The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-08-08
For The Voice Of Freedom.
A Serious Call for the Liberty Votes
NO. s

signed for any and every christian free
man of our nations body polite. We
will now briefly recapituIate some Of the
ideas already brought TO view in the other
numbers of this call, and try also to pre-
sent some additional scriptural ilus!ra>
tons. First, we see who is 10 be called
Master in all The world, by ''cvery crca-
ture, but more especially we see who
is 10 be thus called in this sour democracy
of christianity We find it TO be an or
dinance Of the Supreme Master, the slave
master to the contrary, Notwithstanding,
that man should get his "bread by the
sweat of his brow" not by the unrequited
sweat, or toll, of his brother, or neigh
Dor. From the christian freeman's own
book We learn that, 10 be greatest, best
and most approved oflhat Master is to be
volunteer servant OF all-not the manfear-
ing servant OF any-and TO the slaves plea
for an inferior thing, OF person to do his
body and feet washing, we have an unan-
swerable rejonder in the given account
of a much greater one-the latchel Of
whose shoes the best SLAYER is "not wor-
thy TO unloose." For The very feet of his
acknowledged interiors, He himself. vouch-
sailed TO wash. AS quiescent to our fears
of offending our southern brethren by
casting the liberty vote, or our wing or
democratic brethren by coming out from
among them, we learn from the same,
who are warned, whom 10 fear and
whom not 20 fear. BY reading that Law
book, first of all we find summed up the
whole Law and the Prophets, by the bles-
sed L1wgiver himself, in an epiome, so
clear that the wayfaring man though
fool need not err thus. "As We would
that others should do TO you so do We unto
them" Again, from the same, we have
an important commentary or as we may
call it. reported law CASE of final decis-
ION, from which there is to be no appeal,
ordered Tor our special benefit by The great
Lawgiver, himself about 10 be our final
Judge, thus making it sel-ievident that by
a self restricted observance of that case we
may ingratiate his special favor, and make
'rhe Judge our friend"-il commences in
Matt. XIV. Sill has this sublime COM
mence ment-"When the son of man shall
come in his glory and all the holy angels
with him. then shall he sit upon the throne
of his glory"-it also includes our motto,
inasmuch as We have done it unto the
least" &c. We have also exhibited the
Masters commentary on who is our neigh.
tbor, and vhal the exhibition of neighbor
love-wlth his "Go and do likewse'-
the 1ohy of the second commandment be-
ing like unto the first--thy neighbor be-
ing portion of the Masters most valued
propery-yea, portion Of himself-do-
ing good or harm 10 the least - to any per-
son doing so to himself-the Divine Mas.
ter--or in other scripture language, doing
it to himse!fthe elder brother of his one
blood family. We have endeavored TO
illustrate the indisputabe fact that in the
slavery business every @mabsolUed Amer
lean freeman is tru ly his "brotber's keep
er" in veal or wo, in liberty or slavery.
Our fathers, under the patronage OF Heav-
en-, purchased these rights as they have
soIemnly declared, for the whole national
family, and they did it through great
cost ofearhly treasures and much precious
blood. To transmit The legacy of civil
and religious liberty to all for whom our
fathers designedit, requires not the con-
secration of our properly and our lives IN
the tug Of war, but vigilanly Y, and simply
the liberty vote, A careful reading Of the
cpistolary and other writings in rcvolu-
lionary times, from our Washington and
Jefferson o(the South--from our Franklin
of The Middle, and from all our patriots of
the northern section-wil convince any
one that these did not so understand as
some modern wording has allcdged, that
their sacred bill Of rights was but mere
flourish of the pen, but that they meant as
they said, and tolcd and bIed 10 that intent
that all might soon be free, from mas
tcrIy as well as kingly bondage, 10 pur-
sue their own business in their own way (; !