The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-08-01

hereafter The starting point with M
= Burchard is, that Henry Clay or James Il
Potk, will be our neat President. He as
sumes that J. G. Birney cannot get the cleo
toral vote of any one State Therefore, TAX
ing it for granted that one of the 6rst tw
will be elected, it is the bounden duty Of al
the freemen in the United States to vote TO
one of them, and as he thinks Henry Cla
is not so bad man, or does not enterlal
political opinions so dangerous as those O
Mr. Polk, it is the duty of dboLttioniSts Il
vote for Mr. Clay! The issue, at the com
ing election will be, or is already, as M
Burchard understands it-'Whether slavery
in this country is to be placed, humanity
speaking, hopelessly beyond the reach O
anli-slavery efforts, and forever, or indefi'
nitely perpetuated, or to be left as it is, ex'
{ posed TO the opposing influences which are
now so actively and powerfully at work in
Fastening its overthrow The issue has
ever been between slavery and freedom, and
the non Shareholders have tamely submitted
to the small minority of shareholders, and
bowed to their bidding. At the last Ma
tional Convention for nominating candidates
for President, the slave power secured in
the Wing nominee theoretical and prac>
teal STAKEHOLDER, and then, the other party,
in order to swallow up every thing else,
hr;n ri bo ,c IL e.
annexing Texas nolO, SO that at all events
supporter Of slavery must be elected -
Mr. Burchard thinks there are other ques-
lions Of great importance, which should be
settled, but that they dwindle into insignif-
canoe when placed alongside the Texas
question. The shareholders have ever
thrown the proiessedly party questions into
the shade Of slavery-that must be the first
thing 10 be attended lo-atter that, questions
must be raised 10 engage the attention Cf
northern politicians, lest they throw some
Of their influence against slavery. Mr.
Burcharc almost admits that Mr. Clay is as
bad as Mr. Polk on the mere question of
slavery, aside from the immediate an
nexation of Texas, but finally concludes
that he is rather in favor IF emancipation,
and hopes before Mr. Clay dies, to see him
an ardent advocate of emancipation. He
also thinks on the whole that he is a very
good sort of a man--not so bad by great
deal as he has been represented 10 be, and
that in the present crisis Mr. Clay is the
best man that could be selected in the Uni
ted States as our next President! Since
the Wings Of this Slate, through their Gen.
trail and County organs, have adopted the
sentiments contained in MIR Burchard's let
ter, will now leave him, and address the
Wings, and will endeavor to place their
own acts in such light that they will set in
judgment against them.
You have for many years been the dom
inant political party in this State. You
were in 1889 when the Statute Laws were
revised. Among those laws is one which
declares the first day Of the week to be "a
Sabbath, holy day, or day of rest from all
secular labors, recrealions. &c. The sec>
ond section the chapter on the observance
of the Sabbath reads as follows: IF any
person, shall, between twelve o'clock of the
night preceding The first day of the week,
and the setting of the sun the same day, be
present at any public assembly, except such
as shall be held for the purpose Of social and
religious worship, and moral instruction, or
shall visit from house to house, except it be
from motives of humanity, or charity, or for
moral or religious edifcalon, he shall pay a
line not exceeding two dollars Sec. Sd,
No person shall travel on the Sabbath or
first day of the week, except from necessity
or charity, and every person, so offending,
shall pay fine not exceeding two dollars
In the foregoing sections you did not seem
% think the violation Of the Sabbath very
great crime but If you did not consider it a
moral wrong TO commit the acts named, you
certainly had no right TO revise and let stand
IN your Statute Book such a law. Let US
low see what Henry Clay thinks about such
matters. | will quote from the Liberty Her.
published in Warren, o. of the 17lh ult.
During the late tour Of Mr.. Clay
through the southern states, the Demo.
cratic papers have been teeming with
accounts Of his violations Of the Sabbath
his departures from and arrivals at,
places on that day-jolning in process
sions and other unseemly acts at New
Orleans on the Sabbath, SC. We have
never quoted any of these accounts, or
before referred to them in any manner
and should not now, but for
The fact that his partizans have challen-
ged an issue upon the subject, by bring
hi e.