The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-08-28


nable atheism. All the facts in history arr
fables, and untrustwonhy, besides The die
,ia,es OF the moral sentiment which speaks
one and the same voice in all ages. Ant
what say that 10 the injured Negro? |
we listen TO it. it assures US that in his We
~ wrongs is his strength. The Persian'
have a proverb "Reware Of The orphan
for when the orphan sets a>cIylng, the
throne of the Almighty is shaken from
side to side" Ii is certain that, if il
should come the question Jail just men,alI
intelligent agents, must take the part OF
the black against the white man. Then
1 say, never is the planter safe his house
is a den; a just man cannot go there, ex-
sept to tell him so. Whatever may ap-
pear at the moment, however conlrasted
the fortunes of the black and the white
though The one live in his hereditary man.
sion house, and the latter In shed tho
one rides an Arabian horse, aud the other
is hunted by blood hounds though one
eats, and the o,her sweats; one strikes,
and the other dies-yet is the planters an
unsafe and unblesl condition. Nature
fights on the other side and as power is
always stealing from the idle to the busy
hand, it seems inevitable that revolution
is preparing at no distant day 10 sci these
disjoined matters right. -
See further, if you with ne are believ-
ing, if you are open 10 hope and not to
despair, in what manner the moral power
secures the welfare of the black man,
In the moral creation, it is appointed
from everlasting, that the protection Of The
weak shall be in the illumination of the
strong. 1t is in the order Of things the
privilege of superiority to give, 10 besow,
TO protect, TO love, to serve. This is the
office and the source of power. 1t is
powers power to do these things; ard on |
the other hand, it is the ruin OF power 10
stea 20 inju-e. and 10 put to death. The
hope and he refuge OF the weaker indi-
vidual and The weaker races is here. 1t
will not always be reputable 10 steal and
to Cypress. 1t will no; always be posi-,
bic. Every new step taken in the true
order of human life takes out something
of brutality and infuses something Of good
will. Precise y as II is the necessity Of
grass TO grow, of the child to be born, of
light 10 shine. of heat TO raGiate. and of
matter TO attract, so is it of mans race and
Of every race 10 rise and 10 refine. "AlI
things strive to ascend, and ascend in
striving" And it will be as natural and
obvious step with the increased domin>
ion of right reason over the human race,
for the iGteress of the more amiable
and pacific classes to be eagerly defended
by the more energetic, as i! is now for
Trade TO displace War.
| know that this race have long been
victims. They came from being preyed
on by the baTbarians of America. To
many of them, no doubt, Slavery was
mitigation and gain. Put the slave un-
der negro drivers, and it is said these are
more cruel than the white Their fate
now, as far as it depends on circumstances,
depends on the raising oftheir masters -
The masters are ambitious of culture aud
slvllty. Elevate, eniighten, civilize the
semi barbarous nations of South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama take away from their
dehauched society the bowie knife, the
rum bowl, the dice box, and the sews--
take out The brute, and niuse drop of
eivili,y and generosity, and you touch
those selfish lords with though! and gen
ileness.
Instead of racers, jcckies, dueists and
peacocks, you shall have race of decent
and lawful men, incapacitated TO hold
slaves and eager to give them liberty.
~ l hold it, then, TO be the
part Of right reason, TO hope and 10 affirm
well of the destlnies Of this portion of the
human family, and to accept The humane |
voices which in our times have espoused
their cause, as only the forerunners of
vast majoriies in this country and in the .
race.