Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-01-02

SAd'uplOu ptedOoF LOT the rights OF the
poor, down trodden slave, while your un
worthy brother is permitted to toll in the
midst of the heather. May we in our
several spheres of labor, do all in our
power to discharge something of the
amazingly accumulated obligations which
the kindness of God has imposed on US!
You have often, my brother, given me
substantial proof Of your sympathy for me
in my labors and trials among the hea-
then. Will it afford you any consolation
to be informed that you have brethren in
heathen lands, who feel a lively interest
in the struggle in which you are exhaust
ing your energies assure you that
such is the fact in the Sandwich Islands.
| am not authorized by my brethren to
write you, yet | may say that we all feel
that slavery is Remembering sin; sin
which demands immediate repentance ::
and in view of it we trembe exceedingly
in view of our country's certain and ag-
gsavated ruin, unless this sin be abandon
ed without delay. see no possible rea-
son why every missionary, on heather
ground, should not sympahize with YOU,
nv brother, In your labors and trials.-
Why should they not2 They certainly
have the same enemies to face, and need
with you heavenly tempered weapons,
and unearthly skill to WELD them. In
the first place, there are very few mission
aries, | apprehend, who are not called d.
reetIy or indirectly to oppose slavery
among the heather. We are subjected 10
this trial at the Sandwich Islands. If in
voluntary servitude be a good efnition OF
slavery, then does slavery exist as really
here as in Georgia. And though slave
~ assumes mider form in Hawaii than
in some other countries, yet it opposes a
fearful obstacle to the success ofthe Cos
Ipel. The poor people groan under the
despotic sway Of their chiefs. Their rights
are utter Y disregarded. They are treat
ed, TO all inten:s, as property. Their
tame, strength possessions are wholly at
the disposal of unfeeling masters-more,
their souls and bodies are not their own,
tor no man who has struck an instrument
ofagrlculture into the soil OF a chief, can
leave without his permission. No man
at the Sandwich Islands is secure, sim
gle day, In the possession Of any thing he
may have dared to call his own. The
consequence is. the people are indolent,
poor, and vicious. The system of gov
eminent at these islands has direct and
powerful tendency TO make them a nation
OF liars, and in their inveterate habits of
thieving, we find a powerful obstacle to
the success Of the gospel We have there
fore to contend with the system of slavery
which is crushing the people to the dust,
and counferacting to a fearful extent the
efficacy of the gospel Nor is that ALL
There are not wanting among us Chris
tlan men who will s,outly advocate the
cause of despots, who not only will not
plead the Gauss ofthe trodden down moor
of Hawaii, but who are not ashamed 10
justify their oppressors. Say, nv broth.
er, are we not prepared to svmpathize
with the friends of immediate emancipa
ton in the United States.
Again, missionaries tothe heather have
with you. to contend with wicked and un
reasonable prejudices. You will see BIZ
the resolutions which this mission adopt
ed at our late general meeting, and which
have forwarded to you, how we as {
mission regard the prejudice which i
crushing to the dust so manv of our coun
trymen. Be assured that contempt fo
men on account Of their imbecility an,
degradation, and color, is by no mean
confined to slave dealers and slave own
ers in the United States, and the Yves
Indies. Nor is this contempt cherishe,
towards the unhappy sons of Africa ONLY
Go TO any part Of the heather world. am
you will find the same feeling of contemr
: manifested by many from Christian lands
) | do fully believe that many man in tn
United States, probably many professe
Christian, is greatly deceived In respec
to his kind feelings towards the heathe,
; The poor, degraded African, whom h
; sees daily, and on whose neck. it may b.
} he has firmly placed his feet, he regard
e with feelings Of scorn-but the Sandwic
: Islander. whom he has never seen, but
: whom he may have read some interestin
2 account, he can love. For his tempor
! and eternal interests he can pray and |
c Dor. SO of the heather in other cou,
If tries. Now | hesitate not to say that .
this pity has its origin in consummate i
e norance ofthe state Of the heather. T
e who will not labor for the heather at h
II own door, who feels contemp, for men
e his own neighborhood, on account ofthe
" ignorance. degradation and color, wou
u cherish and exhibit the same feelings to
e. ards the heather, the world over, were
Is brought into contact with them.
lr But this contempt for men on accol
ID OF their imbecility and color. your bre
d, rem at the Sandwich Islands regard as
i'd very opposite of the spirit of Christ, q
ur of the true spirit of missions This
as have published in the shape of reso
" ton of course we wish to have it kno