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The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-11-02
S U NJ NJ A L Y
From the N. Y. Tribune.
EXASSA ACRE OF TIEE HISTORIAN
CHRISTIANS.

CHRISTIANS.
We regret 10 find full confirmation o.
THE sad intelligence before received, Of the
dreadful massacre Of the HISTORIAN Chris
tans. il will be remembered that Rev.
Justin Perkins returned as missionary
among them, with several assistants from
lhis country, last spring. How the oper-
ations of this Furnishing mission will be
aft ctcd by this terrible calamity, we are
not informed.
The expedition OF the Pdsha of Mosul
against the Mountain HISTORIANS has been
attended with the most dcplorabIe success,
and that success sustained, as was TO be
Iexpeced, from the cooperation OF his saw
age auxliarIes. the KurdS, with every
sort OF atrocity. The houses Of the wretch,
ed inhabitants were fred and they them
selves hunted down like wild beasts and
exterminated. Neither sex nor age met
with favor or mercy the mother, broth
ers and sisters OF The patriarch were the
OH jets of peculiar barbarity, the former
having been literally sawed in two,
and the latter most shockingly mang led
and mutiIalcd. The patriarch himself
succeeded in ellecting his escape, and has
taken refuge in the house OF the British
consular agent at MosuI. The number
of victims who have persisted in this mas
sacre is not yet known. The population
of the mountains amounted to 100, 900
Their fate has been truly lamenlabIe aud
extraordinary. Surrounded by Mussul-
man hordes, pent up for ages in their ma
tive iorlrcsseS the very existence Of these
children Of the primiuye church had re-
NAMED almost a secret to the rest OF Chris
tendon. Happy for them, indeed, had it
IconIloued 81, for their obscurlty seems TO
have been their best protection. No soon.
er had their country been explored by mis-
sionarlts, and the interest OF learned and
scientific men been awakened with respect
TO them, than The public is called upon to
sympathjze with them in their destruction,
before, perhaps, it has become generally
aware Of their existence. Letters from
MosuI throw much of the odlum of this
affair upon the Europeans 1t was the
imprudcnt zeal OF rival missionaries that
first excited the jealous approximations Of
the pasha of Mosul, and caused him to
let sip The dogs OF war; on the uuior-
tunatc HISTORIANS. 1t is affirmed that
even some Of these gentlemen, with the
view Of prejudicing his mind against the
American missionaries, suggested to him
that they were assisting the mountalneers
TO raise lons, whereby they would here
after be enabled TO sci The Sulan's authOri-
" at defiance. These reports were alto.
gelher unIoundcd; their consequences,
however, have been dreadful, such, in
deed, as never could have been eonlem.
plated by the inventors oflhem, who have,
nevertheless, brought an awful response
biIity upon themselves
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Pin Thenn to The Q.nestlon.

Same Of our opponents are very anx-
ious to keep up the questioning system,
this fall. You know the legislature now
to be chosen, will probably hayet choose
the electors for President next fall. Now
let every candidate for county Senator,
and every candidate for town Representa-
tive, OF he Democratic and Wing parties,
BE- plainly questioned.
"WiIl you, if elected, and if called to
choose Presidential Electors, give your
vote for Electors, who, you have reason
to believe, will cast their votes Tor Henry
Clay, John G. Calhoun, Martin Van Bu-
rem, or any other Shareholder or support
er Of slavery 2"
Both the old parties are anxious to rec
ommend their candidates as aboIilionisl5
This question will test their abolition. II
they ans yes, they have no abolition.
If they answer no, their parties will mol
trust them-unIess satisfied they will cal
their word when the trial comes. lflhey
evade the pinch, or refuse to answer, take
silence for consent. They mean to do
what they are ashamed 20 avo~
This Que question, if fully pushed upon
The candidates, viii throw them into mex
lricabIe perpIexily.-E ma~cipa tor.
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BRANDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1913.

