The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-09-14

WAL, was arrested last week IN Al
leghany County, Maryland, charged
aOiM being an Aboztionist, and e0ith
circulating publications favorable to his
principles! He was brought before
a magistrate, examined, and for
want of bail, aoas committed to ANSWER
for THE FELONY! What a glorious
Union! How beautifully it oper-
ates How admirably it secures the
personal Liberty the inalienable
rights of the citizens How would
it answer for the authorities Of Penn
sylvania to arrest, and imprison a
citizen of Maryland, t6r entertaining
and promnlgating sentiments favorable
to slurery? Would the Southerners
be satisfied to have such a person
stigmatized as a FELoN? By 10
manner of means. A case like that
would throw the whole Southern
country into commotion, and would
convert it at once into furnace of
fiery Indignation. And yet, while
her citizens are imprisoned, and brand
cd as tcIons, because they entertain and
procl@im The principles Of Liberty, the
North remains as cold and lnsensible
as her granite rocks !-Hampshirc
Gazette.
1t is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES there is
civilized country on the face Of the
globe, where the freedom of speech
and of thought, and the intercourse
OF society are 50 curtailed, as they
are in one half the States of this
Union. We boast ofour country, as
a free country, while one half Oft is
subject to a despotism more degra-
ding than the darkest spot in Europe.
And what is worse, even the paper
which uttets such indignant rebukes,
is at this moment zealously engaged
in endeavoring to strengthen that
despollsm by elevating its most dis
tin9uished champion to the highest
office in the nation. Shame !-Emun-
cipator and Free american.
THE SroRM.-On Monday night
and Tuesday morning August 81 and
%, there occurred in the city ofNew
York the most delaying rain that the
oldest inhabitants remember to have
seen. Streets We're converted into
deep and rapid rivers, bearing on
their full tide, hogshcads, boxes, sc.
which they had swept from the side,
walks. In some places they could
not be folded by the mlk-ca
without the precaution of heading
the horses to the current, the crush
ing stream reaching the bodies OF
the vehicles. The following pattic-
ulars will give some idea of the nat
! IRE and effects of this visitation.
The flood filled the underground
stores, and tenements, damaging and
destroying great quantities of goods,
and drowning out the inhabitants
like rats; a large proportion of the
cellars in the city were partially, or
completely filled, and to a consider
able extent, remain so at this mo.
ment, although there has been dill
gent exerlion with pumps, engines,
and bailing. The health of the city
is thereby exposed to increased dan
ger.
The foundations Of houses were
much impaired, or completely des-
troyed. Wells were filled up as il
by a dissolution of the solid earth,
and general rush back to chaos
Thus, many inhabitants have lost
the wells in their yards. Our entire
sheet would not contain all the ma
teral and striking details of the des-
truction, by this deluge in the city
and neighborhood. ....
Think, reader, of gully, f11y feet
deep, and seventy wide, scooped out
by single rain ; Of whole blocks Of
houses, and extensive terraces un.
dermined, and the latter swept
away. Large trees chuckcd down
from bill to beach, railroads cut mp,
and sections swept away.
The storm appears to have been
extensive, reaching the length OF the
coast, and from the coast to Canada.
N. Il. S. Standard.
ARREST OF AN ABoL1TIoN1sT IN
MARYLAND.-We learn from the
Cumberland Civilian that VIM.
Wall, an Englishman by birth, bot
recently Of Bucks county, PA. was
arrested on Monday last at a camp
meeting near tvefstine's, in Allie