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GLORIOUS DOINGs.

DOUGLASS N REMoND.-The meet.
ings of the past week have been mos
glorious, and the lecturers announced in
our last have kept up meetings during al
this week, and are yet here, 10 speak this
evening. We have been engaged so con.
SANITY as to De unable (being also i'll du.
ring most of the time) to give a full re.
pors of proceedings for this number o
our paper. We can only say thai the
lecturers who have been able to address
the audiences have done it most eloquent-
". The two colored men, Douglass and
Remond, have at least convinced most if
not all who heard them that, ia the lam
guage Of one of the first speakers aud The
most talented man in our city, there are
few or none more eloquent in the Union.
The meetings have been %fuII-many OF
them crowded-and the enthusiasm most
grateful. We may say, without fear of
contradiction, that more has been done du-
ring the past week, and almost solely by
Douglass and Remond (the other speak.
ers being al. in bad health, 10 push for.
ward the great and glorious cause, than
could have been hoped for in months, BY
any other instrumentaIity. We have
heard of many, very a%ny,converls already
made, and are assured that hund reds, if
not Thousands, have been awakened by
the appeals of these orators-these elo-
quent pIeaders for their rights, We re-
gret-deeply regret-lhat our illness pre-
vents us from giving a full account of the
meetings-but shall speak of them again,
although all powers of description would
fail TO give anything like an idea, to
these who have not heard them, of the
power and beauty of the speeches ofthese
men-the one a s%eIftaught Slaue, and 9TH
or having only enjoyed those opportuni.
ties land small indeed they are,) given to
a coIored man in the free! States, where
colored persons are shut out from every
public school, academy and college
from every means Of learning even to read
and write-insulled, abused and trampled
on-and yet called, in the refined Ian
guage Of the Colonization Society, ag-
morant, r%icious, deboSed nuisances-ht
ONLY to Ciristlanize Africa.-W we think,
with Douglass, that as natice american
citizens, they are at least entitled, as well
as fitted, TO enjoy the privileges given 10
the most ignorant, vicious, anG dtbased
foreigner--even an Algerine pirate
who may land upon our shores. VIVA,
think 9OW, reader I'D.
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ANTI-SLAVERY
CELEBRATION IN PHILADELPH

CELEBRATION IN PHILADELPHIA.
The American Anti Slavery Societ,
was formed in Philadelphia, at the cele.
braled Convention which was held in thaI
city on the 4th, 9Th and 9th of December,
1888. At its last annual meeting, a :eso-
luton was adopted, recommending the
celebration of its first decade in PhiIadel.
phia, in December next. An official cal
for this grand commemorative meeting
has been put forth, and the abolilionisls o.
the country are summoned 10 give their
attendance. 1t is earnestly TO be hoped
that they will respond 10 the summons
with aIacrity, at least so far as to ensure
a spirited and crowded gathering for the
occasion will be one of deep, solemn,
thrilling interest, and a retrospect of the
Past with a comparison of the Present
will create the strongest heart felt emo
tioaS, and excite to more generous sacri-
flee and greater determination in the
cause of enslaved and despised Humanity.
How mulliiorm and multiludnious, how
stirring and grand, how melancholy and
dep,oraole, how cheering and hopeful,
pregnant WIN udIhleSS, NOW lull Oh
Zig hi, have been the events that have trans
pired in this country, within the last ten
years, connected with the great question
Of American (not African) emancipation
The cloud that was then no bigger than
a mans hand, now overshadows the
whole nation. Then, scarcely a sufi.
Gent number of aboIilionisls could be
found in the United States TO constitute a
convention now their ranks are crowd.
ed, and their banners are floating on eve.
~ hill and on every plain in the free
States. Then, their cause was not only
rejected as chimericaI, but treated as in
flmous, universally TO- it is widely re-
spected, and all opposition to it is felt to
be futile.
How diverse have been the aspects,
how various the positions of the anti
slavery forces, since the first gun of Iiber-
ty was fired, and the war declared If
the a6olitionIsts have, from time 10 time,
changed their ground, they have never
Abandoned it, and their principles remain
uuadnltera'ed and immutable. They
hive carried one outpost after another of
the enemy, and are now fast approaching
a general engagement, under the most
ausplcious circumstances.
We regret that earlier and better meas
ures were not adopted 10 ensure an i'm.
mense attendance at Philadelphia but
we trust the meeting will be in all re-
spects worthy of the occasion and the
cause.-LlberGtor.
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WORKING MEN.-The work Of eman.
c~ipalion is your work. 1t is a strife be-
tween free and slave labor, between a sys-
ten that burns, scathes and makes barren
the most fertile soil the sun ever shone
upon, and one that blesses and fertiIizes
the land where it is established, between
n that bankrupts the national Treasury,
and impoverishes the people, and one that
fills our Golfers with plenty, and crowns
the land with abundance, between one
that corrupts the government, and debases
the morals OF the people, and that which
is pure, and purifying, wherever it is; be.
t Neen one that makes the black a human
chatel, and boldly aims at the enslave-
ment OF the white, and that which recog-
nizes man as man, without any distinction
between the high and the low, the rich
and the poor. The working men are the
bone and sinew and muscle of the land
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| s e l. l. A N Y.
HOW TO FIGHT "sHARP DuG.'

