Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-11-06


is tricks in NeV- England-wish what sue
ess, time will determine.
He was in this village, and gave al adj y
lress, on Wednesday evening Of last week.
His audience was rather thin, and, as near
Is could Judge, more than half abolition
ISIS, who were curious to know what he
could say. He is familiar with his subject
as a matter OF course, the handling Of it
having been the business of his life Tor
years. His talking powers far exceed his
good sense,-so that those who are taken
with torrent of words sooner than with
sound arguments, are liable to be carried |
along with him at the time.
Notices of his meeting were read, or an
nounced from all the pulpits in the village,
on The Lords day preceding. Two of these
notices saw. They closed with a request
to the minister TO read them-"and oblioe
the friends of the Stare" Here the de-
ception and fraud began. 1t is we'll known
that the scheme can obtain no sympathy
from genuine philanthropists, except the
pretext be SET up that it favors the cause of
the slave. And that prerext more false or
T fraudulent could not fall from human lips,
than this ia regard to the designs and ten
denotes of the American CoIonizaiin So
clety, expect to prove TO the satisfaction of
, all candid, unbiased minds, before | have
' done.
: To give strength and effect to this pre-
text, the lecturer, in his introduction, portray
c ed, in the most vivid colors he appeared tc
Il be master of, the horrors and atrocities Of
u the slave trade. He stated that this dia
9 bolical traffic never was carried on more ex
tensively or with greater alrocity, than a
the present moment. He also alluded, in
cidentally, once or more, in the course o
i his address, to slavery, as being foul bio
on the face Of the misunderstanding tina
" colonization has two faces, one for tn
North, another for the South.
" Allow me here to stop and ask what
l. done TO the harm Of southern slavery, b
u limited checks upon the slave trade-prov
O. ded this Society has any power to check
'ir in the least-which latter topic shall re
Of ceive attention by and by. So far are tn
" slave-growing parts of the South from dep
~ reeating the adjustment of the slave-trade
n none were more clamorous than they fc
ss the law of 1903, making the foreign trait
We piracy-and for the plain reason, any or
err may see who has one eye half open, th;
in the suppression of the foreign traffic is
de protective tariff to the domestic trade.
a.. One word as to the philosophy of Il
at case-the cause and effect. Nothing c;
s.y be clearer to an intelligent mind that b;
lial investigated the matter, than that slaUery
de- the cause.-the trade, the effect. The
WIN then, who go about suppressing the foreie
so trade, with view to abolishing domest
Of slavery, are exactly in the business of
nj boring TO remove causes, by removing
,% fects-laboring TO destroy the tree by co
in Stunning the ripened fruit-to stop the DO
ing of the fountain by lading from t
our channel of the river below. AS long as
Let market is kept open, the supply will be Fl
~ nished, at all hazards. There always ha
eIy been, and always will be men whose 10
VT of money will impel them to risk their liv
him 10 obtain it. Abolish slavery, and Il
be- trade is abolished of course.
have pronounced it TO be false al
FRI ndtllo for yho
.ss; Colonization scheme, to pretend that its
to sign, or its tendency, is, to emancips
i slaves The proof is so abundant that
has am at a loss what parts Of it TO present, 4
ma, mas being able to furnish room for hundred
ties part that is at hand. will begin with the S
su- ciety's constitution, which is in the folio
- ing words: The articles which set for
Gus its name and object:1
we ART. |. This Society shall be call
Of 1.-THE American Society for colonizing 1
eraI Free People of Color of the U: States"
of CART IL. The object TO which its ate
tion is to be exclusively directed, is TO p
eny mote and execute plan for colonizi
Mr.. with their consenD the free people of C
.. or, residing in our country, in Africa,
On such other place as Congress shall dee
~ most expedient. And the Society shall a
zen TO effect this object, in cooperation W
ub- the General government, and such OF I
md. the liberty of the enslaved negro but to
AZ moral ard political elevation of the free negr
TO LFrom the London Christian Advocate July 90 g
So ELLIOTT ericsson.
""' The two meetings which have been held
the subject of the American Colonization Soc