thrown over her corpse. So is it with
life. The changing seasons teach us a
mournlul lesson; and yet to him whose
heart IS right it is beautiful as mournlu.
The death Of Nature is not an "ever.
lasting sleep" Ere many months it shall
cast off its funeral gear, and spring up
from its grave, with new life, and bud and
blossom as before. Nature never dies. -
|, bat rests from its labors.
Thus it is with human existence. The
great principle Of vitality in Nature is
equally applicable to the spiritual as to
the animal economy. The intellect may
throw its vision beyond the SHOWS of lfe's
dreary Winter, and see itself in the bloom
Of an eternal existence. We pity the nan
who esteems himself as of less value in
the estimation Of Heaven than the mute
tree or the souless flower
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after year, and mouth after month, assem-
bled for this purpose their sympathes
mainly enlisted in our behalf, who live at
a distance of 5000 or 4,000 miles,
plainly perceive that God has enlisted his
people in the cause, and that emancipation
must prevail in Our land. This prayer
meeting was the most encouraging cir
cumatance with which we haye met, and
a, the close Of The meeting, the pastor pro-
posed that they should send their love to
the Christians of the West, which propo-
silion was acceded to, and the whole as
sembly arose, tesiifying to their strong af-
fiction for their Christian brethren
They requested me TO communicate, which
now do, in the most public m1nner, the
assurance of the love these Omissions
bear, to all those who are laboring for
Christ's cause, and the good Of mankind.
Respectfully, yours, ri, IL. Is
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ANTI VERY.
From the Emancipator s. Free American.
Anti-SIavery Concert ia England.

AnC1-SlaVery concert Ah EhSloAu"
| have been intending to give short
account Of an anli-sIdverv concert OF
prayer, which had the pleasure Of at
tending, with the Baptist church, of which
the Rev. Thomas Morgan is pastor, in
Birmingham, England. The meeting
has been sustained, and well kept up, for
about seven years A letter Of Mr.. kei-
logg, in the Western Citizen, has given
the most material facts, as we gladly avail
ourselves OF it. The letter is dated Aug
2, l843
81 came here on Monday, TO attend
with brethren Laavitt and Pennington,
meeting on the first of August, report oil
which | will send you. The meeting
was animaling, especially to us Americans
The interest taken ia the cause Of eman-
cipalion, by such men as the distinguish
ed phiIanlhropisls have named, the Rev.
John Angel James, Thomas Morgan,
and others, is evidence that the best part
of human nature is against slavery, and
that i. must die On Monday evening,we
were permitted to attend the monthly con'
cert of prayer, for the eGsIaved, IN the
church of the Rev. Thomas Morgan
We were not expected, and i: was their
usual attendance merely--'but, when | saw
$50 persons together, praying TO God 10
number and finish the days Of slavery :;
when reflected that this people had, year
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Rev. John N. NIaGit.

A correspondent! in the N Y. Herald
gives the following graphic description Of
this celebrated pulpit orator;
In order fully toappreciate Mathis style
Of eIoculion, it is absolutely necessary to
see him, aud TO see him in the full vigor
Of his power. No person can describe
the intouations with which, he, in turn,
enlivens, depresses, alarms, soothes, terri
fies, aStonlshes, and, in a word, rivets the
entire and involuntary attention of his
hearers 10 himsef. FIRST, you hear The
familiar and playful tones of ordinary con-
versation, anon the serious and solemn
emphasis of important instruction; soon
follows the urgent and impIoring accents
Of entreaty, then the vociferation of mem
ace aud denuncialion, followed by the
gasping outcries of despair, calling up in
their turn the pteous moans Of commits
ssrdton and compassion.
70 the fascination of voice perfectly
seductive bv its sweetness, variety, and
compass, Maflit adds grace of motion
appropriateness of gesture, and play of
countenance perfectly irresistible. You
first behold him in The erect and notion
less attitude OF PHILOSOPHICAL expounder,
next in the humble and inclined posture
of a suppIiant, now with his whole form
thrown back and his countenance turned
toward the heavens, again leaning over
the front of the pulp 70 the very point OF
equilibrium, now rushing TO and fro upon
the platform in paroXysm of rage and
indignation, now cldpping his hands with
reiterated paudts OF triumph, and again
making the whole building resound with
the of.repeaed dashing of the Bible upon
the pulpit-desk. Finally, you see him
sinking with exhaustion upon the sofa,
and afer a moment of respite, coming
forward to offer, instead of the conclusion
to his discourse, which he feels unable to
give, an original hymn composed by him
self. This he prepares 10 perform, by
notifying the mournerS (Who on these
occasions generally fiji the railine) that
their pentence may be as well exhibited
bya temporary silence and by beseeching
she brethren, that there will be no occu-
sion for their uniting in or interrupling
the hymn by ejaculation or response.-
Kneeing upon The very edge of the plat
form at the side Of the pulpit, facing and
in view of the whole congregation, ne
now commences bis hymn the first tones
Of his charming voice are no sooner heard
than the whole audience, perfectly electri-
fled, are hushed into the most profound
silence, and almost cease to breathe. A
pin may be heard to drop, so completely
Is the silence, Interrupted only by the
sinking cadence of the singers voice as
he breuthes forth the anguish of the bro
ken hearted sinner in words of power and
of sweetness. This he continues for q
period of thirty minutes, pouring forth
tones of melody and accents of harmony,
his hearers literally hanging upon his
lips in an ecstacy of rapture. The hymn
concluded, he sinks his face heretofore
gazing upon the heavens upon his knees.
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From the Portland American.
A Sermon from the Leaves.

