The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-07-11

ton, 1t is party measure, Ghey say fol
getting that they are the party, )and the
conclude 10 "swallow it."
i The democratic and WING parties hav
for many years been trained to the mos
implicit subserviency to southern dicta
ton, but We can scarcely believe that the
south have had the audacity to demand
of the north that it should father the infa.
nous scheme of annexation--we can
scarcely believe that the democrats have
bowed submissively to such arrogant die
ta;ion. We have been less careful than
most editors about speaking ofthe tyran-
ny of the south, and yet we have neglect
ed to speak of 1t as often as our duty re-
CURED. 1t is so much for the interest of
politicians 10 hush up these things that
partizan editors make no allusion to them
What whig ever learned from the COL
umns ofthe Tippecanoe Journal that Mr..
Bates of Massachusetts, presented, some.
time in January, to the u. S. Senatet some
resolutions of the Legislature of Massa-
chusets for an amendment Of the consli-
tuition providing that southerners should
be deprived of the privilege which they
now have of casting two votes for every
five negroes they may own, while north
erner has only one vote if he owns five
farms or fifty borses-and that when Mr..
Bates moved to have those resolutions prn
ted, as is always customary iu such cases.
the Senate refused to have it done? And
this unheard-of indignity cast upon the
state of Massachusetts was submitted to
by her representatives without word o!
remonstrance. Mr. Bagby, of Alabama,
said he "would not publish treason against
the rights and interests of constituents"
But when the masters came forward with
resolutions of the Georgia Legislature
declaring that the south ought not to be
deprived Of the right guaranteed TO it by
the constitution of having its property
represented in congress, the resolutions
we've ordered to be printed BY an unani-
nous vote.
Had we space we might mention hun.
dred such instances Of petty tyranny. We
might tell that through the influence of
the south falsehood had been recorded on
the journals of congress-we mi ght say
that two thirds of the offices of govern
ment had been held by southerners-anG
we might say that postmaster in New
York had refused TO send certain newspa-
pers through the mail because the south
said they were incendiary. We might
say that Calhoun, McDufie, Pickens,
and other southerners had made dozens
of speeches in congress in which they de-
Tended slavery as good and glorious in
stitution, in which they were agreed that
it would be better for the poor people of
the north to be the slaves of the rich, and
and be bought and sold by them and all
this while no northern man has been per,
mitted to open his lips in condemnation of
the institution of slavery. Congressman
speak by the hour in favor of extending
slavery but wo be 10 him who utters a
word in favor of narrowing the limits of
that monslrous institution. 1t is time
the people should know these things
time they should cease to fear the crack
of the whip. We have obeyed so far in
hopes that the evil would abate, but every
new act of obedience makes the south still
more arrogant and exacting. The chains
have become insufferably CALLING, and we
throw them off.
No man can shut his eyes to the fact
that the whole object of annexation is TO
strengthen ard perpetuate slavery. All
the documents on the subject have that
sole object in view, and the democratic
party is now emphatically endeavoring
to enlarge the bounds of slavery and rend-
err the institution permanent. This is an
entirely new position with the party
The question is not as to the abolition
of slavery in the southern states, or the
District of Columbia, but whether this
government shall devote its whole energy
to the perpetuation of slavery-whelher
all the sister Republics on this continent
which desire to abolish slavery are to be
dragooned by US into the support of that
institution. Hitherto the cry has been,
Don't interfere with the domestic instiu-
tons of the South--now the watchword
is, don't let Great Britain persuade Tex
as to abolish slavery, let US rather annex
that country to our Union and protect and
defend negro slavery. AS long as democ-
racy prog resses in that direction we de-
sire 10 have no affinity with it.
TYLERIsM IN VERMoNT.--lt seems
that his Accidemcy has one press at his
service in the Green Mountain State.
See the following in relation to the Ben
nington Gazette:
From the Madisonian.
The Vermont Gazette.
The proprietor of the Gazette being
absent from home, its temporary conduc-
tors have seen fit to hoist the name Of
Mr. Polk in lieu of Mr. Tyler. This as
sumption on their part is entirely unau-
thorized. The Gazette will sustain the
claims Of President Tyler at any and all
hazards As an exponent Of the true prin-