The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-08-31
CHAUNCEY L. KNAPP, EDITOR.
N UM EsER 35.

seat OF our national government an incarceration
when compelled him to flee from the keen edoe
a OF the northern winter, with a broken heart a9d
! constitution to the balmy air of Jamaica. where
after resting his weary frame few dovs under
$ the grateful shadow of monarchs throne. he f.
naily sunk to rise no more-the only refuge of a
republican abolitionist 1t was this which caused
; Dresser to be lynched at Nashville. It was an
Iunyieding devotion to these truths which caused
this epitaph to be written in bloody characters on
he winding sheet of Lovejoy-AN AMERICAN
CiTIzEN MURDERED FOR HIS LOVE OF LIBERTY
Were these, our brethren, right? We say thew
were, and we glory in their Deeds and embam
their names. And shall we now turn our backs
upon them, and refuse to cling to their PRINCIPLES.
thus reproachng them and d;shonoring ourselves
Permit me, MIR. President to drop my charac.
ter as an aboitionist, and assume for few mo.
ments that of q STAKEHOLDER from the far South.
while address a convention composed of the elite
OF abolitionsts from Maine to Missouri, assembled
mere IN solemn conc lave TO adopt measures for the
advancement of their cause. Gentlemen YOU at.
firm that you have got the grand cathoicon which
will cure all the evils of our body polite, 10 wit,
immediate abolition You take the whole South
by the collar, and insist that they shall swallow it.
GU have Numbered in their ears that emancina-
ton, immediate emancipation, complete and un-
conditional, is their solemn duty, and whatever
may be the difficulties or the dangers attending il,
they must all be encountered, and vet while saw
lug and doing all this, you will not yourselves risk
Tor a moment, your own little, paltry, pitiful,
Seven-by-nine partizan interests If YOU can car
ry into power your northern man with southern
principles, or your southern man with northern
principles, you will not pause a moment for abol.
TONS sake. You demand that we make this cues.
ton test at the polls, and yet you will wear the
collier OF party regardless of the chains of the
slave. You insist that we wade through blood,
II need be- for universal emancipation, while YOU
will not hazard the success of a constable if nom.
mated by your own party, butto secure his cleo
ton, will trampie on your principles and march
to the baLot-boX over the PROSTATE body of the
slave to deposit your pro-savery vote. Practice
what We preach, we hypocrltes You ask us to
bankrupt ourselves if need be- for the sake of prin-
ciple, while you will stop your cars to the cry of
the plundered slave, that you may drop your ball
lot for Clay and the Bank, or Van Buren, and the
Sub-Treasury, lest should your party schemes
fail, you would be little less successful in aceur-
ing wealth. Thus you illustrate the sacredness
of the truths you proclaim in our ears! Because
we will not practice what you preach, and Weld
every thing at your dctation, you brand US rob-
bers, despots, man-steaers, the felons of the hui
man race. Perhaps weare-but pray, gentlemen
what are you? Ye who say that
others should not steal, do you steal? Pluck the
notes, yea beams, out of your own eyes, We arrant
apostates
Do not these abolilionsts who forget the slave,
by refusing to act for his emancipation at the polls,
deserve all this from the South
To such, let me as an abolitioniSt say-What
doctrine did you preach to our friend Mr.. Birney,
now on the platform IMMEDIATE, UNcoNDIT1oN-
AL EMANCIPATION He listened, and thought YOU
sincere; and in the true spirit of the early con-
vert, exed himself from his native State, left all
and nobIy followed your teachings. You receiv.
ed HIM to your arms, and glory in him : and vet
for the sake of your political yarty you will be
feereant TO the very principles which he at your
request embraced. You take care to denounce
the South for her pro-slavery action, and yet when
a southern man, repenting and turning from his
prove the sincerity of your professions by
embodying in action the doctrines you proclaim
ed 10 him, you reply, 80, just wait awhile-do ex-
cuse us Till this election is over--cerain circum-
stances make it necessary 10 sacrifice principle to
party, just now" Thus you make yourselves
Kissing to the South, laughing-stock to corrupt
and grief and burden to the true
hearted among you.
will now answer the questions of nv friend
from Delaware, Or. Gibbons.) He says they
are agltating the Temperance question in his
duu Ic ilhc u FISK tIldl reform LOT
the sake of the au.i-savery cause. He asks, if
he must refuse to vote for man who is right Oh
temperance, unless he is also right on abolition
My answer is-in such circumstances do not mere.
ly make abolition the test question, but vote for no
man to represent you who is not right the alb
clifton question, and temperance question also -
in other words, vote for man of sound moral
principle. Nor is there so much difficulty in such
a course of proceeding as many suppose for, l
take ii upon NE to say, that a man who is thor
oughy right on the slave question, will be right
upon almost every other moral question. Show
me the man who believes from his heart and upon
principle, that slavery is sin--must be immedi-
aely repened Of and at once abandoned, and who
acts consistently with that belief-w such man
IegiSlate to support intemperance Never! Let
NE say To all temperance men, and also 10 the
friends of the SubTreasury, and no less to its OPP
ponents, that the man who fails on the question of
slavery is unfit to be legislator in any case, be-
ran&e he shows that he is in favor of laws which
sanction robbery, which permit stealing which
Justify adultery and Sabbath breaking, which
shroud the mind in hopeless ignorance, quench the
light of the gospel, and bar out millions Of men
from the hope Of heaven--in word, which tram.