State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-11-29

change papers. Two or three thousand of
Miss Grimke's appeal have recently been
sent there, and but very few of them re-
turned Many of our publications are pur-
chased by Southerners at the Office in New
York. Net long since North Carolina
Shareholder paid over sixty dollars for anti
slavery publications, which he distributed
in tho slave States. A few days since a
president of a college in slave State, paid
about nine dollars for set of our books,
pamphlets, sc. Southern Governors,
members of Congress, and other gentlemen
of standing and influence in the slave
States, often send for whole sets of anti
slavery books pamphlets tracts and prints
They are anxious 10 see our publications,
and know what we are doing. We are
credibly informed, that most Of our publ
cations which have been destroyed in the
slave States have been carefully perused.
1t is fact, that many of the publications
pretended TO have been destroyed in
Charleston, were carefully preserved and
read. So the leaven of abolition is working
at the South.
Besides, Sir, multitudcs, of the South
rush to the North every season, and many
OF them call at the Anti-Slavery offices in
New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Provi-
Gence, and other places, and ask for our
publications. Those who will call for them,
find more or less of them on board steam
boats, in public houses, and in hundreds Of
country and city parlors.
You see by these statements and facts,
how we are operating upon the South
through the medium of the press, The
cause advances darkness, prejudice and
error recede, just as fast as the true light
blazes out fl ON the press
| Now, sir, shall the press cease to thunder
in the ears of the STAKEHOLDER his duty, and
plead the cause of the suffering millions !?
| Shall it be crippled for want of means !?
Let every Aboiionist answer for himself,
I by making personal efforts to sustain it,
After what have said, it requires no
argument to prove that it is the duty of
Abolitonists personally to make immediate
and perScpering efforts to secure the reading
of at least one Anti Slavery periodical in
every family in the land.' In this way,
every one can do something e6ectuaHy to
promote the good cause.
I The low price of our publications brings
them within the reach of all. Those who
cannot afford to pay two dollars for the
Emancipator, can pay one dollar for the
I
for a copy of Human Rights. Five dollars
will furnish forty families with copy of
the Human Rights year. Ten dollars
will furnish one hundred families with the
same. ThiiLy dollars will furnish twenty
families with copy of the Emancipator
weekly, provided they are ordered at one
time, and all sent TO one Post Office. Five
dollars will pay for six copies of the Quar-
! ta,,,lxy C an GnlI ;n.o ;nh
every friend of the slave should enter. A
little money expended in this way will do
great good. II every paper does not form
an Anli-Slavery Society, it will probably
make at least one convert to the cause, who
would give his money and convert others.
The executive committee have recently
commissioned large number of lecturers,
and their present means will not allow
them to distribute their publications gra-
tuiously as heretofore. They have already
curailed their gratuitous distribution, and
unless the friends of the cause come
promptly to their assistance and furnish
the means, they will be obliged to curtaiI
farther. A much larger quantity have been
circulated in this State gratuitously, in
proportion to its size and population, than
in any other State in the Union. Within
fifteen months past, the Parent Society
have sent more than one hundred thousand
papers into this State at an expense of more
than $500. Now, sir, we call upon the
aboltionists of Rhode Island to come for
ward aud subscribe literally to all our pub
iicaions. Let the money you give you
personal efforts, aad your prayers tell how
much you feel for two and half million:
of your brethren in bondage.
MIR STANTON seconded the resolution
lie hoped the people would not go off be
cause the subject of money is mentioned
1t may he said to me, you are not engaged
in busincss-in making money-and dc
; not know any thing upon this subject.
Sir, may have earned money, and the
reason that | have not kept it may be tina
it seemed duty to distribute it as eurneC
f it. Now let those who have seemed, il
their eyes, 10 be wiser, open their purses
Mr. Stanton gave the character of the Anti
, Slavery publications. 1t is due, said he
from the Abolltonists OF Rhode Island Il
subscribe for these publications. The Pa
rent Society have hitherto sent many o
them gratulously into this State, and the,
have made all The abolitionists whom W,
see here. They ought not TO be required
, 10 continue to send them gratuitously Il
, keep aboli,onists awake.
; The resolution was passed.
= Mr. LEWIS TAPPAN, OF New Yorl
, city spoke in support of the following reso
luton:
| That the principles and measures Of tn
= Anti-Slayery Societies are in accordance
!, with The Declaration of Independence, th
Constitution of the United States, the scrip
Y lures, and the best interest of the who'll
, American people, bond and free.
Mr. T. said that since the gentleman VIII
e had preceded him had shown that SLAYER
+ was sin, and POINTED out the way in whic
, it should he remove ed, he would endeavo
l 10 show that the doctrines and measures G