The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-11-07
HORRIBLE.
Monkton Oct. 28lh, Is

The following narrative was related Ia
Friend during recent visit to Orange
County in this State.
Some time since, stranger came into
that County, so white that he was not
suspected of having any African blood
in his veins. After residing there some
time, he married white woman, went to
house keeping, and was quietly enjoying
the comforts of domestic life, sustaining
the character Of an honest and upright
man, when an old acquaintance of his VS.
tied the neighborhood and recognized
him as the slave of Kentuckian. He
gave the information to some ofthe neigh
bors ofthe white fugitive, two of whom,
Zone formerly member of the Society
Of Friends way..laid the poor man,
caught him, conveyed him to his former
master, and continued there until the OBJ
ject of their cupidity was sold, that they
might obtain part of the price as the re-
ward of their diaboical act. Is it not
horrible to know that we have such mon.
sters Of depravity in indiana, and that
in land of protested liberty and law,
they should escape unwhiped ofjustice.
1t is burning reproach to the public sem
timent, to the state of moral feelings ex-
listing among us, that such Williams are
not frowned out of countenance, and
compelled by the indignant scorn of an
insulted community to shun the light Of
day, and to hide their guilty heads in
shame aud confusion. But while slave
holders receive the highest honors in the
power of the people TO bestow,-while
the great william who robs sixty ora hun
drep men, women and children of all their
earnings, and of themselves in the bar
gain, is idolized and elevated 10 the high
est office in the government, those little
Williams will be kept in countenance and
encouraged in their--l had almost
said, worse than devilsh deeds.
Freemen ofthe North, awake from
your lethargic state and come to the res.
cue of our common country from the de-
moralizing, the blasting influence of the
slave power. This you can do by with
holding your votes from Shareholders, and
pro slavery men, and by bestowing them
upon the friends of freedom: but never
can you succeed in breaking the iron
grasp of tyranny that is destroying the vi
tails of our free institutions while you
honor it by electing its supporters to high
places either in civil or religious society.
Slavery must be rendered odous with
the great mass of the people before it
will give up its dominion, and this can
never be effected while Shareholders are
treated as honorable men, and confded
in as worthy Of conducting our national
or state affairs.
The presidential election is close at
hand. Liberty men, ye who love liberty
for liberty's sake, be at your posts. Re.
member that every vote cast for slave
holder is vote for the continuance of
slavery in the district of Columbia and in
Florida, of the inter state slavettade
and Of the abominabe black laws of the
professedly free states; and that every
vote for liberty canhdates, isa standing
testimony against this wicked system and
all its paraphernalia. Let every lover
of his country and his kind determine to
do his duty though every other man
should prove recreant to the high trust
reposed in him. And let PRO-SLAVE-
RY be written in blazing capitals up
on the forehead of every man who
shall vote for a prosIavery ticket.-Ia.
Eroe o6or 1d,,