In the country a good vigiIant dog, is
denominated a sharp ~dog-sharp, as
the question in search of a house dog
Borrow, in his "BibIe in SPAIN" tells
what he says is an inflIIibIe method oil
defending ones self against a sharp dog.
| proceeded a considerable way by the
eastern wall, until | heard a tremendous
bark, and presently an immense dog, such
as those which guard the focks in the
nelghborhood against wolves,c came bound
ing TO attack me, "with eyes that glowed
and fangs that grinned." Had | retreated
or had recourse 10 any other mode of de.
Tense than that which | invariably prac-
tlse under such circumstances, he would
probably have worried me, but stopped
till my chin nearly touched my knee, and
looked him foil IN the eyes,, and as John
Leyden says in the noblest ballad which
the land of heather has produced,
"The hound be yowled and back he fed,
AS struck with fairy charm"
at is a fact known 10 many people, and
| believe it has been quite frequently sta
ted, that nc large fierce dog, or animal OF
any kind, with the exception of the bull,
which shuts lis eyes and rushes biindIy
forward, will venture to attack an individ-
ual who confronts it with a firm and mo-
%.ionless countenance. l say large and
fierce, for it is much easier to repel a
bloodhound or bear Of Zealand in this
manner, than a dunghill cur or a terrier,
against which, a stick or stone is a much
more certain defence. This will aslonish
no one who considers that the calm re.
proving glance Of reason, which aIlays
the excuses Of the mighty and courageous
in our own species, has seldom any other
effect than to add 10 the insolence OF the
feeble and foolish, who become placid as
doves upon the infection ofchastisemen,,
which, if attempted 10 be applied TO the
former, would only serve 10 render them
more terrible, ard like gunpowder cast on
a flame, cause them in mad desperation 10
scatter destruction around Them"
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-11-30
LIBERTY

