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

like himself, are left to drag out a
weary life, deprived of home and
country and all which once made
them delightful. The husbandman
too, if he himself has escaped, views
with sorrow the remains Of his barns
and granafies which contained the
rewards Of his 'hard, hot toll, now
destroyed, and breads the coming
winter, when before he needed not
its approach, or welcomed it as a
season of pleasure and cessation of
toll. The fertile fields which were
smiling in freshness and beauty are
now black and desolate, and nature
seems to mourn with man. @
Few wars that have been waged
and carried on, have ever resulted IN
any benefit to mankind, except in
the case where nation bowed down
under bondage and oppression, has
thrown off the yoke and delivered
themselves from the usurped power
ola Tyrant. In SO just cause, war
may have had its beneficial effects.
But it has generally been curried
on to crafty the ambition or passion
ofsome cruel and blood-thirsly Ty-
rant. Thus it was with Inflated Po-
land. Her fertile soil is now black
end and desolated by the blasting
storms of Russian despotism, to graf
ify the ambition of her Tyrannical
Sovereign Poland lacked not brave
and determined men to defend her
rights, but they were few no friend
ly arm was extended to aid her or
loose the grasp Of the blood-thirsty
foe, that was drenching the earth
with the crimson food flowing from
the veins of her unyielding defend
ers; defenders that lacked not cour-
age to asset their rights or valor to
defend them. She still hoped and
struggled on until her noblest blood
had been poured forth and her brav-
est heroes sacrificed to the desola-
ting arm of relentless tyranny.
The unflinching valor of those he
roes has been the admiration of eve
~ nation, but they sunk alone none
gave her aid or encouragement
Had Europe forgot the obligation
she owed to Poland? Had she for
gotten the nation that was foremost to
check the devastation of the turbaned
foe? Had she forgotten that the
shield of Poland was among the first
and most powerful in protecting her
from the prostrating blow threatened
by the followers of Mahome: in
their headlong career Of desolation,
that she thus suffered Poland TO fall,
that she stood unmoved while the
brightest flower that decked her gar
land of liberty was blasted by that
storm of Russian vengeance and OPP
preston? Yes, Europe forgot to be
grateful; forgot her obligation; talk
ed of peace and liberty while Poland
struggled sat Indifferent while that
bold, proud spirit was crushed which
enabled her champions to choose
death or voluntary exile, rather than
yield themselves slaves to the usurp-
ed power of foreign foe. More
than this; she even hindered the arm
that would have raised the sword in
defence Of struggling liberty, while
two of her most powerful and inau-
entail kingdoms, that had been chief
ly benefited by the aims of the now
sinking Poles, favored the advance
Of the northern Autocrat's host led
on by the bloody-minded Suarrow,
and received the reward of their ig-
nominy and baseness by sharing
portion of that beautiful country,
while the righlful possessors were
condemned to voluntary exile, the
sword, or to the gloomy walls of a
prison. .t..
What anguish must have been felt
by the few, surviving heroes as thew
cast a last, long, but hopeless look
over the land ottheir nativity, where
they SO long had dwell free and hap
py-that land now tlodden by the
foot OF merciless joe. This look has
been cast. Those brave men have
beheld the desolation that marked
the progress of a ruthless enemy; they
have seen him approach "with fire
and sword, and spare not until he
had desolaled the whole of their fair,
happy, and much loved land.
Chains have bound the last valiant
arm raised in defence of Poland's
liberty. The conflict is over-the
sun Of her freedom is set. An aw-
full silence now reiops in the COTTAGES