Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-06-28

and sometimes difficult thing to bring proof. 7
The Vermont Chronicle lately made the .
assertion, and required its readers to take :
that assertion Tor "tact," that " of6cal .
organs of Anti-Slavery Societies deny that +
slaves can be converted" A correspondent
Of the Chronicle has requested the proof.
Here is the request, and the Chronicles
padding off:
A REQUEsr.-Will the Editor of the YER
MONT CHRONICLE be SO good as to give us the
names of all those 'oficial organs of the Anti
Slavery Societies" whom he knows to have de-
MED I" that slaves can be converted?'
1--WE cannot give the names Of all, for
we may not have seen them. Nor have
we now before US all that we have seen.--
A prominent Ant-Slavery Society, in
| 1884, adopted resolution that the eman-
cipation of the slaves in our country is
the first step to be taken for the intellectual,
moral, and religious improvement of the
colored population-i. e. the slaves must
be emancipated before we take any meas
ures to give them the gospel. And in the
proceedings of the N E. Anti-SIavery
Convention, May, 1885, we find the as
sertion made by Christian minister, in
so many words, that the slaves "eanaot
be tGugh! Christianity aohile they remain
slaues." This view has been repeatedly
given in the Anti-SIavery papers, which
have endeavored to prove its correctness
bv references to facts and authorities.
The Chronicle "cannot give the names
of ALL" Has it given the name of one that
makes any such declaration, or denial, as
the Chronicle asserts to have been made ?
If it has, we are utterly unable to discover it.
How sadly must men be cramped, when
they exhibit such pitiful twisting as is
exhibited by these Editors, when they IN
dertake to turn the Anti-Slavery sentiment
} that the " emancipation Of the slaves is the
first step towards their moral, intellectual
and religious improvement" to mean that
"the slaves must be emancipated before we
take any measure to give them the gospel.'
We believe that the Editors of the Chroni-
>, Gle know better than this. And it is not
o little surprising that men Of their experience
e have notyet foundout that 70 wrest tine sent;-
l. ments of an opponent and manifestly force
e wrong construction on his language, hurts
u the cause Of those who do it.
O In justification of our belief that the Ed
70 tors Of the Chronicle knew better than thus
to construe the sentiments of the Anti
= Slavery Society, we ask these Editors how
long it is since the whole train of the anti
. abolition press, and we believe their own
among the brotherhood, were out, fall yell,
- upon the Anti-Slavery Society for offering
/ the American Billie Society 5000, ON con-
u dition that 1t should be appropriated to
l. the distribution of the Bible r. the gospeP'l
y among the sldres?
10 When it is said that emancipation is the
10 first step towards the improvement Of the
g slaves, and that they cannot be taught
Christianity while slaves, it is meant, as
5 must be perfectly obvious to all who have
;e read Anti-Slavery documents a 1.-THE part
" Of what the Editors of the Chronicle have
v read them, that slavery is the great and prin-
re cipal hindrance to getting the gospel TO the
&c slaves-that the first duty Of shareholders is
,f to emancipate the slaves and thereby re-
lease them from the prohibitions of the
laws which shut out the gospel-that, rs a
general thing, the slaves are not allowed
to obey Christ's command. "Search the
~ Scriptures"- it is the first duty of phi
'' lanthropists and Christians, as they would
disenthrall either the bodies or the souls of
the slaves to labor for emancipation. 1t is
IT yet to be shown, by the Editors of the
K Chronicle, or by any others who choose to
y undertake the task, that abolitionists deny
'e that slaves can be converted. They believe
te that individuals of the slaves give quite as
m good evidence of piety as do their Cypress
a. ors or the apologists of oppressors.
ID Had the Chronicle stated that abolition-
70 lists do not make it their first and last bns;-
ness to mend up and mitigate barbarous
No system Of heathenism and soul-murder-
that, on the contrary, their instant and con-
:. slant cry is, craze it, raze it to the FONDA
% ton" it would have been much nearer the
truth. The fact that aboIitionists do mot
y make it their principal work to apologize for
the sin of our "dear brethren of the South ,,
~ and to favor and encourage only such sys-
re tenn of instruction for the slaves as is com.
Re patible with perpetual slavery, and as mus,
d leave most of their souls in midnight dark
ii ness, is no warrant for the charge brought
E blythe Chronicle. The single fact, already
mentioned, that overtures were made to the
a Bible Society, by the Auti-Slavery Society,
J; with express reference to the carrying the
gospel to the slaves, is alone a sufficient
to proof that the charge is essentially SANDER
:" Gus. When the Chronicle extricates itself
from thi. load, we have more to lay on.