Next to the Bible, there is nothing that
speaks more powerfully or beautifully 20
the heart than the seasons
Spring breaks out with the laughing
mirh and freshness Of the young child.
Nature assumes roseate hue, AID JOY is
written upon all Gods works. How
cheeriIv we watch the budding leaves and
the unfolding f)wer This is like the
dawn Of life. The young mind lives IN
the present glory, aud sees rot the future
But Simmer comes. Nature is devel.
oped. The carpet is spread; the tree:
wave with their perfect loIiage the flow
ers are in gorgeous bloom, Heaven ha:
impressed upon creation the hig hest per
fiction. One can hardly realize the idea
that these are not imperishable. So is j
with the early noon of life. We see mar
ia the pride of his greatness and strength
and woman in the surprising glory o
her beauty, but see not the invisible NOR
tally gnawing beneath.
But autumn is here. And nov The
flowers have dropped and the 'sear anC
yellow leaf" has fallen from the chilled
tree. The cold blast has driven away thu
warm atmosphere, redolent with perfume
/" Death" is written upon Nature, ant
Winters white shroud will be sooI
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The Doom of the Condemned.

The following heart sickenng picture
of prison life is taken from the KnicEer-
booker for October:
"lf the unhappy young man who has
recently filled the journals of the melrop-
oils with the details of his folly & crime,
could, before Welding to temptation, have
looked in upon the State prisoners at Sing
Sing, as We did the other day, surely he
would have shrunk back from the vortex
before him. Poor wreches, in their best
estate How narrow their cells - how
ceaseess their toll - what a negaton of
comfort their whole condition! 1t was a
sweItering August day, breathless and
oppressive; but there was no rest for the
eight hundred unhappy convlcts who piled
their never ending tasks within those walls.
SteaIthi)y glances from half-raised eyes
pale cOuulenances, stamped with meek
submission, or cleaning with powerIess
hate or impotcnt malignily - and hard
labor in the fullest sense, were the main
features of the slil,life scene, as we passed
through the several work shops But
what picture was presented, as their
occupants came swarming into the open
courtyard at the sound of the bell, to
proceed 10 their cells with their dinner !
From the thick atmosphere Of the carpet
and rug shops, leaving the clack of shut
ties, the dull ihump of the 'weaver's
BEAM and the long, confused perspective
cords and puIies and patterns, and null
litudinous harness. they poured forth
from murky smithys, streamed The imps
of Vulcan, grim as the dark recesses from
which they emerged; from doors which
open upon interminable rows OF close sci
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From the Christian Freeman.

john G. WHITTIER, who has 50 rich
" earned the proud lille OF The Poet Of
Liberty and who is no less phlanthro.
pl>t than he is a poet, was recently lnvl-
ted to attend Liberty Convention In
New Bedford. Circumstances prevented
his compliance with this invitation, but
though prevented from personal partl-
tipation in The proceedings Of the meet.
ing, he sent a most eloquent letter, the
greater portion of which we transfer to
our columns. The beauty and vigor OF
its Style, aside from the nobIeness OF its
sentiments, render it eminently worthy a
nerusaL
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So O IS e l& * CO
THE CEDAR OF LEBANON.

