Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-05-08
VOL. XI. NO. 80 +.

ilfPeiOtn upon liS HOHeStSdu VI tIiS hd-
ton, and make its enclosures so sacred to
/, the genius Of universal liberty, that no
human being, whatever may be the accl-
dents OF his birth, education or color, can
remain for moment a bondman, after
his foot has entered its precincts, and he
has heard the tapping of the eagle-folds
above HING Or should il make that spot,
the charnel house Of human rightS-a
depot of human merchandise d very
den of man-thieves-so sanctiied, IN Short
to oppression, that they must always le-
gisiate in the name of freedom, in sight
of the slave-sip, slave prison and slave
auction, and have their love for liberty
increased in It's fervor by the sound of The,
slave 1uctioneer's hammer-the resound-
ing of the slave drivers lash-the shrieks
Of the scourged victims, and the wailings,
of bereaved fathers, mothers and children?
If The Congress of the United States, in
its legislation over those places under its
exclusive jurisdiction, is to have no regard
for the .inalienable rights oil man, and
those eternal principles Of liberty asserted
| by our revolutionary sires, and established
to be perpetual. by them, at the expense
of their treasure and their blood, then
indeed is this self-s'yled free republican
government a splendid humbug--nay
more, stupendous libel upon the name
and spirit OF liberty. If slavery be do
mesiic concern of the States in which 1t
exists. it must stand or fall alone by the
Legislation Of those States. and IFS exist
ence there can impose no sort of obliga-
lion upon Congress to warp IFS legislation
from those fundamental principles OF JUS
ltice and right, upon which free lnstltu-
lions must ever rest, and which are the
Distinguishing principles of this republic.
If Congress, therefore, permit slavery,
in violation of those principles, 10 exist
on any spot under lis control, 1t is rec
reant to the faith of the government
pledged TO MANKIND, for the sustentaiion
, and extension Of freedom, false TO is own
honor and the honor of the nation, false
: 10 the interests and rights of humanity,
{ and becomes, in the face of heaven and
the world, guilty of The foulest Cypress
ion.
who right the injured, and reward the brave,
Stretch your strong arm, for We have power to save
JEroned in the vauIted heart his dread resort,
InexOrstle CONSCIENCE holds his court,
, With still small voice the plots of guilt alarms,
Bares his masked brow his lifted hand disarms;
But, wrapped in night with terrOrs all his own,
He speaks in thunders when the deed is done.
Hear him, ye Senates! hear this truth sublime:
: lie rho ALLOWS oppression shares he crime
How different will be the spectacle
D which will present itself TO you at Wor-
cester, from that which you witnessed
: when the eiereH young men, with more
blood than brains,' as was sneeringly
: said, met at Boston, and formed the New
England Anti-slavery Society As you
l look around you, and see the host which
, have rallied under the banner which you
then helped 10 raise, YOU will sayto your
5 self, how gloriousy has truth triumphedl
How appropriate, too, will be for your
Convention 10 recur 10 the first principles
: of our cause, and 10 the merits and sacri-
S fees of their first and great champion
: Those principles, though denounced and
{ iderided, have borne US on in triumph over
/ ever obstacle, and will, if adhered 10, 90
l. on conquering and TO conquer until the
3 shoutings of the battle shall be swallowed
s up in the anthem of the diSenthralled.-
D, And should he, who, in the very midnight
u of his country's slumber over the pit OF
u destruction, blew that clarion blast which
u startled the dreamers from their sleep.
= and Weakened to life and action the phi
e lanthropy and patriotism OF this nation.
y be forgotten by the young men of the
{ land! Never. For him who so nobly
5 devoted himself, when all others seemed
y 10 have forgotten alike the claims of the
> oppressed and the duties of the free. 70
u the stupendouS work OF purging his coun-
," try from the sin and curse of slavery,
'e and of setting up the neglected worship
&c OF freedom in her deserted and desecrated
&c temples-whose words of warning, re-
bnke and denunciation came like the
y voice of one crying in the wilderness.
II and whose preaching like that Of his
~ great prototype, was the preaching of
; repentance and the opening OF the pris-
u on doors 10 them that were bound
u who, by the selfenkindIed and iDexiin-
e guishabIe fire of his own zeal, and the
&c daring energy of his own intellect, has
" succeeded in arousing a nations mind
and touching a nations heau-who has
launched the lightning of his own indig-
II nant spirit into the very citadel of Cypress
i ion until ITS base trembles, and lis towers
:, nod 10 their falI-and who cGa say TO the
4 insoIent and boasting supporters of do
ict mestic tyranny, in the language Of the
ve injured but indominable Roman.
et FIuttcred your yolsces in COTioli
as -ALOae did if
OF for him. saw, all aboli:ionists. whether
. Young or OLD, should cherish the mos
I'm lively reoard-a regard exactly commen-
IA suraie, in the depth and intensity Of d:
"a u. i,yo .ybirh they hpa ~