Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-01-25

| ed VltIalnV, We likewise pronounce 10 De
high handed vilIainy,'' and that, too,
whether it be done in Maryland or New
Hampshire-by professor or non-pro-
fessor ofthe Christian religion. Suppose
it should turn out that "Mr. B. Of San
bornton " who sold the boy TO Mr. Sam"
Somebody who purchased him, were both
professors Of religion, in the habit of Civ
ing largely to the Missionary cause. We
ask The editor Of the N. Fl. Observer and
his hundred brethren, whether the intrin-
sic "viIIainy" of the transaction would
Rave been any the less high handed" on
that account? And whether in that case,
they would have smoothed it all over and
called it "a very delicate subject
talked learnedly about servilude as re-
cognized in the BibIe"-and complained
Of 1.-The harshness and bitter denuncia'on"
Of those who shonld have accused them of
manstealine! We ask, whether, on the
other hand, they would not have consider
I'd and treated them as still more hlrdened
offenders, who added HEAvEN-DAR1NG
HYPOCRISY to "hgh-handed riUai"y"
Garry, the supposition lrtIe (arther.-
Suppose The purchaser ofthe New-H lamp
shire coored boy, to have been resident
in some slavehoIdiDg state for a consid, ra-
bic time past,-which appears to have
been the fact. Suppose he had been edu
Gated at a northern college and thu illogical
semlnary-was possessed OF cultivated
mlnd-was we'll read and acute in the the
DRY ofmora and political science Sup
pose he had been duly licensed TO preach
the gospel, and had been regularly in
stalled the pastor of Christian church,
There Is nothing preposterous in making
such a supposition for southern minis
tiers who buy, hold and sci! slaves, and
who make slaves of the young coIored
children born on their plantations, not un-
frequently travel and preach at the North,
and are treated with great Difference and
respect. The editor of the N. H Obser-
yer has not told us-probably, he did not
,knoW-and no one OF his hundred edito-
rial brethren have stopped moment to
inquire whether this was or was not the
fact, in respect to the individual whose
conduct they have pronounced to be
"htgh-hGnded U,LLainv" We ask them
whether their anathemas would have been
withheld, if they had known these 10 have
been the facts? We ask them further,
whether there be any difference in the
moral character OF such transactions
whether they perpetrated at the North
or at the South
But we do not like the 'ri0lent meas
ures' Of the aboIitionists There lies the
d'fhcu'.y. We are as much opposed to
slavery as any body, but The rioIeut
measureS''
| What measures Did they ever init
mate that shareholders are fit subjects OF
lynch law No Aboltionists only de-
clare, through the pulpit and the press,
thats|aveho'ding is " robbery-man-stea-
ing; -,or' IT the phrase seem miIder-
"high-handed viIainy' And what,
pray, were the measures" approved bv
the N. H. Observer and is friends Were.
they confined TO the mere DIT cIaration Of
these 'stli-evident truths? Oh! No.
The "overseers Of the poor started and
came 10 Northwoo1 in the night, found
the boy, and took him home, and saved
him from southern captivity And the
hundred editors almost seem to wish ,ha,
the STAKEHOLDER had been Iynched! In
order to have been as mild, and prudent,
and ChrIstan,Iike, in their department
ana measures towards this STAKEHOLDER, as
aooIltlonlsts are to those of the south, thew
should have written him letter, Iincen-
diary publication j demonstrating q ,inst
MS conduct, and setting forth his guilt
leaving it entirely with him to saw vhe,b.
er he would cease his "high-honded ril-
|d'ny or not. If aboltionists should be
as violent" 10 their measures as were
me gentlemen approved by the N. H.
Observer, there might then be reason 10
aDprehend some commotion, as the resuIt
OF anti-savery measures
but we have no right to interfere!"
What Not even by argument
What right, then, had the "overseers Of
the poor" to interfere BY force?
but 1t will dissolve the Union ~
What if Sam" and "Mr B. Of San
oornton' had told the "overseers of the
poor" the same story
But the Colonization Society presents
the most feasible method. The enamel
Pated slaves ought to be colonized"
An! And why didn't the "overseers
OF the poor" have prudence" enough to
remember that THE nuisance" mioht
become a charge to the town, as IFS moor
mother already was! Full evidence that
the free people of color can never rise in
this country! Why didn't thew 90 to Mr.
siaVeholding Sam" and set }ortb The
princeIy liberality and Christian enter.
prize and benevo!ence of emancipatino The
coiored boy on condition. of his going to
Liberia, with bis o,cn eonsrnt,'' to ass;s,
F in ''evangelizing the African continen, i >"
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