Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-03-01
THE TELEGRAPH.
BRANDON, Observation-Disclosures.

ings-The pressure Of other business has
prevented until now, our writing out the !
sketches taken Of the speeches-and we
are but a poor reporter, at best-so that
whit is now given will necessarily be brief
and 'ery imperfect.
ALyAR SABN, Agent Of the American
Anti slavery Society, in seconding the &C
aeptance and adoption Of the Executive
Committees Annual Report, wished to call
attention to single point:
Slavery is inconsistent Nth the general
education Of the people-its influence is to
widen the distance between the rich and the
poor, and to keep the latter in ignorance and
degradation. If the sovereignty is to be
and to remain in the hands of the people,
the people must be enlightened and endowed
with wisdom. Education, intellectual and
moral, must extend to all-the lowest class
es Of society-even TO the very dregs of So
ciety now flooding this country from Eu-
rope. Slavery is in its nature opposed 10
\
there must and will be laws to prevent the
education Of the poor, and these laws wilt
be vigilantly enforced by guards BY day and
patrols by night
The United States are a community of
republics. While this family relation is
sustained, there will be a strong, mutual
and constant tendency to common policy.
, The policy of the North will be tending
towards the South, and at the same time
the policy Of the South will be tending to-
wards the North. These influences are ex-
srted, and will continue to be exerted in va
rious ways-Ihrough our commercial rela-
tions-our political relatlons-our public
press-our correspondence through the pub
Inc mails-our social ties, which keep up
constant interchange Of views and feelings
Already the South are alarmed at the infu-
ence going down from the North upon their
domestic institutions" and the North too
are beginning TO be alarmed at the influence
which Southern institutions are exerting
over a large and powerful class among our
selves. The policy Of the North is freedom
Of discussion and universal education The
policy Of the South is the restriction Of both.
These antagonist principles are now put
: ting forth their legitimate and mutually
{ hostile action-action that must, in the ma
e ture Of the case, increase in power and ef
4 feet until the one or the other prevails.
Either. then, the Genius Of Southern in,
= situations must predominate at the North
o aud ignorance and degradation be dealt ou
r to the working classes, and certain subjects
g be exempted from discussion and examina.
o ton; or, on the other hand, the Genius Of
: Northern institutions, which we are won
= to think is the Genius OF liberty, of repub
, icanism, must predominant at the South
i and universal education and free discussion
: prevail or else we must make that which
i is right at the North to be wrong at tn.
Q South, and that which is ri yht at the South
to be wrong at the North. There is no such
thing as educating slaves and holding then
in slavery.
If Now what is the nature of Southern in
r stitutious, that it is necessary TO keep SC
large proportion Of the people in ignorance
and heathenism7 What would be the eff
feet on these institutions of giving the Bi
g bic TO the slave population? The answer
c to this question will very much determine
u the character Of these institutions as they
J now exist They are institutions which
: cannot exist but by keeping the Bible out O
n the hands and knowledge out of the mind.
!, of the laboring poor. BY the laws Of sew,
5. eral Of the Southern States the laborine
II class Of those States are prohibited, reading
= or writing either written or printed charac
; tiers. Let this 60 on, and how long before
: we shall be called upon to abandon our Bi
Il bic cause-our Sabbath School cause, anc
> our Missionary caused Every inch of grounc
gained to Southern institutions is so much
ground lost to these institutions Of Heaven
? To neglect, then, the work of removing
= those growing enemies Of education and fire.
o inquiry-those invaders of human nature,
y, rights and Heavens laws-while we pra,
% for the universal spread of Bibles, of Sab
70 bath Schools and Of Gospel Missions, is t
n leave undone our plainest duty, and We
n pray God to direct US in the way of duty
d Than which, what could be more prepos
d tercus or hypocritieal7l
The speaker then went ON TO show tn,
; Inconsistency Of slavery with universal suf
y frage.-[A proposition so plain-so self-evi
3 dent--that it only need be stated, to b.