The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1837-08-29

pOSterty were doomed by Ills own ia'hei W oo
hewers of wood and drawers OF water TO the de'
scendants of Shein and Japhet that native
| Anne rcans of African decent are the children
of Ham, with the curse of NOAH still fastened
upon them {; and the native Americans OF Euro
pean decent are children of Japhet, pure Anglo
Saxon blood, born TO command, and to live ny
the sweat of aonther's brow. The master-phi-
losopher teaches you that slavery is no curse
but a blessing that NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
has so ordered it that this country should be in
| habited by two races of men, one born to WELD
the scourge, and the other to bear the record OF
its stripes upon his back, one to earn through
toilso me life the others bread, and to feed him
on bed of roses; that slavery is guardian and
promoter of wisdom and virtue that the slave,
! by laboring for another's enjoyment, learns dis
interesedness, and humility and to mcat with
tenderness and affection for his master; that the
master, nurtured, clothed and sheltered by anoth-
er's tolls, learns to be generous and greatiul to
| the slave, and sometimes to feel for him as
father for a child that, released from the ne
cessty of supplying his own wants, he acquires
opportunity of leisure to improve his mind, to
purify his heart, cultivate his taste that he has
time on his hands to plunge into tho depths of
philosophy and to soar to the clear empyrean OF
seraphic morality. The master Statesman,-a
the statesman in the land of the Declaration OF
Independence,-in the halls of national iegisla-
| ton, with the muse of history recording his
words as they drop from his lips,-with the
colossal figure of American liberty, leaning
column entwined with the emblem Of eternity,
over his head with the forms of Washington
and La Fayette, speaking to him from the can
vass,-turns to the image of the father of his
country, and forgetting that the last act of his
life was emancipate his slaves to bols ter the
cause of slavery says, That man was slave
holder.
} "My counuymen! these are the tenets of the
modern notification school. Can you wonder
that they shrink from the light OF free discus
son?-That they skulll from the grasp of free
dom and truth Is there among you one who
hears me, solicitous above all things for the pre-
servation of the Union truly dear to us,-of
that Union. proclaimed in the Declaration of In
dependence, of that Union, never to be divided
by any TACT whatever,-and who breads that the
discussion of the merits of slavery will endunger
the continuance of the Union. Let him discard
his terrors, and be assured :hat they no other
than the phantom fears of notification; that
while doctrines like these are taught in her
schools of philosophy, preached ii her pulpits
and avowed in her legislative councils, the free
and unrestrained discussion of the rights and
wrongs of slavery, far from endangering the
union OF These States, is the only condition upon
winch mat Union can be preserved and perpet-
uaed. What Are you to be told with one
| breath, that the transcendent glory of this day
consists in the proclamation that all lawful gov
eminent is founded on the unalienable rights of
man and with the next breath that you must
not whisper this truth to the winds, lest they
kindle the fame of instruction? Are you to
bless the earth beneath your feet, because she
spurns the footsteps of slave, and then TO choke
the utterance of your voice, lest the sound OF
liberty should be re-echoed from the palmetto
groves, mingled with the dscortant notes of
disunon? No no Freedom of speech is the
only safety valve which, under the high pressure
of slavery,can preserve your politicafboiler from
fearful and fatal explosion. Let 1t he admit
ted that slavery il institution of internal pol
Iicv
ton of the States where it is cherished bles-
Singer tolerated as All evil as yet irremedable.-
But let that slavery, which intrenches herself
within the wals OF her own impregnable fortress,
not sally forth to conquest over the domain of
! freedom. Intrude not beyond the haOwed
bounds of oppression ; but if you have by solemn
compact doomed your ears TO hear tho distant
clanking of the chain, let not the letters of the
slave be forged airesh upon your own soil ; far
less permit them to be rivetted upon your own
feet. Quench not the spirit of freedom. Let
| it go FORTH not in the panoply of feshly wis
| dom, but with the promise OF peace, and the
voice of persuasion, clad ia the whole armour
| of ruth,-conquerIng and to conquer.
Friends and fellow citizens! speak to you
with the voice Of one risen from the dead
Were l now, as shortly must be, cold in my
grave, and could the sepulchre lumbar It's gates,
and open to me passage to this desk, devoted
to the worship of Almighty God, would repeat
the question with which this discourse was IN
troduced why are you assembled in this
placc?-and one of you would answer me for
ai,-Because the Declaration of Independence,
with the voice of an angel from heaven, put to
his mouth the sounding alchemy and proclaim
ed universal emancipation upon earth 1t is
not the separation Of your forefathers from their
kindred race beyond the Atlantic tide. 1t is Not
the union of thirteen British Colonies into one
People and the entrance of that People upon the
theatre. where kingdoms, and empires, and ma
tons are the persons of the drama. 1t is not
that this is the birthday of the North American
Union, the last and noblest offspring of time.
1t is that the first words uttered by the Genius
of our country, in announcing his existence to
the world of mankind, was,-Freedom to the
forever to the race of man, from the yoke of
oppression! 1t is not the work off day; it is the
labour of an age; it is not the consummation of
century, that we are assembled to commend