The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-01-18

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e learn that new Missionary society ha;
= been formed, the distinctive feature O
t which is, that no money will be received
S which IS contaminated with the blood or
S the wrongs of the slave. J. w. G.. Pen
t nington of Hartford, c., is President,
and Lewis Tappan, OF New York, Cor
5 spending Secretary and Treasurer
The cause of Missions is one which every
5 benevolent heart must love, but thousands,
in all parts of the land, feel that it is mol
! right 10 Join in Mission labor, with those
} who rob the heather at home TO evangel-
Use the heather abroad. The following is
an account OF the departure of the first
Missionaries Of this Society for that
wro0ged and trampIed country. Africa
We copy from an extract of the A meri.
can'and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter.
DEPARTURE OF MISSIONARIES.
A farewell missionary meeting was
he'd, October l0h, at the church corn
er of Delaney and Christie streets, in
New York, with reference to The depart
ure of Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond, and Miss
Ann l.. Harnden ~ Africa. Miss Harm.
den goes as a companion TO Mrs. r and
as an assistant missionary. PRAYER was
offered by The Rev. Mr. Martyr. Let.
lers were read, and brief statement made
by the Corresponding Secretary of the
Union Missionary Society, the Mend
Mission being placed under the direction
Of this Society. Rev. S. S. Jocelyn, in
place Of Rev.Iheodore S. wright, " no was
10 have taken this part in the exercises,
made "a solemn and aaectiona,e address 10
the missionaries. Mr.. Raymond then ad-
dressed the audience, in an interesting
manner. Mr.. Wright followed, in few
excellent remarks. Suitable hymns were
sung-a collection was taken up--and a
large number of persons, at the close of
the meeting, came forward. took the mis-
sionaries by the hand. and babe them an
afeclionale farewell. As one evidence OF
the interest excited on the occasion, it
may be mentioned that note was ad-
dressed TO the Treasurer by mechanic,
the next morning, informing him that he
intended making a donation 10 the Mendi
Mission Fund, on the FIST Of January
next, of fifty dollars.
Ga the 2lst October, Mr.. and Mrs. r.
and Miss IL. sailed from this port, in the
brig Francis Lord for Sierra Leone,
Yves: Africa. They took with them
lumber, 10 build suitable house, and an
ample supply of tools, clothing, books,
goods, SC. &c. AS he missionaries EN-.
barked at short notice, and as no other
good opportunity might occur for con.
siderable time, The Committee though it |
best 10 supply them with every necessary
article for at least a year; and in doing
this the Treasurer came under an ad- |
vance of few hundred dollars, large
part of which has since been paid into the
treasury by the friends Of the cause.
The expenditures were increased in
consequence of the determination of the |
Committee that no tobacco should be taxi
en- out by the missionaries. Other arti-
Giles were taken, that must be disposed OF
for the support of the mission, to less ad.
vantage, This article, tobacco, is the
currency of the country, and is sold to the
natives at an enormous profit. Those
professedIy engaged in spreading civiIiza,
ton and Christianity have not hesitated |
10 take this article, and sometimes more
deeerious articles, for the use OF the
heather, thereby violating, as the Com.
miitee believe, the grea, law of love-
What will be thought ofthese Boards and
missionaries hereafter, when those who
have been imposed upon acquire knowl.
edge OF the true value of these hurtfu ar
tices, and reflect that 10 those who intro.
duced them and disposed of them at
hundreds per cent. profit, knew that they
did not give due value for labor or arti.
cles received in exchange; and especially
when they come 20 know that the articles
were injurious 10 the bodies and souls OF
those upon whom they were imposed in
traffic, or given as an equivalent for ser
vices rendered?
The brig will probably arrive there
about the middle of December. The mis-
sionaries will soon proceed down the
coast, about eighty miles. 10 Jong river,
which they will ascend about forty miles,
to Kawmendi, which Mr.. Raymond has
previously visited, and 10 which he has
been cordially invited by King Joseph
Tucker, the chief Of the country. The
friends Of the cause, it is 10 be hoped, will
remember those beloved friends in their
prayers.
Curious. "The New York Tribune says
that the Political Abolition Convention, re-
Gently held al Utica, vehemently denounced
John Quincy Adams as 'recreant TO the |