The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-07-03

has no songs liz the nigh, oflhe day; j
her children flv from her bosom TO regions
where honest toll 10 not the condition o
the slave, il is because she has not beer
true to that great doctrine OF human right;
which she was the first 10 proclaim Il
mankind. | would give them the broth
erly hand of every liberty loving son o
toll in New England in pledge, tina, lheil
haired Of slavery is the strongest express
sion of :heiv love for Virginia; that nc
halevolence Turks a; the bottom Of lhi;
great enterprise of freedom, in which the
moral sentiment of the world is fast con-
cenlra,ing with an energy which mus, soor
carry it 10 that issue which shall be greet
ed with acclamations OF grace! grace unit
H., from every corner of the world
Brethren, would say, not an effort In
this cause is inspired by aught else than
the very soul of love to you and your
children. The malevoence Of which we
have been suspected, has this extent. no
more: that Emancipation shall be Para
disc Regained to Virginia, in all the com
pass of that condition.
1t is one OF the chieiest aims OF our AS
p.atons and efforts, not only 10 promote
The emancipation of the slave, but TO eman'
cipate the Old Dominion" from The old
dominion of slavery; 20 emanclpae her
institutions Of learning and religion from
an influence that has poisoned their vllaI-
ty; to emancipale the energies OF her peo>
pie from tha, Gripping compression which
has bent them 10 the ground; TO emancI>
pate her rivers and streams, whose cur
ren.s have been ice-bound in time Of sum-
mer, because the mark Of the beas. was
burnt and burning in the brow OF labor
pining on their banks 10 emanclpate her
soil from that sallow disease with which
the sweat OF the slave falling on its face
like aqua forts has devUured lis capac-
nv Of production 10 emancipate the Treas
ures tina, lie locked and guarded by a huge
Cerberrs, ia her mountains, valleys, and
hill sides 10 eman:ipale nature itself from
that iron prevention which has Withheld
her hand HON dropping fatness upon ewes
~ square acre OF her territory. lf.his is
maevolence, it is not the head, nor front,
nor end of our offending. To say, that, in
rescuing Virginia from slavery, we would
be content with making her what New
England IS, comes far short of our object
and desire. We would make her VIA,
New Eng laud W0uid be, with the soil,
rivers, and streams, and natural resources
of Virginia; which, with the, ndomita ole
genius and energy Of free labor, would
enable her 10 manufacture for continent,
and feed half of its population with the
productions of her soil, Has she annual.
" expalraled thousands of her most Wig.
orous sons, who could not toll where labor
is degraded we would re.people her bor-
ders with her exilcs who should reluru
with songs OF joy on their heads, as the
ancient Jews to their beloved Canaan.-
Are her lands lying waste in artificial
sleriitv We would reSuscllale them TO oil
their original fertility, and cut them up
iuto farms clothed with eXuberant verdure,
and uIled by intelligent and virtuous free.
men. "Is one IN h0elrc Of her groom up
ard gorermisg pop~iatioH umabte TO read
or write," we would dol the whole exteul
OF her domain with school, houses, and
supply every hamlet with library and
the means of gratuitous instruction. Is
Virginia declining in poli,ical power, and
fast losing her share Of influence in the
councils of the nation, we would give her
far more than she ever possessed. We
would double her representation in the
representatives Of freemen in our national
Congress, who should be an honor to the
country. With such an aim and end as
this, in The inception, pros, culion, and is,
sue OF this great work of philanthropy,
shall we talk Of, dtSsoluiug The Union p
that Union 10 which the success of our ef.
forts must give elements Of cohesion strong
err tn IN ten thousand chains OF adaman?-
tina, Union, the concentrating nucleus OF
the hopes and interests of the future ages
of humanity that Union TO which the
abolition Of slavery would give a moral
power that should lift up the race from its
darkness and depression Dissc luton of
The Union What Gu, ia two the Mis-
sissippi, tina, iugular vein Of the New
World and sever all The mighty arteries
OF the Union. and leave it TO bleed 10 death
in hostile segmenls, both wrilhing in the
cauteries of mutual hatred Nature it.
self would repel this profane disruption Of
a systemic whose integrity every stream
from the Sabine 20 the S.. Johns, is as nee.
cssary as any vein in the human body
Dissolve the Union run The ampulatinp
knife through the child OF all iha, the pro.
gressive. ages Of humanity have produced
Of freedom AMI virtue aud that because
one Of ils members is Infected with Gu.
,aneous disease, which mol drop OF blood
less than that which now crculales in
its whole system will remove Does
God or mankind require the sacrifice o.
this Union, this Isaac OF the race, in which !
all nations should be bleSscd' And shall |
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