The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-02-15
D. S. MURRAY, PRINTER.

IRISH retormer, having faith in the power
of reason, truth and virtue, they expect
TO achieve boodless revolution, more
glorious than any yet arising from force
and arms. This party, few years ago,
numbered but seven thousand voters, now
in l843, they poll sixty-6ve thousand men
at the balIot-box; having doubled them
selves every year from the time of their
organization. AT such a continued rate
of increase, | leave it to the rejecting to
determine how long it will be before they
absorb the whole political power of the
North. Lastly, there is the great mass
of Northern men, who are opposed to
slavery in principle, but who forbear to
take any active part for its removal: NOT
because they do not feel many OF its evils,
but because they fear the consequences of
entering upon unlried scenes, preferring
in the oft repeated maxim, to bear The
evils they have, rather than fly to others
they know not of. Then there remains
fragment of men, who are the shame.
less advocates of slavery with a perverss
nature, such as inspires the unworthy
bosoms Ct convcts, they pride themselves
upon pre-emlnence In guilt, and challenge
the adherence of mankind to elevate
them to that notorlety which they have
despalred of obtaining by virtuous deeds.
la estimating Northern feelings, shall
pass them over entirely, as in speaking of
The morals Of Kenuckians, | would not
enter the penitentiary for illustration. So
In speaking OF the North, mention not
these men, regarding them rather as those
outcasts, whom God in his vengeance has
inflicted upon all nations, and who are
peculiar 10 none.
Then, Sir, these twenty men of whom
have before spoken, are the true oppo.
nents of the sentiments of the great mass
OF Northern freemen, aud of course, also
TO that extent Of the two fragmentary par
ties which | have enumerated. You
know the opinions OF those men - thew
have avowed them in Congress they are
before the world. They say that slavery,
not content with the immunities allowed
it in the original compact, has transcend
ed its assigned limits, and recklessy
trenches upon the liberties of The North,
through violated Constitution. They
complain that the right of petition is de-
nied-that the freedom of speech and the
press is suppressed the members of
Congress are censured for opinions sake
that the post-office is wrested by vio-
ence from the purposes of its creation:
they are outraged, that their colored citi-
zens, cooks, sailors and others, contrary
10 the express language of the Consriu-
lion, instead of being allowed the pr;vi-
leges of citizenship, are thrown into pris.
on, and deprived Of their rights without
Just cause: they are indignant that her
free white citizens are horribly murdered
in the South for opinions sake, without
having violated any State or National
law, or without having been tried by
jury OF their peers, which is their inaI-
lenable right They are disafected. that
the most solemn treaties of the United
States should be nuIliied by the extension
of the laws of Georgia over the Chero-
Gee nation, and by which the mssiona-
res, free citizens of the Norlb, were
thrown into prison, and there kept con-
trary to law, and in disregard of the Su-
preme Court of the Union: they are
aggrleved at the cause and the progress
OF the Florida War, by which forty mill
ions OF dollars have been taken from the
hard earnings of the people, by which
many thousand valuable lives have been
sacrificed by disease and the Indian rife,
by which our national honor was tarn-
isbed in The employment of blood hounds,
to drive the unofendng savages from the
homes of their fathers, which were their
rightful inheritance all of which they
attribute to the sole cause of saving runa-
way slaves from fleeing into those i'm
passable swamps They are solemnly of
opinion that of right, no new State could
have been admitted into this Union. They
believe that there is no good reason why
slaves held as property should be repre-
scented IN Congress, 10 the exclusion of
all other property, and that justice, as well
as their own interest," calls fer change
In the Constitution, so as to destroy this
inequality. They are opposed TO the con-
linuance of slavery in the District of Co
lumbia, and in the territories, at the im-
punity of the coasting and domestic slave
trade. "Annex Texas" say they, "and
slavery will acquire such strength as to
destroy the remnant of liberty that yet
fingers in the North and in the South"
All these grievances they have reluctant
Iy borne, for the peace, harmony and
of the Union, bought by the
common blood of our ancestors. Should
he South now anew, violate the Consti-
rtion tor the sole purpose of extending
slavery, they are not the true descendants
If the men of Lexington and Bunker's
Hill, if they do not part from slavery and
Is ruinous consequences at once and for
ever. And because will moi shut nv
yes to the danger which threatens US