Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-01-03

has not himself had some agency IN getting
himself into the painful predicament.
(s:) 1t is the CALLED jade that winces-it
is the wounded bird that futters. On this
point, as on many others, he owes it to him
self to be quiet. No allusion would ever
have been made to this point, by me, had he
not assumed to himself such vast eleva-
ton. did think had claim on one so
wonderfully selEelevated, and treating me
with such profound contempt, that he should
give me less trouble with his photography
and punctuation. Or, if he please to have
it turned round, | thought that one who
troubled me with such looking manuscript
did show himself in very ridiculous light,
to say the least, by such monstrous self-in-
haton. ] think so still-and have his own
testimony for it, that the "portraiture attests
the character of the artist"
co. Here is key to the principal diff
Guilty. He felt himself to be my =" antago-
nist"-he had set himself up as such Of
course he labored to &" conqter''-as he man
ifestly does yet-more than to hud the
truth. This will never DO. And he is al
together mistaken in supposing that had
formed any areapons" for any suchpurpose
as he seems TO think. 1t will not always
do to judge Of the feelings of others by our
own. The ueapous he has seen are only
the shadows, or reflections, ofhis own. Let
him lay down his own then, and he will
cease 10 see any other.
(1O.) For answer to this question, see
note (7)
Il) And what is here but his own as.
sertion, covering all the ground Of the charge
that brought against him, and more too
| Indeed, what was a miserable skeleton in
the Convention, he has here filled out, in
c,rtenSo. Who is ''hurting" him now q
Is it this editor" he talks so much about
in the third person while his address com
menced to me personally, or is he not rathe
"effecting" his own "hurt," by virtually &C
knowledging all that have at any time al
lodged, and greatly adding 10 il-as thos'
who heard will bear witness?
Whether there was any reply, those will
say who did " hear"
O2) have, in foregoing note promis
ed defense for the Circular. The uncon
scionable length Of his article excludes a
reply, on the main question, today-as
also crowds out much other important mat
ter that would have been far more accepta
bic to readers in general.
will only add here, that herearter-afte
such an effort as is here made to delen'
slavery by the Bib.e, against the Circula
and all kindred measures on the part G
northern chrlstians-he will not be expecte
to complain of being injured, if he should b
looked upon as an apologist for slavery.
he has not nailed himself 10 the counter 9
, such, then greatly misconceive.
have one request TO make 10 him,-an
that is, that he either reform and abando
his present principles and practices on thi
subject, or that he go back into the slave
holding States where he received his educa
ton, and take his place among those VIII
view slavery to be the 1" corner stone
this republic" and compatible with tn
teachings OF just and benevolent God I
men, who has declared that he has "mad
of one blood all nations of men," and hs
made obligatory on each of them the con
mand, whatsoever We would that me
should do to you, do We even so to them."-
The Shareholder in Virginia exerts an inf,
ence far less pernicious than the apology
of slavery in New-England. For the latt
. is not only scattering poisonous infection a
r around him, but he is keeping the former
q countenance.
(13) Not at all. No unwillingness
on my part TO be "identi6ed with the Giro
r lar" 50 far as the truth in the case admi
v But my answer to his question, to be four
4 in the next note, will show him that he h
j. been proceeding by "guess," all along
r this matter, just as he has in many othe
O4.) No.
= I5.) "The difference" there is betwe'
an individual person and the instrument
n Convention composed Of the represent
tives of thousands. Differ ence enough,
n ordinary discernment.
10 (l6.) Such indignity to the Convent
&c as this, was only equalled by his refusal
sign the Circular, as one of the secretari
q which refusal was only the carrying c
9 of previous threat, thrown in the face
n the Convention, before the vote was TAX,
I1-N e I'LL. 1lnnnon y rr,h;lo h. i