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The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-08-08
From the Vermont Observer.
A SCOOP Headed Baptist!
Lancaster @. II. Virginia, !
Julv +. 1914,

July 5, 1914. !
Mr.. Vice President Angler;
Sir. Inclosed you will receive a
copy of the address sent by the Antsave.
nv Society of Vermont to the slaveholding
ministers and members Of the Baptist
church. We want no such things here
and request you for your own sakes 10
keen them heEceforth and forever to your
selves.
In the first place we deem it an inso.
lent intrusion on your part 10 informed
die yourselves in things which you have
nothing 10 do with and which concerns
only the great family OF Southern Free
men.
In the second place-The paper is it.
self foolish and dishonorable in the high
est degree and further more untrue. 1t is
document which n gentleman, patriot
and still more Christian should be a.
shamed to own, 1t evinces through the
whole spirit of dlctalion and supreme
desire 10 control others and 10 be known
abroad for something or other no matter
what.
Thirdly, Let us suggest to you, if
you are really sincere in your attempts
to abolish slavery in the South, that you
go the wrong way to work, The peo'
pie are already sufficiently exasperated
with aboilionists and abolition societies,
they must be gently dealt with. And lei
me tell you once for all, if you wish to
force US upon this or any other measure
you will have to drive US before the point
OF the sword. This is but the sentiment
of the whole South.
Your addresses which came to this Of
fee were all destroyed by our worthy
Pos. Master, (who though hot slavehold-
er, detesls Northern abolitlonists, usu rpa-
lion) except the ore return. You speak
of your papers being illegally taken from
the mail. They are always illegally
put into the Mail. You have no right
to send them through the mail directed 10
Post Masters. am STAKEHOLDER and
am Baptist and glory in being a
Southern Buplist-in belonging to those
who do not think themselves too holy to
wife their brethren 10 their pu pits and
communion tables.
do not believe slavery to be sin, and
believing it to be sanctioned by the word
of God, feel assured that al the last great
day shall stand justified as far as the
ownership of slaves is concerned How
you will account for your proceedings for
all false statements and for all your wick
ed actions on this subject, will then be
known.
In conclusion | will express the firm
that slavery would never have
been abolished in the North, 1.-THE people
had not believed it to be for their interest
in a pecuniary point of view. This is
believed by the learned of our land as
well as by one who though humble is
proud to sign himself
A SOUTHERN BAPTIST FREEMAN.
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How Shareholders Govern.

The Washington Spectator, the ablest
organ of that branch of the Democratic
party which has dictated to the whole its
present dlsEonorable and traitorous posi-
lion, thus describes the process by which
the shareholders contrive to govern:
Meier qoaS there q more remarkable
proof of the poa0er Of the South aohem mi
ted, than IN controlling the nomination of
thai Conoention. The man in whose ia
vor she has decared-in whose favor the
whole North and West had declared
came out against policy Essential to her
peace and safety. She made one brace
sally and seOept oil opposition before her.
And so IL ever aoiU be-so it will be in the
approaching presidential election. Ie1as
defeated Mr. Van Buren,, and it will de-
stroy Clay and Benton. The South uni
ted, is sufficient, at all times. for her own
deslinies; and she alone will ever be to
blame when her interests and honor are
trifed with OF overthrown. She had lost
her old position of head of the democratic
party by vacillaling and corrupt course
Of policy, which patering with principles,
rendered her subordinate 10 the numerical
power of the Nor.h.'
Thus these overseers openly boast, tho
minority, they can and will rule the u
MON, in spite of the numerical power of
The majority. Nor was the diclation less
palpabIc or the subjugation less complete
over the Wings. Who controlled their
national convention Who nut up q
Wing STAKEHOLDER for PRESIDENT The
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From tie Lady's Pear&
The Moral Power Of Woman,

