Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-11-03
he Editor Of the Phenir:

laifax, Oct. 1887 THE ORPHAN
BIZ The Editor Of the PhGnir: sea
SrR:-There. has lately been published
letter from Mr. Claiming TO Mr. Clay, on
be subject of anncxing Texas to this gov
mment The present is a favorable time lc
circulate this letter; let those who candidly
cad remain Indifferent on the subject of slave.
y, ifthey can. While the press has hitherto
een almost entirely on the side of slave.
oIders- sustaining their heartless and wick.
slave laws-promulgaiing their princi.
les Of despoism and tyrunny-jusiifying
nobs and riots, and at last Introducing a pa.
ban religion 10 take the place of the Bible
be reading of this letter will not fail TO do
FOme good at this crisis Of national peril -
The voice Of inspiration seems about to be
realized "The days OF visitation are come
Israel shall know it. The prophet is fool,
he spiritual man is mad, for the multitude oil
bins iniquity, and the great hatred. The
prophet is a snare of fowler in all his WAYS,
and hatred in the house Of his God. --He
will remember their iniquity, he will visit
their SINS "--Hosea O.: 1873. d'
Ia your paper Of the 10Th Oct. your cor.
respondent Of Butler County. Ohio, again
would assure the readers Of the Phoenix that
be is sincerely discharging moral duty, in
indicating American Slavery. How man
Of understanding, for the pleasure of il,
could task himself TO such work, is not
little unaccountable He seems 10 be aware
Of his unenviable condition; that his per.
Ormance is labor full Of contradictions !;
and that to sustain him, the bible has TO be
read in detached and selected parcels, with
an accompanying adapted commentary of
his own; for says he. II have been all
through the scriptures thousand times, and
though | can find abundance OF evidence to
convince me that slavery (even) a5straetiy is
wong, and heinous sin, and ought to be
abandoned" still your correspondent advo.
Gates 1t introduces the bible in aid of his
'ophlsms; and would have your read
as JON that strange confcderacy, who stand
'houlder TO shoulder, and nerved with power.
70 TX upon the wrecks of more than two mil.
lions oil immortal fellow beings the yoke oil
savery-denying them the advantages com
mon to heathen-robbing them Of their souls
ana transforming them to chaitels. Thingsl
ofu'es J! Il should myself. (says the wri-
3f) be as active and ardent an abolitlonist as
'.ny one can be, were it not for the two con-
S'0e'a!Ions on which have been writing and
opposing them, viz: the constitutional obi
CATIONS anil prohibitions, which | hold sa-
ueai and the moral obligations under
winch feel myself bound TO obey the Cos
Fl as understand H. Here. then, we have
ne rank concession Of one who would be
% aooIilonisl, but for two reasons; reasons
'"ch slavery itself, bali century ago, dar-
~ not ayow. What an exhibit Slavery
'.pponed by constitutional obligations and
HUuloillons, and moral obligations. Where
/" we article or clause IN the Constitution,
w. ask, that prohibits the Legislatures of
.a'enodlng States from abolishing all their
'%'e'laws' and establishing a Jurisprudence
SIun .le basis of equalarights, in conformity
%"a' The Declaration Of Independence An
.aslavery, in horror of the threatened final
ssa';ass'roph,e' sees the folds of the boa con-
Sa,'O slavery gathering upon the free
S ana 1t sends its warning voice 10 the
Wh w. Cannot he repent of his sin 2
t .uS' clause in the Constitution prevents
San What obligation, orwhat prohibition
J Ia"I mere, that interleres with this solemn
sSy. Cannot Virginia or Maryland do
In New York has done 2 And we would
vss, % nave the clause pointed out, that pre-
N, Is"s - Ine chivalrous and generous South
I S', whole slaye-holding South--doing in be-
R,;,;' u downlrodden population, what the
n" Parliament has recently done for
,roh population in the colonies Of Mon
w W acg ave sAzas ,os aaiaa |
.m 'Unr correspondent also feels bound by
,n mI'a, Obligations" to obey the gospel as We
| osI! a. Slavery maintained by NOR
NJ 0On,ga'ons What an exquisite picture of
10 "ssHy DO slaye-laws exhibit Begin with
a. soa "'s! command in the decalogue, and pro-
: ,l !. lelsurely through the whole and webeg
nd S a which ofthem is not violated. plainly
d pa'pa6ly yiolated,on The general principle
esca" esa oy slavery,-That a man and his
h rS.nuan's to the latest generations. are
lava is are the property of siellow-man2
low s.e,laws remove from the slave The Bible.
Nv can he worship bis Maker2 Slave.