Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-09-19
Vol. X....No. 50,

friend Buckham belongs, who would come
under his applIation, "Anti- Padobap,istsn
1t will be seen that this term Of his is an
plica5le not onIyto all those in their ranks
who hold to immersion, out all who discard
the baptism of infants, although they may
receive sprinkIing as baptism for believers
SHOCKING I'm a North Caro-
lima paper, 500 is offered as a re-
ward for the apprehension of negro
man; and the same reward is Offer
ed if evidence is given of his havino
been hilled.-Eastern Baptist. .
We copy the foregoing from northern
paper. That the statement is true, cannot
be denied. CD We need not say that we
are sorry to see it, both because we believe
the thing is wrong in itself, and because we
consider it diScredtable 10 the State. (2)-
We have, as is we'll known, vindicated the
Shareholder in the lawful and upright pos
session of his property. We have done so,
because we believed that it was right TO do
so. We are still Of the same opinion. (3)
But for him who Expresses, or who design
edIy ia kes the life Of his slave, We have no
| plea-We have no sympathy. We believe
that he who kills slave, is as much mur-
/ derer in the sightof God as he who Kills
! freeman. (4) We are aware that the laws
of the Stale authorize the course Of outlaw
ry referred TO above, and we believe too that
the conduct of ruffdn may be such as to
justify the setting Of a reward upon his
head. (5) Still we think that such cases
are Of rare occurrence, and that measures
such as referred to, should be employed with
extreme authenticated Recorder.
I) This is valuable testimony. How many are
there, probably, at the North who have atoget
discredited the which is here voluntarily
backed-up by one who ought to know the truth
whereof he afirms? Multitudes there who are
perfectly incredulous when they told of the
commonest crueties ofslavery. But here is shown
| in open dav, of its Internal features. A
reward is offered, and published to the world, for
the outright murder Of of its escaped victims.
Of course, when this advertisement has been cop
led by Ant-Slavery papers to show the nature and
fruits of the system, the class of persons referred
to have BEEN totally unbclieving. But what will
these unbeiicvers say, when areiigiouS editor,
who is defender of s1acery, and living in the same
State where the advertisement put forth, voIuu
teers to avouch for its truth and reality!
(2) What a rcbuke this, for the atrocious sin Of
offering a reward for the murder of fellow being,
whose only crime is, from aught that has anywhere
appeared, that he has escaped from the clutches Of
the monster whose ferocious and diabolica cruelty
is published widely as his bride for homicide
The stcrnest language the editor of the Biblical
Recorder afford to use on this occasion is that
he is "sorrv to it, both because he believes the
thing is wrong in ITSELF and because he considers il
discreditabIe to the State."E] Shame! But the
tameuess of this his strongest sentence is ALL
Even this pointless rebuke-f it be any rebuke at
all-is rendered than poiutless by his very
next sentence-whch see.
(3) Here we have it, in full length and breadth.
The Editor of the BIBLICAL Recorder indicating
the la'ulaess and the uprightness of slavery !-of
holding property in man. What horror-what in
dignat ion-what unutterable anguish of spirit do
such avowals excite in the bosom that has been
poisoned and benumbed by any of the deadly nhu-
ences of this enemy of all righteousness And what
does it avail for him to express any degree of regret
at this murderous deed, while, according to his
declaration, he vindicatcs the institution of whichN
is the legitimate offspring? lie Acknowledges tlt
the laws of the State AUTHORIZED it, and he vml.-
Gates the system of which these laws are comppH.
ent part; and yet he regrets the commission Of this
|@'cfw deed, springing and growing most naturally
out OF what he virtually declares to be MxjG ant
uPraSht system! lFor eSGItziRg and MAXIM up
r'Sht the holding of property IN man, lies at tho
foundation of the ncfurious system itself This il
the corrupt fountain which sends forth the bty
waters-the Bohon Upas that bear: the haneu
frultJ What does it avail for him to decry the Bit
terness OF the waters, while with his hands h4
pours gall into the fountain from which they flow
With what consistency does he declam against the
fruit, while he continues noursh and defend the
tree that bears it1
(4) Here is moro of his consistency. lie has
emo sympathy with him who Expresses" his fellow
I being; but he will "rtnadicate'' his holding him
"prope'tyr' 1t would not be greater absurdts
! for him to deprccate the burning of man, while
with his oW n hands he had helped to throw him in
to furnace seven times heated.
What would this Editor define oppression TO be
He has given but single indication of his views
this poin-and that is found in his pronouncing the
killing of slave to be, in his opinion, murder. H.
has made the word emphatic. |. must be inferred
that he views outrigh murder to be oppression
Yet in this he is strangely Reconsideration he vim
dicates system Of which murder is the most natar'
al and legitimate fruit Indeed, he himself acknoWt
edges that tho very process Of murder which be
here deprecates is "authorized by the laws Of th'
State" Now what are all these save-la"'
based? Why, the Magma Charta" of them all Is
the law which makes men property-chattels per-
sonal. And the relation which this creates, whsi
the Editor Of the Biblical Recorder vindcates as
UPRIGHT. Now taka away this, and you aunih'Ia"
all the rest-you remove the foundation on WhIc0
every thing is built which he can possibly den"n:
nate opression-you have cut down the tree, and q
course you have destroyed the fruit.
(5) Let this testimony not be lost or forgotten