Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-02-28

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There were two public sessions each day.
and one each evening, TUESDAY and
Wednesday, besides business meetings.
ofthe entire proceedings can give but
the merest sketch, Of but a part, being but
a bad reporter at best, and having been &C.
cupied, to some extent, on committees, so
that was unable to keep up the chain en-
tire, or any thing like it. I may, however,
be able to get out some Of the sentiments
advanced, which viii be useful.
The first evening was occupied by Guy
Beckley, Amos Dresser and Alvan Stewart.
As took no notes. / will only touch upon
single point, and this for the sake Of i'm
portant information communicated.
The Florida war, which has already cost
this nation ST., 100000, and has split so
much human blood, causedso much human
suffering, and wasted so much human life,
had, A. Stewart said, its origin in slavery.
A female slave, at some former time, escap-
ed from Georgia into Florida and was
married by an Indian. In process Of time
the daughter of this pair became the wife of
osceola. The proprietor Of the fugitive,
after her death, aseertainlng that the wife
Of oseeola was her daughter, in person or
by proxy, seized her in an unguarded mo-
ment, dragged her into Georgia and made
her slave. The great, and greatly injur-
ed son of the forest resolved on revenge,
and, pursuing the kidnapper, ayailed him
self of an opportunity to shoot him through
} the heart!
Such was the origin Of the only war in
which this government has been engaged
for years-a war in which this whole guilty
nation has been, for three years, held in
terror by handful of robbed and abused
savages-a war that has made drafts upon
your pockets and mine for its support-a
war deeply disgraceful to this nation, and
horribly sinful. Lett henceforth be known
and we'll understood that the sacrifices Of
life and treasure in this murderous enter
i prize are sacrifices to that bloody Moloch,
American Slavery.
i The speaker then contemplated the atti-
tude of this nation, before the world, the
a work Of emancipation going on all around,
5 to the encouragement of all who work fol
the slave, and to the shame and everlasting
f reproach of this land OF boasted liberty
For the encouragement Of those who art
4 engaged in this enterprise, and in answe
e to the inquiries what do abolitionists pro
pose to do-what are they doing-and with
: what prospect of success-he stated thai
!: from 400 to 1900 societies have already
n been organized-that about so papers are
Z more or less devoted to the work, and seve-
e raj of them primarily.
oil WEDNESDAY MoRNNG.-A. Stewart tool
; up the subject where he left it the evening
before.
y Great confidence has been placed in oul
Protestant religion, as furnishing mora
lever for the overturn of all great system.
# of sin. But, with however much mortifea
e ton, the truth must be told that the Roman
!! Catholics of Mexico and South Americ:
e are far in advance of US in doing away thu
inhuman and unchristian system of African
+ slavery.
= There are few men at the North WIKI
II will not grant that, some how or another
a at some time or another, slavery must com,
y to an end-especiallY is this conviction OF
e the minds of those who are well enough
Ie informed on the subject to have seen III,
"a system melting away all around US. Thos,
evils that are inherent in nature they woult
j. not think to cure; but, inasmuch as SLAYER,
IS is an unnatural production, an outrage upor
b humanity and Christianity, and at war will
5 the spirit of the age in which we live, the,
'e cannot resist the indications of its approach
~ ~ ing dissolution. But how the end is I,
s. come, how the work is to be done, he can
a, not conceive, therefore he desires to be lie
alone in regard to it. This is the bloc
e. before the wheel and the weight behind i,
It, Our speaker believed, with Henry Claw
d. that whatever subject or system will no
e endure free discussion, mus, not, and cal
u not, in this age, be sustained. Whateye
Observation-Disclosures moral exerescence-
j" whatever embodied deformity cannot stant
up and be defended by argument and rea
: SON. must 60 down. This sentiment ha
:, taken Judgment at the South. Don't agit
m ate, say they-every time you agitate tn
subject, we lose ground. Our speaker coul