The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-07-31
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We.know not how il strikes our South.
ern brethren, but to us at the North, the
situation of sIavehoIding jury who arc
required to convict, and OF slayehoId-
ing Judge, who is required to sentence
to punishment. brother STAKEHOLDER for
being concerned in tho foreign slave
trade, must be any thing but agreeable.
Where is the difference in principle, in
buying man in Africa and in America?
How much less cul pable is he who trans.
ports fellow man thousands of miles to
sell him than he who transports fellow
man two miles or two bundled, for the
same purpose? Bot notwithstanding
the principle in the two things is den-
teal, we find John Tyler, who will
whine and simper over the atrocity of
the & defend the other in the strong
est terms; a Henry A. Wise, who will cut
off mans head for being concerned in
the African slave trade, and shoot him
for opposing the American; and Judge
at one of the most notorious slave marts
on earth, condemning in language the
most emphatic, the transporting men
across the ocean for the purpose oftraf-
fc, while at the same time he would
condemn as severely any interference
with the traffic in men in his own land!
At the session of the U. S. District
Court, which closed at Baltimore, on
Tuesday, the Oath ult., Jason l.. Pen
dleton was convicted Of fitting out and
selling vessel on the coast of Africa,
for the slave trade, and sentenced by
Judge Heath to be imprisoned one year,
and to pay fine of $1,000.
The Baltimore Saturday Visier of
the 28th, gives the Substance of the re-
marks Of the Judge on passing the SEN
tence II is full ofhorror at the 'horri-
bic cruelties, the shocking enormities oF
this revolving traffic
The followingis an extract:
Happy were they who expired in com,
parison with those who landed upon
foreign, and TO them unknown shore,
doomed for a life to state Of hopeless
serviude. The captive may witness tho
rising and setting of the same sun that
shines upon his own far country he may
feel the same breeze that played around
his own deserted and wretched how
ell, and has past over his own native
land but it brings no JOY to him, nor
wife, nor children more shall he be-
hold, nor friends, nor sacred home,'-
To these enormities, which would not
be believed but for the facts before us,
the members Of civilized, gallant and
a christian people, lend themselves, and
prostitute the flag of their coun.ry-a
flag that should never protect the deceive
er. nor give strength to the oppressor-
that should never be unlurIed except in
defence ofhuman rights. or the promotion
Of human happiness
The act of which you stand convicted
is one in a moral point or,iew of great
enormity; yet, ifit be possible, more
heinous still is the crime Of him who apx
plies his wealth to fiji out these unhaIlow
ed expeditions and to tempt you and
others in like situations TO engage in
such enterprises. There are no words
iii our language, copious as it is, that
would adequately describe the enormity
Of his conduct Such a wretch should
be hunted down and driven from society
as an enemy to the human race
If Judge Heath is consistent man,
he must burn to pass similar sentence
upon his fellow citizen, Hope II. Slater,
who so frequently before his own eyes,
ships cargoes ofhis neighbors for the N.
Orleans understanding husbands
and wives, parents and children, where
they are destined to undergo the same
treatment that the Judge affirms theAfri-
can is forced to suffer -BaagorGazette.
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