Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-01-14


heart is too full for utterance upon paper.
find myself at all times inadequateeto the
EXPRESSION of my feelings in epistolary COM
munication and, on this occasion, | am
more than ordinarily embarrassed. Howev-
or. I am writing to one who knows my heart,
and it is, therefore, unnecessary that | should
state nv views or profess anew my devotion
to the cause of the suffering slave. 1t may,
perhaps, be as well to assure you that. tho
for time banished from your country, love
it still-yea, that my love increases towards
you as people nor can help feeling fire.
duently that my destinies are linked with |
yours, and that all which affects the honor
and safety of your country are matters of
concern and deep solicitude to me. l love
America, because her sons, though my per-
secutors, are immortal; because "they know
not what they dos" or, if enlightened and
wilful, are so much the more to be pitied &
cared for. love America, because of the
MANY affectionate friends have found upon
her shores, by whom have bsen cherished,
refreshed, and strengthened, and upon whose
regard place an incalculable value. love
America, for there dwells the fettered slave
fettered, and darkened, and degraded no7r.
but soon to spring into light, and liberty, and
rank on earth, as he is ranked in heaven.
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America, because of the many mighty and
magnificent enterprises in which she has
embarked for the salvation of the world. |
love her rising spires-her peaceful villages,
and her multiplied means of moral, literary
and religious improvement. | love her har-
dy sons the tenants of her vallies and her
mountains green. love her native children
of the forest, still roaming Untutored and un-
tanned in the unsubdued wilderness of the
"far West" | love your country, because
it is the theatre of the sublimest contest now
waglng with darkness, and despotism, and
misery, on the face Of the globe, and because
your country is ordained to be the scene Of
a triumph as holy in its character, and as
glorious in its results, as any ever achieved
through the instrumentalty of man
But, though my soul yearns over America.
and | desire nothing more eagerly than to
see her stand forth among the nations Of the
world, unsullied in reputation, and omnipo-
tent in energy, yet she u |, if spared, deem it
my duty to publish aloud her wide and fearful
departures from rectitude and mercy. shall
increasingly proclaim the wrongs of her en-
shaved children; and while she continues to
traffic in the souls of men, brand her as re-
creant to the great principles of her Revolu-
tiOnary struggle, and hypocritical in all her
professions of attachment to the cause Of
human rights. Think not, my friend, that
when speak of America, | shall dwell up
on the petty foibles (iffoibles they beg Of the
great, and growing, and enlightened, and i'm
proving people among whom | have travel
led. No. | shall leave it to other and more
minute and fastidious journalists, to animal
: vert upon "American manners" in drawin
rooms-the treatment of Turkey carpets
the demeanor of g gentlemen Of standing anc
property" in the theatre-the time occupied
In swallowing an egg, or discussing beef
steak, &c. &c. | shall have other and might
Ter themes, LIBERTY OUTRAGED "IN HEE
" SANCTUARY AND HOME, 1.-THE RIGHTS OF
3 MAN ANNIHILATED IN THE LAND OF TIL
h FREE,-GoD's AWFUL IMAGE BOUGHT AM
10 SOLD IN THE AMERICAN MARKET. Upon thes,
= subjects shall write, and speak, and print
while Heaven continues to me reason AM
energy, or until America learns Justice t.
u. her captive children. | shall guard agains
&c the charge of misrepresentation by foundin,
y all | say upon abundant and incontroverti
re bic eridence, viz: AMERICAN DOCUMENTS
u Sages and Senators. Priests and Politicians
Mechanics and Merchants, Lawyers and LIE
a gislators, shall all speak for themselves-As
semblies, and Synods, and Presbvteries, an
VI. Associations, and Conferences, and Conven
a tons, shall all speak in the language of the
re own "Preambles," and "Protests," & "Res
olutions," and "Appeals," and "Counte
no Appeals" and Pastoral Letters" and 60
ne fetal Disclaimers" &c. &c. | will echo tn
n sentiments of the Cradle Of Liberty, in tn
ht words there uttered. will read the variou
it interpretations of the American Constitute
on from the identical leading articles and pan
phlets put forth by its most "iealous" an
4, "patriotic" defenders. The Otises, and tn
W Spragues, and the Fletchers, who lacked til
nG magnanimity to allow me the chance of col
eo tending with them on the day when the
e1 traduced their COUNTRY and ME, sha
pr be heard in Great Britain. The placarC
ol- that have adorned the walls Of Northern
III merican post-ofices and Southern slave-ma
OF kets, shall appear before the eyes, and NAL
lc1 their own unaided appeal to British hear
and British understandings. If am ask
e& - why | thus discuss American Slavery,
pa British soil, l will point to the immense
IN mount OF American slave-grown prOdu
Del floating IN our harbOrs, or stored in our war
re houses; and | will urge my countrymen al
a 1D- countrywomen, by every consideration viii
ne humanity, political economy, and reigi
we can suggest, to cease from the use of the a
ma cursed thing
EN-, 1t is matter of unfeigned thankfulness th
III III frequently and publicly as have spoken L
tne on the subject of slavery in all its bearing
re. n and anxiously as have sought Investigate
y, into my We've, principles and purposes, t
rs only charge which has been framed again
en me, touching the sentiments hold, viii
ano has been put into specific language, is gror
pc ded upon single expression in a prize
va conversation; that expression severed fri
III, its connection, and perverted from a SIM
UNI and legitimate argument, drdWn from
ssa- POLITICAL PRINCIPLES OF MY OPPONENT, IL
10 an unqualified declaration of my o1on S.
aoie timents. Other charges have been pref
ton red, affecting my moral character. The
re- Tin accordance withthe advice ofmy frient
our u / shall leave to my revered associates in