Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-08-02
From the Phila. Facts for the People.

est cheat is the greatest man.
From the PhiIa. Facts for the People.
SAFETY.-To say that immediate cman-
cipation is not safe, is to say that it is not
safe for human beings to obey their Gre
ator.
To deny the safety of immediate eman-
cipation, is 10 doubt the first principles of
common sense-the operations of moral
cause and efect-and the testimony Of
universal experience and history. The
writings of Clarkson and Stuart have tri-
umphantly established this point, and the
world has been challenged in vain to pro-
duce an instance Of starvation or blood
shed, in consequence of emancipation.
To say that immediate emancipation is
not safe, is to say that it is not safe for
human beings to be free! 1t is to say,
what the despots of all ages and nations
have said, and still say, that the lGborimg
classes of mankind are incapable of self
government, and ought to be kept under
the control of their superiors!
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS from
slavery does not confer the right of suf-
frage, but we contend that co1ored persons
should be allowed it's exercise, as soon as
they possess the qualifications required of
other citizens. They should also be aid
ed and countenanced in their endeavors,
by moral and intellectual culture, to be-
come respectable and useful members of
society.
We do not ask that they shall be har-
assed, and the country brrdened by an op,
pressive and vexatious system of appren,
ticeship for grown men, as in Jamaica
but that they shall be employed as free
Iaborers and paid equal and just wages
as in Bermuda and Antigua, where they
are industrious and happy, and their EN-
pIoyers safe and prosperous.
BY the abolition of slavery we mean
simply the repeal of the Ubiquitous sIa We
code-the abolition of he unrighteous
things wherein slavery consists-the res
toration of men from the condition O.
"chattels" to the condition of rational be.
lngs. lfthere is any reason why this alb.
clifton should not take place now, they are
reasons which will be equally valid, III all
future time. And they are reasons urged
against the inalienable rights of man, and
the immutabIe laws Of God
MoBs, &C.-After lecturing in various
parts of the country, for several months
Mr.. Garrison started the Liberator, Jan
|, 1881. 1t was more than year from
) It's commencement before single A. S
Soc. was formed, and that with onlv -
} members. From Jan. '32 to Oct. '33
when the mob had not put forth then eff
forts to crush US, only Is societies were
formed. Then the sovereign mob, lat the
instigation of taskmasters and northern
lIberty-haters, commenced their brilliant
career of heroic achievements, in N. Y.
city, by dispensing an +nti-slavery meet.
ing, after they had formed society. In
} 21 years from that time, more that 500 A.
! s. Societies were formed, in Is States
} with $4,000 members, and more than g.,
; 100000 copies of anti-slavcry publications
were issued.
10 TEE SLAVES DESIRE THEIR FREE.
DOM? There are in the city of Cincin.
natl 476 colored persons who have paid
more than TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS for their liberty. (225,522 dol
> lars) And yet it is sometimes said, "They
wouldn't take their freedom if their mas
;ers would give it to them"
WORKING MEN BEwARE!-"The
treatment which the laborer would re.
+ ceive, if shareholders alone had the power.
you can imagine, when you call to mind
the sentiments expressed by distinguished
statesmen and Legislators, and high dioni-
taries at the south, in relation to the rights
of the workingmen. Benjamin Watkins
Leigh, one of the most distinguished sons
of Virginia, senator in the United States
Senate, contended in the Virginia Con-
vention of 1929, that those who earn
their bread by the sweat Of their brow
sin political economy, ill exactly the
same place. as the slaves. He further
saws: | have as sincere feeling Of regard
for that people as any man who lives
lamong them. But ask GENTLEMEN to
lsay, whether they believe that those who
depend on their daily labor for their dali
lly subsistence, can, or do ever enter into
political affairs They never do-never
luiH-uever CAM "--BurleisA's Address.