Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-03-03
BROOKLYN, CT. Feb 10, 1886.
My Dear Friend:
JOEL DooLITTE, Esqr.

BROOKLYN, CT. Feb, 10, 1886.
My Dear Friend:
shall mingIe my spirit with the brave
spirits who purpose to attend the annual
meeting ofthe Vermont Anti-Slavery So
ciety, at Middlebury, on the 10th and 18th
instant. There are many reasons why l
should desire to be present with you in
the flesh, on that occasion. AboLitionlSm
IS indigenous to the soil of Vermont-
Yours was the first State Society that was
regularly organized in this country, for
the immediate extirpation of American
slavery, a system which Lord BRouGHAM
brands as that most Internal scourge to
humanity and which JOHN WESLEY de-
scribed as that execrable villany, which
IS the scandal of religion and of human
nature Almost my first efforts in the
; sacred cause of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPA-
TON. flor we are struggling to preserve
our own rights, as we'll as to recover the
liberties of southern bondmen, hence it is
common cause were made in Vermont
suitable place,-of all others the best cho-
rsen,-to plant the standard of Liberty up
on the summit of her Green Mountains,
and to blow the trump of Liberty through
all her valleys. One of our opponents
tells us, the world is one great whispering
gallery, whose faintest echoes reach alike
the ears Of the oppressed and the oppres-
sor. No wonder, therefore, that the latter
trembles when he hears the voice of hu-
mainly, and that he commands US to be ST.
lent u pom peril of our lives remember,
with lively satisfaction, how readily pro-
cured the names of TWENTY THREE HUN
DRIED of your free inhabitants, in the
course Of three or four weeks, to petition
praying for the abolition of slavery in the
District of Columbia-the largest petition
on this subject, if mistake not, that has
ever been presented to Congress, and pro,
cured at time, moreover, when the peo-
pie Of other States were slumbering in the
arms of indifference Honor to whom
honor is due Of all the northern repre-
sentatives in Congress, during its present
session, who has most ably advocated the
cause of insulted, down-trodden humanity
and most firmly sustained the dignity Of
the North! A representative from Yer.
mont-WILLIAM SLADE | read an an.
ecdote, some years ago, which is probably
familiar TO many, but which l quote as
. characteristic of the spirit which animates
the people of your patriotic State. A slave
holder, In pursuit ola runaway slave, find
ing him In one of your villages, immedl
ately rounced upon him, and brought him
before the court, presenting at the same
time, what he considered indubitable evi
dence that the victim was his lawful prop
erty. Sill, the Judge demurred-he want
ed other proof. At last, the prowling op
pressor passionately desired to know o
2 the Judge, what evidence would satisfy
him that the slave belonged to the claim
E ant2 a bill ofsale from the Almis hty
was the memorable reply These thing
make me love and honor Vermont. Th'
anecdote l have related reminds me of tn
0 beautiful smile used by the great Bard 0
e Nature:
How far that little candle throws its beams
= So shines q good deed IN q naughty toorld :!
Y Henceforth, when the American espresso
d attempts to convince us that the slaves ar
e his property, by pointing us to the color Q
# their skin and the texture of their hair, b,
l. showing US how large a sum he has pal
= for their bodies and souls, by proving tina
they were bequeathed to him by some de
r funct predecessor we will kindle at the in
n suit, and tell him that nothing will satisf
}, US but A BILL OF SALE FROA
Il THE ALMIGHTY
c For what are we battling! 1t is tor tn
o dignity, the equality, the enfranchisemer
Il Of our common nature Every sixth mar
IS woman, child and babe, in the Unite
y States,-constituting number as large q
" the whole population Of New England
Is in bondage, and their cries are hourl
In borne to our ears by the free winds ofheaN
u, en-! Hany of us were in their condition
"a what would be the doctrine we should d.
ed sire our advocates to preach for our deli'
n GRANGER What! repatriation to barb'
ne rous land asthe condition to our freedom
re What! agradHot sundering ofour chain.
O. Mono. 1t would be the doctrine of IN
" mediate, TOTAL, EVERLASTIN,
On emancipation. In the mighty conflict
be I776, between the mother country and h,
a colonies. no other doctrine was listened,