Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-02-14
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Anti-Slavery
Magazine, ENLARGED.

PRosPEcTUs.--auartsrly Anti-sIavery |
/ fa. Magazine, Enlarged.
In the opinion of not few in whose
Judgment the public are wont to place con-
| 6dence, the time is fully come when the |
most important practical question Of this
age should have journal Of the higher
order devoted to its discussion. Apathy
is departed. The pen or the sword must
soon decide whether or not slavery is to
remain one of the elements of our repub-
lie. BY all those who prefer the mode of
argument to that Of brute force, it cannot
but be deemed important that there should !
be a periodical in which all questions per-
tanning to slavery may be settled in the |
light Of thorough investigation. Surely, !
the many gifted minds that are now in
Itensely concentrating their powers of
thought upon this subject, will forfeit
their high responsibilities to God and the
age in which they live, if they do not
make their vindication of liberty not onl y
effectual for the present, but as durable as
the causes which led to oppression. The
interests and the history of the present
controversy are too important to be COM
miued to the sheet which perishes with
the day that gives it birth. Such was
the conviction which originated The Quar-
terly Anti,Slavery Magazine, and it has
acquired fresh strength with every day.
Two volumes have been completed; but
from the narrowness Of their limits, and
the smallness of the labor bestowed
upon them, they. have by no means salts
fed the demands Of the cause to which
r they have been devoted.
); 1t is now proposed to ENLARoE the
r work, and give it a character almost en-
tirely new.
= l. Each number will contain at least
e $50 pages, making two volumes of 500
K pages per annum, of the size and quality
Il Of the North American Review.
e H. About $50 pages will be devoted to
A, the discussion of slavery, and topics init
mately related to it.
Ie ILL., At least so pages will be occupied
= by a minute and condensed record o
Of facts and events, both foreign and domes
" tic, which 60 to form the history of the
s abolition movement.
w. The remaining pages will be oper
~ to uncontroversial literature. Since slave
- holders have confessed that the literatur,
~ of the world is against them, it is no
- doubted that this department will receive
e contributions from the best sources.
V. The most prominent characteristic
of the work will be its openness to boil
- sides of the controversy. Articles in ia
~ vor of slavery, or opposed to either tn
=, doctrines or measures of the abolitionists
~ if possessing sufficient literary merit, an
-, accompanied by the name of the writer
= will be admitted to the extent of rs page
in each number. and the replies will, i
IS, all cases, be restricted to the same lengt
60 as the articles which call them forth
''S The strongest champions Of slavery, q
, well as those who, protesting oppositio
ne to that system, are also hostile to the doc
or trines or measures Of the American Ant
60 Slavery Society, will be invited to ava
Nv themselves of this department Of the Ms
. gazine for the promul cation of their Ser
tlmen:s. They will be treated with fai
lat ness and courtesy, their articles will +
Ills printed with the utmost attention to acct
racy, in the same type with the rest of tn
Ia work !; and it will be their fault, or TIL
of their cause, if the abolitionists do n
thus receive the fire of one of their ow
|" batteries. The conductors of this VOL
no will always prefer living men to men
he straw, as their antagonists,
lay vi. Pains will be taken to give vall
to the work by offering adequate compe
. sation to able writers whose pens a
their living. The exigencies ofthe eau
. will frequently require articles of de-
Ex- research, that will cost laborious and lor
5th continued examination both of books al
are men. The right men to make such i
vestigations are not always the enes WI
can do it gratuitously. Nor can we {
1AL pect any one to undertake such task
use a mere newspaper. 1t is the province
wu. such work as the one proposed, to c,
rch forth, by suitable rewards and d1rat
be page, the best literary talents. To Il
i, of end we shall by no means confne oil
leir selves to our own country, but shall e
deavor to attract contributions, whences
ever philanthropy speaks the English Ia
guage. 1t is necessary to undermine a
countermine the fortress of oppressiG
beneath and around, as we'll as to col
down upon it with hail and fire fro
above 1t is time for the advocates of
man rights throughout the world, to ma
common cause against the system
chattelbondage, and annihilate, if it
eve possible, all its pretensions, whether
;on- justice, expedlency orsnecessity.
/. It is necessary to dwell on the value
snch q work Ia all who feel anv degree