Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-08-15
RMoNT TEL EGRAP H.

1t would give pleasure TO comply
with the invitation; but my health is not
verv firm; my voice has been affected by
the Intense heat of the season, and null {
,iplici,y of applications from societies,
political and literary, 10 attend and address
their meetings, have imposed upon me
the necessity of plpading the privilege of
my years and declining them all.
| rejoice that the defence of the cause
of human Freedom is falling into young
er and more vigorous hands That in
|three-score years from the day of the
Declaration of Independence, its self-evi-
dent truths should be yet struggling for
existence against the degeneracy of an
age pampered with prosperity and lam
gushing into servitude, is melancholy
truth from which | should in vain attempt
10 shut my eyes. But the summons has
gone forth. The youthful champions OF
the rights Of human nature have buckled
and are buckIing on their arnor, and the
scourglng overseer, and the ynching
lawyer, aud the serVile so2hist, and the
faithIess scribe, and the priest y parasite,
will vanish before them like satan touched
with the spear of Ithuriel. live in the
faith and hope Of the progressive advance
ment of Christian Liberty, and expect to
abide by the same in DEATH You have a
glorious and arduous career before you,
and it is among the consultations of my
last days. that am able TO cheer you in
the pursuit and exhort you 10 be steadlasl
and immovable in it. So shall you not
fail, whatever may betide, to reap a rich
reward, in the blessing Of him that is
ready to perish upon your soul.
am, Dear Sir, faithfully,
Your friend and servant,
JOHN @. ADAMS.
Below is the proclamation Of the Cover
nor of Jamaica, issued in prospect Of The
emancipation which took place on the first
instant. How long before such proclama-
tons shall be put forth in this " home of the
. free and asylum of the oppressed ?"
Jamaica, IS.
; PROCLAMATION.
By His ExceIIency Sir Lionel Smith
Captain General, Governor-inChet
and Commander Of the forces in and ov
er her Majesty's Island of Jamaica, anC
the other territories thereon depending
l in America
j. PREDIAL APPRENTICES:
: In few days more you will all be
: come FREE LABoRERs-the Legislature
!, of the Island having relinquished the re
naming two years of your apprentice
ship.
70 The first Of August next is the happy
Re day when you will become free-unde
IL the same laws as other freemen, whethe
e white, black, or colored, l. your governor
is give you Joy of this great blessing.
;e Remember that in freedom you will
have to depend on your own exertions 70
your livelihood, and to maintain and t
TO bring ~ your families. You will wor
b. for such wages as you can agree upo
with your employers, 1t is their intere
to treat you fairly. 1t is your interestto
NJ civil, respectful, and industrious. Wber
you can agree and continue happy Wit
= your old masters, strongly recommen
- you to remain on those properties whel
ly you have been born, and where your p'
err rents are buried. But you must not mi
70 take, in supposing that your present hou
r. es, gardens, or provision grounds al
your own property. They belong to tn
proprietors of the estates, and you Wi
u have TO pay rent for them in money or |;
IT. Dor, according as you and your empIo
of ers may agree together. Idle Peep
who will not take employment, but e
he wandering about the country, will BE- tai
70 en- up as Migrants and punished in II
SINE manner as they are in Eng Ian
nc The Ministers of ReIigi ion have been kin
r. friends to you-IiSttn to them-th"y Wi
e. keep you out of troubles and ditficultie
,p- RecolIect what is expected of you by tt
be people Of England, who have paid sue
of large price for your liberty. They n
y, W only expect that you will beha'
yourselves AS the Queens goo
OF subjects, by obeying the laws, as | a
ch happy TO see you always have done as a
id, prentices; but that the prosperity of II
Ell Island will be greatly increased by yo'
20, willing labor, greatly beyond what it e
er was in slavery. Be honest towards a
, men-be kind to your wives and chiIdre
ne spare your wives from heavy field wor
's- as much as you can-lnake them after
We to their duties at home, in bringing ,
Ely your children, and in taking care of 20,
.Rs stock-above all, make your children &
tend divine service and school. If yc
j, follow this advice, you will, under God
H. blessing, be happy and PROSPEROUS.