Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-09-05

blade OF grass grew on their naked sides;
and as it was 10 the days of Moses, "brim-
)stone and salt, it is not sown nor beareth,
nor any grass groweth thereon. IS. S.
Journal.
From the Emancipator.
POPULATION OF. M1ss1ss1PP1.-The
population of Mississippi by the census
of 1880 was 70,443 whites, and 1868
slaves; and by the census taken in pursu-
ance of an act of the Legislature, ap
proved January 19, 1887, it was l44,.
35l whites, and ia, 1913 slaves-showing
an increase in seven years of nearly a.
900 whites, and 100000 slaves.
ALLOWING ten thousand for the natural
increase, here must have been an impor-
tation into single State, Of ninety thou-
sand sIaves, in seven years. Who can
realize the vast amount of suffering thus
occasioned Such IS the American slave
trade, the suppression of which our Con-
gress refuses even to consider. The civ
llized world are called 10 look into this,
no less than the traffic on the coast of At
RIGA, as an open piracy against human ma
ture. And it will come 10 this MARK!
,
ton of the slaves to the Whites in the
southwestern States, as indicated by this
census, should also arrest the careful at
tention of the friends Of slavery Had
the whites increased in the same ratio as
the slaves, THEN increase would have been
about $4,000 more than it is, and their
present number should have been l62,-
900. Should the same ratio Of increase
, take place for seven years to come, the
population OF Mississippi ia l845 will be
+ $4,000 whites, and FOUR HUNDRED
THOUSAND sLAvEs.l
? From the Ant-Slavery Almanac for 1889.
EMANCIPATION, RUIN-sLAvERY,s SAL
: vATIoN! ! A West India paper, in 1888,
, says: "Institutions uudreamt of in the DAYS
5 Of slavery, have been founded for agricul-
tura, literary and scientific purposes.
New villages and towns are rising in va
rlous parts of the island new streets and
! houses are daily being erected in the old ::
and new churches and chapels are rearing
their heads in almost every district Of the
colony. A heather is now as rarely to be
met with, as was Oh sistan ten years since.
Hundreds of children are brought weekly
to the baptsmal font; thousands are daily
: receiving the rudiments of education
; The vices peculiar TO slavery are gradually
+ wearing away nightly orgies and licen-
ItIous practices are fast falling into disuse j;
concubinage is receding before matrimony,
and the long night of superstition rapidly
vanishing before the sun of Christian
: ity."-" The West Indian" Spanish
= To.~~., Js~n'asuw.
THE NATIoN's AcT-Man auction
= at the Copital.-A Freeman SoId.-As
l the District of Columbia was Set apart to
l promote the interests and honor of the ma
f nation. They DO. II Is the nation qCiLE
: that any coIored man in the District
should be liable to arrest and Imprisonment,
+ without evidence, oath or warrant against
him, on the simple p7rtente that he has
!, been robbed of his liberty, and even when
Il this has been virtually proved false, it is the
S n0taO~'s aotA that he be sold to pay the cost
S ofthis cruelty
: The following appeared in Washing
|. ton paper, July, 1884
p Nor1cE. Was committed to the prison
J of WAsH1NGToN Co., D. c.. ~ David
Peck. He says he is FREE. The own
l. er or owners are requested, &C., or he will
t be sold as the LAW DIRECTS. JAMES
/ WILLIAMS, Keeper Of the Prison.
h In 1884, free colored coachman. whose
g wife was confined, started to 60 for mid
l. wife. He was seized and imprisoned bv
r. the patrol, notwithstanding his tears and
entreatles. In the morning his wife was
found 1ead.-a victim to the nations cru
i city - See Letter from Washington, IN
q q the Ge~ius OF Universal Emancipation.
= The DRUNKEN KING. In the latter
2 part of Wickliff's life, King Richard IL.
of England married Ann, sister of Wen
ceslaus, King of Bohemia, and consequent
le y opened free intercourse between the
~ two Kingdoms. About the same time an.
le peared John Huss, and Jerome of Prague
t. both of whom every one knows were
i. burned alive for their religious belief az
of dissenters from popery. During the pop
of uIar commotlon excited by burning o
ID Huss, Wenceslaus was at Prague; d mes
m senger came and informed him that one O
IN his most splendid palaces in the countr,
ut was on fire. His Majesty eagerly IN
ne CURED rs the Diue cellar 6urut!' The
to messenger informed him that it wa:
g, safe; "THen," exclaimed he, "Ietthe ochoI
i'd castle burn and acelcome, as long as M
n Rhenish a0ine IS safe."-Mann's Noucon
k, tormist,
ed
TRIPLES MAKE PERFEcT1oN.-A
" friend called on M. Angelo, who wa.
of finishing a statue. Some time after
ly he called again. The sculptor wa.