Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-07-26

immortal because the law of God is ir-
qepealade because the throne of God is
immorable because the SOVEREIGN BEN
ErAcroR who ordained and conferred
them is not man that he should lie, OF the
son of man that he should repent.
The Magna ChartG of these ri ghts
we peruse in the sacred scriptures-their
signet we see enstamped upon every son
of Adam-their evidence we feel inter-
woven in the very fbres four own exist
ence. Their denial we consider to be a
denial of the law and of the gospel-a H.
bel upon human nature, and a blasphemy
against Him who created man in his own
image.
We claim these rights for ourselves
andco nsequently for all men. We claim
them on the ground of our common hu.
man nature We claim them because
we are men, not because we are Ameri-
cans, or Europeans, or Asiatics, or Afri
cans. We claim them because we sus-
tain responsibilities which require their
exercise, not because our fathers success
fully resisted certain encroachments upon
them We claim them as men, not as
rich men, or as poor men mot as learn
ed or unlearned men mot as tall men,
or as short men mot as having straight
hair, or crisped hair or blue eyes or
black eyes; o. as being white, or red. or
olive, or tawny, or sable, in our COM
plexions We claim them as men, not as
linen Of property and standing' AS men;
not as laborers, still less, as adlerS!
Our GBJEcTs-Hi is for the rights of
MAN that we are contending- rights
of ALL men-our own rights-the rights
of our neighbor-the liberties of our
countfy-of our posterity-ofour fellow
men-of all nations and of all future gen.
erations
1t is for principles, GREAT principles,
fundamental and unal,erable principles, the
principles of truth, of righteousness, and
of freedom.
1t is for practices in accordance with
correct principles
1t is with the weapons of truth, in the
warfare agaitst error
1t is to the death struggle between
AMERICAN SLAVERY and AMERICAN
FREEDOM that we have come up 1T is
In the great moral conflict between the
practices of oppression and the precepts of
righteousness, that we grid on our ar.nor.
Lower objects than these we d;sclam
from whatever quarter they may be attrib-
uted to US.
BY the principles Of peace and righte-
business addressed to the master, we hope
for the enfranc hisement of the sla We in sea-
son to avert the blood y catastrophe, anti
cipated by Mr.. Jefferson.
BY the wise and prompt use ofthe lib
critics we enjoy under the Constitution.
we hope to terminate these gIarinq in
Engagements of it which now threaten its
existence
We hope to bury sectional jealousv in
the grave of the onl y demon that, in our
country, has ever engendered tive
mean SLarery.
By persuading our Southern brethren
voluntarily to remove "the curse entaiIed
upon them by their own criminal con-
sent we hope 10 see the entire South bud
ding and blossoming as the rose, and be-
coming as the garden of God. The re-
1emptlon of the oppressor from the bond
age OF sin his rescue by timely repent
ance from the long deferred Indictments of {
heaven and his participancy in the rich
blessings of many ready to perish, are a. $
nong the objects dearest our hearts. /
We see k nothing less than the over. t
nroW OF despotlsm by the principles of
reedom thetsrnination of oppression bv {
he reign of righteousness-the establish, I
nent of liberty by the supremacy of law ;
the conformity of law to the spirit Of 5
liberty f'''> u h
We hold that emancipation should be a a
immediate, unconditional, and universal u
1t should be immediate-because since y
laVery Is a sin, i: cannot be Continued
without continuance Of sin Because G
lnallenable rights may be withheld. IN It
ne score of an expedency of which the p
legislator or the interested party NAV he n
ne Judge, there can be no possible secur;- s.
y tor the liberty of anv man. or Of anu u
ommunity. So that denial of this dry tt
denial OF human hts and a warfare ,,
galnst universal liberty. tt
IL should be ~mconditional-for Tho II
eason just stated Because all sin sbonld d
e Internationally abandoned Because n
Is an aorogatIon of all law and all ib. c'
,r.ty' to extend to a man his rights On CON- "
'''o"S: Because, there can be none Int m
"rtg"te0us conditions imposed unon a Ia
nan as an indispensable prerequisite for al
flowing him the exercise of his ;nbsrao, tn
tghts! A man has a perfect r;obt fnr v
xamPle, to certain house. Nav tHo L
lnIaWluI occupant restore it to him m
ond't!o"s! No. But what is ann man,s ~
light in house compared with nasrs' o e'
mans right in himselfl ''''y o.
1t should be universal-for all the roo ia
ons already enumerated: Because prsrn e,
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