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

may be found necessary:
LIST. To prevent and to punish the for
nation Of any society, association, or as
semblage Of persons, in any state or ter
ritory, for the purpose Of efecting the
abolition Of slavery in any other state or
territory Of this Union
ID. To prevent and to punish any at
tempt or act, made or done BY writing,
printing, or otherwise, in any state or ter
ritory, with intent to excite slaves in any
other state or territory OF the Union, 10
instruction or rebellion against the pro-
prietors thereof or against the laws and
government Of such state or territory
Sd. To prevent the transmission by
mail, or the delivery from Post Offices, of
any newspaper, or other printed paper,
which may tend to excite servile nsurrec-
ton or rebellion in any state or territory;
and which, by the laws thereof it may be
declared penal to publish or circulate"
We are rot left TO con lecture what doc
trines would be regarded by the South as
insurrectionary r. G. Williams was in
dicted in Alabama for an attempt TO excite
the slaves to instruction, for publishing
in the Emanci pator the sentiment, God
commands. and all nature cries out, that
man should not be held as property" In
surrectionaty, indeed!
These were put forth as feeler, to test
the tone Of public sentiment, and See
whether it would bear an alteration of the
Constitution
Mr.. Calhoun's Bill, by which publica-
tons and letters, "touching the subject of
slavery" were to be excluded from the
mails, by northern Post Masters, was an
other feeler. 1t did not pass,-and sim.
} ply, because the slaveholding interest was
not strong enough. The annexation oil
Texas would speedily remove this Difficult
, ty. May we not believe, that the South
, lacks onl y the power mot the inclination,
: to make these croachments?
3 3. If these anticipated results should
: not be realized to their full extent, still tn,
: annexation of Texas, would, by increas
L ing the power of the South incur Ma
: tlonal Legislature, and especially in tn
e Senate, enable them to carry every ques
l. ton against the North, and destroy, as ia
e as it is in the power of Legislation to do i
l. their prosperity, by crippling their com
- merce, their agriculture, and their manu-
lie factures. Give them the power, and tn
e compensated labor Of the North must sue
n cumb to the coerced labor of the South
y They would swing the whip unsparingl
e over the backs Of northern laborers. T
y make their slave labor reputable, and q
re- profitable as any labor in the countr,
they would reduce our industrious veomai
o. ry and mechanics to the level Of workin
W beasts. Leigh, Pickens, Preston, Ca
ny houn, and other friends to the annexatic
is of Texas, have proclaimed the doctrin
e, that the capitalist ought to hold in va
or salage his laborers Will the free and i
En- telligent mechanics Of New-England, al
Of the unbought farmers Of New Yor
IA Pennsylvania and Ohio. bid God speed
en- the doctrine, and ensure its success,
IS reckoning Texas into our Union! o.
hn industry will be crushed, and all the w,
IN springs Of our prosperity dried up, al
w, our most cherished rights bartered +
VS. the privilege Of claiming Texas, with
on load Of eternal slavery, to the sinking f
It'll tunes Of the Republic
on 4. The RE-EsTABLIsHMENr of sLare
for at the North. MIGHT foHow this erent
of Slavery is now permitted for a limit
not time, in several Of the free states, by {
on, press statutes We instance Nev-Yol
an, Ohio, Connecticut, and Rhode Islam
ew Recent efforts for its entire abolition,
1b- some Of these states, have been signal
Of unsuccessful. There has been much lie
on, islation. and much popular action at t
J OF North, during the last two years, agar
but liberty, and but little in its favor. Slave
r in the "abstract7 is loudly denounced
rk, but slavery in practice has warm adm
d. ers, and staunch defenders. Open HI
m mapping, in northern cities, excites lit
the adherence. Northern aristocratic cal
in talists and, employers declare that t
srn slaves Of the South are better off tn
at northern laborers. There are muItitud
m of humane men at the North, who wou
AN gladly better the condition Of our laborer
he Some months since. Mr. Wise threatene
sll- on the floor Of Congress- that if we
to not cease our efforts for the abolition
yes slavery at the South. it should get be int1
ION dueed into the heart of the North. ~
VS. calmness with which this audacious thre
tn was received by northern member
HE showed that when southern slavery sits
- the high seats Of national power, with
n? menaces and its brides. it may set it's 70
nd upon the soil Of the North, and be
in crack Its whips, and clank its chains, al
he sell its victims. Beware of strengthenir
Of its arm! Slavery was once abolished
Of Texas. 1t is now firmly re-estabIish,
ar there. Let the North take warning!
ess S. Increase the shareholders power
Ill the nation, by giving them Texas, al
MS, they may re-establish the foreign sIav
Dts trade. Start not at this! 1t is hypocri>
OF run mad and stark naked, to whine abo
us the horrors Of foreign slave-trade. viii
20 we sanctifv the Internal sla 70 trade Wi