The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-09-21

reader ! I have been commendin
every speaker, as l know not hoy
great and good. Be patient, reader
We have more great intellects, req
statesmen, eloquent orators, and pur
patriots in this great Convention
than ever met before in one bod,
since the days of '76. 1t is tn
largest and best of all our Anti slave
ny Convent ions. There are som
pure spirits that I regret to find alb
sent. Smith, Birnes, Morris, Earle
and Jay are absent. Francis Jack
son, Loring, Phillips and GARRISON
are not here, though [ believe il
spirit and hcort they are now will
the Liberty party. GoD grant tina
we may not find one of the old anc
faithful friends of Liberty opposing
US hereafter.
JOHN PIERPoNT, of Boston, Their
addressed the Convention in his owr
strain ofargumcnt and poetry. The
resolves below in relation to nullify-
ing the (supposed) provisions for the
return of fugitive slaves are from his
pen. His argument our readers will
have in full, as reported for the Dai.
ly Gazette.
I have been looking up again from
my paper. Here are not less than
5000 people, silent as the grave,
hanging on Pierpont's lips--silent,
save at intervals when the rejoicing,
approving spirit of the audience
bursts forth a shout of applause
No wonder the maddened pro-slave-
ny politicians of this city are swear
ing! Poor men! "Othello's occu-
pation' will soon "be gone" Pro-
slavery priests and politicians must
soon emigrate to a Southern cline,
or sink to deserved infamy and con-
tempt. The Common Council of
the city, or rather a portion of them,
tried to do the work of slavery by
preventing the erection Of the tent,
under which this magnificent meet
ing convenes, on the Park, the only
suitable place in the city for it. But
the majority had "sober second
thoughts" of what THE PEOPLE
would think Of it. They have dar-
ed to suppress the liberties of the
people by breaking up peaceable
temperance and anti-slavery meet
ings in the marl1et-house square,
But the murmurs of the people are
deep and loud. If these poor polit-
ical babes are old enough to learn,
let them go to school, and learn to
think what will be their position in
1913, in the view Of any body who
takes the trouble to recall their
names from the obscurity Of insig-
nificance into which they will sink.
Stop! Chase, of Ohio, is following
Pierpont in an eloquent vindication
Of the Constitution from the charge
of sanctioning the return of the fu-
yitive. Galusha nobly vindicates
The doctrines of Pierpont's resolve,
IN bold and eloquent words. And
mere comes WARD-Samuel r. Ward
the young (he is only 26) reason
ng, poetical giant. My calm judg-
nent is that he possesses the most
commanding intellect among the
people of color in the United States.
Few men of any color or cline can
with him. He is now vim
Heating the SUPREMACY OF THE LAW
IF GoD over all human laws, with a
;learness of illustration and purity
If language, and felicity of allusion
ind figure that mark the great, edu-
lated intellect. Yet he speaks now
IN the spur of the moment, on a
esolve he never saw or heard till an
lour since. His voice is very power
ul-it's clear, ringing sounds fill the
,reat tent, hold the audience rapt'
md echoes round the squares. Now
he discussion is Interrupted to hear
rom Wheaton the "Slave mothers
lament" 1t diffuses over the vast
udience the tender spirit ii breathes
n its sentiments, and in George w.
Jlark's most appropriate music
There are men weeping on whose
aces tears are strange visltants.
Prof. Hudson, of ONO, follows, recall
ng the facts Of the past, that show how
asst the changes that have passed over the
ubIic mind in ten brief years. Now he
escrbes the work of slavery in striking
ut Of being the very idea that man has
ny rights derived from the hands of his
creator. He speaks with much power
is voice is powerful; his manner grace
al; his language choice and eloquent