Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-07-21

The ADDISON COUNTY ANT1-SLAvE-
RY SOCIETY held its anniversary at Mid
dlebury on the 4th inst An address was
delivered by E. D. BARBER, which does
great credit to the head and heart of the
speaker. In these days of calculating e.
ped!ency-of craven hearted politicians
it is encouraging to find one political man
ably, faithfully and fearIessly discharging
his duty to his country, and to crushed hui
man nature. Such men, in such times as
these, are invaluabIe-they are one class
of those who are our country's hope
The address is not mere flourish of mis-
named patriotism but abounds with true
patriotism and genuine philanthropy
We would gladly give the article in e.
tense, but the mass Of matter on the sub
ject pouring forth from all quarters, is
immense, and our sheet is small. 1t is
published in the Free Press by request
of the Society, and is to appear in pamph-
let form. 1t deserves a wide circulation
1t is one Of those articles from which i,
i is difficult to take extracts. Our present
limits however will admit Of extracts only:
What tissue of absurdties and incon-
SlstenciCs is American freedom and Amer
lean legislation! While we spend our
breath in boasting of the liberal principles
| of our government and the humanzing
spirit Of our institutions, our country is
more deeply besotted with the spirit of
slavehoIding than any other nation on the
face ofthe globe. Our orators in congress
pirate loud and long and daily ofthe rights
of man and the blessings of free govern
ments, and they do it with the clank Of
the slaves chain, the crack of the slave
drivers whip, and the rap Of the slave
auctioneers hammer ringing in their ears.
Our national legislature gravely enacts
the African slave trade to be piracy and
Furnishes it with death, while an equally
horrible traffic is carried on without no.
tice or animadversion, under its own eyes
between the different states of the Union
-av, between the District of Columbia
itself and the Southern portions otthe Re-
public. Nay, Congress even permits men
to be arrested and imprisoned in the CAPT,
| tai, OIL suspicion that they are not free,
and instead of presuming them to be pos
sessed of,heir ''inalenable rights" until
it is proved that they have been robbed Of
them, it is assumed that they are not A
meriran citizens, entitled to liberty and
the protection of the laws unless they can
prove it by some higher evidence than
the impress Of the Almighty; and failing
to do this they are sold into perpetual
bondage, to pay the fees occasioned by
their countrv's suspectimg them not to be
what its great bill of rights declares ever,
man to te, free. This is the legalized pi
racv of freedom! We claim that our ex
ample in the cause Of liberty, is giving
free institutions to the priest and king-rid
den people ofother nations and boast wha
a reedeeming spirit we are sending abroad
throughout the world to spread liberia
principles and raise up free governments
while we are rapidly adding states to ou1
confederacy whose constitutions not onl,
permit the existence of slavery, but in ont
instance even prohibit its abolition! We
call America the asylum Of the oppressec
ndthc refuge Of the fugitives from tvran