Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-08-22

AN ExPLANATloN-FoR THE FRIEND OF
MAN.-Three weeks ago, copied short
paragraph from the Friend of Man, IN which
the Editor, brother Vim. GoodeH, announced
that the New-York Observer and Vermont
Chronicle had "come out>in favor of inanse-
diate, in preference to gradual emancipa-
ton" accompanied the paragraph with
question to the Editors of the Observer and
Chronicle, whether it were in reality so.-
AS these Editors choose to keep silence on
the subject; and as some of my readers
have honestly inquired whether so good
news could be true, offer the following
explanation:
The New-York Observer, now edited by
Joseph Tracy, former Editor, and brother to
the present Editor, of the VT. Chronicle,
was understood, by the Editor of the Eman-
cipator, recently, to declare in favor of the
immediate emancipation Of the British West
Indies, as preferable to the gradualism of the
apprenticeship. (And whatever is put forth
by Joseph Tracy, Is endorsed by &c. Tracy,
"of course.') Yet the Editor of the OBJ
server would have it believed that the sue
cess of the immedateism in the West In
dies had depended on what he was pleased
to term the preparation for freedom, which
he pretended had taken place there. And
he had never cared how Immediately slaves
should be emancipated in the United States,
after they had first undergone the necessary
preparation.
The Editor Of the Emancipator, now,
! judging the Editor Of the Observer out of
his own mouth, very adroilly, and withal in
a very fair and workmanlike manner, made
the latter, in spite Of himself, to stand forth
an advocate for the odious measure of i'm
mediate emancipation in the United States.
The way he made it out was this
The Observer, as before stated, mad &C
cepted of the immediateism of the Hest
Indies, inasmuch as there had been the
requisite prep0ration-and il had always
been ready TO accept Of immediate enamel
patton in the United States, whenever there
could be the requisite preparation. Now
Dldrk-the Observer, in 1885 published a
series of articles, written from the South BY
one Rufus ". Bailey, formerly Congre-
gaional minister in New-England, in which
the writer labored TO set forth the advantag
es enjoyed by slaves in the United States
From the statistics Of these articles, pub
lished in the Observer, and at least tacltIy
endorsed, the Emancipator shows abundant
ly that, in point of preparation, the slaves
of the United States have quite the advan-
tage of those who have just received lmme-
diate emancipation in the Vest Indies.
OF course, on the Observers own ground
the slaves Of the United States being al
ready better prepared thar those whose
immediate emancipation it has now declared
in favor of, it has swallowed its own words
demolished its own bug-bears-and vir
tually declared for the doctrine it has 81
long and SO stoptly reviled and abOminated
After all, let no one b. deceived. Let NJ
one suppose that the Observer and Chrcni
Gle have done any such thing as frankly ant
magnanimously TO have confessed and alb
I iured their former heresies. They hav
done no such thing. What they have dom
D is this: they have taken a crooked and cir
cuitous PATH and, in spite Of themselves
have come round into the ranks Of the hateC
abolitionists. But, on being shown wher
| they were, and recovering themselves, the
have Immediately "turned" like "the do
=. to his own vomit again and" like "the SOW
:. that was washed to her waIlowing in tn
T. mire" They occupy precisely the sam
: ground with those haters Of drunkenness
who, under conviction, will involuntaril
e exclaim against the detestable and sinfl
practice,-but after all, they hate temper
ance measures so much more than they d
~ drunkenness, they are the last men VIII
will lend their aid or their influence to ten
If perance societies, or the temperasce reform
alton.
e For the Telegraph.
r. A FACT.
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