Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-06-28

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| the doctrine OF l776. and such the doctrine
lotlIs3 but now, ask President Dew VIVA.
are the rights ofhuman nature, and he will
tell you that slavery was the mother of civ.
llzatlon. Ask Chancellor HARPER what
are the rights Of human nature, and he will
tell you that man has a natural aversion to
labQr, and that he will not work unless you
make him slave
The point Of view in which ] call your
attention 10 these doctrines is their open and
undisguised apostacy from the prnci Piles Of
the Declaration oflndependence BY Chan
cellor HARfER. they are directly and ex.
plIcilly attacked with long argument from
the old Tory school, 10 prove them false,
sophistical, or unmeaning.'
! In may last letter | showed you that all
the authoriIies now adduced as precedenis
OF parliamentary practice to sustain the refu
sal OF Congress 10 read or consider petitions
were from rule in the House Of Commons
by which they refused to receive petitions
against the samp act and the tea tax We
have now the British arguments of that day
against the principles OF the Declaration OF
Independence new vamped and brought
forth TO prove the lawfulness of Slavery
Nv ibiS'tb%t iOhi Wuilu 10 liitSlSttuitt lHdl
in the view Of the shareholders themselves.
the principles of the Declaration of lndepen
dence are as fatal 10 the institution Of slave
ry as they we're 10 the tyranny of Great
Britain over the Colonies. Now, the peope
ofall the primitive Southern States were par
ties TO the Declaration of independence, 10
the Revolutionary war, TO the Constitution Of
tbs Emitted States. Four delegates from
The State of Virginia, pledged their lives,
then fortunes, aud their sacred honor to the
principles proclaimed in the Declaration. and
10 the perpetual union founded on those prin-
ciples. To renonnce those principles is
virtually 10 withdraw from the I'm.
ion, and it is my deliberate and settled opin-
ion that upon no other principles can this
Union be maintained You have perhaps
not been aware Of these palinodiaI recania-
tons Of The principles OF our Revolution
and are still less aware how extensively they
are prevailing among the Shareholders Of
the South, but contemporaneous with them
has been the assumption Of new and ex-
traordinary attitude towards the Union it.
self. II was under the influence OF this new
slave-bred and slave-breeding-creed that the
State OF South Carolina arrayed herself in
armour, formerly undertook TO nullify law
of Congress, & babe defiance oihe Govern
ment OF the Union. Virginia was not then
quite ready TO join her. but. with very doubt.
iu constitutional authority, sent an ambassa.
dor TO negotiate with her, and afterwards as.
sisted in concentrating that compromise,
which, by the sacrifice oil the American sys.
TEN, and OF your interest gave an equivalent
for the rrtrrur nom notification a nd tho 70
turn Of South Carolina to the pale of the
Union.
The remarkable feature OF that compro.
mise was that il was a transaction excu-
sively confined TO the slavehoding portion
OF the Union, and TO the slaveholding repre-
sentation in Congress. 1t was connected be-
tween two Senators, one from South Carroll
ma, and the other from Kentucky, both slave
holders, both in violent opposition to the Elk
ecuiive Administration then also headed by
stakeholder, aud was adopted by him, and
swept through the House Of Represen-
taiiyes by whirlwind, in garing VIC.
lation of that article of the Constitution
which provides that all bills for rails.
ing revenue shall originate in that
House. 1t was strictly bargain of slave.
holders among themselves, in which the in.
dusry and the interest of the free portion oil
the nation were neither consulted nor con.
sidered, but were bound hand and foot, and
laid PROSTATE at the feet oflhe peculiar insti-
tufiOns.
But the ambition OF the South Carolina
party was not yet satia,ed The phantom Of
abolition was advancing upon them, and
swelling to gigantic dimensions as she nd
vanced The people of Great Britain were
piling petition upon petition TO Parliament
for the abolition of slavery in the British
Colonies. and Parliament was gradually and
reluctantly yielding to the irresistible food
OF the tide The sympalhies of language
of sentiment of opinion, and especially OF
freedom, were crossing the Atlantic with
every breeze, and spreading over the con.
genial atmosphere of soil whence they had
been first exhaled Slavery in the British
Colonies was abolished by the reformed
Parliament ola European Monarchy-abol
ished upon the very principles of our own
Declaration Of Independence abolished
because irrafragably, irreconcilably contra
ry to the natural rights of mankind,
! What could the Shareholder do with his
own chalce returned TO his own lips2 He
started back in horror from the draught, and
turning round called with imploring voice up
on SEPuLvEpA. g. HOBBIES, & Sir RoBERI
FILMER, and DR. JOHNSON. and SoAME
lJENyNs for doctrine Of despolism-lor a
sheer upon the selfeyident truth that all men
are' born free and equalizer a cavl upon
theayerment that life, liberty, and the pur
suit Of happiness are among their inaliena
HE rirhls--for ludicrous distortion of tbs