Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-01-31

Circular Address TO Vermont Aboiittonists'
With US you evidently concur in the
sentiments-that Abolitionism is the es-
sence of humanity-The union of patri-
otto and religious action. AS patriots, you
wish success to the cause TO ensure per-
petuity to our republican institutions, to
consummate the ultimate design avowed
by our sagacious ancestors "that all men
are entitled by nature to the right of life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
AS Christians, you desire the same that
the glad tidings of the gospel may be
extended to every human being-that the
best good of the American people, the
free as we'll as the enslaved. may be pro-
moted-that all legal barriers may be
removed which obStruct the cultivation
and expause of the human inteliect-that
the Bible may be permitted to be univer-7
sally read in christian as we'll as in hea
then lancs-in all our beloved and boasted
republic as we'll as in Persia, Cyprus or
Hindostan. These are objects at which
you aim, and these are your incentives to
action.
And as friends to man you would be
consistent and reasonable. While yon
pitied the Poles, sympathized with the
Greeks, felt for the South Americans,
| protected the Canadian Patriots, and !aud
our political union, you cannot withhold
helping hand TO free the Responding
slave, whose chains of bondage as a ma
ton we politically hold. Your symPa-
thy is not so uniiateraIly expansive as to
be wholly expended to evangelize heather
abroad, while you legally and politically
aid in making men, women and children,
! heather at home What better is our
slave system than system of heathen-
ism2 is an edict which Furnishes with
death for learning a man to read the BIZ
Bile, worse in China than in Louisiana
Is not our slave system a system of castles
a system of enormous Wickedness-op-
posed equally to the rights of man and
the laws of God! Is there anything in
any heather country which for systematic
cruelty and oppression eau compare with
it? John Wesley, nearly half century
ago, called "the American slave system
the ciJest the sun er.r sGaO." 1t certainI y
has not been menorated since. At pres
ent it is sustained BY much more oppress'
i've and cruel laws. 1t has been pamper.
ed and fostered by public sentiment
, until theft aud murder receive the sane
ton of law" And this system is nov
sustained by corrupt public sentiment
which must be changed TO accomplish Its
| overthrow. On you, brethren, devolve:
this important task 1t must be shown
= that what is morally wrong can not b.
politically right or safe. Man must b.
brought to regard man as man. Th
cringing Statesmen of the north and west
and the interested Shareholder of the south
must be taught that they are men, an
must feel an interest in what concern
men, And those religious creeds Whic
sever man from himself, and reduce hif
! from his high destiny "to goods and cha
a teIs'' must be abrogated. Their fallac
= must be exposed.
fl To accomplish these objects great an
. powerful efforts are required; and aboIi
: tionists must perform them, and be en-
: gagged in this work mOw. Now is an i'm
: portant crisis. The puplic mind is o.
: the alert-ready to receive impressiOn.-
h Brethren, what is our duty? Pecunar
b aid must be had Agents must be >as
| tanned, and Anti-slayery publications mus
: be spread wherever they will be read
because when carefully read :onvictio
rarely fails to follow. The public min
is changing, and changing rapidly
Success must finally ensue. Wien tn
people say sL0rery must cease, the cork ,
> done.
a The parent Society is engaged in
v great work and it pepends upon its friend
= for support. It's friends in Vermont hav
Y done well-but much more is demande
I by the exigency Of the times And tn
: Committee have the fullest confidence thu
Z the call for pecuniary support will re
0 ceive general and hearty response A
: we ask not for ourselves, but for thos
e who have not the power to ask, we as
: boldly and plainly And we take thi
l. opportunity to impress upon all our au'
IF Hilary societies the importance of Obtain
O ing funds to forward by their delegates
n the approaching anniversary, (Feb.
b and 22d.) But whether funds be obtaine
is or not, it is immensely important that n
= society should fail of being represented
Is and all friends of the cause who consis
e emily can, should attend. and attend dul
T. ing the session. We have every reaso
it to expect the exercises will be OF highl
r. important character.
We cordially invite general auenc
ance; and in the language Of DR.. Char
ming, we close this address
LET it not be said we can do nothin
= for the slave. We can do much. w
have power mightier than armies, tn
n power of truth, of principle, of virtue, I
~ | rirht of relioinn of love We have