Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-06-30
ERMoNT FRLEGRAPH.

home. This was the system of Washing
ton and Jefferson, steadily pursued by all
their successors. and to which all your
treaties and all your laws of intercourse
with the Indian tribes, were accommodate
ed. The whole system is now broken up;
and instead of it you have adopted that of
exPelllng, by force or by compact, all the
Indian tribes from their own territories
and dwellings, to a region beyond the
Mississippi, beyond the Missouri, beyond
the Arkansas, bordering upon Mexico;
and there you have deluded them with the
hope that they will find permanent abode
"a final resting place from your never
ending rapacity and persecution. There
you have undertaken to lead the willing
and to drive the reluctant, by fraud or by
force; by treaty or by the sword and the
rife all the remnants ofthe Seminoles, of
the Greeks, of the Chcrokees, of the Choc-
taws, and of how many other tribes can
not now stop to enumerate. In the pro-
cess ofthis violent and heartless operation,
you have met with all the resistance which
men III so hel pless condition as that of
the Indian tribes coutd make. Ofthe im-
mediate cause of the war we are not vet
fully informed but l fear you will find
them, like the remoter causes all attribu-
table to yourselves. 1t is in the last ago.
MES of people, forcibly torn and driven
from the soil which they had inherited
from their fathers, and which your own
example, and exhortations, and instructions
and treaties, had riveted more closely to
their hearts it is in the last convulsive
struggles of their despair, that this war
has originated and if it brings with it
some portion of the retributive justice of
Heaven upon our own people, it is our du-
ty to mitigate, as far as the public resource
es ofthe national treasury will permit, the
distresses of the innocent of our own kin
dred and blood, suffering under the neces-
sary consequences Of our own wrong.
shall vote for the resolution
more speech was delivered without
Fermentation or notes. No report Of it was
made by any of the usual reporters for the news
papers. MIR Adams has written it out himself
from recollection at the request of several of his
friends, for publication. 1t u.s. Of course, not in
the precise language used by him in the House.
There is some application of the arguments
| which he used, and. perhaps, some omissions
which have escaped his recollection. The SUBJ
stance OF the speech is the same. j.
ACQUITTAL OF RoB1NsoN-While pub
lie opinion is somewhat divided, though
not to a very great extent, on the question
otthe guilt or innocence of young Robin
son and while few, if any, are satisfied
with the manner in which the prosecution
was conducted-there are two points on
which there is no division of sentiment
All admire the consummate talent of the
defence, and all agree that whether guilty
or not, the verdict ofthe jury was inevitable
from the testimony before them The
maxim that it is better that ten guilty
should escape than that single innocent
person should suffer, is as just as is mer,
ciful.
But whether innocent of the crime laid
to his charge, or guilty, the case of young
Robinson should serve as solemn warn
ing, not onl y to the young, but to parents,
guardians and employers If innocent oil
the crime for which he has passed the ter
rible ordeal of the law, for life or death
he is nevertheless guilty of having enter
ed, IN the early bloom of youth, certainly
before he had escaped the age of boyhood
upon career of Infamous debauchery
characteristic of bloated and full-grown
depravity rather than that of purity and
innocence which we ought to expect in
the fresh and sunny age just bordering
upon puberty. Nor does he stand alone
in his career of juvenile iniquity Sever
al of his accociates- interesting youth not
yet entered upon the theatre of manhood
have been compelled to stand up before
the worlds indignant gaze, and own
themselves the regular inmates and visit
ers of brothels. Not only so, but from the
F preponderance of young men among the
audience in dali " attendance upon the tri
al, and their evident sympathies with those
concerning whom these disclosures were
made, it was but too manifest that a state
of morals exists among portions of ou1
youth, as fearful in its extent as it is deer
and black in its atrocity.
| The l~sson should be read and ponder
, ed alike by parents in the city and in the
f country, and also by those who have
Yong men in their employ That false
ambition which but too many parents en-
terrain, in the country, of taking theil
> youthful sons from the farm or the work
! shop, and sending them to the city to be-
come merchants, is one source of misfor
tune. Too often, moreover, are they SER
2 hither without relations or guardians tt
: look after them, at exactly the most dan
t gerous point of their existence. Ignoran
of the worl1-generous and confding-
r curious and susceptible of every new i'm
= pression-they are anxious to see ane
learn the ways of the city in all its varie
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