The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-03-14

e out distinction of race or color were lit
II tie TOO "self evident truths" to suffer
It them to be proclaimed in meeting hele
: for the purpose of supporting man for
: the presidency who had cloven down ant
D denied that right, and who was at thai
0ery time, living on the unrequited toll o.
e nearly sixty immortal beings, with rights
f equal with his own!
! "Shal Justice lie to screen thine ugly sin?
Shall the Eternal laws ofTRUTH become
, Cobwebs to let thy foul oppression through
Shal | the untilng vengeance, that pursues,
, Age after age, upon the sinners track,
Roll back his burning deluge at thy beck?"
will now aIlude to an assertion de-
serving ridicule for its absurdity but is,
nevertheless, so often, and so gravely
put forth, that it is well, occasionally, to
relute it, 1t is that
The whigs aid the cause Of emancipa-
tion and support The right Of petition !!
John Conant asserts that - The
wings have been, and l believe always
will be, disposed to aid the cause Of
emancipation in all constitutional ways.
They are almost the only men in Con-
gress who have dared to stand up & beard
the Lion in his den, and support the right
of petition - The address of the State
Committee, in substance, maintains the
same ground.
Now as the protested whig and demo-
cratic parties are both known by what
they do and not by what they sag, we
will spread before the people the follow
ing, as the LATEST ACT of those parties
on the subject of abolition. 1t is from
the recent proceedings of Congress as
reported for the National Intelligencer
and N, Y. Tribune. l give emphasis
to some Of the words.
Washington, Monday Feb &c, 1914.
Mr.. j. Cambell of S, G. now brought
forward the Baltimore resolutions, the
several divisions of which were adopted
under the previous question, as follows:
The 4th, that "AU efforts of the Abo-
litionist OR OTHERS 20 induce Congress
to interfere Nth The question Of St00e1g
or 10 take INCIpIENT steps ii relation
thereto. are calculated 10 lead to the most
alarming and dangerous consequences.
have an inevitable tendency to endanger
the happiness of the people and the per
manency of the Union, aud OUGHT
NOT TO BE COUNTENANCED by
ANY friend of our politca Institutions"
Yeas 1913, to Nays %: Nays, Messrs.
Adams, Abbot, Baker, Drckey, Giddings,
GrinneII, Hardin. Harper, Hudson, Huut,
Irwin, p. B. Johnson, d p. King of
Massachusetts, Rockwell of do. McCleI-
land, MclIvaine, Rogers, Severance, A.
Smith, Tlden, Vdnce, Vln!on and Win
lhrop,-23.
The indignation which every honest
man, every weIl-wisher of his country
every friend of justice, humanity and
equal rights, must feel on reading the ,
above proceedings OF both parties in Co =
gress can scarcely be imagiuel, much
less described.
GAIL efforts" whether legal or Illegal
whether constitutional or unconstitutional
whether moral or polilica whether !
of the press, the pulp or the lotum-
whether of the voice of the people at their |
public meetings, or the private cor versa
ton of individua whether in the form
of petitions 10 Congress or The private
prayer Of the closet or the conference
room, for the deIiverance of he slave by
the agents of the people, are all, without
exception, alike denounced. "Al efforts
of Aboitionists on others," whether Wing
or Democratic whether christian, pail
anthropist or patriot, are alike condemned
"All efforts 10 induce Congress to inter,
tere Nth The question of Slavery, "-eith.
er by abolshing it in the District OF Co..
umbia or destroying the traffic in human
beings between the several States-pre.
venting the admission of new Slave
States into the Union; or even PETITION
ING CoNGREss TO do the same, are all
alike FORBIDDEN! Even the "incjpient
steps in relation thereto, are not TO be
countenonced - No, "not by ANY friend
of our political insliutions!' And then
the "most alarming and dangerous con-
sequences" to which these efforts Lead
to wit: The prevalence Of liberty princi-
pies and The release ofthe captioe! How
horrible |
Reader, look at the vote on the above
resolution and see if you can find among
the 90 nays, the name of any Represent