Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-05-26
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and sublime spirits who were waiting to /
embrace them over the blue waters of the |
Atlantic, and to join them in one indissolu-
BILE compact never to relax their moral |
energy, until they shall have seized the
pillars of the blood stained fabric which |
despotism has reared, and like another
Samson, brought it to the ground. (Tre-
mendous cheers.) Oh ! it was something
and it was his rich reward--to become
acquainted with men in distant country.
having one common language and one
common ancestry, working with US in the
same common cause; it was something
to know that the blue waters did not d.
vide US; that we are one in principle -
one in faith; one in effort that we have
the same common object in this world, and
the same antici patton hereafter; it was
something, he said, to know that we were
engaged with these wise, holy, and I'M
compromising men in America, in accel-
Grating the cause of Universal Emanci-
patton. (Great applause) 1t was not
alone the cause of Anti-Slavery in which
he was embarked it was the cause of
Antl-lgnorance-the cause of anti-every-
thing which degrades, brushes, wthers,
and destroys the spirits of mankind.-
Again, once more; the question was in
teresting, because in its development it
m de US acquainted with the men and
women engaged in it; their principles
and their conduct; and thus called upon
us first to admire them, next to commend
them, next to initiate them, and adopt the
principles by which on the other side of
the Atlantic they advance the great work.
The Anti-Slavery question in this coun-
try was very different from that in Amer
lea; the struggle was never so sublime
here as he had witnessed-in Amerieazs
our sacrlhces were never so great; our
temptations to sWerve were never so
! strong our interests when at the closest
were never so close, as in the United
States. 1t was never necessary that we
should suffer III our reputation that we
should lose our friends; the value of our
property deteriorattd; or that we should
be deprived of the substance and amount
ofouT profitable trade. But hard as this
was, those now engaged in carrying on
this cause in America-men and women
without exCeption-Were subjected to it,
and sustained by high religious principle,
they firmly bore up against all these accu-
mulated evils; and nothing lower, and
nothing less, than that mighty principle
could sustain them in a cause, by espous-
ing which they had every thing to lose,
and nothing but infamy to gain (Cheers
He stood there not to defame America
Twas true they prosecuted him, but that
was small matter; twas true they hunt.
ed him like partridge on the mountains
that he had to lecture with the assassn's
: knife glancing before his eyes; and his
e wife and little ones in danger of falling by
/ the ruthless hands ofmurderers. All this
/ was true, aud much more, but he came
= not there to tell of aught that he had suf
: fered or done, except in so far as it illus
t trated the progress of the mighty reforma
= ton to which he had alluded. (Cheers.
0 He dared not speak slightingly of Ameri
i ca. Twas true he hated her sinS-bu
e twas not less true he loved her sons. Hi:
d object was not to overthrow the lnstitu
e tons of America, and bring her constitu
If ton into disrepute. Slavery might sink
n and that constitution still live; slavery
|. might fall, and that constitution stand -
V slavery might die and be buried in grave
d of infamv, covered with the execrations o
v mankind, and witness no resurrection >
!, yet the constitution of America Nigh
l. stand cut in unsullied, and more than pris
j tine beauty, because Of the blessing ofth'
n world. (Great cheers) He should lik,
h to have an opportunity to speak Of Ameri
i ca IN other respects; to speak OF her a
J. being exalted IN arms, and as rich in wealth
J. to speak of her extended commerce.
e her agricuIture-of her unparalleled
T. means of education-with the volume 0
e Revelation in the hands of all her famiie
e but those of her degraded bondsmen -
j. with the ordinances of religion in abun
j. dance of her $4,000 ministers, and Q
n her Missionary exertions; on all these h
could dwell with pleasure, after he dis
5, cussed the question of slavery. But tn
= damning plague spot of America, Chris
of tan America. Republican America j.
J. America, the land of bibles, and tracts
lie and missionary societies; America, VIII
n boasted herself on being the freest coun
ID try on the face of the globe, America ha
Sc her slave ships-types ofPandemonium-
b. gliding on the surface of the ocean, an
"a put forth her presumptuous hand and trad
so ed IN the lives and the souls of men =
ut (Cheers.) Would it be believed that tn
1t, slaves formed sixth part of the Amer
Us can population ;, every sixth man an
Of woman were slaves-their bodies, thei
e. souls their skill, their energy, their po:
u terity, their every thing was under tn
H. dominion of slavery.
by 1t was not true that the slaye-trade WE
r. abolished in America; slave auctions wei
Id still to be seen-men and women wei