The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-02-29
Associate Justices.
Free States have had TO in number.
Slaves States II

Free States have had 10 in number.
Slaves States b" II "
All appointments for many years to tht
Bench have been from the South.
Navy,-This right arm Of the nation;
strength is almost wholly in the hands o
Southern men.
The President of the U. S., Secretary
of the Navy, Chief Clerk, President o
Navy, Commissioners, Colonel of Marine
Corps, are all from Virginia. A very
large proportion of The navy officers are
shareholders, born to command while
most of the seamen are hardy norherners
who, it seems, are born TO obey!
or 81 Commanders, Massachusetts ha:
10, Virginia 8, Maryland IA!
OF 1928 Lieutenants, Mass. has Is, Va
70, Md. 81, Dist. Columbia l6
OF 1903 passed Midshipmen, Mass. has
5, Va. II, Md. 7!
OF 3O7 Midshipmen, Mass. has 20, Va
At, Md. 21!
Of70 Surgeons, Mass. has 8
Of253 appointments made from March
A, 1871, 10 April 8. 1912, Va, Md, and
Dist. Columbia had l0l!
Of 80 Midshipmen appointed the early
part O! this year, every one of them are
from slave States.
OF all our Foreign Ministers and
Charge Of Affairs, the slave States have
had 60, the free States 45 and of IA or
Is of the last appointments about IL have
been from slave States, while the com
merce of the country almost wholly be.
longs to the North.
A large proportion of public officers
which the free States have been allowed,
especially of late years, consists of men
Sound to the core'-lhe most obedienl
subjects of the slave power. No others
could think of an election. And if the
slave power controls to such an extent
the offices of the country-ifit is thus al
lowed to have The power, it will equally
control legislation, as will be more fully
shown hereafter. 1t is but reasonable to
suppose that the influence of that power
which sits supreme in the land, would be
seen moulding and directing all the plans
and action Of government, at home and
abroad; and that is the fact.
2. The moral power Of the country,
slavery controls to an equal extent with
its political. Churches and ministers
have generally embraced it ia the bosom
of their fellowship baptized and practIcaI-
~ pronounced it innocent Slavery con-
trolls a large portion of the presses, Iiler-
airy and theological seminarles, and pull.
pits in the land 1t has paisied millions
Of tongues, blinded and scared millions OF
consciences and judgements. 1t sucks
the life blood from millions of :hrobbng
hearts, gorges and reveIs upon immortal
ty.
This is the terrible slave power which
concentrates its awtu weight upon the
bosom of the slave, compared with which
The Andes would be an atom.
And as to our country, this is not q
friendly power, as we have practically
regarded it, but the power of a most ma
lignant, inveterate, eternal enemy--a en-.
envy in its o Hn nature and in all its ef,
fects: Slavery aud liberty are antaeo,
nisms, and all this amount Of power is in
the hands Of a deadly enemy to hJcrtN-
an enemy in our bosom. All the tl~ets
and armies oil Christendom, our whole
coast from Maine to Georgia lined with
hostile naves, would not constitute an
equal cause of alarm, as the slave power
in this Republic. And this is the power
that must speedily be broken, or both we
and the slave shall share common desti
ny. This the aboliionisls have undertak.
en- TO do, and they earnestly ask the CO.
operation of every lover Of his country
and his kind.