The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1848-05-25
THE VOICE.
BR A N d ON:
THURSDAY, MAY 25, l949'


For the OlCt Vi IioNuO'h'
"Tho South evidently has an interest that con-
Aicts with the North" So saith IS. G. NJ in the
Voice of Freedom of May 18th. Did not the South
oin ahe North in the bloody times that tried mems
souls2 Did they not take an active part In the
American Revolution, and aid in achieving our
rlorious independence? Did they not send dele
gates to consult with ours, in mutual convention,
for the greatest good of the entire country' Did
thew not adopt constitution and form government
which was assented to by all the Statcs2 Was not
that constitution founded on mutual concession and
compromise? And did not that constitution guar
anty to the South certain rights and privileges, and
among others the right Of holding slaves Has not
the accused institution of slavery been fosered un-
der the wings of the constitution and its rights (I
it have any been carefully guarded by the provs-
ions of that solemn instrument? Have not the soy
ereign people elected six Presidents from the slave
holding States, and have these men with the eX-
ceDton of the great Mexican warrior who now sits
in the Presidential chair done anything detrimental
to the great interests of the country? Have they
not adhered to the Union? Did not the immortal
father of his country" in his farewell address, tell
his countrymcn to rown upon the first attempt at
fisunion'? Shall not acandidate for the Prcslden-
CIV be selected from the entire body Of the people
without regard to the North, South, East or West?
Shall not the wings of Vermont unite with their
brother wings from every part of the country, and
select candidate for the Presidency, 'Hhom they ca"
elect, and to whose patriotism integrity and faith
funess, they can contide the interests OF this lie
ni,blic? Do we not need man ut the head OF nj
fairs who will be instrumental in rcscung the coun-
try from the great debt and disgrace into which it
has been plunged by a weak, wild and pusanitnous
administration? Are not all the interests Of this ma
ton common? What is that interest which the
South has, that conflicts with the North Is it
slavery? Is it the cultivation of tobacco and cotton?
Is it lack Of enterprise in manufactures? In what
way does Southern slavery prejudice Northern IN
terests2 If that heaven daring institution tied to-
gether as it is by the strained nerves and racked
snews, and ccmented by the blood streaming from
three millions of human bodies, were Immediately
and Internationally abolished, what would be the |,
effect on the interests of northern labor? Would !
not the negroes make their way to the Northern
States and cause reduction in the prices Of labor,
besides adding large amount of pauperisin to the
country, thus increasing taxation? This slave in
stution, as every reasonable Southern man will
admit, is founded in wrong and unjustfable OPP |.
preston. am apologist for it, but should we do
evil that good may come? Should we give unquai-
iiod and unconditional freedom to three millions OF
ignorant, brutalized and degraded human beings,
who arc not in the least degree restrained by self
denial and personal government, entirely unac-
guanted with the first principles of civil liberty and
the just and true grounds Of republican govern
ment?
Have the three hundred thousand Frcnchmcn that
throng the Boulcvards of Paris any correct notions
Of Il republican form of government? This great
mass of human beirg3,-a large majority Of whom
can neither read writeare rending the air with
shouts Of liberty expecting the government to do
cveryting for them, when, in fact they constitute
tho very government ITSELF and must rely on cduca
ton and moral rectitude as the safeguards of their
freedom. The Southern slaves are as incapable Of
self government as mere children, the Infatuated
mobs of Frenchmen, who are demanding aid of the
provisional Government" ready at any moment
to light up the lurd fires of war and bloodshed in
the sunny provinces of France, and to plunge the
whole of Europe into the work Of human butchery.
Would it not be the better policy TO try, by reason
and argument, and by moral suasion, to convince
the savcholding States that they should create legal
cnactments, providing for the education and moral
elevation of their slaves, and thus prepare them to
become republican freemcn? "Thc North is asleep"
if it desires to add, without any reserve or quaf-
cation, three millions of uncducatcd wretches 10 the
voting population of this country. "The North is
asleep" Il mean the wing porton,) if it will not
join with the South in eevating TO the Presidential
chair, an individual, honest, qualified and riAi"g to
conduct the affairs of State with an eye single to
the greatest good of the greatest NUMBER regardless
of sectional prcjudices and opportunities. y.
Orwell, May 10th
REMARKS. ,