Her influence is not confined TO one
Sndividaal or family, or society; neither
limited in its duration to any period OF
her existence, it being coevaI with it
The temper sought il to bring wo and
misery upon the happy pair as they were
placidIy seated by the pure fount of gen.
ial peace in the fragrant bowers oflhe E.
den of God. 1t is equally great in the
favor of good or evil, as is learned from
those whose names are embalmed for i'm.
mortality on the pages Of history. Israel's
mighty lawgiver, (whose mother feared
and trusted in God,) had never led the
oppressed people from under the power
full hand of Egypt's potent king, had he
not learned from her influence, that bas-
ket of rushes in rolling stream, touched
by the eye of Omnipotence, could resist
more successfully approaching colamities
than Egypt's towering heights and pyra>
mids. What could Pharaoh do with the
Hebrew chiidi His mother under God
had been his teacher; her first lesson was
Trust in God, and following her exam
piles he performed wonders. He knew a
nonarch's crown would not compare with
the meek and quiet spirit which must deck
his brow as he stood looking unto the
recompense of reward The mother had
taught him to fear God, and thus she shed
halo of power around him that inhdeli.
ty could not tarnish for him. Her infu;
ence was felt when nation devoted 10
destruction received the message of pardon
and repeal oflhe decree. The lofy-miad
edness OF the eastern monarch softened, as
she dared to mould his sternness into feel.
ings of mildness, she subdued him and
as the swift winged messenger fled in eve
ny direction, her power magic-like, trans
formed the character, not only OF the peas.
ent but the officers OF state-sackclot was
exchanged for pure white and purple. and
the soft toned notes Of the harp vbrated
in unison where means had fallen by thou.
sands but it stopped not there-it has
been felt in every age and cline, from The
cold barren regions that encircle the poles
a they rear their ice bound foreheads, to
the sunny glades and fertile plains Of the
equatorial wales. Classic Greece was
formed under it; and a patriotic people |
nave Salu, Qare nOI return 10 our MONIES |
without victory, 1t has made a nation
of Soldiers, and, under God. it has and |
will make martyrs. IL the patriarchs
prophets and apostles have been awed
into veneratiou, perseverance, humiiia.
ton, and patience, the ancient Greeks |
and Romans into patriotism and courage,
what was the language of the veteran pill
grim mothers, as they rushed from the
May flower, and placed their frail mt on
New England's soil? 1t links earth to
heaven. How responsible the mother!-
She can mould the tender mind as she
pleases-point the aged homeward, and
the youth to Shiloh's fount. while thou
sand voices in heather lands, echo it from
the highest SUNNI: to the lowest vale. The
isles oflhe mighty deep know it, and as
nation we feel its potency; and would
that every gale might wait anew its most
healthy breezes flnning and invigoraling
the mass Of mind slumbering near the
valley of stupor.
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VOICE OF r E E D o M :.

motion was made BY Virginia slavehold-
err, and all the others were unanimous for
it, Who caused Davis TO be defeated, be-.
cause he had treated La,imer as a man
The Shareholders. Who rejected Fill
more because he was an open, uncom>
promising opponent of the admission of
Texas The shareholders. Who deter
mined that Freinghuysen should receive
the nomination, who had not been dream>
ed of by the mass of the Whigs2 The
Shareholders settled ii In a precious caucus
of their own !-Emancipator.
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Death, the king of terrors, was deter
mined to choose prime minister. and
his pale courtiers, the gastly train of dis
eases, were all summoned to attend when
each preferred his claim to this iIlustrious
office. Fever urged the number he had
destroyed, cold paIsey set forth his pre-
cnai pms, by shaking all his limbs Gout
h>O'led up; and a!ledged his great pow.
4 ruckinS every joint, land Asthma's
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Highly Important!

The Wings have of late proved to a
certainty, that the grandfather of James
X. Polk was Tory in the Re volutiona.
nv war, and the Democrats in their turn
think they have demonstrated with equal
certainty that distant ancestor of Henry
Clay, (AdGm,) was REBEL Of the tcorst
Kind I!
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INVESTIGATOR.
r E M A II X 8.

