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


shey pleased. Fall fired two pistols with
out effect. Mr. Robns' first shot took et
feet in FALLS thigh, who tell, and was un
able &c continue The combat
'Afray IN Clarke County.
An unfortunate atray occurred ii
Clarke County (Mo) near Waterloo, OF
Tuesday the l9.n ull, which originated
in settling the partnership concerns o
Messrs. M'Kane and NJ Ulster, who hac
been engaged In the business of dislIling
and resulted 10 the death of the latter, who
was shot down by Mr. M Kane, because O
his attempting 10 take possession OF seven
barrels OF whlskey, the property of NJ.
Kane, which had been knocked off 10 NJ
Alliser al sherf's sale at one dollar
per barrel. M'Kane Immediately fed,
and at the latest dates had not been taken.
This unfortunate afray caused con-
siderable excitement IN the nelghborhood,
as both the parties were men with large
families depending upon them and stood
well in the community
/ will quote but one more paragraph,
which, by reason OF lis monstrous absurd.
1ty, may be relief to these atrocious
deeds.
Affair Of Honor.
I'VE have just heard the particulars Of
meeting which took place on Six Mile
Island, on Tuesday, between Two young
bloods of our city; Samuel ThurSton,
aged fifteen, and William Hine, aged
Thirteen years. They were attended by
young gentlemen OF the same age. The
weapons used on the occasion, were a
couple Of Dickson's best rifles; The dis,
lance, thirty yards They took one fire,
without any damage being sustained by
either party, except the ball OF Thurston's
gun passing through the crown of Hines
hat. Through the iRtercessl0n Of The
Board Of Honor, the challenge was with.
drawn, aud The difference amlcably adjust
ed
II the reader will picture TO himself the
kind Of Board of Honor which amicably
dusted the difference between these two
little boys, who in any other part of the
world would have been amicabIy adjusted
on two porters' backs and soundly logged
with birchen rods, he will be possessed,
no doubt, with as strong sense of its
ludicroas character as that which SETS me
laughing whenever lis image rises up be-
Tore me.
Now, appeal to every human mind,
imbued Silh the commonest common
Sense and the commonest of common hu- |
manly; 10 all dispassionate, reasoning
creatures, Of any shade Of opinion; aud
ask, with these revolving evidences of the
state of society which exists in and about
The slave districts Of America before them, |
can they have doubt OF the real condition
OF the slave, or Can they for a moment
make compromise between the inslitu-
tion or any OF its fragrant fearful features,
and their own inst conscences2 Will /
they say o! any tale Of cruelty and horror,
however aggravated in degree, that it is
improbable, when they can turn to The
public prints, and, running, read such |
signs as these, laid before them by the |
men who rule the slaves ia their own |
acts and under their own hands2
Do we not know that the worst deform-
lty and ugliness of slavery are at once the !
cause aud the effect of The reckless license |
taken by these freeborn oulawsl Do we
not know that the man who has been |
born and bred among its wrongs; who
has seen 10 his childhood husbands oblg-
I'D at the word of command 10 fog their
wives; women indecenIly compelled to
hold up their own garments that men
might lay the heavier stripes upon their
legs, driven and hurried by brutal over
seers in their time Of travail, and becom.
ing mothers on the field Of toll, under the
Very lash itself; who has read in youth,
and seen his virgin sisters read, descrip.
tons OF runaway men and women, and
their ds6gurcd persons, which could not
be published elsewhere, Of SO much stock
upon farm, or at show of beasts-do
we not know that that man, whenever his
wrath is kndled up, will be brutal saw
age? d. we no: know that as he is
coward in his domestic life, stalking
among his shrinking men and women
slaves armed with his heavy whip, SO he
will be coward out Of doors, and carry
ing towards weapons hidden in his breast
will shoot men down and stab them when
he quarres? And If our reason did not
teach US this and much beyond; if we
were such idiots as to close our eyes 10
that fine mode of training which rears up
such men should we not know that they
who among their equals stab and pistol in
the legislative nall, and in the counting
house, and on the market-place, and in
all the elsewhere peaceful pursuits of life,
must be to their dependents, even though
they were fee servants, so many merci-
less and unreIenting tyrans!
What shall we decIam against the
ignorant peasanIry of Ireland. and mince
The matter when these American task
IN Ell in, ChaH