Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-04-26

lngs, they generally utter abolition senti-
ments. Let those who talk about anti
slavery disolving the Union, consider this
Here we learn, from Shareholders them,
selves, that the'on1y danger to our Union,
arises tromthe determination OF Slarek0lG-
ers to hold on to Morcrv 1t is well to let
shareholders furnish us with weapons to
batter down the system of iniquitv, that
now lies in the bosom -four nation like a
volcanic fire in Ena. Yours,
HENRY c. WRIGHT.
Nc1c- Yo7k, april 3, 1887.
AT an annual meeting Ct he Virginia
Convention for the abolition Of slavery,
convened at Winchester, on the 10th Of
August, 1928, a committee was appointed
to draft an address to the people Ct Virgin
ia, portroying the eriIs Of sIorery.''-
Benjamin F. Taylor, Robert Bond, Dan
icI Janney, and Christian Holmes, coustj-
tutcd the committee They reported an
address, styled Address Of the Virginia
C0arent1on for the ABOLITION Of SLarery, to
tie people Of Virginia." This address
points utthe evils Of slavery and the REM
edy, and is signed JosEPH HocKNEY,
Pres, THOMAS WRIGHT, Scc'y.
AGRICULTURE.
cit is lamen!ab.c fact, that Virginia
has, for many years, been rapidly dcclin-
ing in wealth and Importance. TO de-
monstrate that this effect has been produce
ed by slavery, an examination Of the pres
ent condition of agriculture is ncctSsa-
~. Previous to the establishment of our
national independence, Virginia was far
superior to many of her sister states IN ag-
ricuIture. What IS her situation at the
present time? Instead of advancing to
that degree of prosperity which has dlstin-
gulshed the free states, the patriot per-
cclves with modification and regret, that
she has renamed stationary, or has been
retrograding. With a fertile soil aud a
saIubrious cline, he can behold large and
extensive tracts Of country, which ought
to have been the abode of active industry
nothing but u dreary and barren uoSIr
utterIy and AopeIessly abGndone| Tho
soil, for the want Of the skill and enter
prise of jreemem in its cultivation, and this
too in the immediate vicinity of a market
where there is always demand"
ADVANTAGES OF FREE OVER SLAVE LA.
! Without the aid Of those advantages
j winch Virginia possesses Qhjo has al
! read Y advanced far beyond virginia, II
those Improvements which condu"e to t1t
wealth of a state, and The prosperity Of it;
! cltizenS. 10 vi hat cause IS this just V at
! tributab}e? Let the pcrnjcious effects o.
! sl0rcry as exhibited in the decline of Nir-
/ gin;a, and the rapid advance of Ohio,
where all IaborlouS occupations are per-
formed hyfrccnren alike interested in the
welfare Of tie community, answer the
question. Here ice GnI q convincing
and trjnm|Aant illustration OF the supe-
rior ccccl'carc of free and Stare lcbor.-
When free labor, applied to agriculture, is
brought into immediate competition with
Sl0re labor, the result must be, as it al
ways has been, Disastrous to the latter"
MANUFACTURES.
But the pernicious consequences of
slavery are not confined to agriculture !:
they operate alike to the injury Of every
Interest in the community. IfsIave labor
when applied to agriculture, is inefficient
and paral wing, it must be inapplicable to
manufactures. Slavery is directly oppo-
sed to that accumulation of capital, to that
creation Of skill and ingenuity, which is
essential to great manufacturing establish
ments. Slavery interposes an inseparable
obstacle to the application of our present
resources to the promotion of domestic
manufactures. This arises from the
character achjch 1t gireS to our entire
population.
POPULATION.
81 Let us compare Virginia and Massa-
chusetts, the one slareholdimg and the
other a non-slareholding state. Massa-
chusetts, by the census of 1920, had a
population of II to the square mile
Virginia blythe same census, had but ~
That this difference is solely the effect OF
slavery, is evident from the fact, that ma
ture has denied to Massachusetts many id
vantages which she has afforded TO Nir,
ginia."
"Again: in 1910, New-York had a
population of near 100000 inha bitants
and in 1920, 100000, making an in.
crease gilmore than 100000 in 10 years
The population of Virginia, in 1910, was
1000, being more than that Of New
York; but In 1920, in was little more
than 100000, and the increase in tina
time was less than 81. 900, whilst that Q
New York, in the same period, was up
wards of 100000"
i -'-" CHARACTER.
i r. "But if it has had this effect upon pop
ulation IN regard to its numerical strength
il Is still more desolating when applied 7.
its character. A population. e. De Ell
cienf, must be actiue Every portion Q