The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-08-14

who doub, whether slavery is sinful, it ma,
be profitable 10 keep before ,he'people sucl
incidents as the following Oh. Citizen
"a colored man by the name of Mack
inlosh, employed as boatman upon tn,
Mississippi, himself free, had wife il
bondage at 81. Louis. She was cruel,
T treated, as most slaves are. On a visit tC
his wife, learning what she suffered
prompted by the best of motives, he ven.ur
ed to 60 to her master and demonstrate
with him on the treatment of his wife
The Shareholder undertook 10 chastise him
on The spot. in true overseer style. Mack
intosh defended himself as who would
not? The STAKEHOLDER called to his aid
constables, who undertook TO arrest this
freeman. guilty of no crime, but that of in
curing danger for his own wife. He re-
sisted and in the scuffle that ensued, one
of the constables was killed. Macintosh
was bound, dragged away to prison, and
locked up In a teon's cell. AT the dead
of night, the enraged populace, with iron
bars, sledges and picks, repaired TO the
prison and commenced moving the walls.
Stone after stone was loosened from It's
bed, while the infuriated rabble, with hor.
rid oaths and imprecations, multered re-
venge; and with the zeal fdevis incar>
nate urged on their hellsh work. When
at length they got sight of their victim,
savage yell rent the air, such as would do
honor to the Internal pit. Macintosh was
seized and dragged from out the enclosure
of the law, and thence taken out oflhe pre-
cincts of The city. A stake was erected,
The victim was made fast to it, pile offag-
gots was laid around, the iufuriated mob,
eager 10 glut their vengeance in the blood
OF an innocent man, formed a circle, and
a torch vas applied.
Can the history OF Paganism present
blacker scene? Those scenes oil savage
barbarily the recital which has so often
made our youthful blood run cold, are in
nocent recrea;ons compared with this cold
blooded murder perpe;rated by The hands
of nominal christians, in land of liberty
and law While wIilhiag in the midst of
the fumes, and struggling in the agonies
OF death, his murderers were making the
welkin ring with obscene jests and bias.
phemous oahs
Should the Missionary Herald report
such scene from heather shores, what
a sensation would have bren produced
How many hearts would swell with in-
dIgnalon against the savage perpetrators
and what an impulse would be given 10
christian zeal in all the churches, 10 send
those heather the gospel of peace !! But
when perpetraled by our own citizens,
within the Jurisdiction Of our own humane
laws, in christian city, and within the
hallowcd precincts of christian churches,
what effect does it produce! Only one
dltor oil the bloody city, dared mention
he fact in tone Of condemnation and he
paid the forfeit of his penalty with his life!
The next day, the Rev. Mr. Loveioy,
who was publishing a religious paper In
s.. Louis, hearing of the disgracrfu scene
walked out to gee the spot. He there
ound, among others, large collection of
Boys, amusing themselves by throwing
stones at the skull of the murdered Mack.
ntosh Overwhelmed with sorrow and
Indignation, he returned 10 his study, and
,enned description of the whole transac-
lou, which being published, kindled an.
,'her flame that was quenched only by
he murder OF Lovejoy himself!
MASSACHUSETTS AND THE SoUTH.-
When Massachusetts sends an agent TO
he South where they roast negroes
live, by slow fires commissioned to ,
scertain if any of our citizens are held {
n bondage there, contrary to the laws of
Massachusetts, and Of the Union, and if J
o, to institute lawful proceedings for Y
heir Liberation, he is ignominIously driv- {
n back, the authorities of the several
states, and nearly all the inhabitants I
hereof approving the outrage. Massa-
husetts, through her Governor, and
ENATE, and Representatives., 'solemnly q
emonstrates' against these brigand pro- T
eedlngs; and then in the exhuberance of h
hristian meekness, pockets the insult, y
nd quietly permits her naughty and
omineerlng sisters to enslave as many q
zee born sons of the old Bay State, as y
lay suit their whims or wicked cupid =
But when the South sends one of her .
CARED u stricken slaves to wash IN the y
alters Of the Powow, all is changed d
massachusetts, honored sons, do the am
bile to the owner and hold him sim
or above all others who dare speak to Ia
10 slave without first obtaining the per- D
iss'on' ofthe dealer IN human beings. "
ouPPosIng our legislature were now IN
session, we wonder If thew who did pt
oiemnly demonstrate, would advise that or
is slave should be carried back to her =.
lalns, without fair and honorable offer I'll
her liberty! We wonder if the good m
oPle ofthe Bay State, generally would W
INK 1t wrong for our law to make its "a