Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-07-04

ware. q slaves, every where, unhappy, Oe-
80 n fhsir condition Their adverse
r;.s dsnisd Il, averring that as class. they i
were .coniented and happy" The aboli-
tionists thought that the argument against
slavery could be made good. 90 far as TINS
point was concerned, BY either aam"1'sg
o. dssying the assertion. Admgt."g Is
thev insisted that nothing could demon
..,raie the turpitude of any system more
surelv than the fact, that MAN made IN
the image Of God-but little lower than
he anosIs-crowned with glory and hon.
ar, nd set over the works Of Gods hands.
his mind sweeping in an instant from
planet 70 planet, from the sun OF one sys-
TEN 70 the sun Of another, even TO the great
cenlre-sun Of them all--contemplating the
machinery ofthe universe, "wheeling I'M
shaken" in the awful and mysterious
grandeur Of It's movements, Through the
void immense spirit delighnng
in upward aspirations-bounding from
earth to heaven-that seats itself last by
the throne OF God to drink in the instruc.
lions Of Infinite Wisdom, or flies to execute
the commands Of Infinite Goodness; that
such being could be made contented q
happy' with senough to eat, and drink,
and wear and shelter from the weather.
with the base provision that satisfies the
bru,es, l. (say the aboliiionists) enough to
render superfluous all other arguments for
the instant abandonment ola system whose
appropriate work is such infinite wrong:
Dmying shat the slave Is contented
and happv,n the abolilionists have argued
that. fiom the structure Of his moral ma
mre--shs laws Of his mind-man cannot
b happy in the fact, that he is sHsLGced.-
. True he may be happy in slavery, but It
- not slavery that makes him SGT Is
virtue and faith eleyating him above the
Affections Of his lot The slave has will,
leading him TO seek those things which
the Au.hor Of his nature has made condu-
eiveto is happiness. In these things, the
will OF the master comes in collision with
hiswilI. The slave desires 10 receive the
rewards Of his own labor;-the power oi
the master wresis them from him. The
slave desires TO possess bis wife TO whom
God has joined him in affection TO have
the superintcndence, and enjoy the service:
Of the children WHOM God has contided tc
parents, that the habits Of flial relation
may aid 10 training them up for the ye
higher relation that they may sustain tc
him as their Heavenly Father. But here
he Is met by the opposing will ofthe mas
ter pressing his claims with resistless pow
or. The ties that Heaven has sanctioned
and blessed-of husband and wife, Of pa
rent and child, are all sundered in a mo
ment by the master at the prompting Of av
arice, or luxury or lust--and there Is non'
that can stay his ruthless hand, or say IN
to him, "What doest thou2" The sIav
thirsts for the pleasures Of refined and ele
waited inteIlect--the master denies to hIn
the humblest literary acquisition. Th
slave pants to know something Of that still
higher nature that he feels burning within
him-of his present state, his future desti
nv. OF the Being who made him, to who's
judgment-seat he is going. The master
Interests cry, mo. Such knowledge
:. TOO wonderful for you-it is high-yo
cannot attain unto IT," To predicate th
kappiness Of class Of beings, placed
circumstances where their will is everlas
ingly defeated by an irresponsible pow
er-the abolitionists say, Is to prove the
destitute Of the sympathies Of our nature
not HANNAH Il is TO declare with the Ath
ist, that man is independent Of the goot
ness Of his Creator for his enjoyments-
that human happiness calls not for any
the appliances OF his bounty-that God
throne Is nudity, himself a-superfiuit
I Bot independently Of any abstract reaso
ing drawn from the nature OF moral and
tsIligent bsings--FAcTs have beet clio
Cd IN the discussion Of the point before I
proving slavery everywhere especial
souihsrn slavery, maintained by enlighte
ed Protestants Of the nineteenth eentur
rsplete with torrents and horrors
direct form Of oppression that upheayes
self before the sun. These facts ha
been 80 successfully impressed on lar
portion Of the intelligent mind Of
country, that the slaves Of the South Z
beginning to be considered as those wht
God emphaticaily regards as tho "PooI
the "needy, - the afflicted, the -oppre
ed."the sbowed down." -ani for VIII
consolation he has said. "Now will l
rise, i win SCI. him in safety from him I
puffeth at him." This state Of the pull
mind has been brought about within
f, laa TWO or three years. ana 1t Is an ev
!. which so Ear from lessening. greatly a
mates the hopes and expectations OF 4
litionisis.
3. The abolihonists believed from
frs,, that the tendency Of slavery is
produce on the part Of The whites. loo
ness Of morals, disdain Of the wholesc
restraints Of law, and a ferocity Of TEN
found, only in solitary instances, in IN
countries where slavery is unknown
Thev were not ignorant Of the fact,