THE CEDAR OF Lebanon.
BY wv. CD.
THE Cedar is tie emblem, Of Consistency, Of Pr0tec'
ti0n, at Remoua, If Imnaortatty.
Hail, monarch of the wood! Ofal
That shield from storm or burning sun,
The peasants cot or princelv hall,
Thine is the mighitest, Lebanon!
From lowly glen and lofty glade,
What thousands gather meath thy shade.
Upward aud outward to the sky,
Stretch Thy broad arms, majestic tree
And shade the iainting ones that sigh
Meath the hot sun for liberty;
A million eyes are turning now,
For shelter TO thy mighty bough.
Storms meet those knOtted boughs, and break
Like waves against an ocean rock,
When all beneath the tempest quake,
And bend like reeds before the shock,
And postrate lie along the hill
Thou standest in thy glory still!
The Hickory shall yield to fate,
That bloomed meath 1enncsee's bright sun
With the tall Elm Of Empire State,
And proud Virsinia's PcrSimm0n-
Ohio's Buckeye Wondering lie;
But thou, old CEDAR, shalt not die
No sumner friend, to catch the lay
Ofbild5 that sing and bees that hum,
But give no shelter in the day
When winters bowling tcmpests COME
In sun, or shade, or calm, or storm,
As green, as beautiful thy form.
The hottest dews of heaven are thine -
The purast drops of cooling rain
The earliest, latest rays that shine
To gid the hill-top and the plain;
And baimy zephyrs come 10 play
With thy green leaves at close Of day.
o, vet shall fall those healing leaves
Ger ali til land of blood and sim
Thy why houghs round cottage caves
Shall wreulhe and Irvine like hearts within,
While tears, ms rain, at eve shall flow
Round the bright hearth at tales of wo!
Long parted friends shall NEE, again
Beneath thy branches green and fair,
When the last clNnk Of sluvery's chain
Has died upon the Southern air
The mother press her darling child,
With tears and smiles, aud shoulngs wild!
The lonely hunter Of the West,
Weary, shall come from setting sun,
TO smoke the calumet, and rest
In peace beside the African;
And white men take each brother hand,
And welcome TO this freedom land.
Oct. 1913.
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John G. Nyhittier's letter.
Amesbprg 20IA OH NO., l843.

TO E 'onS ' oanx4' Committee, &c
am with the Liberty party, because il
is the only party in the country which is
striving, openly aud honestly, to reduce to
practice the great truths which lie at the
foundation Of our republic. All men
created equal; endowed with rights inal.
ienable; the security Of these ghts the
only just object OF Government; the right
of the people 10 alter or modify Govern
ment until this great object is attained. -
Precious and glorious truths Sacred 10
the sight Of their Divine Author, CRATE
full aud benefcent TO suffering humanity
essential elements Of that ultimate and
universal government of which God is lay
ing the strong and wide foundations,
turning and overturning, until He
whose right it is, shall rule. The
voice which calls upon US to sustain them,
is the voice Of God. La the eloquent Ian
guage of the amented MYRoN HoLLEY,
The man who frs. lifted up the standard
of the Liberty party " He calls upon us
TO sustain these truths in the recorded
voice of the holy Of ancient times. He
calls US 10 sustain them in the sound as of
many waters AMI mighty thunderings
rising from the fields of Europe, convert
ed into one vast Acedama by the exer-
tons of despots TO suppress them. In the
persuasive history OF The best thoughts
and boldest deeds of all our brave, self
sacrificing ancestors; in the tender, heart
reaching whispers OF our children, pre-
pairing 10 suffer or enjoy the future, as we
leave il for them III the broken and dis
ordered, but moving accents of half our
race vet cropping in darkness and CALLED
by the chains of bondage. He calls up
on US to sustain them by The solemn and
considerate use of all The powers with
which He has invested US" La a time
of almost universal political skepticismi
in the midst of pervadng and growing
unbelief in the great principles enunciated
in the revolutionary declaration, the Lib.
erty party has dared to avow its belief in
these truths and TO carry them into action
as far as il has the power. IL is protest
against the political infdelity ofthe day
"a recurrence to first principles sum.
mons, once more, to that deserted altar up
on which our fathers laid their offerings
It may be asked why it is that party
resting upon such broad principles is di.
recting its exclusive exertions against
slavery. Are there not other great in
terests'? ask all manner of Wing and
Democratic editors and politicians. Con-
slider, for instance say the Democrats,
"the mighty question which is agitating
as, whether " Northan man with South
ern principles" or Southern man with
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iust as if she had been a pauper; and the
other, for the thought of sin sorrow and
shame, and suffering is runous to the
soul-9ave herself up, In her beauty, an
easy prey 10 a destroyer, and is now at
peace.-The rest of the family dropped
down, one by one, out of sight into ntrrl.
or situations ia far off places and of none
of them did favorable report ever come
to their native parish.
That is Gabriel Mason, the drunkard
And in an hour you may, your eyes can
bear the SIGHT, see and hear him, stagger-
ing up and down the village, cursng,
swearing, preaching, praying ; stoned by
blackguard boys and girls, who bound
with all the dogs and ours a: his heeIs,tlIl
taking refuge in the smilhy, or the pot
house, he becomes the sport Of grown
clowns, and afer much idiot laughter
rueIuIly mingled with signs and groans
and tears, he is suffered to mount table,
and urged perhaps by reckless folly, to
give out text from the bible, which is
nearly engraven on his memory; and
there like a wild muuerant, he sammers
forth unin,eniooaI bIasphemY, and falling
down, be is hud1 ed Into a corner and lett
to sleep; better far for such wretch
were it to De death"
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TEE VOICE OF FREEDOM,
JEDnDIAn IoLooMB, Editor.

