The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-12-21

| virginia anu otneT slave 0tateS, are 0TeCl
violations of the Constitution, and Fedora
compact. Slavery can not endure freedom
of speech and of the press; she therefore,
as means of self defense, tramples down
everything opposed TO her existence and
expansion, whether constitutional or not
And we, poor dough faces let her mail
us 10 the counter like base con,' and Harvey
Bell, Esquire, says, wait twenty five years
longer before we stand up as men in de-
Tense of our own rights, and the rights Of
the slave!
But this political abolition is horrd
thing 1t is going to destroy the influence
of the North on the South, and sink the
nation! Our forefathers acted politically
the shareholders retain their power oyer the
slave through political action-the slave is
crushed under the political influence of the
whole nation; and still, no one in the North
must act politically against slavery! If it
is not proper to elect those, and those only,
who are ready to do what they can to re-
move the Legislative sanction to slavery,
then know not what is proper, If friend
Bell wishes to lay upon his oars IS years
longer, except when he is laboring 10 elect
shareholders and their abettors, the guilt
must rest upon his own head. But as for
myself, intend doing what can to bring
the great moral and political battle between
Freedom and Slavery, to a focus, as soon
as possible, that the slave may be released,
and the nation saved from destruction.
Wait twenty -6ve years. | will quote
some remarks of Mr.. Slade, in Congress,
in 1910, on the waiting principle, and
think they may be urged with more force,
if possible, now, than then.
And is it, sir, thought to impede the
progress of Emancipation by the puny eff
forts that are made here o.? Vain attempt!
Can you hold the winds, stay the tides, or
stop the course of universal Nature g.
Then may you seal up the fountains of
sympathy in the human soul, extin9ush
the sense of justice, and arrest the onward
march of human emancipation. Stop
emancipation As well mi ght the scott
ers at Noah's ark-building have UNDER
taken TO shut the windows of Heaven,
seal the fountains of the deep, or roll back
the tide which drove them to the mount
ain tops as their last refuge from the ris-
ing flood.
There are some who, faithless as to the
efficacy of gag resolutions and gag rules,
talk of reception and commitment Of
the petitions, and report thereon; which
report is to put doaon abolition for ever
and ever! recolect remark | heard
when certain speech was made in GER
tain place-that That speech would put
dOpn abolition. Sir, you might as well
attempt to blow out the sun as to put
down abolition by speech or a report.
Gag resolutions, gag rules, and "put
dOoom" speeches and reports, will be like
putting dorm walking stick in the Mis-
sIssippl to stop its current You think
only Of rivuIet, when there is a mighty
stream. Turn your eyes to the South
east. Behold the Gulf stream sweeping
by your shores with its. resistIess g. never
ceasing tide. Can you stop il? Try
Run GU pier ofcorkwood from Charles
ton. What is the result2 The Gull
stream moves on And there is an em.
bem of the stream of abolition which is
rolling in upon the South from the Brit
ish West Indies. Within short time
i: will be swollen by the stream of French
emancipation; and then, in the course Of
a few years, by that of Spanish emancipa,
ton.
And then, sir, you do not think of the
extent and power Of abolition sentiment in
our own country, Stop up the crater of a
volcano, and soon the trembling, heaving
earth reveals the mighty agency at work
within! Sir, the human heart is foil OF
abolition; and sooner or later it will come
forth.
Neighbor Harvey, will you not be so good
as to jingle your Bell again, and see wheth-
err you can stop the Anti Slavery Cars2
HlsroRY OF VERMONT, NATURAL, CIVIL, AND
STATISTICAL; 10 the parts, with new
Map OF the Stale and 2UO Engravlngs.
By Zadock Thompson. Burlington =
Published for the author, by Chauncey
Goodrich.
Some three or four weeks ago called
the attention of the reader to an advertise
ment of Mr.. Thompson's History of Yer
mont, which can now be found in another
column. At that time had never seen the
work but moment, aud consequently could
give it but brief notice.
This work comprises six hundred and
Glty-six pages, containing a Map of the
State, and two hundred wood engravings,
neatly executed. 1t is divided into three
parts.
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