We are not apt 10 be sanguine of sue
cess, but the doings of the past week (des.
pie cur ~illness) have led US to believe
that the hour of deliverence for the slave
is almost at hand for we have not a
doubl that the only impeachment lies in the
2ro-slavery of the Northern churches and
political parties-fostered, as it has been,
to a very great degree, by the operations
Of the Colonlz't ion Society, which, by as.
suming as the very BASIS of lis abomina-
Bile scheme of expatriating free native
American citizens, that the pre- udice
against COLOR" could not, however wick.
ed it might be, (and unhoIy, it certainly
is, as all and every prejudice against
COPS doings, and his ALONE, must be,
be removed-has done greater injury to
the poor colored American healhen,-
those nominalIy free, as we'll as the
sIaves,-than it could atone in the sight Of
our righteous Supreme Judge, even by
the Characterization righteous heaven,
can such a tree bring good fruit p of eve
ry soul in Africa!
Now, W. can almost see, peering
through the mists of the Future, the up
rising sun Of deIiverance for the slave
Yet a little while, and it will rise up
ward 10 the zenith, dispeIIing all these
mlsts of pre- JUDGE, generated in ignorance,
and selfShness, and cruelty, and all unho-
ly impulses Of the wicked hearts of wicked
men.
FRIEDRICH DOUGLASS, The intrepid, rht
majestic, the eloquent, the high.hearted
representative OF the slave-himseIf a
slave, by mans law-anl LENox RE.
MoND, perhaps less gifted than his cola.
borer, but il even SO, surpassed by nc
white speaker, of equal opportunities
whom W. have yet heard-have, we art
well assured, done more than conDC have
been done, in months, by men not of theil
color. TO remove The prejndi:t
against their race from the minds Of thC
people of Pittsburgh. Their noble, fear,
less bearing-lhe argumentative, pathetic
beautiful, eloquent appeals which have
been uttered here by these poor men
(poor in condition, indeed, but rich in in,
tellectual gifs) cannot fail of producing
glorious fruits-for though
"The poor too often turn away unheard
From hearts that shut against them with a SCUM
"Tha will be heard in heuven,''
thank God, there are many hearts We
open,-many true Christians and phildn
thropists among us,-who will not, can
not, shut their hearts against the con
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-11-30
From the New Lisbon (Ohio) Advocate.
Hurrah for the Nineteenth Century

Hurrah for the Nineteenth Century!
The whole of Thursday last was occu-
pied by the Court of Common Pleas for
This county, in Trying to find out whether
one Thomas West was of The VOTING
COLOR, as some had very constitutional
doubts as 10 whether his color was ortho-
dox, and whether his hair was Of the Of
fetal crisp! Was it not a dignidrd bust
ness2 -Four profound Judges, four acute
lawyers, twelve grave Jurors, and DOM
know how many venerable Witnesses,
making in all about thirty men, perhaps,
all engaged in the profound, laborious,
and IlIustrious business, Of finding out
whether a man who pays tax, works on
the road. and is an industrious farmer,
has been born according to the republican,
christian Constitution OF Ohio--so that he
can vote And they wisely, graveiv, and
GEOGRAPHICALLY" decided that he
should cot vote! What wisdom what
research it must have required 10 evolve
this truth q! 1t was left for the Cour. 81
Common Pleas for CoIumbiana county,
Ohio, in the United States of North
America, TO find oct wha. Solomon never
dreamed of--!he courts of all civilized,
heather, or Jewish countries, never con.
tsmpIa,ed. Lest the wisdom ofour courts
should be circnmvenled by some such
men as might be named, who are so near
being born constitut;onaIly that they might
be taken for white by sight, would sug,
gest that our court be Invested with SMELL.
ISc oU,or and ,hat II, man douit nvh.I,
the constitutional smell. he Shall not vote !
This would be an additional security 10
our Liberties.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-11-30
D. S. MURRAY, PRINTER.

She is IA member of Il female autrslavery
society, and will Of course b. graft d TO
know that 40 part Of our support is d+riv-
ed from the unpaid tot of the slave. She
has indeed frequently urged me 10 give
~ part OF oar allowance, 10 conSeq9enc
OF HIS being derived from such a source
but 'h's | think | could not do inj.s ice 10
my family. [ have acquainted the Board
whh my wish TO receive support hom the
Committee, SO that if | AN accepted, |
wish permanent and definite arrangements.
10 be mide accordingly, The letter of
the credit has been received By Bro. Jud-
500. The Committee can suit its own
conven once, as 10 transmitting their funds
through the Board, or some other way:
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-11-30
J.. HOLCOMB s. D. S. MURRAY, PUBLISHERS.

%viclion which must be forced upon them,
that our God never intended men like
these, with minds so capable of great
achievements, under almost crushing OBJ
stacles, TO be SLAVES. DOUGLASS a
SLAVE! Who that heard it, did not feel
his heart leap, as he exclaimed, No! l
am no SLAVE! Your law may manacle
my limbs, bnt it cannot e%nslave my spirit
Cop made it freel am Gods FREE
MANI Can | be mans slave P-Spiyit
Of Liberty.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-11-30

