The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-09-26

upon the rights, civil and personal, of the
blacks. This is as high ground perhaps,
as could be expected would be taken, and
is an earnest of better things to come
National Antislovery Standard.
MARKS.
have few words TO say on the forego.
ing. The writer of this preface to the
resolutions and an extract from the address,
which were copied into the Standard,
seems TO entertain feeling OF contempt
for the Liberty party in the free States,
and this, as is plainly intimated, First,
because il originated in the bigotry of sec
torianism and second, because human
laws against slavery will not go deep e.
nough. Let US examine this matter lit
tie. This seems 10 carry US back 10 the
time of Ezekiel, when he said, "What
mean We, that we use this proverb concern
ing the land of Esrael-saying, The fathers
have eaten sour grapes, and the chidren's
teeth are set on edgt2' 1t is nothing
strange that those who were in the hottest
Of the battle when the secessions from the
American Antislavery Society took place,
and viewed the formation OF the Liberty
party as the fruit of seclaranism, should
entertain prejudice against what they
call sectarian child. Admitting all that
has been charged upon the Liberty party
at the north, as to its being the offspring
OF big otry, what has that to do with The
child stset2 Was the illegitimae child
of Mr. Fairchld and Miss Davidson TO
blame for the conduct of its parents =? and
should it be despised on their account If
not, then do not despise the Liberty party
in consequence of The wrong doings Of
some of its founders.
will relate two anecdotes which NAV
illustrate the principle by which people
are liable 10 be governed. The first is
this-My Father was a blacksmith, and
hired TO the Superintendent of the Prison
at Slmsbury mines C.-held some petty
office there, and during his stay, two men,
calling themselves Methodist ministers,
were brought there for stealing horses 10
tide Circui: when they preached This
so much pre- udiced my Father against the
whole ministry ofthat order, that he hardly
recovered from 1T while he lived. The
other case was that Of a young man who
was an apprentice to me at blacksmnhing
several years ago. His Father lived near
neighbor TO a man by the name of Dow,
ard poor fences or something else caused
difficulty Of a serious nature, which en-
gcndcred deep prejudice in the mind Of
this apprentice ag INST every man by the
name Of Dow, (and there was a pretty
good lot of them in the vicinity) so much
SO that he said TO me one day that he
would not have his name Dow for the
whole town Of Brandonl Itried 10 show
him that the name Of man made no diff,
terence-that if he behaved rIght he would
BE- respected by all sensible, moral people,
let others Of his name do as they would
This had no effect on him-lhe one mans
doing wrong must curse all OF that name!
1t so happened at the time that this young
man was paying his addresses TO a young
lady, who soon exchanged his, for the Wis
lis of another, whose name was D0w, TO
the no small chagrn of the first When
the fair maid had taken upon herself the
name of Dow, | just reminded the young
man OF what he said, and inquired how he
liked that name This was rather pos.
er-he could not talk very fuenty Just
then ! The last part of this was not ne.
cessary 10 illustrate the point named, but
| thought might as we'll tell the whole
sorry, thinking there might arise a case to
which this would apply.
1.-THE change of laws from supporting
slavery, 20 that of defending the inaIiena.
bic rights Of men, is worth any thing, why
rot give credit so much2 And if The
concentration Of votes through the organ
zation of Liberty parties, can operate
more elItclualy than scattering vo!es, or
not voting at all why not give credit for
that loo2 But admitting that you think
more would be done without than with,
these organizations. have not others the