The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-03-28
D. S. MURRAY, PRINTER.

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have third candidate for the Presidency
with Northern body but Southern soul
with Northern head but Southern
heart-who hunts for apologies, and ap-
pears with his brief, to argue in behalf of
the vIllanies of those peculiar institutions
of the South which his native State will
not tolerate, but abhors. This Northern
candidates only hope of reaching the
Presidential Chair is by promising 10
kidna2 the legislation of the country-;s
by promising TO stop the gushing human.
ity of his native land, and sIamming the
opening OF the dungeon in the face of the
wretched prisoners, and render their de-
2arture hopeless by thrusing back the
rusty bolts of the prison with his Veto
Key.
/ The South Carolina candidate is so far
lost to all the prophecies of a sane mind
as TO hold slavery the best and only stable
foundation for Republic, and that this
country will never be prosperous and
happy until the Northern aborer is re-
duced to level with the Southern slave.
The Kenluckian holds that slavery is
so desirable that the reasons against its
abolition, or its inexpediency, are so
amazing, and all controlling, that thew
would be fully equal in authority over
his mind to constitutional prohibition;
and who declared in the Senate Of the
United States that, "Aat IS property
which the law declares to be property,'
and that "iwo kundred gears Of iegisla-
ti0n has sanctioned and Sanc!iGed negro
sIares dsproperty," that he "aoould con-
tlmne 10 oppose any scheme Of cmancipa.
ito" whateCer, either gradual or ammedi-
ate," and who denied "taat either of the
too great parties IN Ills couuLry had ann
design or aim at abolition" and "shOuId
deeply lament # 1t pere true.'
Slavery should be banlshed from this
world if it had done no other injury than
that of prostituting these three noble and
superior minds.
Only behold how cruelty slavery has
degraded US in the eyes of the world by
compelling each OF these distinguished
men TO fill down and embrace this vile,
wrinkled, old, iron-too,hed hag-whose
mouth is full of bloody foam aud poison
whose head is covered with spiders and
every hair Kissing adder-whose hands
are filled with deadly weapons, and from
each finger runs the blood of the murder
ed and the wounded-and who daily
hathes herself in reservoir of tears, and
sweat, and blood, forever flowing therein
from the bleeding, unpaid Iaborer ard the
broken hearted slave. Rags cover this
vile monster-sterrilily surrounds her.
4 The earth abhors her on which she treads,
and the very wilderness asserts lis prime
val right throughout her oldest possess
sions. The marriage rite she despises-
| promiscuous licentiousness is her rule
All knowledge of books, bibles, and read.
ing, she forbids, and abhors. She is will.
ling TO destroy the slaves soul to make
his body more profitable.
Unless each of your candidates prom.
Use 10 do all in their power for the perpe-
tulty of all that is the most dreadful in
thought. the most revolving in practice.
and the most shocking in execution; YES,
unless they will pledge themselves before
this nation and the word 10 sustain an in.
stitution by which no day goes by with
out The preparation of an unpublished
murder, robbery, kidnapping and adult
cry
No day comes, in which a father does
not sell one of his own children by his
bondwoman,--
No dav goes in which the bloody lash is
not applied by the drunken, the ferocous,
and the cruel, TO extort unpaid labor from
the quiyeriDg flesh,-
No day departs in which thousands of
sensitive spirits are not condemned to hear
themselves, with awful oa,hs, called eve
ry borrId name, by the insolence of I'M
bridled power
No day passes in which the rife or
gun is not pointed 10 the head or breast of
the defenceess,
No day in which the blood hound is
not put upon the track of the fugitive, and
no day in which that fugitive has not TO
combat with the mnrderous dogs, and die
alone in the dark swamp and morass,-
No day in which husbands, wives and
children are not called on to part TO meet
mo more this side of the eternal Judge
ment, 10 suit the avarice and convenience
of their owners
Unless, we again repeat to you, these
individuals thus pledge themselves, thew
will be Kissed at aud opposed by the mis-
cradle creature we have described, and
who is the guilty author of all the woes
and horrors we have detailed to you.-
We cannot vote for these men without
taking the guilt of all the complicated
crimes of slavery upon our souls. We
know, and you know, by giving these
men our votes, instead of disapproving the
crime Of slavery, we approve of it. and
we do not wish to be responsible, individ.
ualy or collectively, for any of the evil
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