Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-07-25

American slavery. H.by the cruel
ty of slavery he means the punisls-
meats-so called-that are inflicted
with whips, and chains, and other
instruments of torture-and in addi-
ton to these the deprivations of food,
and clothing, and shelter;-if these
are what he views to be the princi-
pal cruelties Of slavery, he has got
to learn the A B c of that system of
denominations respecting which he
has thought himself to be so wise
and US so ignorant. Has he ever
contemplated. the first law of slave
ry, which reduces man to property
which converts Gods image into
chattels-which seizes on intellect
ual beings, made ga little lower than
the angels" "and crowned" by their
Creator "with glory and honor" and
thrusts them down and herds them
among four-footed beasts, and tram
piles them into the dust among creep
ing things-which removes the land
marks that God has set up between
a man and his neighbor to restrain
violence and lust-which blots out
and annihilates the laws written by
the finger of Jehovah for our gov
eminent as moral and social beings
which benz gifts millions of immor-
tai souls, and hides from them the
Lamp of Life" given by God
for the Illumination of their path tc
eternity?
If he has not contemplated the
matter in this light, let him be more
modest in his pretenslons to knowl
edge of the subject, until he has a
least studied first principles. Or
the contrary, if he has taken thi
view of it, he will excuse me for no
stopping here to repel his calumni
Gus charge against New-England,-
for the world knows it is utterly desti
, tute of truth, and therefore it has n
need of labored refutation.
The whipping, and the claiming
f and the nakedness, and the starva
ton, are less than the least drop o
the bucket, or the smallest dust O
the balance, in point of cruelty, com
pared with the barbarous outrage, tn
overwhelming violence with whic1
7 the first law of slavery comes dow
f upon its devoted victims: they ar
? but scattering drops from the emp
test scud that fits along the sky
t falling upon the soil already washe
to sterility by an overlooking food
E the genhest zephyr lowering owe
4 ruins Frustrated and scattered by tn
e sweeping hurricane.
Again: This nattuee Of Vermont says
e 81 can see no more blame in YOU
:, brethren in the South, having slave:
than l can in many of your brethre
: in New-England, possessing the land
r which the first settlers took from tn
e Indians which they inhumanly mu1
q dered." Here is a sentiment kir
:, dred to the former-perhaps 1 ma
u say lying under and sustaining til
y former. The reason is now rattle
obvious, why he does not better ar
) prehend in what the real cruelty {
slavery consists: he does not apprt
O bend the difference between holdin
. man as property, and holding imam
If mate matter as property. The adve
h dsements in the papers from II
J. South, which exhibit for sale, at OF
is view, human chattels, horses, Gait
h and lumber, are a sufficiently sic
ening spectacle: but for a professe
t, minister of the Gospel, and natl,
W of free State, to avow it as his Sc
se timent that one human being has d
n same right to hold as property anot
r, er human beino-thaf one roa,,,l !,