The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-07-29

tcn-years-old giant, and see what can be found in
regard to the k~aowledge Of the slave power. If wo
mistake not, in 1929, or 1880, William Lloyd CARR
son was imprisoned in Baltimore, on a charge Of L.
JE, having accused some men Of being engaged in
the Foreign slave trade, and the bonds Or fine being
a thousand dollars, and he being unable to pay, was
thrust into prison. Arthur Tappan, of New York,
paid this sum, and Mr., Garrison was set free. Anti
Slavery Lecturers were mobbed in various cities
and towns in the free states the Canaan Academy
was drawn off into a bye place ;-Pennsylyania Hall
was burn. to the ground property was burnt, and
otherwise destroyed, in New York; Elijah P. Love
joy was killed at Alton, Illinois Amos Dresser was
whipped in Tennessee, a Presbyterian Elder holding
the light and some of Dresser's clothes during the
performance; Prudence Crandall was imprisoned
in Connecticut, for teaching colored children to
read rewards Of five to ten thousand dollars were
offered for the heads of Arthur Tappan, VIM. Lloyd
Garrison, and others; t~hirty-six persons were hung
in one day, at Charleston, S. c., and the laws i'm
prisoning colored seamen, passed The U. S. Mail
was openly robbed, and some Of its contents burnt,
there; Nat Turner, and some Of his associates, were
executed, and the stringent slave laws of Virginia
enacted; all these, and numerous other things
transpired, showing the rousing of the slave pc wer,
long before this formidable Liberty Party came into
existence.
On the other hand, it may also be remarked that
Vermont sent her rcmo1stralce to Congress against
the admission Of more slave territory, and a~sLingfor-
the abolition Of slavery in the District Of Columbia;
in the territories Of the United States, ard for the
abolition of tie internal slave trade taking as strong
ground letore, as since tic organization Of the Lib
erty party. New York has been gradually doing
away the last vestige of slavery in her midst, alter.
ing not i'll consequence Of the Apostolic Liberty Phil
istines. New Jersey has also been on the same
line Of march, and other states have gradually bceu
moving that way. Tie last named are a few of the
many demonstrations ogoatst slavery, begun long
before the said organization.
And now, what print pies have the Wings aban-
doncd and what hadetS have they sacrificed p
Have they abandoned 4 general protective poicy2
If SO, when, and where? Have they abandoned
their pro-slayery principles virtually charged upon
them? Ifso, where the occasion for another anti
slavcsy party? If they were anti-slayery before the
organization of the Liberty Party, why organize
that party?
On the second extract from the Freeman, we offer
a few remarks. Why had not the editor honesty
enough to say that lAost Of tie things named in
the first two sentences, occurred before the organi-
f cation spoken Of? lie knows it to lie a historical
fact then why undertake to convey the idea to
those who have not become conversant with these
matters, that Liberty party men, as such, have
) caused such demonstrations, and have been the real
sufferers ? What case can Mr.. Poland cite, where
y, a Liberty party man, as such, ard because he was Of
+L,+ ror+,- Jne tor, t,-a, II rooierp1 with i,rprispn-
| ment, q whipping, or even any punishment, from
slave holders, or their special friends? Ii The knows
I Of Il case Of this kind, VIC Will thank him to name
- it. MIR. IioAR was ret sent back frcm Charleston
a because lie was a Liberty party man. Mr.. Iorrey
j was not imprisoned on this account. Mr.Fairbanks
6 and Miss Webster were not prosecuted on This
ground. Mcssrs Burr, Thompson and Work were
!, not iucarccrated in the Missouri Penitentiary fer
), this offence; neither was Cassius NJ. Clay motted
for this reason.
The last sentence in Tic second extract, which
Mr.. Poland declares to contain he foundation prin-
ciples of Tie Liberty party, axe precisely the same,
so far as they GO, as thoc laid down and acted upon
~ by Wings, long before the Liberty party was organ-
Il lied, and which principles have been acted upon
q from that tine to the present; and from Mr.. Pc
. lands own admission ct tie close Of the sentence,
the Legislatures in most of the free states have car
10 ried out the very foundation principles of the Liber-
ty party, and yet he is not satisfied
Our comments on the third and fourth extracts
:. will be brief. We trust every intelligent reader
| will see at once the scope Of these extracts that
the glorifcation of Mr.. Poland has been disposed Of
- in former remarks, and We will just say, that so far
ns Liberty votes have been made to count, as q
e rule, they have counted against the slave, and tho
E. slave holders seeing this,do not have that fear of tho
er result, as many imagine. But if the mode of tho
es political warfare can be changed IF Liberty men
will cast their votes for the party ready to do the
most for the slave,or club together as did the Wings,
70 independent Democrats, and Liberty party men in
to New Hampshire, when they can not elect an anti
10 slavery man without, there will be some show Of a
as result on the score of freedom. Or,tf they will man
he ace rs s~lrewdly as did the Anti-Rcnters in New
York, when they cast their votes for Governor, Of
e- one PARTY, and for Lieut.. Governor, of the other par
tv tv. their votes will then count on the right side. Blu
is, while they reject men who have done, and are DO
We ing all that the most ardent Liberty man could do
NC were he elected, and so cast their votes as to throw
= the plurality on the opposite side, or so vote as t
defeat the election of a candidate who would vote,a
40, a legislator, on the side of freedom, thus giving al
cr- indirect power into the hands of their practical pc
hat litical enemies; We say, while Liberty men thu
an, vote, they can not be doing the political work the
vas profess to desire done. If, theu, Mr.. Poland ho
of rightly laid down the Liberty party creed, We tru'
the all will sec that, having been superseded in the
work, by the Wings of Vermont, there can be Il
the special work for the first named party to do in til
49, II .1,4 4Io coal ,,o, IF +bo EranO,oO RI
his, have no object in view in keeping up the division
but to feather his own nest, by duping those dispo
So cd to support him in his present course.