Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-02-06

lucy would run 0us OF the Union down u
some steep place. and get choked in the s
sea. If
This nation will, in short time, be d. s
vided into two great parties which will v
swallow all others up, to wit t: an anti I
slavery one on one side, and p.o-slaye- "a
ry one on the other the first holding that J
all men are created equal; and, that la {
Dor is honorable to all; and liberty "the t
right of all while the latter or pro-slaye- /
ry party holds that one portion of the !
country is born to be slaves to the other
and that labor is dishonoTable and badge +;
of meanness. and kindred principle with
slavery
The liberty loving, labor honoring par
ty; the slave-holding, labor-despising par
lty--to this complexion the people Of this
country must come at last. This will be
the grand division between the politica!
parties of this country. 4,
| Ye men and women of Vermont, | |
know need not ply you with arguments,
to show which side OF this important al.
tentative you espouse.
| You have always been on the side of
humanity aad justice in this great ques-
ton of slavery. Every thing here teach
es you liberty; these rocks and hills,
these memorable winters,-all command
you as from above, be Industrious, labo-
rious, frugal, and just. Your position
and soil are perpetual guarantees that you
will be industrious, tina: labor must be
considered honorable; where those things
exist men will love liberty and hate slave
ry, or history is a liar and experience
without instruction.
ExPEDIENcY.
Our fathers have left US one of the most
instructive lessons ever given to mankind
showing the folly of expediency; and, its
lwickedness when adopted by a nation
in opposition to the plain command o.
God, and the dictates Of humanity, anc
the sober counsels of exact Justice
may not be Improbable to glance at some
OF these governmental gales of expedien
cy, into which our fathers and the presen
generation of public men have been be
trayed, under the notion that present expe
diency required US, as a nation, to use
to commit crimes, at which as individual
we should shudder. At the time of tn
Declaration of independence, the natio
was like the great deep at the time of tn
flood, broken up from its foundations, an,
casting off the alleg glance that bound US t
the British empire. Society was resolv
= ed in this republic into its original ele
ments. 100000 being the entire pop
re ulation; 100000. or one sixth of whor
en- had been, and were held as slaves.
L.. TNo1
es, laration of independence, and almost eve
ht- ry state paper, all congressional resoll
- tons, manifestoes, petitions, appeals, an
cd, circumstances connected with our stru!
3D. gle with the parent country, or the forms
IA ton OF states, by our state constitution
pm replete with the general topic of libert
ice which was on the tongues OF all, and
yes the hearts Of many, that the times decla
ri. ed the general expectation that if our il
an dependence was ever acknowledged by tt
lan- British King and other powers of Europ
ar that liberty, universal liberty under Il
IN control of law, was to be the portion
IN every human being in the land Consi<
of ency, decency, self-respect, justice, ar
be- the pleadings of our common humani
art all conspired to make us believe that Il
me grave which we had dug for the man
the cles intended for our hands by Englan
re- should hold those which for $50 yea
nth had bound the slave.
}, The war of the Revolution was owe
Der the last gun fired against foreign 70
!, a the states formed their constitutions, vii
hty bills of rights, attesting the doctrines
ode the Declaration Of independence, full
,rrk' tho loft L.Lo &c L
the man rights. The confederation of Il
tied states, a mere rope of sand, lasted fro
1777 to 1889, twelve years. This w
ned framed during the midnight of the Rev
'me luton: but out of regard to the slavehel
OF ers, nothing was said about the slave. L
nu- us secure our own independence first
mtg But in 1774 the first Congress thought
itu- the slave, so far as to forbid the old afor
'uld said slave trade after the 31st Decemb
or l775. This resolution was dead lette
hey Nothing said about slavery after, duril
Viz the Revolution all still till the Mai
lese General was to be appointed for the q
not mics of the United States; the Nor
ates said, our Bunker Hill generals mt
and stand aside to oblige the slave province
hen Virginia, and bring the South heartily
hey to the measures for the Revolution RI
and no one think I intend disrespect to t
pun memory Of our immortal cosntryman
;, to the statement of this fact, far from it,
un- Again when the Declaration of Indept
the dence was 10 be drawn, the honor M
part be conferred on a southern slavehold
re- and its composition has, for its great M
hey its, given a glorious Immortality to
and. author.
hree How small matter il would have be
The Cor Ts..nos. ~ Gonna ono of tie eoss;r