Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-06-06

ishes series Of extracts from the Liberia 8
Herald We copy two specimens O
aINDusTRY OF THE CoLosIsTs.-.Tell 2
/ not in Liberia. publish ]. not in the streets :
of Monrovia, lest the natives laugh, that
there are those in Liberia aOho are ashGm.
ed to one their subsistence TO honest labor
of7th mo. 1887" !
.pUnfortuualely for Africa. any and ev- I
ery kind Of labor is regarded as mark of .
meanness and poverty. which no man will
submit to bear The only business In
which the dignity of man will suffer him
to engage, is traffic, - Herald Of 9Th mo.
1897 tQ
The Herald from which the first extract
purports to be taken, is not before Us just
now. The second we find in an article |
relating exclusively to the natiUe Africans,
mo; to the coloaists! 1t has no relation
at all to The Industry ofthe Colonists."
WEALTH OF THE CoLoNY.-From
the Herald Of the 10Th month, we make
the following extract - 80. - s..s
IF our friends abroad inquire, Are the
people making fortunes? we reply at once,
No. What fortunes can they make in a
score of years, who are newly arrived 10
q climate that tries ecery fibre IN The ami
nal compositions. without money, without
correct knowledge of the seasons, unac
customed to the productions OF the soil, and
who, from the first moment Of arrival, have
to bring their regular quota OF duty to the
4 public service without fee or reward If
they make lining. they do aoell and all
that will be demanded BY any whose good
opinion we value at one farthing. 4"
/ The article from which this IS taken,
begins as follows: So. r*5 .~s.1.r....l H.. -,
j "A few days ago. we had the pleasure
of a trip to Millsburg, where we had not
been for nearly two years. 1t affords US
real pleasure to bear renewed testimony to
the thriving condition Of that little settle
ment There is attached to the settlement,
double the quantity of land under cultiva.
ton this year, than there has been in any
preceding year. If our friends abroad in
quire, Are the people making fortunes ~
i What is said of the thriving condition Of
he settlement and the gratifying progress
/ of agriculture, is carefully omitted, in the
Emancipator's extract; and the extract is
1 given as if it related. not to the settlement
E Of Millsburg merely, but to the whole col.
f ony. For the rest, we agree with the ed.
itor of the Herald, that to make living
! by agriculture, where one is unacquaintec
/ with the soil, climate, mode of cultivation
' &C., and has to learn every thing by ex.
E peIience,-is doing well, and ought t.
: satisfy the demands Of every reasonable
n man. Vermont Chronicle <2@.4Gso g-s&
y The paper containing the foregoing has been re
! ceived probably in compliance with my last week
proposal. The article is giver in the Telegraph
n with great cheerfulness.
III And is this thu Chronicles boasted 4pOinting
of several palpabIe and most injurious nisquOta
q tioasf'! MIsQUoTATIoNs-this is the word tina
IS the Chronicle made emphatic, with how much accu
racy or propriety the readers Of the Telegraph
% now judge from its own showing. What has tn
al Editor Of the Chronicle pointed QUIT and how ha
done 1T Why, he has given assertion Of hi
own which will most certainly be taken for quite al
:e ii is worth under the circumstances; and he ha
lie given single quotation which makes not one hal
ID eithorw white or black. Reader-judge We.
By the way, the Edotor Of the Chronicle has com
re mitted to say the least most egregious blunder
II in failing to attribute the production with which
t. is finding fault to the right source This is sait
not from any wish avoid responsibility in the
but to have the truth known. The article at whic
as the Chronicle has made this careful carping, is
r. less than that lengthy and astounding productio
I'd which copied into the Telegraph Of the 18th Of
Il. prl, from the - Pennsylvania Freeman" edited
is John g. Whittier the American Poet, and distir
is guished member of the Society of Friends. E IL
st And now, ask the Editor of the Chronicle wit
I'D what face he can charge the Editor of the Emanc
We pator, [Pennsylvania Freemanl with carefully
to mitting'' any thing, when he-the Editor of th
We Chronicle-has SO carefully omitted SO large
in proportion of the document he has garbled for hi
own purposes3 Out of his own mouth shall he
judged and in his own emphatic words will en-
e phaticaliy ask him, Is THIS DEALING FAIRLY WIT
~ THE PUBLIC ~ Furthermore, in his own word
at Is no slight testimony in favor of cause, that Il
opponents find it necessary to resort to such NEAR
OO to sustain themselves" That so ndomtable an az
ne herent to Colonization and busy defender of
u could Gull out nothing more than he did from sue
'u- an article and could make than he did o,
VI rues ne eao cum SPEAKS gredtiy IN praise OF u
of work. ."rf Il ss nt. ...@ma4.-. J..
oil now call on the Editor of the Chronicle--if
b. designs to @deal fairly with the public'to dsabus
his readers as to the general and doings of
I'M Liberan Colony by publishing the undisputed fac
placed before the world from time to time for Ii
last half dozen years, showing the Colony to be an
d. thing else than what the Chronicle represents il
re be-which facts the Chronicle has uniformly an
IN acarefully omitted" .se -. 49,
y NOBLE AND PREcocIous INrREPInrry.-O
- Wednesday of last week, as several cb;