AS to an explanation will say
The next day after published the reso.
luton and the action thereon, on which
the charge of lodging had been based,
received letter from Mr. Foot, direct
ing me to discontinue sending him the
Voice, and adding-"The wherefore You
will understand without an explanation "
| rather think do understand the matter,
and think others understand it too, and
that they will govern themselves accor-
dinghy.
When wss an apprintice | set trap
for Mink, placing the bait over it as
ususl-but the bait was several times Ia.
ken without the trap being disturbed. =
AT length set three traps, feeling pretty
sure that this customer could not well
dodge the question" Of being taken. The
next morning, found that in reaching
up for patronage" the poor fellow had
sprung one trap on his hind legs, and
while endeavoring to extricate himself,
another trap took him by the fore leg, &
being gerry much dissatisfied with his
treatment thus far, made another move
by running his nose into the third i
Perhaps MIR. Foot may understand the
application without an 'e3plaaationr
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MEETING EXTRA.

ST. Clair held his Loco.toc Third
Party meeting at the town room Satur-
day evening. E. w. Drury UO) that
Pink of Democracy. in the chair A
mong other attempts at he odwinking the
people, he undertook TO place Polk and
Clay upon the same grounds in relation
to the Tariff (ID Barber and Drury
have several times in the Loco Club
tried the same experiment. A grosser
insult to the understandings of the intel
ligent people of Vermont never was at
tempted. But the way James NJ. SIade
Esq. used up St. Clair upon this sub
ject was caution (l2) To make his de-
ceptons more palatable this man claims
to be minister of Christ, and a true
disciple of John Wesley, but as different
from that eminent divine as Alexander
the copper smith was from Alexander
the Great. lie breaches political Abo-
lltion on the Sabbath and retails tho
Loco Foco SANDERS against MIR. Clay
on " week days. Whether he carries a
certificate of enlistment from the Loco
Foco State Committee we know not. A
filter tool Of the party ctnnot be found
in Vermont.
q Mr. b. mistakes. deem Mr. CLAW
as anxious for annexation as his rival, but
an ADLER shrewder, more experienced, wi.
ly and foxy politician; and therefore more
likely TO succeed in this wicked project
than Mr. Polk. AndlI hesitate not 10 a.
vow my conviction, that there is more
danger TO be feased from the former than
the latter
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How HE Works 1T.

To show what reliance sto be placed
on St. Clair, since he has come to town
he has declared that in VT. he is loco,
and when in N. H., a wing. ~ Such
is the wire in and wire out policy of
man who is constantly urging upon the
people the maxim that you must do no
evil that good may come saying true
in itself, but so grossly perverted by
such men as st. Clair as to lead people
to do evil continually. Our maxim is
to choose the least between two evils 49,
and vote for Henry Clay altho slave
holder, if we can thereby prevent slave
holding; (9) avert the horrid evils of free
trade, annexation, the e>tention and
perpetuation of slavery, the dissolution
of the Union, and prostration OF all tho
great pecuniary interests ofthe country.
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V OIL. VI. NO. 7.
For the Voice Of Freedom.
Proposals for Discussion.
To the Hon. Harvey Bell of Middlebur


