The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-08-12
From the National Era,
The Two Professions.

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ardous to act upon the presumption that ali
men are created free and equal" as it would
be in Austria or Russia, the lavish expression
of sympathy and extravagant jubIlatlon win
which, as a people, we are accustomed TO
oroot movements in favor Of freedom abroad,
arc NOT n little remarkable. We almost went
info ecstacies over the first trcnchreVolutlon;
we filed our papers with the speeches OF W.
otor Hunt and the English Radicals we fra
tcrnizcd with the United lrishmen; we hail
ed as brothers in the cause OF freedom the
very MeXieans whom we are now wasting
with fire and sword our orators, North and
South, grew eloquent and classic over the
Greek and Polish revolutions. In short, long
ere this, if the walls of kingcrait and despot-
ism had been, like those OF Jericho, destined
to be oyerthrown by sound, orr Fourth Of Ju-
ly cannon-shootings and bell-ringings, togeth-
err with our fierce, grandiloquent speech
markings, in and out Of Congress- on the occa-
SONS referred to, would have left no stone up
on another.
It is true that an exception must be made
in the case of Uayti. We fired no guns
drank no t0asts, made no speeches in favor OF
the establishment Of that new Republic in our
ueighborhood. The very mention of the
possibility that IIayticn delegates might ask
a(lmittanco 10 the Congress Of the free Re-
Dublcs of thcncw W0rld at Panama, fright
ened from their propricty" the eager Propa-
pandists Of Republcanisn in the Senate, and
Gave dealh-blow to their plilanthropic pro-
iects. But as IIayti is Il Republic Of blacks,
who, having rovoltcd from their masters as
well as from the mother country, have placed
themselves entirely without the pale Of An
glo.Saxon sympathy by their impertinent in
reference with the monopoly Of white liberty
this exception by no means disproyos the
general fact, that in the matter Of powder
burning, bel-jan9linc, speech-making, toast
drinking, admiration Of freedom aiar off and
in the abstract, we have no rivals. The car
feature of our General Sympathios" in
Martin Chuzzlewit is by no means a fancy
sketch.
The news of the Revolution of the Three
DAYS in Paris, and the triumph Of the French
people over Charles X and his ministers, as
matter of course, acted with great effect up
on our national susceptibility We all threw
up our hats in excessive joy at the spectacle
of King dashed down headlong from his
throne and chased out of lis kingdom by his
long-suffering and oppressed subjects. We
took half the credit of the performances to
ourselves, inasmuch as Lafayette was prin-
eipal actor in it. Our editors, from Passama-
quoddy to the Sabine, indited paragraphs
for a thousand and one newspapers, cOngrat-
ulating the Partisan patriots, and prophesying
all manner Of evil to Holy Alliances, Kings,
and missionaries. The National Intelligent
Ger of September 81, 1880, contains full ac'
count of the public rejoicings Of the good pee
pie of Washington on the occasion. Bells
were rung in all the steeples, guns were Tired
and grand procession was formed, including
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of Departments, and other public functional
ries. Decorated with tri-colored flags ming
ling with the stripes and stars over their
heads and gazed down upon by bright eyes
from window and balcony, the General
Svmpathizers" moved slowly and majestically
THROUGH the broad avenue towards the Capt.
toI to celebrate the revival Of French liberty
in manner becoming the chosen rulers Of a
free people.
What spectacle was this for the roprcsen-
tatives of European kingcraft at our seat OF
Government! How the titled agents OF
Metternch and Nicholas must have trembled
in view of this imposing demonstration, for
the safety Of their peculiar institutions"
Unluckily, however, the moral effect of
this grand spectacle was married somewhat by
the appearance Of another procession moving
in a contrary direction. 1t was gang OF
slaves IIand-cuffed in pairs, with the sullen
sadness of despair in their faces, they march
ed YEARLY onward to the music ofthe drivers
whip and the clanking iron on their limbs
Think of it Shouts Of triumph, rejoicing
bells, gay banners, and glittering cayaicadcs,
in honor of Liberty, in immediate contrast
with men and women chained and driven like
cattle to market. The editor ofthc American
Spectator, paper published at Washington