reply gained the victory At the meeting :
held on the 11th, the motion to dismiss the pastor
was rejected by a majority of TEN, viz. yeas SO,
nays 50. The former vote Of censure was then
and vote passed, that as society,
we will endeavor to sustain the freedom and indie
pendence of our pulpit as illustrated in his past
This was adopted by vote of
81 TO s. the opPosers having retired after their de-
feat. 1t was understoolthat Mr.. Perpoint would
resume his pastoral labors last Sabbath, in his
FREE PULPIT, while the disafected would
look for the consultations of "rum gospel" from T..
a "puIpit slave" elsewhere.-Em 11cipator. =,
FRANcE-SLAvERY.-Th subject of the aboli- t
ton Of Slavery in the dependencies of France has
Al.