The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-02-15

that Wanting spirit, which today mas 81
! powerfully infected US: with tive thou
sand such troops as these, l have the hon
or TO command, 10 whom gentlemen have
been pleased TO al ude in manner so com
plmenlary at my expense, l would under
take to drive from the State The assem-
bIed one hundred and eighty thousand If
arms. They further tell US, with mos
reverential gravity, that God has design
ed some men for slaves, and ~an need
not attempt TO reverse the decree: it is bet
ter that the blacks should be slaves, than
the whites" This proposition, which
denounce as utterly false, passes away be-
fore the glance of reason, as the dew be-
! fore a summers sun.
shall admit, merely for the sake oil
argument, that some men alwnys have,
and possibly will perform mental offices
for the more fortunate, Let the law OF
nature or of God, have its undisturbcd &C.
tion-let the performance of those offices
be voluntary on the part of servants, and
tina: beautiful harmony by whch The high
est intellect is united, by successive lnfe-
rior links 10 the lowest mind will never
be disturbed. The sensitive and highly
organized and intellectual, will gradually
rise from service to command the stolld,
the profit gale, the insensbIe and coarsely
organized will sink into their places: the
law of God and heightened freedom will
still be preserved, and the greatest good
10 the gaeatest number be secured forever.
But when by municipal law, and not by
the law of fitness, which is the law OF ma
ture, not regarding the distinctions ofmor-
ais, mind or body, whole classes are
doomed to servilude. when the intellectu-
al, the sensitive, the foolish, the rude, the
good, the bad, the refined, the degraded,
are all depressed to one level. never more
10 rise forever then comes evil, nothing
but evl-like as from damned up waters
or pent up steam, floods and explosions
come slowly, but come at last-so nature
mocks with temporary desolation at The
obstacles man would oppose to her pro-
gress, ard at length, moves on once more
in all the untrammclled vigor and unfad-
ing loveIiness which, from eternity was
decreed. That the black is inferior to the
white, readily allow but that vice may
depress the one, and virtue by successive
generations elevate the other. till the two
races meet on one common level, am al
so firmly convinced. Modern science in
the breeding and culture Of other animals
than man, has most fully proved this fact,
which the ablest observers Of man himself,
will allow, that mental aud moral and
physical development transmit their sew
eraI properties TO the descendants cor
roborating by experience the divine de-
cree, that the virtues and the vices of The
parents extend to the third & fourth gener-
alton. In the capitals Of Europe, blacks
have attained 10 the highest places Of So
cial and literary eminence. That they
are capable of high degree of civilizi-
tion, Hayti daily illustrates. There we
have lately seen a revolution, conducted
in manner that would do honor to the
first people on earth, one of the avowed
grounds of which was, that President
Boyer neg lected to secure general educa.
ton to the people, a consideration that
should make some Wanted States blush
in comparison. After the expulsion of
the tyrant they set about forming more
republican Constitution, admitting the
whites who had participated in their dan
gers and success, into all the rights of Cit
izenship. If history be hue. we owe TO
the Egyptians, said to be of the modern
Moorish race, the arts and sciences and
our early seeds of civilization How
many centuries did il take TO bring them
10 perfection When we reflect how lit
tie time the negro race has been under the
influences of other civilized nations, and
the rapid progress they have made in an
upward direction, we have no reason 10
treat them with that absurd contempt,
which in both the eye of reason and re-
ligion stands equally condemned. Why
then, am tainted by both pro-sIavery
and anti-sIavery men, do hold slaves p
Uninfuenccd by the opinions oftne world,
| intend in my own good time TO act or
not TO act, as TO me seems best in view OF
all the premises. Yet, thus far pledged
myself, that whenever Kentucky will join
me in freeing ourselves from this curse
which weighs US down even unto death,
the slaves l own, she shall dispose of as
to her seems best. shall ask nothing in
return; but the enhanced value of my
land W Aich must ensue gradually from the
day that we become indeed free and in
dependent State. will 60 yet further
give me free labor and | will not only
give up my slaves. but | will agree 10 be
taxed to buy the remainder from those
who are unwilling or unable consistently,
with regard to pecuniary interest, to pre-
sent them to the State, and then shall
deem myself and my poserty richer in
dollars and cents, even than we were be-
fore.
But 10 return from this disgression.-