The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-12-07

leave out one of the brightest stars in the
gaIaxyD (Applause.)
This address alludes to the report, thai
some aboilionists cherish bigoted antlpa
to thy Catholicism. You and know,Mr
President, as we'll as every one In this
hall, that no such prejudice exists. And
this reminds me OF an extract which
wish to read, as sort OF appendix TO the
noble document we are assembled to wei.
come. Ii is the bull of Pope Gregory
16,h, in 1889, ngaist slavery and the slave
trade. With your permission | will .eat
its concluding paragraph. believe, sir
it will be the first papal bull which was
ever read in Faneuil Hall, in this city o
the Puritans. had the pleasure of be-
ing in Rome, the winter it was affixed tc
the colossal door of St. Peters, to De read
of all nations in the sOnorous Latin of the
Roman church.
Here it is:
Wherefore we, desiring to avert this
disgrace from the whole confines OF Christ.
ianIty, having summoned several Of our
reverend brothers, their eminencies, the
Cardinals, to our council, and having ma
turely deliberated on the whole matter,
pursuing the footsteps OF our predecessors,
admonish by our apostolical authority,
and urgently invoke, in the name of God,
all Christians, of whatever condition, tina,
none henceforlh dare 10 subject to slavery,
unjuslIy prosecute, or despoil of their
goods, Indians, negroes, or other classes
of men, or be accessories to others, or
furnish them aid or assistance in so doing
and on no account henceiorth to exercise
that inhuman traffic, by which negroes
are reduced 10 slavery, as ifthey were not
men, but mere cattle, and are bought and
sold in defiance of all the laws of justice
and humanity, and devoted 10 severe and
intolerabIe labors-which traffic is, more.
over, source of discussions and contnu-
al quarres, by the prospect of gain it
holds out 10 those who can first obtain
possession Of these negroes. We further
reprobate, by our apostolic authority, all
the above described offences, as utterly un-
worthy of the christian name; and by the
same authority. we rigidy prohibit and
interdict all and every individual, wheth-
er ecclesiastical or laical, from presum-
ing 10 defend that commerce in negro
slaves under any pretence or borrowed
color, or to teach or publish in any man
ner, publicly or privatel y, things contrary
10 the admonitions which we have given
in these letters"
Now, sir, where is the sect among all
the hundreds of our country, which can
point 10 such an explicit testimony upon
slavery and the slave trade, emanating
from its head and leader in the present
day2 Not one. Sir, | am no Catholic.
But welcome, thrice welcome any hand
10 hep US uproot the foul system which
tramples on humanity in our midst Pre-
JUDGE agains; Catholics among abolition
lists !! propose three cheers for the alb.
olitionist Pope Gregory XVI.-and may
they ring out gloriously from these ar.
ches of Liberty's home! (Three long
cheers were given with the greatest en-
thusiasm, all present joining.)
Sir, this is an address 10 Irishmen.
boast no Irish blood, but my heart kindIes
with enthusiasm as read it. | mean to
profit by the lesson which it gives. l
cannot spare all O'Connell to Irishmen.
He belongs to the race-to liberty. (Im-
mense cheers.) Every one, striking for
liberty, has right to call him brother-
leader, if you will. (Cheers.)
They tell US America bestowed a no.
bic boon on the three kingdoms, when
she sent them the Temperance Reforma-
ton. If it be soft Father Mathew
owes light and motive to America, then,
with measure pressed down and over.
flowing, has the debt been repaid. If we
have hel ped in striking down the wine.
cup-they have retorted, by striking off
the chain. (Cheers.)
. Sir, what contemplate figure does
pro-slavery Irishmen present! He comes
from a land weighed down with the iron
yoke Of oppression-no sooner landing on
our soil does he stand erect, gather the
means of comfortable competency, and
grasp the ballot box, than he uses all to
Ivet the chains from which he has Just
freed his own neck. He stands stretch
ing one hand over the water 10 help his
blood brother rise and be citizen, and
with the other, crowds down the unhappy
negro. who only asks to be mani Sir,
we know many such have been made the
tools Of party. And now, in righteous re-
trbution, party is gro wing into notice
in New-York, the Native Americans
driving the very brothers of these men,
vet to arrive upon our shores, from the
privilege of the ballot-box. lift succeeds,
they may mainly thank themselves for the
result
was struck today, in this mornings
paper, with fulsome eulogy on Robert
Tyler. The Times thus describes him
with heart keenIy alive to the beauties
of nature and the wonders of that mis- htv
universe which spreads itself out unheed-
ed by the clod, he has a heart that
hleeds in sYmnathv at the wron ps inflicted