Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-07-11

on neI paTts Win single view 10 tue per.
Of slavery; bring thesesentiments
in all their accumulation and intensity TO
act upon a nation where one half are en-
slavers, the other the enslayed--& what
must bethe efeet2 From the nature Of
mind; from the laws Of moral influence,
(which are as sure in their operation If
not so well understood, as the laws Of
physical influence, 1.-THE party ".whose con-
science with injustice is oppressed, "must
become dispirited, weakened in coursge,
and In theend unnerved and contemplate.
On the other hand, the sympathy that
would be felt for the oppressed-the CON-
fort they would .ecsive-Ahe encourage
ment that would be given them to assert
their rights would make il an impossible
~ to keep them in slavish peace and sub |
mission. This state of things would be
greatly aggravated by the peculiarly NOR
bid sensiuyeness Of the South to every
thing that is supposedto touch her eharac-
ter. Her highest distinction would then
become her most troublesome one. How,
for instance, could her chivalrous sons
bear to be tainted, wherever they went,
on business or for pleasure, out Of their
own limits, with the cry. "the knights Of
the lash - Go home and pay your la
borers 20 cease from the scourging Of
husbands and wives in each others pres
ence"-" from attending the shambles, to
sell or buy into slavery those whom God
has made of the same blood with you.-
selves-your brethren--Your sisters! -.
Cease, high-minded sons Of the Ancient
Dominion from estimating your revenue
by the number of children you rear, 10 sell
in the flesh msrketl" Go home and pay
your laborersl" "Go home and pay your
laborers |" This would be trialto which
i"Southern Chiyalry" could not, with pa
thence. submit. Their high honor
their "uudaunted spirit would impel them
to the 6eld-only to prove that in the "last
resort Of nations" something more substan-
tial than mere :" honor, and "spirit'' is
necessary to maintain it Suppose there
should be disagreement-as in all likeli-
hood there soon would, leading 10 war be-
tween the North and the South. The
North would scarcely have occasion to
march squadron to the field. She would
have an army that could be raised UP by
the million, at the Preside of her enemy.
1t has been said, that during the late war
with England, it was proposed to her cab
met, by some enterprising officers, to land
five thousand men on the coast OF South
Il Carolina and proclaim liberty to the slaves.
The success Of the scheme was well tho't
oil. But then, the example England her
self held nearly a million of slaves at no
greater distance from the scene Of action
than the West Indies. No,o, restraint oil
this kind on such scheme does not exist.
II seems plain beyond the power of argu.
ment to make it palmer, that nation, un.
der the circumstances in which the South
separated from the North would be placed
. must be at the mercy of every free people
she would have no power to vindicate a
right or TO avenge a wrong
: A sixth reason why the South will moi
! dissolve the Union, is founded in the diff
Guilty Of bringing about an aetEal separa,
!. lion, Preparatory to such movement, i
: would seem indispensable that Union a.
a mong the seeding States themselve.
, should be secured. A General Convention
q would be necessary to adjust its TERMS
v This would, of course, be preceded BY par
. tteHLdr Conventions in the several States
a To this procedurethe same objection wouIC
: apply, that has been made, for the last twt
! or three years. to holding an anti Abolition
N Convention in the South 1T would Civ
r to the question such notoriety, that the OBJ
!, jec: Of holding the Convention could no
: be concealed from the slaves. The NOR
, sagacious in the South have been Oppose
/ toa Convention nor have they been influ
h eneed solely by the consideration Just men
= tioned-which, in my view, is but of liul
4. moment; but by the apprehension, tina
: the diversity Of sentiment which exists a
:. mong the slaye-Stales themselves, woul
i be manifested TO the country; and thatt tn
y slave holding interest would be found def
= cient in that harmony, which, from its pei
A fectness heretofore, had made the slave
:. holders so successful in their action on th
: North. 3D.. r. T">'..'.
De The slave-holding region may be divid
m ed into the farming and the planting
m or the slave-seIting and the slave-buyin
le districts. Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky
to Missouri and East. Tennessee constitute
a thesfrst. West-Tennessee is somewhs
to equiyocal. All the States south of Ten
= nessee belong to the slave-6uying distric
e The first, with but few exceptions, have
IN from the earliest times. felt slavery a re
Of proach to their good name--a drawbacI
IA on their Advancement, at some period, I
i be cast off. This sentiment, had il bee
re at all encouraged by the action of the Gen
- ...k IL
II views of The Convention that formed tn
" Constitution, would, in all probability, b
" this time. have brought slavery, in Mary
land and Virginia, to an end, Notwitt
n standing the easy admission of slaye-State