Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-10-10
For the Vermont Telegraph.
SCRAPS.


SCRAPS.
This abolition excitement IS all po-
litical humbug, intended only to help ats
leaders into Office" And so, between two
and three millions Of our fellow beings may
be groaning under the lash of servitude, and |
send their piteous cries upon every breeze
to our ears, and still not heart be found in
all this misramed freedoms land, that can
feel the melting tenderness of pity for their |
sufferings! Not voice be raised to plead |
their cause, except 1t be prompted by base
and sordid thirst for power! o my coun-
try art thou thus degraded? Is there not
a generous bosom and feeling heart among
all thy sons? Are there none, that such
an occasion, as the slavery which pollutes
thy soil, can cause to feel, to weep, or sigh
If so, how low has slavery sunk thee! How
has it blotted out the image Of God from the
heart Of man! Men ofkindred nations may
well lament over thy sin; How is the
gold become dim! How is the most fine
gold changed" Chow are the mighty
fallen, and the weapons of war persisted! "
But it is not so. The assertion is base
SANDER upon my Country's fame, and tho
1t may be made by those who clamor for
their counlry's reputation, yet it is uttered
more to her disgrace, than all her dark tales
Of slavery which truth has tod in this or
foreign chimes. Let those who would STAMP
the character Of one Of the leaders of this
cause with eternal infamy, for having told
the truth, concerning US to our mother coun-
try, blush for having uttered SANDER so
base, SO false, 50 mean as this, in the face
and eyes Of truth, aad common sense and
common decency.
But lam as much IN faror of freeing
the sfareS as any body only, do not like
the measures and he agitation ofthe obo-
iHonists believe the south qvould free
their slareS much ssoner ifthey qoerc let
alone ..@
Such friends ofabolition as you, have had
the field and have been unembarrassed in
their operations for ore hundred years But
what have they done nothing! or I rather
should have said, they have fostered slavery
by representing it as a sort of necessary
evil that could not be got rid of. The south
have had all this time, in which TO manifest
their magnanimity in the work Of emanci-
s. patton ; and what have they done? why
they have come TO the conclusion "that
slavery is right, and that all who presume
to plead for the oppressed ought to be hung
without benefit Of clergy!" Philanthropists
have wept over bleeding humanity in the
midst Of all this delay, until they have be.
come weary with forhearing-un,il the.
have had their apprehensions awakened Il
deep and painful interest by the sight Q
the increasing darkness which slavery i
drawing over the country. The questio;
having come 10 be, not whether the slave
shall be emancipated, but whether the citi
gems Of the north shall exercise the priv
leges Of lreemen. We are called upon By
your objection to the abolition agitation, t.
decide whether ace will submit to bow on
knees as footstcols for southern gentry 4
tread upon, or whether northern aristocrat
shall as their compeers goad US into silence
that thus they may procure the boon c
southern favor, and make our own State
partaker Of the "inestimaLle blessings o
Slavery"
Sin fdror Of freeing The Slares."- Sue
friend Of freedom, doubtless, as the prizes
and the Leyite in the parable, who locke
on the wounded man, and heard his groan
and applications, and then like the robbie
piter he had wounded him, left him ha
head What have you done for this cause
What are you doing or what are you read
20 do? ! court not such benevolence &
can see in slavery no occasion for excit
tnent, agitation, or activity. Where is Ii
epirit, that once brcathed its hallowed fir,
et the sound of liberty in the infantile da,
pf our co untry? Its, bless God, no
awakened in behalf of the enslaved. Al
whatever course the venal hypocritcs
'ime servers, may pursue, it will nev
Humber nor sleep, till it has celebrated wi
Triumphant songs the jubilee OF the poor o
pressed slave. - -.
The first question mooted is resistan
M all government and laws - RoSf