To the Hon. Harvey Bell of Middlebury!
SlR:-In your paper of July 81, l no.
tice four articles intended 10 operate against
The Liberty Party and devoted to the uu-
dersigned, of very Objectionable, ungen-
erous character | shall not descend 10
reply in the spirit in which they have
been conceived and put forth. Do not i'm
agine for moment, that object against
your defending your party and its policy,
II you think them right: only do it by fair,
honorable means. Facts and arguments:
deal in these, On :hese | will neither
shOao nor ask favor. Make them as 1ard
and stubborn as you will will not COM
plain. l will not go in and attempt 10
break upyour meetings; if | cannot meet
and refute your orators; Dor publish you
as a" brazen faced deceiver."
Though there is very little in your ar-
''cfes entitled to attention,yet, lest be sus.
pected of departing from my own rule, g.
copying your spirit, shall publish all of
them which relate to myself.
From the Northern Galary
Mr.. CLAYs ANNEXATION LETTER
AND ST CLAIR.
One of the most bare faced peryer-
sions of truth made by st Clair in his
lectures in this region, is an attempt to
make out that there is as much danger
of annexation from Clay as President as
from Polk (l) and asserting that about
the whole objection of Mr.. Clay to an
nexation springs from the results Incl
dental to the connection of Texas with
Mexico, the danger of war, of debts &c.
(2) and opposition of public opinion.
Now this brazen faced dcceiver knows
we'll that Polk was nominated by the
power of slaveholding influence of the
South as an ammedi0te aumexatiOnist,
which he has openly and a hundred
times avowed in the most emphatic and
unqualified terms. While MIR. Clay in
his letter upon this subject has as openly
81" i""N'r 'AP'OoCu Ills uiSd ppTOOdtlOn
Of annexation, not only in view of the
reasons (3) assumed for him by St Clair,
but for others so numerous and moment
Gus, that scarcely any combination of
circumstances could be conceived. which
in the estimation Of Mr.. Clay would
justify the base scheme of the nullifers
Of the South, but in our estimation the
still baser schemes of the leaders of
Northern third partyism, many of whom
seem prepared to pull down the pillars
of the Constitution, and bury this great
Confederacy under its ruins:
Sr. CLAIR. The religious politco,
locofoco, third party, itinerant lecturer
in his dialogues Saturday night INDUCED
in an insolent (4) strain ofreproof to a
wing for using the term loco foo, which
he considered slang. We presume
this prince Of slang whangers never in
formed himself that every whig editor
and orator ~ in the United States has
adopted this appelation to designate
party who have assumed the name dem
ocrat, to which neither their principles
nor the naughty and aristocraic bearing
of the party entities them (6)
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VOICE OLE Ig1H1s lAlD0Nlo
Brandon, Thursday, August 8, 1914.

LIBERTY TICKET.
By the National COnuentioa, May, 1874
For Presid dent,
J A NJ Z S G. B r N E Y,
OF MICHIGAN.
For Vice Presi don't,
L FL 0 M A S M o r r IS,
OF OHIO.
LIBERTY SI.dI.E TICKET
For Governor,
WILLIAM II. SKATER,
OF TowNsHEND.
For Lieut.. Governor,
AARON Angler,
OF MIDDLEBURY.
For Treasurer,
HARRY HALE,
OF CHELSEA.
For Representatives. to Congress.
D1sr.--0SCAR L. SKATER,
of Wilmington.
II D1sT.--TITUS HUTCHINSON,
of Woodstock.
III. DIsT--WlLLIAM II. FRENCH,
Of Williston,
". DIsr.-GE0RGE PUTNAM,
of Albany.
FOR STATE SENATORS.
Rutland County,
JOSIAH w. HALE,
AMOS THOMPSON,
LYMAN BACHELLER,
addison County.
HORATlO .NEEDHAM,
BENJAMIN F. HASKELL.
Bennington Comfy,
LEMUEL BOTTOM,
CYRUS ARMSTRONG.
Chittenden County,
WILLIAM E. SHERMAN,
SAMUEL PAGE.
Orange County,
CHARLES CARPENTER,
PLlNY DAY,
GEORGE MAY.
Washington County,
ORSON SKINNER,
JABEZ MOORE.
Hindsor County.
WILLIAM WARNER,
AUS TIN p. CHASE.
OLIVER GLEASON.
SUMNER A. WEBER.
Windham County.
WILLARD FROST,
JOHN FL. CAMPBELL,
JOHN G. WILSON.
Caledonia County.
JOSEPH MORRILL,,
DUSTIN GROW.
Orleans County.
GEORGE H. PAGE.
LamoiNe County.
DANIEL DODGE.
Franklin County.
JULIUS HOYT,
JAlRUS EATON,
ANDREW CUMMINGS.
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OPINIONS or CLAY.

