Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-09-11

demonstration exhibited in the West India
Islands OF the perfect safety and vast utility Of
immediate emancipation, both TO masters and
! slaves. Such demonstration cannot fail at
length to open the eyes Of the infatuated slave
holder Of The south 10 The impoicy, if not The
wickedness, OF Southern Institutions.
On the whole, the Northern Fanatics or
Madmen, as their enemies arc pleased TO style
them, have abundant reason to thank God and
take courage. The cause of freedom is the
cause Of goodness and of God. Loving right
eousness and hating oppression, We cannot
doubt that he will appear for, tho delivorence
OF tho oppressed, and will at,no distant day,
break the yoke Of their bondage. The signs
Of the times give promise to this. The civilz-
ed world are waking up on the subject. And
just in proportion 10 tho attention which is
given TO the subject is the cloarness with which
the utter inconsistency Of slavery with the
principles avowei by the founders of our ma
ton, and the trainers OF our Government, will
be seen. Already has it become obvious 10
every candid rejecting mind that nothing short
OF tho determination Of slavery can save or
country and it's government, from becoming,
at no distant day, the scorn, dcrison and con-
tempt OF every intelligent and virtuous com.
muny on the globe. Even now, we confident
ly ask, where 10 the American, who, in any
foreign country, can hold mp his head and
stand erect in Vindcaton of the honor Of his
country, as the home Of the brave and the land
Of the free, should the simple question be ask
cd, what is the condition of the millions of its
coIored peopo2 Fellow citizens, when we
think Of this We nrc greyed--wc are ashamed;
we blush for our country's disgrace; we are
stunsto the quick by the consideration Of the
derision Of the tyrants Of the old world 10 which
our southern institutions expose tho sacred
name of liberty. But more deeply do We feel
the wrongs of the slave.
We behold him in his docradation reduced
TO the condition of goods, chattels, driven in
irons from the metropolis of this land Of liber-
ty, this boosted asylum of the oppressed, to the
southern market, leaving perhaps wife and
children he is fated never, never TO see: we
view him toing in The fields Of rice or of
cotton, his reluctant limbs quickened bv The
sound Of the driver's lash, while his spirit dies
within him, in the melancholy assurance that
only death will bring deliyerancc from the
hand Of his oppressor,- we recognize in
him, man and a brother. We feel that his
claim 70 freedom is perfect as our own
We feel that his right 10 his earnings is rs
perfect as our own. We regard the withhold
ing Of these claims "a LOCALIZED robbery. Our
bosoms burn with intense Indignation when
we think Of this system of iniQnity, sanctioned
by the froest nation on earth, and wrought in
10 the very frame work Of our government
And eagerly como forward 10 unite our
feeble voice with that portion Of our country
men who have resolved TO cry aloud and snare
not, but liit up their voice like trumpet and
| show TO Shareholders, and to our country, and
its government, The enormous load of guilt,
that like pondcrous milestone, presses on
this nation, calling for the vengeance Of an in
suited God on the proud, and avaricious. and
cruel, and bloody oppressor In this work Of
remonsrnnce, with full conviction that the
cause we plead is the cause of God, united as
we know ourselves TO be with great part Of
the wisest and best men in our nation, and
clloered on by the sympathy and aided by the
PRAYERS Of the friends OF freedom, and the love
of God in the old world, and relying on the
aid of Him, who il mighty to succor. md
whose voice VIC hear from behind The cloud of
his glory, saying, for the oppression of thu
poor, for the sigbing Of the needy, now will |
arlse--l will set him in safety from him that
| putteth at him." we resolve TO 90 forward,
with an inAexble determination, tnat. in spitc
ct opposition from every quarter, until slavery
shall cease TO cxi4t in our country, or until our
voice be hushed in death, that voice shall be
I heard denouncing slavery MS an enormous and
complicated sin, accused Of God, and nhhor-
red by good men, and fearlessly claiming from
| the powers that be, and from every possessor
of property in sinews bought and sold, fds-
liverance far the captive and the opening Of the
prison 10 them that are hound.'
All of which is respectfully submitted. By
order Of the board Of Directors.
C. WRIGHT, Secretary.
IIardwick, July 4, 1897.