The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-08-31

American revolutionary war arose TIT
cry for the abolition of the African slave
trade. The first assault of the reform
ers was upon the trade, which was pros
ecuted with such atrocious cruelty tina
the mere narrative of its ordinary detail!
excited disgust and horror.
Sweet are tho uses of adversely,
saith Shakespeare, and In the day o
adversely cOnsider,' saith yet higher au
thority
In the summer Of 1893, when the re-
suits of the revolutionary war presented
themselves TO the people of the British
islands, in the darkest form of adversely
they had, and they improved the oppor.
tunity, of considering the principle fol
which, and the principles against which
they had so obstinately and fiercely con
tended. Their warfare had been against
the solfevidcnt truth of human rights -
Thomas Clarkson, member of the So
ciety of Frionds,* with two or three other
EnglishInen, associated themselves to-
gether with the purpose of arraying the
po'oer Of the British empire, for the total
abolition Of slavery throughouttho earth ;
and the commission with which they
went forth to regenerato the race OF
man, by leading captivity captive, was
the Same identical selC-evident truth
against which Britain had just closed her
relentless war, in humiliation and defeat
She was now to make the identical prin-
ciple the inscription upon hor banners -
to war against Slavcry for the ma ural
rights of mankind, and 10 proclaim the
jubilee shout of liberty throughout the
land Throughout tho globe
OF that undertaking, Clarkson himself
has written the history. He has shown
in what small beginnings it commenced,
by what slow and almost impercoptible
progress it advanced, by what interests,
prejudices and passions, it was perpetu-
ally obstructcd. How many years it
was before it could obtain admission to
tho halls of legislation in tho British
House of Commons. How in the mean
time it had been silently making its way
TO the hearts of tho British people,
How many struggles of argument and
of eloquence it had to encounter before
it could lay PROSTATE all opposition at its
feet and how this cmanation of the
Christian faith, after waiting eighteen
hundred years for Its development, came
down at last like mighty flood, and is
even now under the red cross Of St.
George, overlooking from the white cliffs
of Albion, and sweeping the slave trado
and slavery from tho face Of tho terra
queousg globe.
People of that renowned island chill
dren of the land of our lorefathers, pro-
coed, proceed in this glorious career, till
the whole earth shall be redeemed from
the greatest curse that ever has afflicted
the human race--proceed until millions
upon millions Of your brethren of the
human race, are restored to the rights
with which they wero endowed by your
and their Creator, but of which they
have beenrobbed by rufians oftheir own
race, shall send their choral shouts of
to the skies in blessings upon
your names Oh with what pungent
and shame must | confess
that in tho transcendont glories Of that
lay, our names will not be associated |
with yours May heaven in mercy
grant that we may be spared the deeper
lamnation Of seeing our names recorded,
lot among tho Liberators, but with the
,ppressors Of mankind.
F'cllow-citizens the first impulse of
he regeneration of human liberty came
rom us-the fourth of July is our ami
'ersary day. Then was tho principle
proclaimed TO the world as that which
vas to be the vital spark OF our existence
IS community among the nations of the
arth. This is the brightness of our
Tory, and of this we cannot be bereav-
d. But how can we presume to share
n tho festivities and unto in songs of
riumph Of the first of August Have
re emancipated our slaves ? Have we
1ulcted ourselves in hundred millions
f dollars TO persuade and prevail upon
he man-stealer to relinquish his grasp
pom his prey Have we encompassed
ca and land, and sounded the clarion of
,ecdom TO the four ends OF heaven to
reak the chain Of slavery in tho four
uartcrs of the earth Has the vnction
f our eloquencc moved the bowels of
of the holy pontlf of The Ro-
ian Catholic church to give his COM
hands to his Christian flock against
lavery and the slave trade ? Have we
oflened the heart of the fiery Musslc-
IAN Of Tunls, the follower Of the war
cnouncing prophet of Mecca, to pro-
lain liberty throughout his land 7 Are
'e carrying into Hindostan the iuexprcss-
bio blessings of emancipation ? Arc
'e bursting open the everlasting gates,
nd overlapping tho walls Of China, to
Introduce into that bonighted empire in
me concentrated sunbeam, the light of
ivil and Christian Liberty ? Oh no
ny countrymen No e! nothing of all
his instead of all this arc me not suf-
oring our own hands to be manacled,
nd our own feet TO be fettorcd with the ,
hains of slavery ? II is not enough to
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