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

August, | accepted inc Invitation, mat l
mig ht associate with my visit some other
object Than That of mere curiosity. 10
fulfil this engagement wlII exhaust all the
time that can force out Of the discharge
of my labors at home, which would pre-
clu1e the possibility Of making two jour
MES 10 Ohio in one kseason. Although |
cannot be with you IN pcrson-or rather
in body shall be present with every
earnest sympathy Of my sou with every
attribute OF my humanity that can pray
and hope for man. and labor TO Iift up my
down,trodden brother The SLAvE-God's
child, to a new life and The light of a new
heaven for his downcast, al"naled heari,a
heaven spanned with Gods own hand
writing in the fixed stars and every rain
bow oil hope, that his E hiopian hue shall
no longer impair the dignity Of his hu,
manly, or his title or access TO all the
privileges, progress and prospects of the
children of common Father, either on
earth or ia heaven. The place, the mo-
tivrs and the members Of your Convention,
will all conspire to give it a moral might
and majesty, which will be felt over the
Union, and carry prrmoni'lon of death
10 an institution which, like huge deep
rooted upas, has diIused lis subtle poison
over the once grcenest portion oil this con-
tiuent, until every thing that lives or lies
! beneath is shade bears the hectic of The
soaring culse.
No place in the Union could have been
more appropriately selected than Cincin.
matt. Situated on the heaven side OF free
dom, a magnificent, illustration of what it
can do for human nature and human so.
ciety, well mic hl it say 10 those who live
in the pale and sickly wilderness OF slave
nv, Come, and let as reason togeiher."
Aud it should quicken the pulse of great,
hearted patriotism, that thus friendly call
has been greeted by a cordial res ponse
| from the first home Of the Anglo Saxon
| race on this conlinent--from unfortunate
| Virginia, the primeval Eden of Nature in
America, now pining beneath the breath
OF an institution which has blasted the TO-
iage and the fruit OF her Tree of knowl.
edge, and her tree of lie: and which, if
it has not banished her into the wilderness
without, has brought the wilderness into
her paradise. Virginia Oldest patriarch
in the ark of Freedom which outrode the
universal deIuge of despolism-nmong
the first affairs it erected in its heritage,
was one for the sacrifice OF humanity and
the immolation of human liberty. First
10 declare the inalienable rights OF man,
and, like the antedluvian patriarch, 10
preach The righteousness of freedom TO the
world, it was The first 10 become inloxical>
ed with The spirit of its domestic slavery,
and uder is influence, 10 curse its poster
i,y with an evil which has operated with
unspent and unsparing maIignily upon
young and old, rich and poor, bond and
free, through their successive generations.
Virginia still venerable in her misfor-
tunes ndgrand in her decadence, ,hedevou,
and liial memories which cluster about
her ancient virtues, like the pious sons oil
Noah, would approach her behind man
tie OF charity which should hide from the
subject and object of The sorrowfuI vision,
The sight Of her unconscious weakness and
inSensible prostratiop.
And old Virginia, the Virginia of the
bes, days of our history, will be with you,
represented by few choice spirits, who,
with the sublime chivalry OF moral hero
ism, the offspring and origin of better
things in her condition, will go up to your
communion, as The eStranged and scattered
children Of Israel went up from :her
coasts 10 worship with their Jewish brelh-
rem in the temple at Jerusalem in the DAYS
of Hezekiab. And between tina, ancient
jubilee and your Convention, pray tina,
there may BIZ features of resemblance 10
which future generations shall revert in
grateful memory. If there is one thing
more Than another. which would enhance
my pleasure in being present on the occa-
sion. ii would be the privilege of meeting
there those heroic spirits from Virginia.
Above all the places on earth, should !
prefer TO give them the warm hand of ira !
ternal fellowship on the green banks of
the Ohio. There, in view ofthe luxuriant
fields and all the verdant life of your Him
tied Eden, would hold with them broth.
erIy communion on the gospel of nature
and the great principles of humanity
While beautiful world of exuberant Ter
tiliy expanded to their view beneath the
heaven blessed labor of free hands, and
cities and villages, buoyant with the vigor
of youthful activity, We'd with vegetation
in rapidity OF growth Il would remind
them, with earnest tenderness, that the
rain, the dew and the sunlight fell upon
the fields Of Virginia with the same rich.
ness Of bene6cence as upon those OF Ohio:
that nature had Iavished upon the "OId
Dominion" all that she could do for her
choicest vineyard, and never Withheld a
gift that could make il the garden and plo.
ry of America. would say 10 them,
that If the re,en, wilderness of your state
has been made 10 blossom as The rose, j, is
an evidence bearing The sionninre OF The