The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-07-17

handed measures, and spoken in most
insulting tone They have trampIed on
tho right of petI'on-grossIy insulled our
Adams and Gddings, and every other
Northern man, that dared to raise his
voice in favor Of freedom, until, madden
ed by lust of power and gain, they have
Frustrated the Constitution, banishing our
oBici0l agents from territory and forcing
upon us foreign Safe, with the avowed
design Of streng lhening their domestic in
stitutions, and rendering more secure the
system of slavery; so that our govern.
ment is made TO stand forth as legislatiag
Gnew for slavery, instead of simply abd-
ing by the compromises of the Cons,itu-
tion,' which were made in days of danger
and darkness. Such has been their course !;
one of wrong, insult, and outrage; and in
this respect, Southern Wings have been
lille better than their brethren in the ops
posi'e party. Many of them did, indeed,
vote against Texas, but it was on party
and plofessed constitutional! grounds, and
Their support had 10 be bought by silence
on the part Of Northern members upon the
subject OF slavery. And tie singular spec.
tacle was exhibited of a three weeks de-
ba'e in the United States Senate. upon one
o.! the most important, the most fearful
moral question ever brought before that
body, without hardly single alusion TO
the moral BEARINGS Of the point at issue
ard all this silence was necessary 10 Keep
Southern votes. And Immediately after
The question of Texas was settled, and they
were called 10 vote upon the Constitution
of Florida, these same Southern Wings
were the most forward and the most vio>
lent in their defence of the clause which
gives power 10 the new State TO incarcer.
ate the free cOlored people at The North,
who should enter their ports. Such has
been their course. For slavery they are
willing to sacrifice OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ton, parties, the obvious demands of friend,
ship, and even the common couf,eses of
life And now shall we hold their rolili.
cal alliance and assistance, thus rendered,
as dearer than our rights, our rirtue, and
the common prosperity Of the c0~@try?-
Such pusilIanimiIy is too
Rank, it smells to Heaven.
Wings of the North, will you never
have done with this trucking subserven-
cy! Are you willing, for less than mess
OF pot,age, to sell the brth.right your faith.
ers left you 1t was slavery that hurled
your Adams from the Chair of State, and
it has claimed and held its seat there ever
since. Did your fathers fight the battles
OF The Revolution And do you breathe
the pure air OF land OF Iiberly2 And
will you s,oop so low2 Thee complain
not if The high.minded and the free>born
sons OF honored sires leave your ranks,
aud refuse to Join in political action with
party, when SO much is to be borne, and so
n,le to be gained.
2. Such course IS perfectly suicidal,
and cannot be adopted aOiM any hope of
SUCCESS AT least such is my oplnlon. AS
remarked in my former communication,
the Democratic party have run race Tor
the favor of the slareocracg, with which
we con never successfully compete. Their
|sympathies harmonic much more nearly
than ours can. Besides, the Wing party
has done TOO much for freedom ever TO be-
received cordially into The arms of the
100000 Shareholders, that have so long
ruled the country. They have voted for
the right of peti:ioa-against Texas ;
while the slaunch Wing Safes of Yer.
mont and Massachusetts have said and
done too many things for liberty to be rel.
ished by The South. They vii not cast
US IN form from their fellowship. They
are too shrewd for that. They will toy
aud daily with us-.hrow on; a sop here
and there-yieId on some points, where
yielding will exhibit show OF magnanim-
i.y; but which will not compromise in
the least, the grand point OF interest and
importance nor will they ever extend
the hand of cordial fellowship to the Wing
party.
We can then have little encouragement
to make any great sacrifice OF principle
or voters a, The North, for the sake OF gain.
ing or keeping in with the Soulh. But
hat we shall lose roters, as well as sacrl.
flee principle, by the adoption of such a
course as will concllate and keep our
: strength at the South, think, is most ev-
ident. BY so doing. we shall cut ourselves
off from all the anti sLavery feeling Of the
North. Tha, this is beginning to pervade
the free S atee, and becoming an impor.
tauI element Of feeling and action, all must
admit. Its existence defeated US ir the
last campaign, and the events of the last
six months have done nothing TO diminish
it. There is seine little humanity, some
little sense Of right, ard some little self
respect remaining, and all that is array
ed against the system and support Of slave
ry-and that party that holds an equivocaI
position, such as we must occupy if we
still continue our party relations with the
South, must not only sacrifice the strength
that that feeling arrayed in opposition Il
it. And that it viii find that feeling ar
iayed against it, we may assuredly antici