is PUBLISHED WEEKLY, At BRANDON, VERMONT
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A GRAHAMIrE,--I'hc Salem Advert
ser has Il correspondent at MarbIehead,
who furnishes the following account Of a
Grahamlle III that lown:-
Perhaps it will be amusing to some
of your readers to learn something of the
life Of a Grahamite, whose course for
thirteen years has been SO singular as to
call form considerable anlmadversion.-
Feeling tas he says) at the age Of 81 ma
ture decaying, and learning from some
work on Physiology, the duty OF man to
himself, he began to abstain from what
he then thought Injurious TO health, and
to practice that which might tend to im-
prove his constitution. Temperance in
all things that were for tie good of man,
and total abstinence in those things which
were not for his good--was his motto.
With TINS rule he commenced, and by
gradual system Of practical drilling has
succeeded in purifying his body from all
sickness and rendered ii less Liable 10 any
disease. His food is extremely simple
consisting mostly Of fruit, (not dried ffuil)
with one and sometimes two meals OF
slightly boiled wheat constitutes his re-
past. He seldom or never drinks; retires
10 rest at 9 o'clock and rises about and
walks or 10 miles before breakfasts -
HIS meal tines are 6 in the morning, IL
and 6, as near Us circumstances will ad.
mit-takes shower bath in the open air
every morning through the year regard
less Of wind or weather, CHS Mr.. Editor,
throws what some people call great mira
ces completely in the shade) and makes
liberal use of Johnson's friction gloves and
belt for the back and shoulders.
This is his system OF living, though it
has been adopted by degrees. New health
blooms upon his cheeks, and vigor OF
youth seems 10 be again returning, bidding
defiance 10 time as it rolls its rounds
One or two weeks since he was chosen
delegate TO attend the Worcester Conven-
ton; and as action seems 10 be part oil
his nature, he of course did not ride--but
took Tom Fools horse, and drove him
the day before the convention sat, 60 miles
ia l3 hours--.he day after, GO at the same
speed. This account is not eXaG gerateJ
although it might seem to some incredl'
bic; bat no one will dispute it who knows
the man.
This manner Of walking viii, think,
quite touch the heels of E.Iworth, the
great pedestrian. After his return he
did not look as if he had walked any dis
lance. Ia fact, do not know any ind'
vidual that has adopted the Graham sys-
TEN Of living, as we should live, that Is
Circumstance 10 him."
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benches, burst forth the knights of the
awl and hammer; the rub.a-dub of the
cooper's malIet the creak of his shaving
knife, were still the stone hammer was
SILENT and the courtyard was ful of that
striped crew God Of compassion what
a sight it was, 20 see that motley multitude
take up, 10 gangs, their umIilaling march!
Huge negroes welteriug ia the heat. were
intersperSed among the IInes1 >hants
! crimson with murder rested upon the
shoulders Of beings young alike in years
and crime; the vic'im Of beslaIiy pressed
against the heart-broken tool Of the scalh-
less villain; and all were blended in one
revolving mass of trained soldiers of guilt
their thousand legs moving as the leg of
one man all in silence, savlng the pecul.
lar sound of the sliding tread, grazing not
less upon the ear than the grund One
by one they took their wooden pals Of
dlngy and amphibous looking grub
and passed on, winding up the stairs Of
the different stories and streoming along
| the narrow corridors TO their solitary cells
1t was too much for the tender heart Of
poor E., this long procession OF the gangs.
AS they passed on IN slow succession, her
lip began 10 qulveri and one after another
drops of pity rolled down her cheek. 'AII
these said she TO the keeper, had a
mother, who looked upon their childhood
and blessed their innocence All! how
many Infant feet, softer than velvet to the
touch, have been pressed to maternal lips,
that now shuttle along these prison alsles,'