The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-08-06

o consumption, and ultimately for export. Gu
s country and our State should follow up thu
: mode of policy which is pursued by the great
| est manufacturing interest in the world. W.
should sit on our wool sacks in order to en-
courage the wool grower. We should give
5 bounties and grant prohibitions until the
r branches of our manufacturing rise to al
equal level with other orders, graduated to the
, wants they supply. To manufacture for oul
own wants and consumption, he believed 1t Q
conceded point, would add measureless advan-
tage and vigor to the morals, productive indus
try and independence of our common coun-
try. The savings already manifest from the
manufacture Of sugar from the sacharine juice
OF the maple groves, constitutes striking
proof of what Vermont might do, by econo-
MIXING her resources, and directing ingenuity
and labor, under the auspices Of an enlight-
ened and enlarged policy"
APPEAL From NANTUCKET. The papers
bring us the earnest and touching appeal
from the Selectmen of Nantucket, in behalf
of the sufferers in the late awful confagration
in that town. We trust that it will meet
with ready response. No fire has ever hap
pened in New England, we believe, des-
troying so many buildings, or been attended
| Will circumstances CulCuldlclt W pIOuuCc 81
much distress. Very many of the sufferers
are widows and orphans who have lost their all
and are left without any means of support /;
others are the families of sea-fareing men
who are away on voyages of one, two, three,
or four years duration, thus stripped of all
| they have in the absence of those, whose
duty it is to provide for them. The isolated
situation of the place, also, adds greatly to the
force of the calamity. There is no country
back and around them to flee to, or receive
aid from. They are alone at distance of
about 80 miles from the nearest point, of the
main land and 60 miles from any considerable
town, being that distance from New Bedford.
Their peculiar position, it will readily be I'M
derstood, also deprives them of many of the
facilities for putting themselves again into
business, which towns in the midst of others
would enjoy. There are other circumstances
which make the case peculiarly distressing
one, some of which are spoken OF in the FOL
lowing extract which we make from the appeal
Mass. Spy.
g One third of our town is in ashes. A fire
broke out on Monday last, a few minutes be-
fore eleven o'clock and ragged almost uncon-
trolled for about nine hours. The whole
business section of the town is consumed
There is scarcely dry goods, grocery, or
provision store left standing, and what more
particularly threatens immediate distress, the
stock contained in them, so rapidly did
the confagration extend is almost utterly
destroyed.
There is not food enough in town to keep
widespread suffering from hunger at bay a
single week. Seven Fights of our mechanics
arb without shops, stock or tools they have
tb,;,. no of Il
Hundreds of families are without roof to
of them even without change of raiment.
Widows and old men have been stript of
their all they have no hope for the future
exec pit such as are founded upon the human
ity of others.
We are in deep trouble. We cannot our
selves relieve the whole distress, we are COM
PEELED to call upon those who have not been
visited like ourselves, for aid in this our hour
of necessity. We do not ask you to make up
our loss, to replace the property which the
conAagration has destroyed, but to aid lis, so
far as you feel called upon by duty and hui
mainly, in keeping direct physical suffering
from among us, until we can look round us
and see what is to be done. We want help, |
liberal and immediate.
If we seem to you importunate,, VIC can |
only say that could you look upon the yet |
smoking ruins of one third of our town.
could you walk through our remaining streets |
filled with houseless hundreds wandering |
about seeking for some roof to cover them,
or for such remnants of their household goods
as may have been snatched by others from
the flames, could you feel, as we do, that not
many days can pass before positive want will
be knocking at our doors-oQr words would |
appear feeble, our appeal certainly not more
earnest than the occasion requires. But we
are confident that you feel for us and with us,
and that you will render us such assistance as
is in your power
STRAWBERRY LEAVES. Three or four
eaten green are an immediate remedy for
Dysentery, Summer Complaint, &C. Papers
by publishing the above will confer favor on
community, and save an immense amount of
suffering and save many valuable livcs.--AD.
Ayy'ls
FATAL ACCIDENT. We are panied to
learn that Mr.. Soloman Townslee Jr. of Pow
nal, was most shockingly manged while in
the act of grinding his sythe by means of water
power, on wednesday last, causing his death
in stantly. He became entangled in the belt,
and was carried round the shaft, breaking his
limbs and bruising his body in a, most shock
ing manner. Mr.. T. was an under Sheriff,
and was respected by all who had the pleas
ure of his acquaintance. He is about thirty
years of age, and has left wife and number
of children, and a whole community to noun
his departure.-Statc Banner
The Vermont journal is out upon "Odd
fellowship, as the most whitening, blighting,
\ ;OH
community" Tall language, that, Mr. Journal;
and it may be true but we don't believe it is
one half as bad as locofocoism. Give the de-
vii his due, however. If you have been thro'
the mill, and know the facts. fire away
You won't hit any body down in this region,
Odd Fellowship, With Masonry, departed from
tbaro h1nc,ipS loD,,o on Joury, in a ,Not-ocb