The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-04-15
Our Country the Home of Free
dom.

AN6AkH
y The United States of America, as humili
q ating as her position before the nations nov
n is, has become, and with Gods help, will con
/, tlnue to be, the refuge Of the oppressed ant
l. miserable from every kingdom under heaven
+ Here alone, of all the wide earth, are equa
n civil rights, privileges and immunities oper
to all freemen and here only is that curse O.
the word-ecclesiastic domination-unfel
in the exercise of its selfish tyranny. The
rich with the poor, the high with the low arc
alike amondable to public opinion; together
must they enter the lists for the race of for.
tune, fame, and power, like the noUi homines
the aeW men of the old Roman nation, and
1t is oftener that the children ofHe people, are
crowned with the vctor's laurels, than that
the same distinction rests upon the brows of
the descendants of the would be mobiles of any
generation.
True, we have one institution that rears its
bold and bloody front heaven high, in its hid
eous crushing Of all right, all sacred relations,
all civil good Domestic Slavery sits in CORY
despotism as the enshrined god Of portion of
| the people, and waves the flashing blade of
dissolution, and threatens anarchy, fire and
ruin, if so much as a hand be lifted against
its cruel wrongs, if so much as a voice be
heard in feeble utterance of its terrible guilt.
But it is the clustering of coward conscience
it is the echoing of a spent volcano, that
makes up in internal muttering thunder what
it lacks in belching fire. The day of its
doom is coming-as surely and irresistibly
as the mountain torrent, when the sultry sun
melts down the icy masses of winter, and
the windows Of heaven pour out their vernal
| floods.
Already that torrent is coursing on its way.
The iccb crgS of political craft are melting
down, cascades are pitching from the north
crn hills, and in the deep valleys and through
the passes of the mountains the echo is com
ing; new rills flow in from every village and
hamlet, and the full tide of public opinion is
swelling it to a flood On on it goes, roar
ing and sweeping from north to south, and
they who would not be overwhelmed in its
sweep, must become Of its clements and min.
gle with its flow. The next national election
will be decided solely on this question. The
old party organizations have nearly lost their
vitality they have burned out from internal
fires, and from their ashes the bird of Free
dom, like the phoenix of old, will arise, bring
ing the dead ancestral body with it, to be
buried in Egyptian darkness.
We say again, tie total extinction Of Afri
can slavery is at land and we rejoice. A
great mission is before US, as a people, and
the highway must lie prepared by levelling
all such mountains Of inconsistency, and fill
ing up the valleys of past delnqucncies Our
ecclesiastical projections and restrictions are,
perhaps, perfect models for a republican peo-
pie; let our civil code become as catholic, lib
eral and comprehensive, and we may boast
ourselves the happicst nation under heaven
We have resources to supply all the down
trodden Of every land with plenty and COM
fort. The treasures Of the great West are
unlocked, and the day is not distant, when the
Rocky Mountains will be trayersed by the |
iron horse, and Pacific cities yet unbuilt will
send their freightcd steamships to ncighboring
China in twenty days. Thus shall we become
as it were, the great central, political power
erty thus by our institutions, character, and
capacity shall we influence and change the
whole. Our centripetal power, to keep up
the figure, already has drawn, and is drawing
multitudes to US, who thus become of us. A
large accession to our population is expected
from Holland, this very year. The interior
ence of their government with the exercise
of religion, and more particularly the right
claimed to nominate and present the incum-
bents for the church livings the exclusive
control of education, conioined with the in
tolerable taxation and other civil expressions
has led to such state of feeling among a
nation like the Dutch, always attached to
their religion, and distinguished for their OPP
position to arbitrary power, that now large
masses are ready and anxious to leave. Pre-
parations are making to locate the new colo
nists in Western Michigan These come not
to influence, but to be Influenced by us. We |
become to the multitudes of cmigrants who |
flock to u.s. the great political schoomaster,and
are the almoners Of Gods bounty in helping
onward human progress, human freedom, and
human happiness. Noble mission |! Let us
never forget that moral rectitude and right
government are the two great foundations of
order and comfort among mankind. But while |
government restrains the outragcs and crimes
which would be subversive of society, defends |
the lives and secures the property of its sub
jccts-mora rcctitudo supplies the insuficen-
cy of the law, by striking at the root of all
disorder Happy is that people that is in
such a case."-B0St. Bee.