Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-07-04

even when forcibly and wrongfully attack
ed. This disagreement among ourselves
on this single point-of which our adver-
saries are by no means ignorant as they
often throw it Representatives, our teeth
would forever prevent concert in any
scheme that looked to instigating serviIe
revolt Ifthere be, in all our ranks one
who-personal danger out of the ques-
tion-would excite the slave to insurrec-
ton and massacre; or. who would not be
swift to reveal the earliest attempt to con-
coct such an iniquity; say, on my honor
as man, on my obligations as Chris
tian, he is unknown to me. Such charge
against such people Dug ht to carry its
own refutation along with it.
Yet, it ought not to be matter of sur
prise to abolltlonists, that the South should
consider them "fanatics," "incendiaales,"
{" cut-throats'' -and call them so too. The
South has had their character reported to
them by the North, by those who are their
}neighbors, who, it was supposed, knew,
and would speak the truth, and the truth
only, concerning them. 1t would, l ap-
prehend, be unavailing for aboItlonists
now to enter on any formal vindication of
their character from charges that can be
so easily repeated after every refutation.
False and fraudulent as they know them
to be, they must be content to live under
them, till the consummation of the work
of freedom, shall prove to the master that
they have been his friends, as we'll as the
friends fthe save. The mischief of these
charges has fallen on the South-the NAL
ice is to be placed TO the credit OF the
North.
"12. DO you propagate your doctri"es by any
other means than oral and scrtheH dtscuSSt0nS-t0r
instance by prints and pictures TN manufactures
say of northumberland, caticOes, &c. Pray,
state the Uarious modest"
ANswER-Two or three years ago, an
aboitionist of this city procured to be man.
ufactured, at his own charge, small lot
of hildren's ket-handkerchiefs impress
sed with anti-sIavery pictures and mottos.
| have no recollection of having seen any
of them but once. None such, believe,
are now to be found, or | would send you
sample. If any manufactures of the
kinds mentioned, or others similar to them,
are in existence, they have been produced
independently of the agency of this Socie-
ty. 1t is though that none such exist,
unless the following should be supposed
to come within the terms of the inquiry
Female abolitionists often unite in Sewing
Societies. They meet together usually
f once a week or fortnight and labor thro'
the afternoon, with their own hands, tc
f furnish means for advancing the cause oil
, the slave. One ofthe company reads pas
sages from the Bible or some religious
book, whilst the others are engaged at their
work. The articles they prepare. espe
ciaIly if they be of the fancy" kind are
often ornamented with handsomely execu
ted emblems, underW ritten with appropri.
ate mottos. The picture of slave kneeI
ing (such as you will see impressed on one
of the sheets ofthis letter. and supplicatine
, in the words, lam l NOT MAN AND !
BROTHER % is an example. The mottos
or sentences are, however, most general,
selected from the Scri ptures, either appeal
ing to human sympathy in behalf of hu
man suffering, or breathing forth Cod
. tender compassion for the oppressed, O.
e procIaiming in thunder-tones his avenginE
I justice. on the oppressor. A few quota
tions will show their general character -
= blessed is he that censidereth the poor
| -" Defend the poor and fatherless: d.
f justice TO the afflicted and needy. Delive
e the poor and needy: rid him out of tn
r hand Of the wicked"-"Open thy mout
: for the dumb-plead the cause of the poo
It and needy" Blessed are the mercifu
It for they shall obtain mercy" First, b
e reconciled to thy brother, and then com
g and offer thy gift"-" Thou shalt love tn
: neighbor as thyself'-"AII things what
S soever We would that meen should do t.
# you, do We even so to them" Again
s For he will deliver the need Y when h
: crieth: the poor also, and him that hat
If no hel per'-" The Lord looseth the pris
e oners-the Lord raiseth them that ar
e bowed down--the Lord preserveth tn
e Strangers" He hath sent me 10 heal tn
o broken-h earted-to preach deliverance t
o the captives-to set at liberty them tia
: are Bruised" For the oppression of tn
: poor, for the signing of the needy, nov
e will arise, saith the Lord: will set hin
in safety from him that putfeth at him" y
j. Again: 1.-The Lord executeth righteous
e ness and judgment for all that are Cypress
r ed"-" Rob not the poor because he
/. poor: neither Cypress the afflicted in tn
n gate; for the Lord will plead their cause
J. and spoil the soul of those that spoiIe
5: them''-"And | will come near to you t
n judgment, and | will be swift witness a
l. ganst those that Cypress the hireling il
: his wages the widow and the fatherles:
r and that turn aside the stranger form hi
/ right, and fear no: me, saith the Lord {
s hosts" "Woe unto him that buildeth hi
d house by unrig hteousness and his cham
1t bers by wrong; that useth his neighbo.