The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1848-05-18

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tne workshops ana the maritime commerce Of Eu
rope ma one OF Their principal sources of employ
lLflt IN thc conversion or carriage OF vegetable
substances elt!ier Indigenous 10, or most advantage
Uu9S grown Ill uie SOL Oh America Inc colonial
Ilon Oh new continent under such remarkable cir
ouI9'1nces coulu NOV lall 10 giFea powerful impulse
W tIG productive Hr's any lIeir Increased econo-
h'oai' So,iolc.ai "liu illali =! ln'Pol'uce mas
Se''cu ei. WIN IN interest ~ te Eyes Ii stes
n'oil! aiu PioiillnoiioG 'S oDJooVo oNleeIlS ~ pc
CneriSned, III every wen rcgq'teu Sche'ne oil po-
llicai economy, "nlCh tncy had never before al
famed ana inc social Posuol OF tlose VINO are en-
S"seu III 'iloln nus ueeh eleN'leu 'coo
turther here are certain features OF our lhStitu-
TONS and our primary legislation, which nave con
touted hoI htIle 10 RAISE ana improve lnc conul
tloh Vi tiose VINO pursue tne lnouStlI" aus anu
GsPeclay ol lhose deVoteu 10 aSIc.l'u,aI occula-
tols' ne most important OF these IS inc rejection
y, leudal tenureS 10 las, ana INC cIc"tlon Vi pure
aiIoual csatesIa tltle scarcely known 70 the com
laoil Jaw ana winch MAKES every man tle aoaoute
! lIealoSipe o"nGto MS own ANA, su3lecV Hei[her
!" '0l IT'S "'ioS'iis HtS' t'o', loiiol? ioilc"-
uIe, loi any manner Oh ouIeeh OF ieS'rnhC uppl
"G!'tIoh ny SAFE inheritance OF ueYlse' OF upon Ine
VI LIS Soii io' sum p"loso9, VI ~ s'n
GoulSe VI nuspa"IJ as ne may uee'I eM2e'lleIn.
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between the REPRESENTATIVES in canal degree with
out distinction of ace or SEX The effect of this
system to ether with the low price of lands has
/ been to make almost every person. who lives to
wears of maturity. an absolute proprietor of the
soil, or in other words one of the landed nobility of
the republic, for the notion of hereditary nobility in
Europe was founded ON inc rl5ht OF ihAenulS real
estate, they who owned the soil OF particular
country bGihg considered as It's rghtIni lofds ana
governors, because, by concert among themselves,
they could lawfully exclude all Others from the
right of possession Or ever of commorancv upon
any portion of its territory. Our laws do not indeed
restrict political franchises to those alone, who
seized Of real estate but rs majority of those who
are of the legal age for the exercise of those fran
chises are andhOdels, the proprictors Of the soil
are in fact here as in most civilized governments,
the real rulers OF the land The mechanic arts too
have been relieved from the burden of long apprel-
ticeshps and other legal obstacles to Their free ex
ercise and every species of productive industry is
among us as free and unrestricted as the winds of
heaven The result of nil this las been that the
arts of production as well as of conversion in our
time, and especially in our land have proved a
source of thrift to those who pursue them of physi-
cal and financial strength to the commonwealth and
Of general benefit TO society in IL decree of which
history gives no previous example, and they need
only a wise liberal and stable pocv on the part of
Our government TO be Il most important agent in
elevating us to as Mgl 4 pitch of power and pros
peritv, as has rs vet been attained by any nation
under heaven.
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In purely savage life the wants of man are sup
piled by the destruction of the fruit or plant, or
animal, which clothes or feeds the human beast OF
prey, and while stripping the textile fiH'n0nto Hoh
their vegetable stalf %" h"9 HS ana deYourlng the
A'!,o Hcn ms ia!Ien i? ms sihte, ne L'hc' no
~ t'iO Vi Vi':'t "i''oii nc III
Lu,iIon'IE cosules' pu. tau'tS liipntny 10 lle
o''ig 81 oti',leous t'''u,o ~ SgPPlE ,.,o &C.
o,em nave cIe'Tu tlC%ion 1'6 gu, ml,u
M l"l SVtm1"5 tt c4i'lnIU ".ia ~
i 9'PPi % i'i,.l wv 9iea' Ply sioni "G'i'i looi
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Of perfection to which these arrangements are car
ried if it does not constitute the essence at least
furnishes q safe and convenient measure of the
pitch of civilization, which given people has at |
ainoc The arts of the savage are the arts of des-
truction; he desolates the region he inhabs his |
life is warfare of discrimination series of hos
tiics AGAINST nature or his follow man and his
labors are confined TO the fabrication of we0Dons
for sl1vnr or rcnelling other tribes that intrude nm
on his limiting grounds or of ouoines for onsuorinp
or dcstroving the wild animals on which he feeds
Civilization on the contrary is at once the mother
and tIn fr1lit of Dp9ce Social man rpnovs to the
aorth all tl,,t he r,ons from her bosom AND hor
tr,iffulncss increases with thn numbers Of civzed
beings who draw Their nutriment and clothing from
the stores of her abundant horvests The fowls of
tho Dir tno and tho hoosts If Tho fn1d find i, tIe
hushondr11n . cheri shed friend The forest denths
remote from fine haunts of men Weld sustenance to
int foy of thn trihns Of animated noturo They are
travcrsed only by swift.f1otel beasts. or strono
WINGED birds of prev and the humble Guadrupeds
and rnntIer birds follow the n,rrations Of fine colo
,,;sts ond ootLcr ,nnn tho borders nf civIi1otior
rbere thn Shnndorrc md vnretL, Of ,a~etnhla Iife
olnri tham fonI and the fear If non secures Them
,r,orton oroist the royaros of the more ronarous
hrntos So2Sra MAJ, tbnn 2 the universal Grn Loth
Of his o,vn "7 onJ Of al nfnror oTronizcd rTis
t =, ;o,,nt;o1 81 tho o,;I ri,,S,;rI ~ ro