Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-08-25
AUGUSTA, GEO, Aug

Mr. EDITOR Having noticed IN different
numbers of your paper and others in your
vicinity the past year, the proceedings ofsev-
eral meetings called together in your State
and others adjoining it, headed, Anti Slave
nv Society of --, &c, would beg
leave through the columns Of your useful
paper, briefly 10 suggest 10 such societies my
views on the subject.
Being northern bred and born, had. as
natural consequence, early imbibed the same
principles ofabhorrence lowardsSlavery that
now doubtless warns the hearts OF each and
every member Of each Of your respective So
ciytrs but on visiting this part OF the south,
and noticing with an unprejudiccd eye the
manner in which the slave holders treat their
black, Icannot but recall those early princi
pies, and unite in the common feeling exist
Ing here, that you are mcddling with that
which concerns you not. and creating an ex
element which will fear, end in the most
fearful consequences. The blacks in this
State, and particularly in this city, enjoy
privileges, in my mind, superior TO those en-
jOyed by many of the day laborers at the
north; they not unlrequently go and come
when they please, but they wear good
and comfortable clothing, and are allowed TO
indulge in the use Of all the little eatables
and drlnkAbles that are 10 be obtained in our
city and country. | would not be under
stood 10 say they all enjoy these privileges
or kind treatment; on the contrary, am
sensible some Of them are not provided Tor
nor treated with that humanity they ought
TO be, neither do the poor people among you
receive at all times that assistance from the
wealthy they deserve. But he that abuses
his servants finds il as difficult for him TO
keep them and receive any real benefit from
them, as person would at the north who
abused his laborers in the same way Be
sides, those among US who have servants to
hire out, take particular pains to procure
them kind master; and il not unfrequently
occurs that their owners sacrifice some hun
dreds Of dollars in making sale OF them, rath
er than separate them from their friends OF
sell them into the hands of an unkind mas
Ter, The blacks to be sure arc restricted BY
law from many Of the privileges the white
man enjoys, which restrictions render then
more useful to their masters and add ten folt
10 their own happiness; for who will pre-
lend 10 deny but what they are better oil al
they are, than they ever could be were the.
Tree. Some, no doubt, would be made happi
CT IN the event; but where one would b.
made happier, five would become ten time
more miserable Give them their freedom
and they would trample under foot ever.
'hng like decency and spurn the mlldes
command furthermore, having no one t
calculate for them. they would idle ava.
Their time till some accident befell them, AM
Wey would become town expense and
nuisance TO the public; whereas, as they arc
'ney are fed and clothed comfortably in sick
ness and in health, and some Of them year
and years aflerthey become perfectly useles
70 their masters Some among you. n
doubt would hold that they ought TO b
emancipated. Such thought is as total
vold OF reason aud justice as il would be 10
'ne south to rise up and say Congress ougf
70 enact law that your cattle and horse
should be taken from you without comper
sa'ion, or your consent, and shipped into th
hands oil some foreign power. Besides.
majority of the slaves would prefer remain
ing here as they are, before going to Afric
ana have their freedom. Why then do 20
SUI persist in creating such bitter hostiii
between the north and south. | would NJ
nave you infer that wish 10 see slavery II
creased or extended over our common coul
Wy. on the contrary, regret that il was e
81 introduced into our Union bu, since
SO, say let the north leave the subject
Tue slave holding States to manage as the
may think proper, for rest assured, the sla'
holders ofthe south will never give up the
,gnuul property except at the point OF q
uayonet' to crafty your unreasonable d
'nahds A GREEN MOUNTAIN Boy