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

! tonic tne CTucl oppTeSSioH vi wv Poo
| ia that same section itself? Is it no
enough that by the operation of this rad
ical iniquity in the organization OF TIT
government, an immense disproportloI
of all Offices, from the highest to thu
lowest, civil, military, naval, executive
and judicial, are held by shareholders
Have we not seen the sacred right o
petition totally suppressed for the people
Of the free States during succession
Of years, and is it not yet inexorably
suppressed Have we not seon for tht
last twonty years the Constitution ant
solemn treaties with foreign nations
trampled by cruel oppression and law
less imprisonment Of colored mariners
in the southern States, in cold-bloodot
defiance of solemn adjudication by q
southern Judge in the Circuit Court o.
the Union And is not this enough
Have not the people Of the free States
been required to renounce for their cltl.
zens the right Of haboas corpus and trial
by Jury, and to coerce that base surrend-
or of the only practical security to all
personal rights? Have not the slave
breeders, by State legislation, subjected
to fine and Imprisonment the citizens OF
the FREQ States 70, merely coming within
their jurisdiction Have we not tamely
submitted, for years, TO the daily viola
ton Of the freedom of the post office and
of the press, by committee OF seal
breakers: and have we not seen sworn
post master general, formally avow, that
though he could not license this cut-purso
protection of the peculiar institution, the
perpetrators of this highway robbery
must justify themselves by tho plea of
necessity ? And has the pillory or the
penitontiary been the reward of that
postmaster general Have VIC not seen
printing presses destroyed-halls erect
cd for tho promotion of human freedom
levelled with the dust, and consumed by
fire, and wanton unprovoked murder per-
petrated with impunity by slavcmongcrs !?
Have we not seen human beings, made
in the likeness of God, and endowed
with immortal souls, burnt at the stake,
not for their offences, but for their col
or ? Are not tho journals of our Senate
disgraced by resolutions calling for sOar
to indemnify tho slave parties of the En-
terprise and the Creole, for the self
emancipation OF their slaves, and to in
Aict vengeance, by death Of torture,
upon tho heroic self-dellverance Of Mad
ison Washington Have we not been
fifteen years plotting rebellion against
our ncighbor republic of Mexico, for
abolishing slavery throughout all her
provinces ? Have we not aided and
allotted one of her provinces in insur-
rection against her for that cause And
have we not invaded openly and sword
in hand another of her provinces, and
all to effect her ACKNOWLEDGMENT and to
add ten more slave States to our conled-
oracy? Has the cry of war for the
conquest of Mexico, for the expansion
Of Reconstructed slavery, for the robbery
of priests and the plumber of religious
establishments yet subsidized =? Have the
pettilogging, hairsplitting nonsensical,
and yet inllammatory chickering's about
he right Of search, pandering to the
hirst for revenge in France, painting for
war to PROSTATE the disputed title of her
being, has tho sound Of this war-trumpet
,ot faded away upon our ears Has
he supreme and unparalleled absurdity !
If stipulating by treaty to keep a squad
on of eighty guns for five years without
ntermission, upon the coast of Africa, to
suppress the African slave trade, and at
he same time denying at the point of the
'ayonet, the right of that squadron to
'oard and examine any SLAYER, all but
linking under cargo Of victims, if she
nut hoist foreign flag, has this diplo.
1atic bone been yet picked clean ? Or
5 our indirect participation in tho Atri-
an slave trade to be protected at what
yer expense of blood and treasure p
8 tho Supreme executive chief of this
Commonwealth yet to speak, not for
imself, but for the whole people, and
ledge Memto shoulder their muskets, and
ndorse their knapsacks, against the fa-
atical, non-rosstant abolitionists, when
yer the overseers may please to raise
re bloody flag with the swindling watch
'ord of the UNION Oh my friends
have not tho heart to join in the festiv-
y on the first of August, the British
anniversary of disenthralIcd humanity,
lille all this and infinitely moro than |
ould tcll-but that | would spare the
lushcs Of my country weighs down my
pirits, with tho uncertainty, sinking into
~ grave as | am, whether she is DOOM
d to BIO numbered among tho first Lib
rators or the last oppressors Of the race
{ immortal man.
Let the long trodGen down African,
estored by the cheering voice and
christian hand of Britain, to his print
We right and condition of manhood, clap ;
is hands and shout for joy on the ami
crsary Of the first of August. Let the
'rdly Briton strip off much of his pride
n other days of the year, and reserve
all for the pride Of conscious benof-
enco on that day. What lover Of cIas-
cal learning can read the account 10