Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-05-31

And what are the legitimate fruits of the
wo? The former blesses human society
he latter curses it. The former elevates
nan and assimilates him to angels-the
after thrusts him downward and degrades
1im to the condition Of brutes. And these
opposite tendencies and results are the prop
er and natural fruits of the two. Love,
good will and peace grow out Of the one
hatred, enmity and violence out of the other.
If the father acts the tyrant over the son,
the system of parental government is not
chargeable with ii, or responsible for it
there is nothing in the nature OF the rela-
ton TO produce it. Directly the reverse of
this, is the truth in regard to the relation
between master and slave. Tyranny and
violence are the legitimate fruits of the sys-
tenn. Whichever commands of the deca-
logue the Shareholder violates in his conduct
towards his slave, and to whatever extent,
the system is accountable for it, because it
has placed no restraint before him-on the
contrary, it pushes him onward to the worst
deeds that blacken and degrade human ma
ture. No crime is too foul or enormous to
originate in American slavery.
Thus the Chronicles illustration fails and
falls. And whoever will have the patience
to look again at its work, will see that it
has overturned and demolished its own SUI
perstructure. We are no stckler for making
things ego on all fours," but it is univer-
sally conceded that ifa comparison or illus
tratlon fail in all the main points, it is to be
set aside. Now does the Chronicle wish
tor the adjustment of parental government 2
No-by any means, however gradual. 1t
would be war upon Christianity and ma
ture. But they do ask, if we understand
them, for the gradual abolish,n emit of slave
ry. Why then do they go to the former.
which they wish to have sustained, hon.
ored, perfected and perpetuated throughout
all time, for prop TO upItold for the present
the latter, which they acknowledge ought at
some time to be torn down and demolished ?
The allusion Of the Chronicle to the re-
lation Of the prison keeper to the prisoners,
is as perfectly fallacious as the reasoning
just examined, although the contrast NAV
not be so great and striking in the present
instance as in the former The meres
glance will discover the lameness of the it,
lustration. The prisoner is atoning to his
country and his kind for his crimes. Nc
such thing is pretended in regard to the
slave. He is charged with no crime. He
suffers, not as debtor to justice, but vic.
tim of injustice. Then, just as in the for
mer case, any cruelty or inhumanitv prac
tlced by the prison oyerseer is chargeable
to his own depravity, and not to the laws
which place him where he is; while, on the
other hand, inhumanity and cruelty are the
very essence of slavery itself, and to what
ever degree they are developed in the con
duct OF the master towards the slave, the,
are chargeable to the system. So much 70,
illustrations, which, whatever may have
been their design, can only serve to keep the
dust flying in the eyes of those who ought
to be enlightened, not blinded, by the Chron.
icle.
&C., Important admission. Remember it.
(d) Whoever reads extensively the DO
lH'cdt press, employed too much as it is 70,
partIzan purposes, contending too frequently
for victory more than for truth, controlled
as 1t too often is by those with whom the
promotion of morals and religion is at bes,
secondary object will not be surprised tc
see in it occasional departures from plain
truth and fair dealing. From the moral and
religious press, better things ought to he
expected And yet, for long time past
we have observed nothing in the lowest
most debauched and reckless of the former
that was more reprehensible, than the con-
duct and statements of the Chronicle &C
exhibited in the paragraph which we are
now about to examine.
With the confidence and apparent cor.
tainty which would become one speaking
plain truth, and knowing whereof he af-
firms, the Chronicle denies that the Anti
Slavery Societies are based on principles
ain accordance with those taught by our
Savior" Itwould have its readers believe
that abolitionists have neglected to place
the great law of love as one of the princi-
pal foundation stones on which they are
building. Nothing could be farther from
the truth. The New-England Anu-Slayerv
Society, the first the nucleus, the corypheus
in point of doctrine, of all the present order