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

other errors OF MS SCHOOL,
We have thus endeavored to answer
our correspondents questions definitely
and intelIigibly If we have failed to
meet his wishes in regard toany point we
shall be happyto reply to any further in
quiries that may be necessary for his en-
tire satisfaction. (g.)
(a.) Here is an important admission,
which, adhered to, would be worth some
thing. We shall see, by and by, how we'll
other parts agree with this. Let it be dis
tinctIy borne in mind that i: is here admitted
that property in man ought to be relinquish-
ed Immediately. The question now arises
whether there is or can be slavery without
property, "goods chattel," in man. If
! there is or can be such, it is a slavery which
abolitionists know nothing about-a slavery
against which they have never contended-
a slavery that does not exist in the United
States. The slavery against which aboli-
tionists war, is no unreal affair, existing only
in the disordered imaginatlons Of would-be
wise men who "darken counsel by words
without knowledge." Abolitionists stake
things as they dre." They battle against
e1'ist'ng American slavery, that living,
frightful monster which already has ten
thousand heads and ten thousand times ten
thousand horns-that terrible destroyer
which has fed on human flesh and fa;tened
on human blood until this nation now trem-
bles at his voice of thunder and shakes I'M
der his earthquake power. The living prin-
{ ciple of this atrocious system, the soul and
substance of this Abaddon from the neither
world, is property in n,an-"goods chat
tel" in Gods image
Now, while abolitionists have always
called for the immediate destruction of this
F real entity, the Chronicle has thrown itself
into the gap, denouncing them as mad men
and dangerous. At the same time that the
Chronicle now yields the principal thing
for which abolitionists have ever con-
tended, it will appear, before it gets through,
that it has a non-entity conjured up some
where in its world of mysticism, the remov-
al of which it requires to be done graduullu.
With non-entities abolitionists have nothing
to do They hold that the moment property
IN man is destroyed, whether it be done by
legislative enactment or by individual alb
Duration, that moment the neck of slavery
L, Is broken This, the Chronicle saws ought
to be done Immediately. Very good, gen.
tlemen. Adhere to this, and leave off YOUR
mystlclsms, your nonenties and absurdties
f and abolitionists will extend to you the hand
OF tellowshIp-not before
7 (6) Now what, we ask. is here. but
most palpable contradiction of the answer
to the former question? With one breath
they say, "Taking the definition of slavery
ITo" the statute book of slarehoIdine
stGte,-thus:-slaves shall be deemed, tax
en- held and adjudged 20 be goods chattel.
to all lntents and purposes whatsoever"
1t should be abolished Immediately: i. e.,
IL language mean anything, the legal rela-
t ''0n ought TO be instantly dissolred. With
, the next breath they say, "The master X
ought Immediately to let him (the slave}
60 Tree from every shadow Of oppression :.
+ 7'o' from the legal
Tet0t1on IN which the two stand to each
, other" How could they have framed a
palmer contradiction ? And what is most
astonishing, it is uttered in two success;vo
breaths.
ut is possible that cases NAV exist IN
which it would be cruel and unjust to do
so"-(to dissolve the legal relation immod;-
ately.)
Is 1t worthy of moral and Christian men
70 turn away attention from the enormons
: system of legalized kidnapping and soul
MURDER that is clutching two hundred new
''c'lms daily in this repu6Hc, and send il
| lnqulrlng after possible cases that n,o, -.
| may not-exist? Is it worthy of inteuoc,-
''0' men, possessed OF the facts in the case
; TO talk gravely about lega1ized slarero in
the United States, as different and d;s,;no.
'n'ng from oppTess'On2 Can ANYTHING he
: palmer than that the legal relation which
SUBJECTS one mans body and soul, earn;nos
/ wife and children, all he has and auI:
to the irresponsible control at will -,
another, is in itself the essence of opprss-
sion 1t is at once the massv chain around
the neck Of the innocent victim cr,.h:
him into the dust, and the herme,;c col
upon his eyes and ears, shutting out the
voice and the light Of the glorious gosne, ~
salvation. The distinction between Amer