The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-06-15

clare the People of the thirteen Colonies absolv-
ed from their allegiance to the British Crown re-
leased from their duties rs subjects of the British
Empire, and constituting one People of thirteen
united, free, and independent States
| Upon these principles their Union had been
formed, and was by them declared perpetual. Up
on these principles the Constitution Of the United
States and those of all the separate States have
been prolessedy founded They have been CON
sidercd as the mmovoblc and eternal foundation
of all our political institutions, and we have glo
ricd in them first introduced under our auspi-
ces to the admiration and emulation of the world
of man. We have all known that there was an
other theory of the human government, founded
upon the supposed unlimited and ilImitabIe nature
of constituted power-that TIE issue of the seven
years war Of our Independence was precisely the
conflict between these two theories of governments
the theory of human rights and the theory of con-
Sti,uted powcr-that the cause of Great Britain
in that war was staked upon the theory of pomer
and our cause upon the theory of right. And
when our fathers were tauntngy asked, how they
could, for seven long years endure the unuttera-
| bic mIseries of their country under the devasta-
tons of combined civil, foreign, and savage war,
for threc-penny tax upon tea, they answered, as
their Congress- after the close of the contest, on
the 9th of April, 1858, had reminded thcm;-
/ Let IL he remembered, that ii has crer betn tie
pride md bood Of AR'eric0, Mat the rights tor
'chtch sic contcadcG Wc7c tie rights Of Truman n0-
fUTc.'
The rights of human nature Such was the
doctrine of l776 and such the doctrine of l7SS3
bu. now ask President Dew what are the RIGHTS
of human nature, and he will tell Won that slave
nv was the mother Of civilization. Ask Chancel-
lor HARPER what arc the rights of human nature
and he will tell YOU that man has natural aver
sion to labor, and that he will not work unless Won
make him slave.
The poiot of view in which I call vonr otton-
lion to these doctrines is their omen and nnd;s-
ruised anoatacy from the prnciples of the Decln-
ration of INDEPENDENCE. BY Chancellor HARPER
thew are directly and cynlicitlv attacked with
a long argument from Il he old Tory school
TO prove them false, sonhi;tical or ,,r,no,n.
inn.'
In nv last letter showed Won tb,, MI tho nm
thoritio+ NOW, odIncod rs rrarodent, orn,rla,,on
orv nroctira ia qnSt,;n i, IA ,ofi,sol or (,oos -
read ny consular rotit;o,,s ,,,,rn from, q rI !; tl
House of Co,o,nons Inv which tho,, r,f,so1 10 10
caivo nat;.iors ,rainsf tho sfo,,. oct o,d tho to
TN We hovn now tho RritieI arrn,,,o,,ts or ,bo
lav onoinSt the nrincin]es If the Declaration ofI
fodpncndrnco new vamned and brought forth to
Grove the law(,Iness or slororv The inference
from which is irrcs;stibIc that in the view If tho
Shareholders themselves the nrncinlcs of the Dec
lara,ion of ndependcncc are as fatal 70 tho ;ns,;.
tuition of slavery as thew were 10 tbe tyranny ofE
Great Britain over the Colonies. Now the neo.
pie OF al the primitive Southern States We're par
tIes TO the Declaration OF independence, to the
Revolutionary war 70 the Constitution OF the
Uni'ea states, four ue1eSa'cs from the State OF
Virginia. pIcd9ed lheir tVeS' thelr fortunes, and
'helr sacred nonor TO the principles proclaimed III
me Dec'ara'ion ana TO me perpetual union ionn-
ded on thoSe principles rehounce those prn-
e'P1es is vlf'unI,y 10 "i'hGfa" rom inc Union,
ana 1t Is my oe'loerate ana set'leq OPINION that
upon no other principles can this Union be main
a'hed' GU nave perhaps not been aware of
heSe PaIInouIal rerantatlons OF the principles oil
our revolution, and are still less aware how en-
cnSlvely they are prevailing among the savchod-
'rS OF the South, bnt contemporaneouS with them
has been the assumption OF new and eXtraordna-
y attitude towards the Union itself 1t was I'M
Ter the influence oil this new slave-bred and slave
breeding creed that the State of South Carolina
'rraycd herself in armour, formerly undertook to
utility law OF Congress, and lad defiance to the
Government of the Union, Vire mia was notthen
quite ready to join her, but, with very doubtful