William G.. Bouck, the present Chief
Magistrate of New York,anl whose office
is only second in importance and inAu-
encc 10 that of the President ofthe Union,
says he has often gone to the plough be-
fore day-light,and from it after dark, while
)aboriug in his younger days upon his
fathers farm. From his boyhood until
he was twenty-five years Of age, he says
no common laborer on his fathers farm
did more work than himself, either in
clearing land or in the harvest field
N. Y. San.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-11-30

A WORD TO BoYs.-Begin to collect
Libraries OF your own. Begin with a sin
gle book; and when you find or hear OF
any other first rate hook, obtain it if you
an. After a while get another as you
are able, and be sure you read it
Take the best care of your books; and in
this way, when you are men, you will
have good Libraries in your heads as wei.
as on your shelves.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-11-30

MISSIONARY FUNDS FROM SLAvEHoLD.
ERs.-Extract from a letter from Rev. j..
Wade, missionary at Tavoy, to the Bap-
list Provisional Commute.
How Shareholders can give their money
10 send the gospel to the distant heather,
and yet approve of a policy which keeps
their slaves ia ignorance of the same goS-
pei, is to me a paradox. Do protesting
Shareholders do this? Slavery as Hexisls
in America, | consider a monstrous evil,
both to the master and slave, an outrage
upon justice, a disgrace to the American
Gag, and the reverse of all Christian prin'
ciples; cannot suppose, that it will sur.
vive the first dawnings of the miI'enial
age. | need not advert to Mrs. Wade's
views on this subject; it is enough to say,
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-11-30

Gods nobility, stamped with lhe broad
seal Of heaven; let them not forge chaios
for themselves and their children, bv vol.
ing for slave labor, and slavery's advocate,
IN the pro slavery parties.-AmeSb@ry
Transcript.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-11-30

A MORAL PEOPLE. The Court Of
Common Pleas, Chief Justice Williams,
sat three hours and a half at Nantucket,
on Tuesday, and having nothing 10 do,
adjourned without day. There was but
one civil action, and upon that the jury
could not agree, as we learn from the
New.Bedford Mercury.
The same paper says" We are told
that the County Court of Martha's Vine
yard met last week at Edgartown, and
flushed all their business in one hour
and this is a pretty fair specimen of their
Courts. Edgartown claims to be one Of
the most temperate towns in Massachu-
sets, and hence so few cases in their
courts-not one criminal case this sess-
ion.''
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TEE VOICE OF FREEDOM,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT BRANDON, VERMONT.
JEDEDIAH HoLCoMB, Editor.

TERMs.-One dollar and fifty cents in
advance.
One dollar and seventy-fiye cents in six
months.
Two dollars during the last quarter.
All letters relative TO the paper should be
directed TO HoLcoMB & MURRAY.
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Here you have the whole entire valley
of the Connecticut, the richest in New
England, let out upon Boston with a nom
inal increase of dislance of 20 miles, bot
we believe that our route if constructed,
will be shortened, while the Concord
route, owing to the difficult SUBMITS
which thry have to pass, will be material.
ly heightened.
We will now give the distance via
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1843-05-12
THE PATRIOT AND THE TARIFF.

10 The last Patriot gives over a column o
groans or growls about the Tariff low prices o
WOOL beef, &c. &C. OF course the Patriot shoult
complain, and argue that the largely increased du
ties of the new Tariff have no, improved prices
ergo, high duties are no protection dO,cn riM HI
Tariff! That is the argument which the Pairio
is holding out TO the South, while it aims to disaf
feet the North on the ground that the Tariff has
not accomplished the good which its friends de-
signed. In This policy our neghbor is somewhat
Ingenious but lie cant succeed in cheating the
friends Of Protection. They know hat the Ian re
increase of protective duties, gwen by the Wings
in spite ollocoocoism, have not depressed prices
That is an abstrdity too monstrous to be crammed
into the minds. of intelligent Vermon,ers. No
it is the Tariff which has depressed prices, but
they have continued depressed, IN spite ollie Tar
ii, and by nothing so much as by the fruits of 10
colocolsm, first, in destroying sound national
currency-and second, in carrying majority Of
the new Congress. Manufacturers and merchants,
at home and Abroad know that John Tyler aud the
locoiocos will ruin the Tariff Our manufacturers,
therefore, dare not stir an inch, except when they
can purchase the raw material at the very lowest
rates-for they have no assurance, even for a sim
gle year. of getting remuneraiing prices There
are olher causes, too, of which we may speak BY
and by.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1843-05-12

