The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-12-28

TO nearly, as is shown by statistics.
consider the accumulation of Wealth il
less ratio.
1t impoverishes the Soil and deface
the loveIiest features of Nature. Wash
ington advises friend to remove from
Pennsylvania TO Virginia-saying tha
cheap lands in Virginia were as good as
the dear lands in Pennsy vania, and an.
Iticipaling the abolition of Slavery, wouIc
be more productive. His anticipation;
have persisted Slavery still exsts-ths
wild brer and the red fox are now there
the feld.growth and the inhabitants
1t induces National Poverty. Slaves
consume more and produce less than
Freemen. Hence Elusive wealth. prodl
galty and bankruptcy, without the capa.
bility of bearing adversely or recovering
from lis Influence: then come despair
dishonor and crime.
1t is an evil TO the free aborer, by for.
cling him by the laws of competition
supply and demand-to work for the
wages of the slave, food and shelter
The poor, in the Slave States, are the
most destitute native population in the
United STATES.
1t sustalns the public sentiment. in favor
of the deadly affray and the duel-lhose
relics of barbarous age.
L. is the mother and the nurse of Lynch
Ian, which | regard as the most horrd
of all crimes, not even excepting parricid
which ancient legislators thought too i'm
possible to be ever supposed in the legal
code. IT all the blood thus shed ia the
South could be gathered together. the
horrid image which Emmett drew of the
cruelty Of his judges would grow pale In
view OF this greater terror.
Where all these evils exist, how can
Liberty, Constitutional Liberty, live /?
No indeed, it cannot, and has no; existed
in conjunction with Slavery. We are
but nominal freemen, for though born to
all the privileges known to the Consitu-
ton and the laws, written and prescriplive,
We have seen struck down with the lead
en- hand of Slavery, the most glorious
banner that freedom ever bore in the face
of men" Trial by Jury-Liberty Of
Speech and of the Press" The North
may be liable TO censure in Congress for
freedom Of speedway lose the privi-
leges Of the Post Office and the Right of
Petition, and perhaps We! be free-but
we of the land of Slavery, are ourselves
slaves! Alas for the hypocritical cry OF
liberty and equality which demagogues
sound for ever in our ears! The Dccla-
ton of Independence comes back from all
nations, not in notes of triumph and self
ela,ion, but laundering in our ears the
everlasting Ne-makIng US In6dels in
the great world of Merchandising up
10 ourselves idols of wood and stone, in
scribed with the name of Deity, where
The one invisible and true God can never
dwell. The blood of the heroes Of re
has been shed in vain. The Just expec-
Iations of Hamilton and Franklin and
Sherman and Morris and Adams of the
North. are betrayed by the continuance
Of Slavery. The fond anticipalions of
Washington and Jefferson and Madison
and Mason of the South, have not been
realized. The great experiment of Re-
publican Government has not been foirly
esed. If the Union should not be per-
pelua, nor the American name be synon-
ymous with that of liberty in all coming
line, Slavery is at once the cause the
crime and the avenger!
Are we indeed of that Wanted Saxon
blood, which no dangers can appal, no
obstacles obstruct, and shall we sit with
limbs and dewy feet by the
running stream with inane features and
stolid gaze expecting this flood of evils to
flow past, leaving the channel dry2 We
who can conquer all things else, shall we
be here only subdued. ngloriousy whs
pering with white lips, There is no rem
-dy2 Are the fowls free in the wide
heavens, the fishes secure in the depths
Of the ocean, the beasts uutrammeled in
he forest wilds, and shall man only, man
formed in the image Of Deity, the heir
Of immortality. be doomed TO hopeless
Yes there is a remedy.
There is one of four consequences to
which Slavery inevitably leads: A con
lnuanCe OF tue present reIatlVe PoSllion
If the master and the slave, both as TO
numbers, Intelligence, and physical pow.
er; Or an determination of the blacks
Or an determination of the whites; Or
and removal, or emancipa-
ion and community Of interests between
he races.
The present relative position between
he blacks and whites (even if undislur'
bed by external influences, which we
cannot hope,) cannot long continue. Sta
Lislics OF numbers show that in the whole
Slave States the black increases on the
white population. The dullest eye can
also see that tho African, by association
with the white race, has improved in
intellect, and by being transferred to a
temperate cline, and forced to labor and