Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-05-31
Vol. IX....No. &c..

-ano they have not been 1eW-we do not
now recollect which of them did not, in One
shape or another, place "the great law Of
love'' at the foundation of its operations
If there should be one here and anothe,
there that has not embodied il in so nspv
words, we have produced refutation of thU
Chronicles statement, which ough. to cut
it to the blush, and will, if it is Susceptible
of being shamed by being most clearly con
victed of what is shameful. If the Chron.
icle was acquainted with the facts now
presented, how does it reconcile its Stale.
ments with them? If it new nothing Of
the truth in the case, how does it just;fy
itself in making unqualified, random asser.
lions concerning matter of which it knew
nothing? Hang on which horn Of the ii.
lemma it will, we caution it, as J. @. Adam,
cautioned certain others who in the heat If
their rage against abolitonists had beeDrosb
and headlong in their statements, to be in
future little more careful with its facts.
If any one of the benevolent Societies in
| our country has, more than any other one
urged upon the hearts and conscience, Of
men the claims of this great law, whether
IN It's constitution, by the mouth of its liz.
ing speakers or by the voice Of the nress
that one Society is the Anti-Slayery Socisv
For justification Of this statement, we I,
peal to the knowledge Of friends and foes
The assertion comes not Of envy or arro
gance. The very nature Of their enterpri,p
would lead abolitionisls directly 10 this
point and they have been neither so reckless
or So heartless as to omit it. We again can.
ton the Chronicle 10 be little more careful
with its facts-especially in matters of such
public notoriety.
The attempt Of the Chronicle to show I'D
Anti Slavery Societies as in the practice Of
tracing sin to any other source than the
heart, is too ludicrous to deserve much no.
tice. 1t undertakes to make q distinction
between slaveholding, 1siM q slarehcn
ing SPIRIT" and slaveholding rithom
slavehoIdlng spirit. Any thing to keep tie
dust flying, or to turn attention from IL.
great subject. One would be led 10 sim.
pose-lf any opinion can be formed Of is
views by following its ragaries-tbat the
Chronicle would have its readers believe
that large proportion of the shareholders
OF the South are held such against their
will. No one ever doubted that at times
they wish themselves out of it, just as the
drunkard, the swearer, the debauchee, ain
; many other classes Of sinners, in their "a.
uonal moments, when conviction seizes
them, wish they were separated from their
sins. Who has not heard the drupkord in
, agony of soul, denounce the very practice1o
which he was lending his whole sunno1
and perhaps reproach himself for his foHy
and Wlckedness? One hour after. pe1hap;
he was at his cups again. We now remem,
Der poor wretch, a professor of religion
bright genius, in many WAYS beneyoler,
soul, who, In his devotion to Bacchu:.
through neglect OF conjugal duties, broucb.
down lovely wife to premature grave
One tune he came to US, staggering directly
from his whiskey bottle, the tears rolling
down his cheeks-there could be no dopH
mat he was overwhelmed with regret. cha.
grin and sorrow, under his beasty habits
he reproached himself in the severcst terms,
: and lmrrecated the judgments of God upoa
his own head if he did not reform. This
we suppose might be called one OF The
. Chronicles sinners, pithout a siuniy
SPIRIT. Still we maintain that he vast
sinner. If the Chronicle chooses to cleans.
his heart and remove the sin to his head
or some other location, we will not spend
time or breath to contend about that; BIZ
we shGH contend that he is a sinner in this
thing, until he breaks off his sinfnl nrastcys
and does work meet for repentance.
AooiItlonIsts, without spending time
inquire alter possible cases that NAV be U
cePtlons TO the great, wholesale, murderou
work OF sIaveholding, except stopping occ:
slonally to set those right who are in da
ger of being turned aside by spch guides
the Chronicle, have dwelt upon the sin
American slavery as one great, enorrno
system Of pre-eminent wickednese r.
MAINTAIN that every one, at the Sou,h ap
a1the NORTH who upholds the system, wbeu
er directly or indirectly, is a sinner-tAa
because it is sinful to perpetuate this sys
tern OF sin, those who contribute in the leas
to It's perpetuation, whatever may be lb"
Vlews' are SHINING against God, just in pre-
portion to the support given. If there
an individual STAKEHOLDER who has persuac
ed himself, or who has been persuaded b