Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-05-17

Gerry great. The correspondent ofthe Lib
orator may have excited the fears of our
colored brethren to an unnecessary extent.
Thank God, there is too much abolition
ism at the north, both ofthe old stock and
the new, to suffer men-stea Iers to act out
the full venom of their kind. And we do
trust there are many Southern ministers
who have too much conscience TO engage
in the horrible, though at the south fash
; ionabIe crime of kidnapping. Such color
ed persons as have at hand ready and
abundant means of proof that they were
born in free states, we think have lluie
danger to encounter at our religious ami
versaries, except the insult Of being crowd
ed into the corner pew, or perhaps the
risk of being t1cked out, as was our
friend the Rev. Theodore S. Wright at
the anniversary Of the Theological Semi
Larry in Princeton last summer. But that
large class of free porn or enanclpated
coIored persons, who have been driven
from their native slave states by. persecu-
ton, as we'll as those individuals who
have honorably emancipate1 themselves
by their own powers of locomoton, are
always endangered by meeting Southern
ers. There can be no doubt that many
coIored man, free born at the South, has
been taken from US into.hopeless slavery,
since the immense enlargement of the do
mes;ic slave trade. Any of these people
/ in the present state of our law and justice,
| would be mad to show their heads at our
! religious anniversaries.
! But we were led to notice the New
! York Observer in this case, to illustrate a
! mode of warfare that is used against U.S.
Our opponents, of the Morse and Tracy
school, quote with pious horror some of
! our harsh comments, but are careful never
to quote the facts on which they are
founded We do not claim infalIibiIlty
for ourselves or any of our coad jutors.-
For ourselves we are sincerely thankful
for frank reproof especially from an edit
er who fairly publishes facts and argu-
ments on both sides. But we ask, is 1t
i fair to quote our denunciations as indicative
Of bad temper, fanaticism, incendlarism,
&c, and vet be silent, as to the facts on
which they are based
And we appeal to the editors and pro-
prietors of the n. Y ork Observer whether
it is treating their numerous readers hon.
estly to palm upon them such quotations
as that from the Liberator, as indicative of
1.-The spirit of the Abolition PRESS" while
their columns are as silent as the grave to
the multitudinous, daily denominations
perpetrated by southern protesting Chris
tians and clergymen2
But is the charge of the Liberator's
correspondent against southern clergymen
unfopnded? Would to God it were!-
Perhaps there are many of them who
would not, if they could, reclaim fugi-
tive slave, or deliver him to his master.
But while they continue by their partci.
patton to uphold the ungodIy system OF
merchandise in men. they must be content
to bear their share Of the shame.
How much better than a kidnaprer is
he who sits down with an avowed kidnap-
per at the same communion table? If the
readers of the Newly ork Observer were
possessed of one-tenth Of the admitted
facts published in any one of the abolition
papers, in regard to slavehoding Chris
tians, We would be perfectly content they
should take the quotations referred to as
1.-The spirit of the Abolition press" -Hu-
man Rights