Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-01-25

dtQnafJ0D OF eUeTy JTeeman!
What was the matter7 Il was simply
this "A man brought colored boy 10
Norhwood; and It appeared from num-
Der Of circumstances, that "the boy toas
about to be"-Be what7 About 10 be"
logged thity-nine lashes7 No About
TO be" put upon a peck Of corn a week e.!
No. About to be " chained down to a
rirg bolt, and ornamented with a pair of
hand cuffs7 No. What then I THE
fact vas evident" said the editor, that the
boy was about TO be ENsLAvEDw And
80 the oveTseers Of the poor started and
came to NoIthwood in the night, found
the boy, and took him home, and saved
HIM from % SOUTHERN CAPTIVITY ~
Yes! Saved him from" "the pa
triarchal relation, -" saved him from
the condition recognized in the Bible"
=. saved him from the happy lot Of
those who are'so much "better off, than
the free colored people. that it would be
unmerciful TO emancipate theml
And 90 the article from the New
Hampshire Observer was copied into all
the religious, political. and commercial
papers. far and near We have already
seen it in perhaps fifty or sixty different
papers upon our exchange list. And not
one ofthem has censurcd the UNcHRIs-
TON EPITHETs ofthe Hampshire
Observer, or scrupled at all, in respect to
the propriety Of repeating and endorsing
them. Every body admits that the man
to0s "a villain" and ought to be branded
as such. Every body feels Tor at least al
fects to feel-for there may be some byp-
ocrltical pretenders in this business al
most every one appears to feel that the
indignation Of every freeman should
be excited" by such piece of "higA-
handed uillainy"' Why, no body of
common discretion would think his oDn
liberty safe in the power of such a man.
And yet, not one in twenty, perhaps,
would have any misgivings about voting
ifthe interests Of his party required i) for
slave-holding President And if any
unmannerlya bolitionist should happen TO
say that Shareholders arc robbers-"O Out
upon the incendiaryr' He has '"slsn-
dered the President" and "abused the
wisest and best men in the land" Lynch
him, instanter! Make him feel the force
Of "public indignation las once, on a
similar occasion. said the Rev. Joseph
Tracy's Vermont Chronicle, little while
previous to the New York city mobsD
Strange that such difference there should be
'Fwixt tweedle dunn, and tweedle dee"
The Reverend D. D. .or the venerable
President, or Judge in South Carolina, or
Virginia, who holds an hundred fellow
beings in slavery isis what? A kid
napper2 Nay veriIy-he is an honora-
bic and wealthy STAKEHOLDER And what
name should be given to the act Of hold
ing men in that condition High-handed
utlLGiny? BY no means! The great
and good mar" is only treading the steps
Of those good old shareholders, Abraham.
Isaac, and Jacob" and PauPs dearly be.
loved Christian slave-holding brother
Philemon! But alas for the lu.kless
New-Hampskire wight that humbly en-
ulated the same high examples. by attempt.
ing to get possession Of only one "ser-
want" who might be exhorted to "obey
his master" 1t was higA-handed vii-
Lainy-and even the presses that rouse
mobs against the abolitionists, are raising
the hue and cry against the incipient semi
patriarch!
Blu. then, the slave holders pail their
money for their slaves
And so did the Hampshire wor-
thyi The eolored boy was asked, did
Mr.. B. give you to this man %" Oh,
no." said the boy, Sam gave Mr.. B. a
heap Of money!
but the shareholders Inherited their
slavesW
And how do you know or how do the
hundred editors know, that Mr.. B. did
not inherit the colored boy, that he sold
TO Sam2 How did they know that the
gentleman from the South was not a SON
or grand son of a gentleman who had
. enslaved the colored boys mother, or
grand mother! The overseers of the
poor never stopped to inquire about that
/ The editor Of the New-Hampshire OBJ
server does not tel :-blt it was a "hiph.
, handed riliaiuy", whether or not.
: But the mastersstreat their slaves 20
kindly"
! And the gentlemanly kidnapper prom-
= ised the colored boy in New.Hamnsh;re
that &c should live in a warm country.
l pick little cotton, and lead an easy life !"
! Who shall say that his promise was not
, as good as that Of any other STAKEHOLDER :
No matter ! The pious, and prudent
and Christian-like editor of the New.
. Hampshire Observer recordedthe promise
ofthe Shareholder; and an hundred edit.
ors have copied it, and neither he nor thew
have dreamed that the treatment of the
boy. whether kind or otherwise. could de.
tract ought from the HlsH-HANpED
4 VILLAINr of--of what! OF "ENsLAv
: ING" hlm--of CARVING him--intc