"Towards Mr. Clay as politician, Mr. jefferson
constantly manifested strong repungancc, and
often said he was merely splendid orator, with
on, any valuable knowledge from experience or
study, or any determined public principles found
ed in sound political science, either practical or
theoretical" Jcgerson in his life By 1h. VI. Ran
dolph.
81 will do my duty even il Mr Clay is TO he
bneIued by it, from whom have experienced
only UNGtNEROUS TREATMENT in rcquaI
for years of devoted service!!!''
81 have done him (Nlr Claw many lavors. hui
he has returned them all with the BLACKLIST
lngralitude."
Henry Clay has TOO many nEREsIEs about
him TO EVER GAIN MY sUrroRT.-Ddnici
Uobsier.
We supported him (Nr Clay once for the
Presidency and would do so again were we not IN
50 doing almost certain of defeat Mr. Clay is de-
iicient in popularity. Boston Alias. coon.
.'IIe (Clay) never received the vote OF Ohio OF
Indiana and it is worse than idle 10 calculate that
he erer miH. We have heretofore cNened all ouI
strength for the election Of Henry Clay-and We
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POLK NO DUELIST.

The GAINESVILLE Aurora, in abiding to
,he charges made by few Of the more
reckless wing prints which have asserted
that Mr. Polk had fought and killed his
man, says ",hat charge more uniounded
and false could not have been invented"
The same paper continues in the follow
ing strain:
"Mr Folks long and untarnlshed con-
nec,ion with one of the most influential
and devoted body of christians in the land
should have restrained genilmen from ma.
king charges ofso grave character, until
they had gained better authority than the
idle tales and fables Of unpilnclplcd men.
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The editor of the MiddIebury miiky-way,

The editor of the Middebury miiky-way,
Galaxy, as he chooses to denominate il,ge's
quite rabid, lately, whenever he has occa-
sion 70 speak of us. In his lasthc calls on
us to publish Young lIIckory's Tariff no.
tons. The next President, voted in lo33
with Clay on the compromise actor a
duty of fifteen per cent on foreign coarse
wool wtick The cO0RS hapc since rcdarcW
In his speech of 1898 he says
"NO MEMBER OF TIE COMMIT
TEE (OF WHICH HE WAS ONE) WHO
YIELDED HIS ABSENTEE THIS BILL.
+ MAY SAFELY AFFIRM, DESIRES
TO PHOSPHATE THE MANUFACTU-
RER, NOR WILL SUCH, IN THEIR
JUDGMENT BE THE EFFECT OFTllE
BILL. VENTURE TO AFFIRM THAT
TIE BILL, so FAR FROM PROSTRA-
TING THESE ESTABLISHMENTS, AT
FORDS SUFFICIENT INCIDEN1IL
PR TEC1IOSTO ENABLE l.LSUCll
AS ARE BASED ON REAL, NOT BOR,
ROWED. CAPITAL, AND WHICH ARE
CONDUCTED WITH ECONOMY AM
SKILL, NOT ONLY TO STAND, UNDER
THIS BILL, BUT TO HElLITE GREI-
TER RATES or PROFTT IPON IHi
CAPITAL .lND LABOR EMPLOYER
THAN rs DERH'ED FROM ivy ORR
Err REGILIR BUSINESS IN THI
COUN1RY."
How does that suit; Col. Polk is in ia
vor of a srjsReycnuc Tariff with inclden
tai Pro,cction-and with Mr. Clay says;
"I.ook to REyENuE aiOne far the sup
port of GOcrrmct. Do not raise the ques
ton of protection, for protection"
We observe however, that amidst all Tho
horror of the Galaxy man, engendercd by
contemplation of Gov. PoLK's Tariff opln
ons, which opinions he puts at the head o
his editorial columns as bright particular
stars" in his galaxy of coon wonders, no
ono star is TO be seen embodyIng tho Tart
opinions of Harry Cay! Now to ease tn
mind Of old pistdrcn, we make the follow
ing proposition: wewill publish in the Ag
all the opinions of Gov. Polk, on the Tar
if, which he may select, if at the same tim
he will publish in the Galaxy all the opin
ions of Henry Clay on the Tariff which W
may select We shall see now whose a
iraid.
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Keep it before the People!
HENRY CLAWS TARIFF OPINIONS.

