The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-08-03
From the Liberty Tract for July, 1913.
FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

NOTWITHSTANDING tho great princi-
pie Of slavery which treats man 40
property Is a heinous sin against God,
and, as such, should stand before ali
other considerations in the anti-slayery
enterprise, il may be well to examine it's
influence upon the wealth of our coun-
try. That a country enjoying such ad
vantages as ours, should be thrown into
such pecuniary distress as we have suf-
lered for several years, without famine.
pestilcnce or war, has been a matter of
establishment to the world. A few years
since, the democrats we're absolutely
certain, that, ifthey could retain the gov
eminent, and getthe s~ub-treasury scheme
into operation, it would relieve the
country at nee Well, they succeeded
in their p~lans-but no relief came
The wings then, were equally confident
that ifthey could get the government out
of the hands of the " ~locos," pass a
bankrupt act, sell the public lands and
establish a tariff, the time would be bet
ter. Well, they too have succeeded in
their plans ; but are the times any bet
ter? Answer, ye who labor for eight
dollars per month; and ye who are sell
ing wool for twenty-five cents per
pound, and can hardly sell your cattle
for enough to pay the taxes on them
Reader, have you not followed the
" Hickory pole" Log cabin" and
Hard cider barrel'' long enough to
stop and candidly examine a few facts,
and see if there is not some other cause
for your embarrassments ,thanthat which
clustering politicians have pr~etended?-
Is it not because one third of the nation
have lived in idleness, on the labor of
the other two thirds, by means of credit
for the last twenty years? Labor is the
only source of support for a nation; and
that nation is the rishest, in the long
run, which has the greatest amount of
available labor. But labor, in the slave
State is regarded as d~isgraccful when
performed by white PERSONS; and there
are not more than one in five of the
whole population, or one and a half mill
ions of slaves who may be regarded as
prime laborers. The other one million,
two hundred thousand slaves are infirm,
disabled, aged, children and fugitivcs
in the swamps and woods. And these
laboring or producing slaves have Meth
err intelligence, enterprise, economy,
skill or machinery to aid, or wages to
stimulate them. No, it is the lash not
cash-a motive five feet long, with a
snapper on the end Of (which stimu-
them. Now, nothing is more GER
tain, than hat under these circumstan-
ces, the South can by no means support
How then, and by whom are
they supported? The following facts
will show. They are truly startling
the great breakdown in 1887, a
committee was formed to ascertain, as
far as possible, the amount the North
have lost in the South for an indefinite
period. BY their report it appears that
Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont
have lost in the South 1862 O0O. OO0.-
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con-
neticut, i06, 900, 900. New York, 2OO,-
300, 1000. New Jersey, 1872, 000 ,000.-
Philadelphia, 100000. And Ohio,
81 ,OO0,O Making an aggregate of
800 ,OUO OUO Oh uOlIuIei WHICH nave
like the waters ofthe Mississippi,
rom the fountains of your industry, to
Southern idleness and arrogance.
The breakers Of Southern bankruptcy
rave made clean sweep over the North
avery five or six years during the last
orty years. Our manufactures, mer-
chants and capitalists, have been pros
rated and ruined, and the effects have
allen back upon the mechanics and la
'orers. This originated that miserable
and wicked bankrupt lac. The South
to repudiate their Northern
lebts, have done it by passing an er
oost factO law on bankruptcy, being aid
ID by Northern men who had been
ruined by Southern bankruptcy. You