Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-10-26

state that the paragraph as il was accurate.
" reported in the Emancipation newspaper
do this the rather 10 afford Mr.. Stevenson.
who seems so anxious about offensive words.
an opportunity of dsavowing il he pleases
hing most offensive to the sight of man
and in lhepresence OF God
The real paragraph is this
IL Is asserted thattheir very Ambassador
here is slave breeder one Of those beings
who renr and breed up slaves merely for
the purpose TO traffic. 1t is possible that
America would send man here who traf1ics
IN blood, and who, RE do, would be dis.
grace to human nature hope the asser,
ton is untrue but it is right to speak our
Such was the real passage in my speech
! despise dueling, and mean nothing OF What
is called personality: but do hope that, as
MIR. Stevenson has already rushed into print
he will give the report which have above
alluded 10 a distinct contradictions
Ii is utterly impossible that anything
should exist more horrible thru the Ameri
can slave breeding. The history of il is
this The Americans abolished the foreign
slave trade earlier than England, but with
this consolation-no small comfort 10 so mo-
ney loving lace as the slave holders-that
by such abolition they enhanced the price OF
the slaves in America. by stopping the com
petition IN the home market of the supply Of
newly imported slaves. Why, otherwise,
was not the home trade stopped as well as
the foreign2 The reply is obvious.
Toappy the home slave trade an abom
Unable, most hideous, most criminal and
exclusively Tor sale has sprung up, aud espe'
cially, we are told, in Virginia. There are
breeding plantations for producing negroes,
as there are with us breeding farms for pro-
ducing calves and lambs. And as our calf
aud Iamb-breeders calculate the number Of
males 10 The flock to the females, similar
calculations are made by the trafficers in hu-
man flesh One instance was mentioned 10
me OF human breeding farm in America
whibh was supplied with two men and
twelve women2 Why should polute my
page with description of all that is immor-
al and Infamous in such practices ? But
only think of the wretched mothers whom
nature compels TO love their chidren-chil-
dren torn from them forever. Just at the pc
Rod tina, they could require their mothers
love Who can depict the mothefs distrac
lion, her madness But their materna
feelings are says modern writer, treated
with as much contemptuous indifference al
those of the cows and ewes whose cave.
and lambs are sent TO the English market.
That ii is which stains the character OF thu
American STAKEHOLDER, and leaves the breed
/, er OF slaves the most detestable Of human
hTi Republican,, 6oastl6s 81 ffesd5k, hsfnbSdf
ing out for liberty. and declaring, as tn
charter OF his liberal institutions these ar
selfevident truths, that all men are create
! equai-that they are endo,ced By their Cree
: tor Nth certain inaiienable rights--hd
n amongst these rights are LIFE, LIBERTY
and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
My sole object in my speech at Birmin!
ham and my present object is, to rouse tt
attention Of Englan and Of Europe to a
that is cruel, criminal and in every sens
u OF the word, Infamous, in the system OF n
q, gro slavery in North America. My deli
oil eru,e conviction is, that until that system
X abolished, no American Shareholder Dug
I'd to be received on footing of equality by an
n OF the civilized inhabitants OF Europe.
b. have the honor to be, Sir, your obedlent sc
a. want, DANIEL OCoN NELL
sy Darrynane Abbey, Sept 10. 1888.