Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-03-31
or less kindred, the writer does not inform

H Our Acknowledgements to Mr.
SIade, for a pamphlet containing the re-
marks of Mr. Hammond of South Carroll
na' on the question Of receiving petitions
for the abolition af Slavery and the slave
trade in the District Of Columbia-deliv-
cred in the House of Representatives, Feb.
|, 1886. No doubt Mr. Hammond has
lmmortalized his name. He is scholar
His command ofEnglish would do honor
to better cause. His speech is a most
luminous defence-or rather attempt at
defence Of an institution that is, from its
beginning has been, and TO its final de-
struction will be, war upon human ma
ture.
1t was quite needless for him to inform
US that he was born and bred in the midst
OF Slavery-as needless as for Nicholas Of
Russia to commence harangue from his
throne with a declaration that he was edu-
Gated a monarchist. On this point, the
spirit of Mr. Hammond's piece exceeds
his words, in power of description. He
| abounds in polished rufianism. We
shall preserve the article for the gaze of
posterity.
We give three short extracts, without
particular comments except few strokes
Of underscoring, and little other severity
Of pointing:
In southern latitudes, where great agri-
cultural staples are produced, and where
not only large combination Of labor un-
der the direction of one head is required,
but it is also necessary that the conncxion
between the operatives and that head should
be absolute and INDISSOLUBLE, DO
NESTLE SLAVERY is INDISPEN-
SABLE. TO such country it is as nat
uraI as the cline itself-as the birds and
beasts to which that cline is congenial.-
| The camel loves the desert; the reindeer
seeks the everlasting SHOWS; the wild
! fowl gather to the waters; and the eagle
wings his flight above the mountains. 1t
is equally the order of Providence that
slavery should exist amonga planting peo-
| pie, beneath a southern sun. There the
Iaborer must become a fixture Of the soil.
Ills task is not from day to day. nor from
month TO month, bit from season to season,
and from YEAR TO YEAR. He must be
there to clear, TO break, to plant, to ill., to
gather, to falloW, and to clear again; and
he must be kept there by NEVER
CEASING, unavoidable and irresistible
torce.
Slavery is said to BE- an evil that it i'm
poverishe5 the people, and destroys their
alone, and we are cOntented with it-WhV
should others interfere? But 1t is nc
erl On the contrary, / beIiere tito be
the greatest Of all the GREAT BLESSINGS
which a
~ KIND PROVIDENCE -
has bestowed upon our glorious region
For without it, our fertile soil and ou1
fructfying climate would have been giver
TO us in vain.
Sir, / do firmly belize that domestic
slarery regulated as Ours is produces TIL
highest toned the purest, best organ1zat;o7
OF socletp that has erer existed on the fac
Of the earth.
Thirteen divorcements were granted b,
the Legislature of New Jersey, during it
s session just closed.
: The House Of Representatives Of Mas
! sachusctts have passed bill abolishin!
n capital punishment, Except in the cases {
d murder and arson,) by vote of pa
d III.
Mr. Hammond of South-Carolina, in hi
r anti-abolition speech, stated the number
v petitions presented to Congress, in on
n day, for the abolition Of slavery and tn
slave trade in the District of Columbia,
have been Gyfy-eight, signed by NOR
II than seven thousand persons; and that h
>, understood the number of petitions aIread
1T forwarded to different members of Coz
IN gress, to be THREE HUNDRED!
d all were signed as numerously as tho'
already presented, the number would
\ mount to some FORTY THOUSANI
= ~RETURN.-We send the pre-
ent number to divers individuals who su
=. scribed for only six months. AS many
= these as will now discontinue, are reque
ed to return this number, toith their nam
- and post-ofce signed.
hvl .. = =