Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-03-13
VOL. XII. NO. 2 5.

S'a'e anu IN the nation, our awakened and
scared sentry rubs his eyes and exclaims.
why did not think you would act sb-
oil1ionlsm at the polls" Whatif YOU did
not think OF h2 We told YOU we should
do 1t, and we mean to employ all the inst
and lawful instruments and influences -
our power, till slavery is abandoned O,r
warning is fair, and has been so fror, the
beginning. Lei those who slight il blame
themselves.
When, at the close Of the fall election.
the servile prints declared that political
abolition was mere minus quantity. we
ventured 10 predict that the Shareholders
would not so consider it, and that The cal.
culaiing political wire-workers would no,
despIse It. And now we find the great
slavebolding statesman saving on The floor
oil the U. 5. Senate, "Mr. President. il is
at THIS ALARMING STAGE OF
| THE PROCEEDINGS of the Mira
abolltionisls, that would invite every con-
slderate man in the country soIemnly 10
pause, and deliberately to reflect. no,
merely on our existing posture, but upon
that dreadful precipice down which thew
would hurry US" Is Henry Clay start
led at shadow. or alarmed at the poIit-
} zeal movements of a power which is prov.
ed to be a minus quantity!
But we, toe, reirerate the solemn warm
ing of This political seer. 1t is time for
" every considerable man to pause" Let
, the din ofpolilical strife cease for while.
Let every speculation stand still. Lettbe
: nation "solemnly pause, and deliberately
q reflect" 1t is time, when the slaves of
: this nation, already equal in numbers the
t ration that achieved our independence -
S When nations Of freed blacks are SPRING
IT ing up all around Us: When the eve of
: the civilized world is turned in full glare
e upon our crime: When it is become an
?. parent that the first shake of the poIitical
d earthquake which reaches our shores
must throw down the walls of the prison.
lie house, and loose the chains of the cam
l. tives: Surely, 1t is time for a solemn
= pause, that we may for once reflect on our
r position. 0, that the nation would cease
e from mobs, and gags, and murders, and
e reflect" Reflection may save US
c There is yet hope for US. The mercy of
IS God is not clean gone. But "our pres
p ent position" is full of danger, and there
IS dreadful precipice" just before us,
H. from which we firmly believe the exist.
I'd ence and influence of the ti-Slayerv
E. Society is now the only barrier.
~ Mr.. Clay charges il against the aboli
Y tionis,s, that if the present operation tbro'
C the ballot box should be found insufficient.
II "the inevitable tendency of their proceed
II ings" is to "invoke, finally, the more DO
n tent powers of the bayonet." This is
to serious matter, and should be well con-
E. sidered. 1t will be observed, that the Anti
s, Slavery Society has incorporated among
= the fundamental laws of its organization
g. sacred pledge, that 1--WE will never coun-
n tenance the slaves In indicating their
v rights by physical force" This is far
IS Their secured by the provisions that no one
ne can be constituiionally member of the
ed Society who does not embrace these prin-
e ciples, and consequently he who should
ne renounce the principles OF the Society.
nd would ipso JactO cut himself off from his
he membership, and therefore could not act
IT. for the perversion of our organization or
lat the violation OF our plighted faith That
wv this security is absolute. cannot be preien-
ed ded, for Mr.. Clay knows very well that
IS no paper guaranty, TO be interpreted and
mt executed by men, can afford absolute Sc
IS curity. But it is as firm as paper obi
10 cations can be made. And in addition TO
as this, We have the pledge of the character
lpt ofthe men who are engaged IN this enter.
er- prise MIR. Clay has totally misappre-
RI hended the character OF the men he has
Sc. assaied and maligned AS body of in
nd divi6uals, they may be relied on as the
IN moral elite of the community. Go into
Sc. our county meetings. and you will ordi.
en-, narily find body which, for intellectual
OF and moral worth, is at least equal TO any
nd other body which ever convenes in thai
ou county. Ordinarily, the most jealous
a and exemplary, and active, and liberal
In members ofthe churches are the abolition
cry lists. In multitudes of congregations, ;he
ell ministers are perplexed by he fact tina
m their most effective co-operators in III,
md Sunday School and the Prayer Meeting,
md are aboitiorists. They are not the ran
'er- dom spectators, the heartless arisiocracv
ap- but the substantial yeomenry of III,
country, those who have the creates
ubt stakes and the Strongest ties in the oener
esS, al welfare Two hundred thousand sucE
self persons should not be lightly charged, BY
bo- Senator of the United States. with {
age readiness to promote the bu,chery OF thei
ose own countrvmen. Such men have no
x" lightly adopted the principles Of the Anti
an, Slavery Society. They have been wol
the to it. yea, constrained 10 it, by the force Q
niz- truth, and the convictions of duty, over
.nti- coming prejudice, and pride. and interest:
ing And the pledges which they baye inco.po
re- rated in their constitution they mean 1
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