Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-07-21
No. 43......VoL. WILL

refuge on soil protected BY free Constr.
tuition, instead Of finding an asylum thew
find adungeon and a return 10 BONDAGE
the only mercies in store for them How
humiliating is the contemplation Of such
Inconsistencies in our government And
yet how necessary is such contemplation
to feel fully how great is the evil Of slave.
ry and how deeply we are implicated in
its existence!
That slavery is concern of ours y,
men, as philanthropists, as patriots, and
above all as Americans, cannot be denied
How then shall we arrest it's horrors and
Danish it from the country2 1t must b,
done by the Poacer Of truth upon the minds
and consctences of the nation The rev.
luton which must take place before slave
nv is overthrow in this nation, must bes
signal though bIoodless one-a revolu-
ton in the hearts of the people, 1t has
been commenced, is progressing, and mus
be consummated by discussion-free,
manly, earnest discussion.
But the objection most often resorte1 10.
against the discussion of this subject and
most calculated to deter those who have
not examined the merits of the question
presented them, from attending to it, is,
South will not submit to any attempts 10
abolish slavery, but will rather rend the
bonds that bind the states together No
man reverences the Union more than
do. The last thing | would knowingly
do, would be to give any just cause for
the severance Of the national compact
But who does not know that slavery more
directly threatens the dissolution of tie
Union, independents Of the question of its
abolition, than all other causes put toecth
err! Had | time, it were an easy task to
show that it has been working mischief
from the very organization Of the govern
ment 1t creates an interest in the coun-
try that is entirel at war with the inter
ests Of freemen 1t is a discordant and
| Earring chord in the harmonies of our sys-
tenn. Slave labor and free labor cannot
both we'll exist in the same government,
The Legislation which is beneficial to the
one is destructive 10 The prosperity OF the
other. And while this is the case allno'
the slaves are considered as so much rl,p-
erty-as so much live stock, in short
they send into Congress twenty-five rev.
resentatives to influence and control the
leg iSlation of the country This power
has been again and again used for the prr
pose Of cramping the energies of free la
Dor. The policy of the South, arising
from this institution among them, has cy-
er been hostile to that of the other por-
tons ofthe Union, especially New-Ene
Take for instance the question Of the Ia
riff After the close of the last war, when
the daring enterprise of Northern fr1cmcn
J had carried the commerce Of the nation III
to every sea, and they were reaping the
rich rewards Of their toll and dangeis
Southern statesmen, jealous of the prosper
Try Of freedom, and wishing to throw the
bulthen of the national debt from thcil
. slave gains upon the commerce and con,
2 sumption of the free states, originated the
system ofimposts, instead Of the direct tax
which had previously been resortcd to,
and BY which the South were made to con-
tribute to the public treasury in proper.
S ton to their representation in Congress-
9 for the avowed purpose of encouraging
manufactures. They succeeded, and the
commerce Of New-England was crippled
. But her indomitable freemen Immediately
. changed the direction of their chor;s, and
adapted their enterprise TO the new stot,
ofthings, and the "industry Of freedom
though stricken down for a mont Mt h5
%: slavery, had no sooner touched the earl
than it rose again, Antaeus like, with If
rcpressible energy, turning the very eli
CINE welded for it's destruction into a Aint
of philosophers stone Manufacture:
9 sprang up as if by enchantment, and the
. golden stream flowed once more in the
> channels of Northern enterprise. The
{ South was again left behind in the career
> Of prosperity, loaded as she was by the i'll
: cubus Of slavery Then came the wal
9 upon the tariff system, and the Unicn wa:
saved only by yielding up that system
s tohich the South originated, TO siaVehold
ing notification. Thus has slavery evci
o Warred upon the interests of the free states
and thus i: ever will; and whenever th,
. people ofthose states tired of the exac
4 tions and wrongs inflicted upon them by
;, this principle Of evil, shall maintain thei
own Interests against those Of the South
. and in defiance of their menaces, the'
~ will come the dissolution Of the Union il
. reality.
= Slavery has operated, moreover, as t
y Sort Of talisman, to keep the Southern
States banded together, by means of Whicl
they have given the Republic four out o
- six Presidents, and kept the patronage o
i the general government and the veto pow
# er in the hands of STAKEHOLDER thirty-,we
\. out of forty years." The tendency Of al
4 these things is to the sundering of the Tn
~ ion, and slavery is the cause of them ali
- Remove that and you take from this PEG