Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-12-26
We again repeat it, and let every friend

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TO diminish them-not to Advance nop IS
to recede. What! have we toiled and
struggled through a long year for moth
ing ! shall all our newly formed societies
lend US no aid-or rather shall their &C.
c~essions be swallowed up by the short
comings Of the older societies. Shall the
taunt come back to US from Congress that
abolitionism is dying away? Shall the
Pinckneys and Pattons point with exulta-
tion to the decrease Of our petitions as an
evidence that their gag-resolutions have
wearied us out at last? With victory al
most within reach-at the very moment
when the defenders of slavery are tremb.
ling behind the crumbiing walls of their
citadel, shall We retire and leave our ene-
mics to recruit their strength and summon
new forces! Shame on US if we do so.
Do any complain that they are weary
with this continued Struggle? Let them
think of the poor slave grinding in the
southern prison-house, with no hope Of
relief except through their exertions. Do
any count up the sacrifices of time and
money which they have already made,
and suppose they have done enough to be
for ever excused from farther %efforts2 Let
them hear the voice which comes to them
from the grave of Lovejoy, on the banks
of The Father of Waters. Let them think
of the noble hearted Kimball wearing out
his young life in the cause of humanity.
Is money dearer than life2 Is the sacri-
flee Of a few days of labor, greater than
that Of physical health which so MANY
have cheerfully offered? Are any deter
red through fear of the opposition to be en-
countered? Impossible. Men and wo-
men-who on the warm ashes of Penn
sylvania Hall renewed their vows to free
dom-who have braved so often the tiger
spirit of he mob-who have been hunted
by Hubbard Winslow's "~bro:herhood :"
through half our villages, and pelted by
Public Opinions brick-bats, a. church,
and school-house, and in open air-the
%mob-proof, iretried abolitionssts of East.
ern Pennsylvania, will not, we are per-
suaded, falter through fear of weakness.
Now then to our duty. Let us resolve
that the number of signatures to petitions
this year shall be double that of the last
year. 1t can be done. 1t OUGHT to be
done. 1t MUST be done. Every aboli.
ZIONIST, male and female, is under obliea-
tons TO see that it IS done. 1t must be
done at once-NOW. The next session
of Congress is a short one,e ending on the
4th of the third month. Petitions should
be in the hands of our representatives on
the very first day Of tie session. Let
Potts, and Naylor, and Darlington. and
all others who have been rue to the old
principles of Pennsylvania have employ
ment, In presenting petitions in behalf of
liberty; and let their "dough-faced 4" COL
leagues-the "hod-car1iers of slayerv.n
the previous question and gag-law recruits
OF Patton, and Pinckney, and Waddy
Thompson, see that the good old Penn
svlvania spirit offreedon still lives amono
their W dishonored and abused constit.
uents.
Read. also, the following, from the Her
aid of Freedom.
PETITIONS.
Are aboIitionists gathering a harvest of
signatures to send to Washington at the
opening of the session of Congress? We
fear not. 1t is every body's business to
see to it-therefore we fear nobody will
see to it. The work is going on grand
~ in our little town. A sterling aboIi-.
ZIONIST is securing the whole town and
gathering up all the people, who have
heart and sense enough to sign. He takes
them indiscriminately and his gathering
roll looks already ION only his second
day like the record of the census taken
-men, women and children sign as thew
come to them. Males under 81 and fe.
males under Is, puttheir years in figures
against their NJ mes, so that the tramplers
on the sacred right Of petition NAV see
the injured and insulted party before them
to the life. Many that refuse to sign do
homage to the cause by admitting that the
prayer OF the petition oughtto be granted.
but decline signing for fear they Shall re.
tard emanci patton. So much the better
They will do something else more anti.
slavery still than signing petitions. They
are opposed to slavery, they say, and thew
dare not sign for fear signing is not anti
slavery enough. If it would promote the
abolition of slavery they would SIGN the
petitions. Poor slave-holding will there.
lore lake no encouragement from the alb.
sence OF any OF our townsmen's Names
They are withholden out Of ercess;re IN
'0'H to the peculiar institution. We will
send such a document to the venerable {
Adams as he never before received. CON.
slderlng our small numbers. 1t purnorts '
10 come from "the undersigned PEOPLE c
plymouth" Let them lay this frag- 9
of the national oveseigntv-this an n
peal of the real and original /" Voz POM. Y
q on the funeral table if they dare. v
We pray our friends to adopt this mode S
u p%etttloning. Appoint their ablest hand o
. gather the names of the population. and r