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


service OF the cause A.; yet for the time being, il
appears that | may do more to serve itby go
ing than Ivy staying, and that is reason e
nough for setting aside the dictates of my owr
personal reluctance to the separation from my
family.
1t is sixteen years since / began TO plead
the cause Of the enslaved l began in odium
and disgrace, and truly have not made much
progress out of them ever since. Not until
the jubilee, can | expect to be thought well
of among men and Icare not TO receive their
appreciation, till they have washed their hands
of slavery. l believe l have not faltered
since the first breaking of the ground, have
never advised to stop the agitation. have
never counselled you to give back. | do not
feel as if | should ever do so. Where we had
one motive to go forward ten or fifteen years
ago, we have million now. Where we had
one voice to cheer us onward, we have myr-
lads now. 1t is not the abolitionists who
prophesy danger and discontinue. 1t is the
shareholders who are in trouble, is it not p
the shareholders who fear the abolitionists as
the Jews Of old feared the Romans-and who,
tearing lest we take away their name and ma
ton, want Texas, that they may get as far
from us as possible. There is no terror in
our camp; but they have not one man of
NOt4t' Ia liCli , lOI lACIC Is NV OHc
of them who does not know he sin the wrong
and this is the consciousness that makes
man a bastard. We, on the contrary, who
are in the right, feel invincible.
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I have pat back the year of jubilee fifty
years, it has been said, by those too, who pre-
tend to be the friends of our enterprise
We have great many parrots here at the
North, without any brains, and without any
feeling except that ofhatred to our enterprise,
who merely echo this cry from the South
l. any one so senseless as to think the South
believes it p? lift be true that | have put
back emancipation fifty years, | marvel that
! have not received an elaborate panegyric
from George Nc Dufie I wonder that John
o. Calhoun has not become the liberal patron
OF the American Antisavery Society; and
that the Llberator has not an extensive cir
culation South Of Mason and Dixon's line
No-the shareholders are to a man against
these individuals and instrumentalities while |
the abolitonists bless them, the slaves rejoice |
IN them, and you beloved ones, are continue |
ally unfolding them and sustaining them,
with every pulsation of your hearts. If we |
had been putting back the day of Jubilee, de- |
pend on it, neither you nor the slaves would |
have been with lis, while the shareholders
would have been our truest allies.
You, my friends, are men, and as men,
will be tried by all the circumstances and
events that try mankind. White men are
tiled by the temptations of party politics =
why not colored men also? White men
shrink when the truth clashes with their re-
llgous sects and preconceived theological
doctrines: why should not colored people
feel like shrinking too?
Shall say that this political temptation
has cost me many a struggle? You don't
Know how much once thought depended up
on the result Of our town-electors in New
buryport! CA laugh) / could not sleep o.
nights, when I thought the opposition were
coming in like q food, to get the advantage
Of us iii town meeting. Continued laugh
tcr) On theological questions, too, l have
had to change, again and again and again
Because love to change? because 1 do not
object to being chameleon No! but be-
cause am ready to sacrifice inherited opin-
ion to universal moral principle, scctaTian
dogmas to universal truths. tell this to
prove to You that l will not ak any one to do
what l shrink from doing myself. know as
well as another, and from experience, too,
just what is due to him who is in the wrong,
thinking himself in the right. /
will forbear to condemn such a one, as long
as have the evidence Of his sincerity. l
will say, God bless that person, he is sincere;
all will be right in due time But when l
hear the Old serpent hiss through his lips, in
opposition to the right, feel like putting nv
foot upon him. All things else, but that old
serpent can take to my bosom, but him l
cannot. (Applause)
A gentleman then came forward and ex-
pressed a wish to be heard. Attention be-
ing given, it appeared that he was the son of
the Hon. Romulus Saunders, Of North Caro-
lna. now Minister to Spain.
lie had been sent to the North a few
months before, by his falpily and placed in
an insane asylum in New Hampshire, in the
hope that the treatment might remove hy-
poehondriacal affection, under the influence
OF which he fancied it impossible for him to
utter single word.
His Illness soon yielded to the remedies
used, but Che influence ofhis step-mother was
to his release. lie now took his (
freedom, left the hospital and in the fear of {
being retaken, stated that he, the son of
stakeholder, threw himself when suffering
upon the protection of one whom
he had heard of as the advocate of the en-
saved He had sought out Mr. Garrison, re-
ceivcd kindness and protection at his hands, :
and now pledged himself before the audience
to defend that name against the obloquy
heaped upon it at the South
The meeting then separated in that Joy l
tnl cxaltodncss of spirit which is the best {
preparation for coming duties.-Liberator.
THE CoNTR Asr. There is a place on
Garth where pure joys are unknown--from
which politeness is banished, and has given