Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-03-08


We do the same. In obedience to Gods
commands, we assert the claims of His law
and the rights Of man, and there is agita-
ton? Why7 Because of the great cor
rupten of society.
Objection Sd. Observation-Disclosures
1t is true, we interfere-but not with
rights, constitutional or moral. 1t is with
wrongs that we interfere. And this inter-
ference we design to persist in, until we OBJ.
tain redress for outra yed humanity. 1t is
our right and our duty to interfere. While
an innocent fellow man lies bleeding and
fostering under the lash and chain inflicted
by fellow man, we shall not cease to lift
up the voice Of rebuke and remonstrance.
Though South and North-earlh and hell
clamor, interference" But how does this
cry Of interference come from those who are
calling on Northern legislatures to gag and
manacle abolitionists2 When have aboli-
tionists undertaken such audacious uncon-
stitutional interference as this7 Our inter-
ference has been nothing more than the
outbreaking Of Christian benevolence and
the generous sympathies Of our nature. in
accordance with the dictates of the Gospel.
The exercise Of such interference is a nat
ural, moral and constitutional right, which
we can never surrender.
Objection 4th. Aboli,ionists hinder and
throw back the work of emancipation.
1t is granted, that from our measures the
South may have taken occasion TO be more
wicked, cruel and oppressive; but that eman-
cIpation has been thrown back, we DENY
Take an illustration. A huge rock is to be
removed. The Colonizationist ascends to
the top with his pick-axe, and commences
operation. After the labor OF DAYS and
weeks, he says, see, have penetrated and
removed the moss to some extent, and am
making some imperceptible impression on
the rock Will the dweller on the rock be
disturbed BY such process7 Not at all.
He will laugh in his sleeve. But the aboli
zionist commences at the bottom with his
drill. At the sound Of this the tenant starts
from his slumber. 1t is in vain that YOU
Halter him with reproaches heaped upon the
abolltlonist for doing nothing. Every sound
OF the drill sends terror to his heart. He
knows that unless this work can be stoned.
his mountain will be speedily overthrown.
Let those who look on and cry, "nothing,
and worse than nothing DONE" exercise
little patience and ere long they shall see
their shortsightedness and folly. One ques-
ton to these who cry that the work is being
h;ndered: II it be so, as they pretend to be-
lleve, why their great perturbation, excited
by their sympathy with the poor, frantic
tenant7 In the name Of consistency, be
calm, gentlemen be calm!
Again: A physician, in undertaking the
removal Of deeply seated, malignant dis
ease, commences, by admins ering a power
tul emetic or cathartic, or both, as the case
may require. Nausea and gripping are soon
produced and the patient is thrown into vio-
lent writings and contortions-his sickness
Tor the time being is greatly increased
What then2 Who that has witnessed the
operation Of medicine will be alarmed at
the appearance Of these symptoms. So far
are they from being just cause of alarm.
they are viewed to be altogether favorable
highly encouraging. The absence of such
symptoms would truly be just cause of
alarm. II would indicate that vitality is too
near extinct TO be reused into heaIth-restor-
ing action. A disease, by long standing
and neglect or bad treatment, may become
too lnveterate to be removed or arrested by
slight applications. Suppose that resolu-
ton be passed in Vermont, that good econ
omy would require Governor McDufie 10
raise some other crop instead of cotton. Do
you think that such resolution would dis
turb him} But pass resolution that STARE
~ IS SIN, to be Immediately repented of and
abandoned if he would escape present wrath
or future punishment, and he raves aud
roars. This strikes 10 his heart. and like
the powerful medicine throws him into con-
WILSON'S. In the case Of the disease men
toned, those who bad never before seen the
operation of effectual medicine, might have
been expected, at the appearance of the
symptoms described to manifest alarm and
agitation. No wonder if they cried out that
the physician was killing the man-at least
that he was making the matter worse and
worse, driving the disease beyond all cure
while nothing could be more encouraging 10
the physician and to all who had ever w.t.
messed similar operations. Just so in the
case Of slavery. If the application of all
the powerful, searching truths that have
been so faithfully laid upon the conscience
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