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

sale thief of MEN IS courteously invited
to the ordinance bows to the symbols
Of Saviour's passion, and takes the sa-
cred elements with plety at which the
fends Of Pandemonum might chuckle
and grow fat!
And not unfrequently do such decep-
tive 'pomp and circumstance ensnare
the northern female into like participa-
ton in the shareholders guilt. Not SO
the shrewder maid, whom Whittier de-
scribes as squirting every proffer of his
crimsoned hand.
Go back naughty Southron thy treasures of gold
Are dim with the blood Of the hearts thou hast sold
Thy home may be lovely, but round il hear
The crack Of the whip, and the footsteps of fear!
Full low at thy bidding thy negroes may knee,
With the iron of bondage ON spirit aud heel,
But know that the Yankee girl, sooner would be
In letters with them, than in freedom with thee
Upon the compensation question abo-
lilionists are asked, What! would you
take mems property without fair equiv
aIent? o no; Think with Gen. Hayne,
that he who digs the soil is first entitled
to lis products Therefore go the whole
for compensation TO THE SLAVE for every
day Of his hard toll; nay, and if this be
not enough to satisfy the advocates for
compensation, would demand full pay
ment for the labor Of his father and
grandfather before him!
If flesh and bone are made, las some
anatomists affirm from what we eat the
human system being renewed in seven
years; and it Haynes maxim in regard
to title be correct, Calhoun and CIay's
component parts, for instance, will be
found to consist Of stolen bread and but
ter, and these sIayeholding candidates
for the highest office in the gift of FREE
MEN, eight times the property of their
own diggers of the soil! And should
stern justice reinstate the lawful owners
in possession of the premises for which
they have so often paid, we might have
cause TO apprehend that hordes of form
err masters, "a lily-fngered race, too idly
reared to work. would stroll this way,
and plumber us in person, as we have
long suffered them to do by indirect
means; for verify, the North deserve
some punishment for the craven part
which they have always acted in this
matter But emancipation would al least
make peace where now there is no peace;
it would bind up broken hearts land bring
together scattered families; and Heaven,
perhaps, might overlook the sins of CEN
turtles, and pity, and torglce.
The slaves, as is well known, were
chiefly introduced by northern mariners;
and some of my own ancestors were
probably engaged in this abominable
trade; for many Bay State vessel went
TO Africa, applied the torch at midnight
to the natives peaceful dwelling and
by It's lurid glare bore off the hapless in
mates thrust them into the internal
slave ship, and brought them here their
lasting monument of sin and shame!
See our political connexion with this
Heaven-daring crime, in the congression-
al act for the benefit of sou-drvers,
passed in 1889; when in defiance ofthe
laws o. God, Thou shall not deliver to
his master the servant that is escaped to
thee, northern with southern represen-
tatives whispering, We wILLn empow-
cred the slavocrat to enter the free States.
and by the aid of a convenient witness,
to take his human property wherever he
could find it. Thus did the total North
become the planters hunting ground;
and every person here who is not out
and-out an aboltionit, stands pledged
to be blood hound, and bark upon the
track of the poor fugitive at his proud
masters beck. A law of your own
State, indeed, awards her citizens the
privilege Of trial by jury in cases of con-
tested claims; but as the southern plan
tiers boast that they can brbe a Yankee
Justice for shilling means of evasion
will be found; and slavery is therefore
still sustained by Newly otk, until by a
declarative law her soil is rendered alb
solutely FREE.
Blackstone directs that where legal
instrument is ambiguous, the side of mer-
cy should prevail; and by this rule, our
supposed obligation to bayonet the slave
in case of instruction, may be interpret
ed another way. For as the Constitution
only binds US to suppress domestic vi
olence, 'and slavery is VIGOROUSLY SC, the
patriotic abolitionist preserves his true
allegiance to the spirit of our national
compact, while by the ballot-box and ev-
cry lawful means, he strives TO put this
system Of domestic CiOIpace down.