Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-06-21

can never be suppressed They are truths
at Constantinople and Pekin, at London and
Paris, at Charleston and at Philadelphia. -
They weretruths in the days Of Abraham
and Of Solomon, OF Zoroaster and Comm.
Gus but as truths to influence human con.
duct. they were unknown to all the nations
oil antiquity. They were revealed in the
Gospel OF Jesus, but were never expressly
made the foundation Of human government
until they were proclaimed in the DECLARE.
ton OF Independence. But the Christian
system Of morals, while disclosing as etern-
al truth the natural equality Of mankind, left
all its practical consequences in their effect
upon existing institutions TO the slow and
gradua process of the human Intellect
The Kingdom oil HenDers- la4-ss.s t 4 name by
y i.fclh JESUS Christ announced his system
of religion and morality to the world; but
he said it was kingdom not of this world
He did not say that it was TO dclnolish the
three hundred thousand Gods OF the Roman
empire. Far less did he avow that it was
TO emancipnte his country from tributary
subsection to the Roman Emperor. On the
contrary, though distinctly contesting the
night Of the Roman Government 10 exact
tribute from him, he performed miracle to
pay the tribute for himself and his first
Apostle and when asked; for the express
purpose OF entangling him, whether il was
lawful TO pay tribute to Cesar, he avoided
the snare by an indirect and indecisive ans
wer He disclaimed all intention oil destroy
ing the ritual Of the Levitcul law, aud ieft il
us a mutter or grave controversy between his
principal disciples till the abolition of thai:
law was expressly disclosed in vision to
Peter
But, although the Kingdom of Christ was
not of this world, and although Christ him.
self cautiously avoided all direct collision
with existing institutions, religious or pofili.
cal, 1t was distinctly foreseen, even during
his life, aud sill more clearly Immediately
after his death, that the Mosaic law, the Ro.
man worship Of idols, and the Roman do.
minion over tributary provinces must event
ually be abolished iy the prevalence OF
Christianity. And whoever faithfully stu.
dies the Chistian system us a code OF rel.
gion and morals. and exercises in reflection
upon ii the intellectual faculty bestowed up
on him by his Maker cannot possibly fail Of
coming to the conclusion that all violence,
tyranny, and oppression, all exercise of I'M
just powerbv man over man, must ultimate
ly fall before it. In the book OF luturi,y.
therefore, it is written as clearly as in the
Gospel Of Christ. that war and slavery shall
cease 10 exist upon earth, that nation shall
no more rise against naiion, neither shall
there be war any more. But of the period
oftime within which this revolution in the
history Of mankind. and this publication OF
the human character, is 10 be consummuted,
we have no distinct revelation, nor is human
reason competent 10 foresee That hundreds
and perhaps thousands Of years must elapse
in the progress ofthis improvement in the
only rational tenant Of the terrestrial globe,
there cannot be doubt, nor is it less clear
that the principles proclaimed in the Decl la.
ration of independence as aelfevidentt truths,
10 be carried into practical execution by all
human Governments, are among the most
effective means by which this progress is 10
be completed.
That the glaring, inconsistency between
the institution of domestic hereditary slavery
and these principles proclaimed as selfevi.
dent truths was one of the errors and mfr.
mites Of man. which would most speedily
be made to vanish from the American code
oflegislation, was universally expected In
thirteen States OF the Union, slavery has
been actually abolished. In seven more. un
till very recently, the friends OF freedom have
cherished the sanguine hope and expecta.
lion that this curse would be 1anished from
their borders but. in the mysterious why's OF
Providence, while, in the opinion OF man,
kind, slavery has been growing more and
more odous While all the civilized nations
of the earth have been combining TO exter-
inmate the African slave trade, and to class
it with the detested crime of piracy. here, in
our country, slavery, like wounded rul;le-
snake, has turned upon her pursuers. and
not only thursls out her deadly fang in self
defence, but threatens with her mortal venom
TO conlaminate US all.
In seeking for the source of this strange
retrogression in the public opinion of our
Southern Confederates, il is painful TO OBJ
serve that il must be traced 10 three causes,
from which far other consequences might be
hoped, and were anticipated. They were, l.,
The introduction of the culture of cotton
2. The prohibition of the African slave-trade;
and 3. The institution OF the Colonization
Society. The consequence OF these three
incidents has been, by one and the same OPP
Grafton, greatly to increase the pecuniary
value OF slaves as property, and 10 aggravate
the cruelty of holding them in bondage =
The cultivation Of cotton has given double
or treble value TO their labor; and as, BY the
laws of Nature and of Natures God, that
labor is their own, the cruelty and oppression
of depriving them of it, and of appropriating
it to other men, is proporlionably aggravated.
The prohibition OF the importation Of slaves
from Africa, combining with this increased
value of slave labor, has given 10 the domes.
tic nrndncnr of the lipinn 81 rlicle of m arc In