The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-11-20


err laid on the table, without being read, heard, de
bated, printed.
That such decision should be made by "South
orh Palriarchs,' is NOT strange But what shall w
say to the startling the appalling truth, that thi
law was passed by our own Northern Representa-
tves? That more than fifty Of those who went
from nomnally free States, the protested guardian
ofther freedom and independence, voted this act IN
TO existence Ye panders to savcry--we now de
clare before High Heaven that you have betrayed
your trust-that you are guilty, of perjury before
God and man-that y ou have desecrated the name
of truth, and deserve no longer the confidence O
an abused an iasuted people. Nor will you long
be respected by those even, before whose bravados
you so meanly suocumbed our rights Already
are Southern Congressman feeling that you have
deceived them. Already, they making appl
cation TO AbOtitionists 10 know the truth. The
Elmore Correspondence" show in whatllight the
South is beginning to consider the anaticsm OF
Abolition, and the often repeated declaration oil
such Northern Representatives as have been mean.
ly bowling to the Moloch of Slavery that it extends
only to few " of the baser sort, and is dying a
way. Dying a,ony Yes, Abolition dies when
Slavery is abolished IL cannot die before. As well
Knight the immutabIe principles OF Jehovahs gov
aernment die away He, who from Heaven
Ito earth to proclaim liberty to the capves, and
the opening Of the prison to them that bound,
guides the car of Abolition ; He will 1t safe
man TO praise Him. and the remainder of wrath He
will restrain The passions may storm and rave
the wicked may oppose and threaten but He, who
rides upon the wings of the wind, and guides the
tempest, sits at the helm, and He will bring the
Abolition Ship safe and sound into its destined
port.
About the middle of May last another event &C
CURED worthy of notice at this nme-the burning of
the " Pennsy vania Hall" This building had
been erected by the friends ofequal rights at ex-
pense of some forty thousand dollars and conse-
Grated 10 Freedom.
Mobs have become frequent, in this land of
Republican Slavery,-where every man is at libcr-
ty to think and say, and do, what he pleases, pro.
vided he will think and say and do nothing that
our professedly pous Christian brethren at the
South are pleased to consider against their own
" peculiar Institution, their " Bible serviude, -
that the burning of single temple devoted to
truth, or of single man even, striving for liberty
would hardly excite surprise, call forth passing
remark, were it not the novel fact that il was done
in the quaker city of Philadelphia" the city of
brotherly love, In the very place too, where the
declaration that" all men are created equal, and
endowed with the inlienable rights oflife, Liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, was first framed and
sent forth TO the world as the motto of Ropubli- |
cansm In the land too, of the illustrious Penn,
justly celebrated for the pacific character of all his
doings.
Although the infection had spread so universal
ly we had not supposed that the disciples of Geo !
Fox, and William Penn, and Robert Barclay, were
poisoned by the miasma --that they would yield TO
the hydra demon. But it is done! The smoke of
Quaker integrity and brotherly love, has blackened
the heavens it assembled from their blazing pyre,
the memorable nth of May. 1t can now go
forth to the world that Quakers too have adopted
caste. o the transforming power of the "Divne
Institutions !" 1t converts the black into a
brute, and the white man into devil
There is another event TO be noticed. On the |
LIST day of August 1888, about 600 900 slaves in the
British West Indies wero made free ooh horri-
BILE And did they not cut all their masters throats
at once? And not all those beautiful Islands
new smoking ruins'" Well, we have not yet
heard. We think not however. Four years pre-
vious, on the same day of the month, number Of
thousands all there we've on two OF the largest of
those Isands-Antguia and Bermuda-were liber-
nted in the same instant aneous manner.
"And were there no evil consequences result
ing?" None. A few .4mer,can oessels that had
bsen laying in the harbcrs of those Islands, their
captains and men being unwilling to become wit
nesses of the awful carnage and desolaon appre-
hended, weighed anchor in the night, and fled -
But we have since learned that it was false alarm
no threats were cu-no buildings burned-no
lives destroyed.
"Is it possbIei--Gan title truc!" 1t is both pos
sble and true And more than tnis-those black
creatures have since been orderly and nuus-
trous. There have been no riots, no rebelons,
murders All has been peace and qnitude.
DWELL, who would have dreamed of such results
these?" No one but Abolitionist. These
are the results Abolitionsts have always supposed
would follow. They have continually foretold
them. But, perhaps you will ask for other tcs-
Hear wha: Lord Brougham says, in speech delv-
cred by him in the House Of Lords, Feb. co. 1888
"The first of August arrived-that day I
fdenty and oyousy anticipated by the poor slaves,
and to sorey dreaded by their hard taskmasters;
and if ever there was picture interesting to look
upon-if ever there was passage in the history of t
people redounding TO their eternal honor-ifever I
there was complete refutaon of all the slavedeal-
calumnes which had been heaped upon them
for ages, if in justification of the wrongs which
we had done them-that picture and that passage
to be found in the uniform and unvaiying his
tory of that people throughout the whole of the
West India Islands. Instead of the fires of rebel
lion, lit by feeling of lawless revenge and resis.
lance TO oppression, the whole of those Islands i,
were, like an Arabian scene, illuminated by tho
light of contentment, Joy, and good will towards t
all men, No civilized people, after gaining an I'M {
expected victory, could have shown more decacy
and forbearance than was exhibited by the slaves
at the great moral contamination which they had v
attained. There not a look gesture which f
could gall the eyes of their masters Not a sound +
escaped from negro lips, which could wound the
OF the most eversh planter in the Islands All
was Joy, mutual congratulation, and hope" Lord
Brougham adds-'tDuring the year which followed 7
the first of August 1884, twice as much sugar per
hour, and of better quality, compared with the
preceding years, stored throug bout the sugar