Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-03-14

on the performance Of conditions. The poor
slave endures outrage and serves for nothing !;
the hired servant is protected and serves for a
reword.
Anxious Popul thinks the remedy for the
great wrong of slavery must be the work Of
time Doubtless it will require time to per.
Auadc shareholders to perform this work but
suppose they were already persuaded, how
long time would they need for its perform
ance? The history Of emancipation proves
that negroes will work better for pay than they
will for the whip. Suppose then that slave
holders generally should take il into their
hearts no longer to extort involuntary and I'M
compensated labor, but convert their slaves
into hired servants how soon could the object
Of their wishes be effectedl Should they de-
sire that all injustice might from this moment
cease, and the slaves be protected in their
rights like white people, what would hinder the
accomplishment Of their desire7 The pres
ent laws forbidding emancipation derive all
their force from the will Of the shareholders,
and would become void at once without n for
NAL repeal by change Of that will.
Arp. asks "What good object can be cf-
fecteG by your labors in the non .slaveholdiug
states 7" and soon after Gays: "But public
opinicn'here, ever since the adoption of The
federal constitution, to cay the least, has been,
and still continues to be - decidedly OPP
posed to slavery" Without disputing his as.
seltion, ask him to explain how people de-
cidedy opposed to slavery and having the pow
er TO abolish il in the District Of Columbia,
have suffered its existence there so long o
How happens it that their representatives in
Congress will not even hear petition for its
! aboltion2 Why do they vote for the admis.
sion of new slave states into the Union q
] Slau boib de la in inn n n
what but the spirit Of slavery excludes negroes
from our colleges What else prompted the
strange proceedings in Cantubury and Canaan
| Call It the spirit OF slavery or what you will
facts show that Abolitonists have something
TO do in the North. 1t would be questionable
wisdom for lecturers to 90 TO the South, and
leaving such spirit behind them, give South
errors chance TO say, 60 home and reform
your own people. Besides, are they not oper
ating both upon the South and upon the North
Already some hundreds OF slaves have beer
emancipated in consequence Of their move
ments, and one stakeholder has become tn,
conductor of an anti-slavery journal.
|. SMITH.
Waitsfield, March ., 1887.
| P.S The above reply was just finished
when Anxious Populi's second essay appeared
After reading it, do not think it expedient &c
| oner mucn more III reply partiy because tnt
writer employs ridicule upon his subject, which
| do not wish 10 meet in any way, and partly
for other reasons. Il is TO be regretted tina
the writer has ventured TO offer his thoughts tc
the public without being better informed. Per
haps he differs from ubolitionists on some points
{ My for want Of correct definition. BY 6
slave Abolitonisto mean "chattel PERSONAL
They believe that all slaves who are compe
tent to take care of themselves, should be al
lowed to Go so, under such legal restraints on.
ly as are imposed on other people; and thai
those who are not competent should like, white
people Of similar capacities, be placed under
responsible guardians. A. P. pronounces al
voluntary slaveholding sinful. Does he mean
TO condemn oil who voluntarily hold appren .
tees for even the apprentice is slave &c.
cording to his notion. He has not studied hi,
subject ensush TO be consistent. One moment
he says: Slavery is the entire subsection o.
one person to the will Of anolher"; the next
he insists that the limited Subsection Of an APP
prentice is slavery. Ii he will send to The
Book Store of Z. P. WALTON g. Son, or &c
some other place, for jays Inquiry and Phelps
Lectures on Slavery and its Remedy, he will be
in better circumstances 10 benefit the public by
his wrilipge. |. S.