The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-02-23

fora champion to meet them in open debate, spread
ing their enthusiasm and awakening admiration
and kindling up every where hearts to emulous
daring. Spread these things before one knowing
our nature, though shut for the present out from
the world, u he will tell you whether abolition is
on the increase or on the wane.- Here are the ell
ements from which he will form surer Judgment
than from any oral testimony. He will know
with all the assurance that the laws of nature
could give him, that it is increasing and must in
eyitably pervade the mass, and enlist all hearts in
its cause, where the cherished name of master does
not interpose its shield.
Now how is effectual resistance to be made a.
ganst such numbers, organization, skill, activity,
and living, burning zeal in a cause of liberty and
justice? Will you meet them in argument? You
carry to the contest the weight of slavery. Your
very offer to meet him calls forth all the enthusi-
asm of the aboitionist Sustained by the ami
mating approval of christemdom, he feels that the
contest is but the sure harbinger of victory. And
he holds you up as the advocate or the apologist
or the protector of a system at war with human
nature. He holds you up to the gaze of the world,
with the bloody thong in your hand as the abettor
of q system which changes in fact, as poets have
done in fable, man to brute, leaving to him yet
the beating human heart, while his tongue is
dumb, and silent tears alone bespeak sympathy.
He presents you as the advocate of those who, for
self interest, have repealed the laws of God and
sneered at the rights of humanity. You endeav-
or to escape by alledging that you are opposed to
this system, and he triumphantly demands what
you have done to end it, and why all your strength
is expended against abolition and none against
slavery He shows you how under your mental
opposition, slaves have been multiplied from thous-
ands to millions. You cannot contend with him in
argument. He has every advantage and the tact
to turn it to account. Thus. if silent, judgment
is taken against you by default and if you plead,
a judgment, not less sure and more effective, is
rendered ON argument
Will you call in physical force to put it down |?
This has already been tried and has been found
but a sowing of dragons teeth.
Will you call in legislative aid To do so you
must enter upon an arena exposed to the gaze OF
the world, and with consciousness that your We
ny Legislation may change the ruling power
Now whether modern abolition be right or
wrong, it has acquired momentum with the means
of continued increase which, if past history and
sober calculation be any thing more than the means
of deception, will render its progress resistess.
Some obstacle may interpose momentary check
to the increase of its speed, but in the nature OF
things, it will only call forth new efforts producing
an increased acceleration. If there be means Of
eIlectuul UpPUoitsun ooufess ourselves 100 Dhha
to see them.
We note this state of things and present it to the
rejecting both political and religious, not for the
purpose of arguing for or against modern abolition,
but that it may call up sober thought and save
from an expenditure of useless effort.