Thunder Storms In the afternoon and evening
of Sunday last, Montpelier was visited by sue
cession of smart thunder showers, with great
deal of lightning A dwelling house on LOOMS
street, occupied by Mr. Farrar and Mr.. F. r. Ri.
ker, was struck by lightning; but little damage
done. This is somewhat remarkable for our vii
lage, which is so well protected by hills as to be
seldom touched by lightning. In fact, we believe
this is the third storm in which any building has
been struck, since The first settlement of the vii
age 50 years ago; and it is singular fact that
this same house has been struck twice. But two
other houses have ever been struck: the house of
f. ID. Persons on Hubbard street, and Capt Brook
on State street.
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WATCHMAN & STATE JOURNAL.
FRIDAY, MAY ~, ls43.
VIRGINIA ELECTION.

The ocos have saved the legislature by tgh
squeezo-say ~ or IA majority last year 80 OF
81 Yet in Members of Congress they have q
large majority because these pretended democrats
contrived TO cheat about one quarter Of the peo-
pie out of their rights by an Infamous gerrymun-
dcrug l0w
Legislature. Wings So ocos IS. Some doubt.
lul members.
Districts Congress.
]. Claimed by both parties.
2. George G. Dromgoole, L. +.
3. Waiter Coles, l.. f..
4, II. W, HUBBARD, l.. +.
s. Not yot determined.
8 John w. Jones, l.. +.
7. Henry A. Wise, Tyletiio.
8, Willoughly Newton, ".
9. Samuel Chiffon, w.
10. WIN. r. Lucas, h. +.
IL. VIM. Taylor, l., f.
I2. james d. Watts, l.. +.
10. Geo. w. Hopkins, l.. f.
a. Geo w. Summers w.
10. Lewis J. Steenrod, l.. L.
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Reason FORA Removal. Robert l.. Horner, who
was lately removed from the post Office at Tren-
ton, NJ, was favored with statement of char.
ges against him, of which the principal was in
these words
"Sr: You are accused of being al heart oppos.
ed to the National Administrations
If that rule is honestly applied at Washington,
the Offices Of government, high and low, must
be vacant. There are not hearty Tyler men enough
in the whole country TO fill quarter of the Off.
ces That's our opinion.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1843-05-12

Slavery in The British East Indies. Great Brit
ain seems to be making progress in the work of
abolshing slavery in her East India possessions.
Orders have been issued for the abolition of slave
ry in Penang, Malacca, Singapore and the Prov
ince of Wellesley. A similar movement has been
made by the East India Companys Government.
The number of slaves thus emancipaed by
these two processes is stated by correspondent
of the Journal Of Commerce, at ticeiue mnthons
The number o. slaves in North and South Ameri
ca, and the West Indies, Is estimated at about six
millions,
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ANN EXATION OF TEXAS.

The National lntelIigencer contains stirring
address 'to the people of the free states of the
Union" on the annexation of Texas TO the Uni.
ted States, signed by twelve (whig) members OF
the late Congress John Quincy Adams at the
head. Alessrs Shade, Maltocks and Hall of this
entire In our next
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A uoice from Missouri. The discipline Of the
locoioco party is usually so severe or the spirit of
independence SO weak, that those who dissent
from the leaders are quickly whipped in; but in
this instance we hope il will not be So fnl the
cred, of the Iocoloco party generally, and OF Mis-
souri, in particular. The case is this a locoloco
convention, in Clinton County, Missouri has not
only protested against Van Buren, but has denoun-
ced the ultrasm of Tom Benton on the Curren-
cy, approved the treaty with England, condemned
the General Ticket system Of electing members
of Congress, and resolved to vote for no .cand-
dates TOR Office who are not pledged to labor for
the overthrow Of that system. There we ven.
ture to say that convention has exhibited more
common sense and more true WISDOM than my
locoloco convention, state or national, which has
been assembled within ten years