The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-12-14

to labor Systematically and voluntarily for their
living, when left to hemselves.-They have not
sufficient mind and sound reflection, and continu-
Gus resolution, to labor steadily and systematical J.
y, and perseverance TO provide for the day oil ram
and of sickness, and for seasons of scarcity and
the heplessness of old age. Too many white
men fail to do this, and the negro, being left to
his own impulse, living in state of political deg
radiation and surveillance, is sure to become ener-
waited. When prompted by actual hunger or the
near approach of it, he will labor for an hour OF
day-that gives him the means Of saliating his
appetite, and enough besides to buy sufficient
measure of intoxicating liquors, TO produce intox-
ication, and to this he yields himself without any
effort to resist it; becoming in short time the
ubject of poor house. or a tenant OF the penl-
tentiary. But if under the supposition that their
children were bound out to moral and sober peo-
Pile, under the guardian of the Orphans
Court, who ought TO be required to take bond tor
their humane and moral treatment, by the time
they come of age, they would have acquired hab-
its of regular labor, and of abstinence with some
pride and sense of moral obligation, which would
make them useful to the state, adding to the num-
Der Of efficient laborers-so much needed in Ma
ryland That the number of free blacks should
be as much as possible diminished is admitted by
all, and no measure would restrain their increase
more efectually than prohibition OF marriage
between the slave and the free; connection
which is pernicious and cruel in whatever light
it may be regarded pernicious because of the
contrast in their condition. The closer the COM
munon between the slave and the free negro the
more is the condition Of the latter aggravated in
his own esteem-and it would not be saying too
much to affirm, that far the greater number of
thefts and offences committed by slaves are the re-
suit of connections with, or instgations by, those
who are free. Cruel, because it often subjects
the slave, who may be we'll brought up and of
good character, to the modification and distress Of
seeing himself the father of numerous offspring
utterly incapable of sefsupport; sick and without
medicine; hungry, and without bread-so that
for their relief he must steal or starve himself.
Even the abotionst would unite in condemnng
the union of the free male with the female slave
because thereby he adds to the number of slaves
while the slave male cohabing with the free
female, augments the list of free negroes, and
helps to perpetuate miserable class of beings
The slaves ure most happy in the southern
states, where the treatment is Misunderstanding
and provision abundant and wholesome, and the
discipline strict; and where there are no free ne.
groes and abolitionsts to mortiy and harrass them,
keeping them in stale OF excitement and mortl-
fcation. There is not an interest that is not I'M
paired by the proximity OF the free states, and the
protection there afforded to slaves, and by the pres
ence and intercommunon of the free with the
slave negro. Even the value of land is diminish
ed by it. Maryland suffers the disadvantages of
slave state This disadvantage consists in the
reputation THE odium north of the Deleware,) OF
being slave state. The capitalists of the North
refuse on that account to invest in Maryland lands,
though they could buy land in Maryland for 500
an acre, which is inlrnsicaly worth more than
theirs, which they could sell for an hundred.
Our condition is in fact, that Of neither the one
or the other, and unless something can be done to
counteract the progress of fanaticsm on this sub
iect, and that abuse of strength and needless IN
Justice which always follows irresponsible power
SLAVERY IN Maryland must cease either by SALE
aoh1e The right remains to The Shareholder or, ere
long, By forced emancipation.
Virginia, once proud and independent Virginia
already half captive to the North, will soon take
her place as the frontier slave state; Maryland
with her southern principles, eaten out by north
ern men, will then assume 10 her, the relation that
Pennsylvania now bears to Maryland-nay, it is
but too obvious that as things are now working, In
process of time, and that not slowly, Slavery muSt
cease TO eriSt IN all the precision groaoang StateS
its northernmos line will be the line OF the sugar
the rice and cotton culture the climate alone al
tording TO the STAKEHOLDER that sheiter Wh'cn JUS
tice could not offer from the rapacty of his pursu
ers. Will the southron still accept the shadow
without the substance Of equal and confederate
powers Be his relation then what it may, lnde
pendent, confederate or colonial, for one, we say
let it be defined. To the misery of the slave, lie
7 him not add the meanness of the dupe Let hin
remember that time and corruption have olel
achieved what would have defcd the power OF tn
I sword in word, let the STAKEHOLDER think
!, while vet if vet he has the power to act
New Missionary Field.
n Why does not either the American Board or TIT
: Home Missionary Society establish missions,
send missionaries, to the two and a hall million
: of slaves in this Christian nation9 The Southern
Church calls them heather, and we showed II