ASHLAND, sept. l3lN II III.
The sum and substance O what conceive to he the
true Motley nj the United states, in respect To Tariff,
may be briefly stated. In coEtormHN "Hd hr PrinCiPir
anno,ucrd in me Compromise .irt think that wliHtcv
or REVIEW is necessary To An economical and honest
administration nj the General Governments ought Ia be
derived from duties Imposed On foreign imports. Aud
believe that in c|tuISn" tntIii Z" those duties, such
discrimination ought Ia lee mad" nN Will IEcm,nf0iiy at
ford y,0sonaL!c protection tuuur national interests
-" have Away hccn opposed toWhat regarded High
Tarn.n--U,Hry Cdy.
Agriculture needs nrctCCtiOn.-HCRrV Coy.
81 voted Tor the rais nj Isle. la, ana l,32'
Hncy Cioy.
81 did not vote for the Tariff orlslG and lS2
"Sucl Il Tariff rs the Wings support will possess per-
nmnrncy aud stability, nqmliY far more essential aud
important than Igh fndh, proiucna dissatisfaction,
luclntinn aud uncertainty '-HcHry C"V.
"lCrhc compromise he inyioIallS mantaucd aS,1I'l
TnIyk IT orGHr TO uE.'--Il, Clay At Buffalo, 80
II am for abiding by the principles Of the compromise
net. I'll. Claw, in Senate, March lSl2.
81 brought forward the compr0msc.'--ll Clay 10 Mr.
Mcrriwrth,r, ori. FAB.
81 think there is M danger Ol high tariff being ever
csrabshcd That Of ISL wa' '@mc""y deserving Mat
denomination. WIS not in congress whom passed and
did not vote inr it, bu with its history and the cirrum-
stnuccs that gave birth to it am well acquainted. They
ehgaig diScrcHiabe To American legislation, ana
hone for It's honor will never agan he repeated.
Amer my return to congress l53l my efforts were di
rrctc to the modification and reduction OF the rates ol
duty contained in thract ORE.
Nv opiuion that there is danger hereafter Oi Hgh
tariff is founded on the CRAFTY ing fact that orr mnnlIc'
lures have taken deep root IN their infancy, they
needed greater measure OF protc, tion but us they grow
md advance, they acquire strength and stability, and
consequently, will require irSS protection MIR Gay tn
So Bronson, sept. I'm ,lt,lH. ~
JEFFERSON'S OPINION OF MR. CLAY.
"TownrlS Mr. clay ms politician, Mr. Jefferson con
s,any manifested strong rcpugnnncC, and often said he
wlS merely splendid orator, without any valuable Nnow
rgn from experience study or amy determined puhlic
priuipr, founded in sound political science, either prac'
teal or thcOrcliCal."--Th. NJ. Randolph
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MAKE WAYl-IIERE THEY COME,
How the country is a risin'
For Freezing Clay and Henry IIuyson!

A Democratic meeting was held at West
Liberty, Ricblond county, Ohio, the resi-
ence Of the coon candidate for Governor,
on the 18th instant, and attached
ed to the proceedings, we find the follow
ing, which We offer as a sermon on the text
of Mr. Webster, above given,
"Afcr the adjournment of said meeting
the. following resolution was offered and
signed by Thomas b. Gill, A. Peck James
McDaid, A. N.AlIIer and Edward Peck:
"RGolrd, Tina, we, the undersigned,
citizens of Vernon Township, having sup
ported lIarrlson's election in $40, and
having become convinced that the wing
principles are ant-rcpublican, we THEREFORE
pledge ourselves TO support The nominee of
the Democratic National Convention. Sign
ed with our hands and sealed with our seals,
this llth day of May, A. ID. lSl4
THOS. b. GILL, ms.
ADAMSON PECK, TLs'1
JAMES McDAlD, T.. 81
AND N. MILLER, f.. :.
EDWARD PECK, h. $.
J. {. Woop, &ccrtmy.