Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-08-14

claiming the selfeVident truth that sall
men are endowed by their Creator with t
certain inalienable rights, that among (
them are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness This is democracy-this is
abolition, and this is in accordance with
religion.
Not, however, to be made the sport and
play of partizans and fawning politicians
mot to be treated as an unmeaning rhet-
oricai figure, but as truism which is to
be carried on. both in practice and theo-
ry. AS truth and principle which can
not be violated without an infringement |
upon the laws of God and men. For |
personal liberty is the gift of God to men,
irrespective of complexion or color, ma
ton or cline.
These are the principles which Jeffer-
son taught, and these constitute the creed
of Democrats Of the Jefferson school
! These men who assume this title and do
not carry out their principles and practice,
are recreant to democracy. They are
m0ck-dem0crGts. Like certain characters
mentioned in Sacred writ. They haze a
name to Hce bat are dead = and like 9TH
er purifying carcasses they difuse around
an unwholeseme odor. And as it is often
10 the physical, so in the moral and polt-
ical world. like begets like, they are con-
tinually .corrupting public SENTIMENT
Hence. the myriads of northern slave
apologists, priests and Levites who pass
by on the other side.
| How far either of the two prevailing
political parties in our country will bear
the appellation of DEMOCRATIC, do not
assume the province of determining
Suffice to say, if we be allowed to Judge
by their principal incumbents of office, or
| by the men they appear most anxious to
1 place there, we shall be compelled to the
unwelcome conclusion that neither are
The favorite son of the democratic-and
the admired champion of the American
System-as he has been called from their
recent avowed and published aristocratic-
al sentiments, are neither any more de-
serving the name of Democrat than the
AutocrGt of Russia, or the Grand Sultan
of the Ottoman Empire Neither of these
Il have ever either ayowed or practiced more
Gnts-democrGtic or Gnta-repu6Lic0n princi
pies than Martin Van Buren,, in his veto
pledge, or Henry Clay in his late bid fol
the presidency. A greater absurdity car
hardly be conceived than Democrats
Magistrate, the idol Of an assumed Demo
c,atac party, to declare at the onset he
Twill annul a law which extends the very
principles for which he and his adherent,
ostensibly contended; and on the othe1
hand, how grossly inconsistent must b,
the man who claims for his political asso
ciates the promotion of public good AM
the extension of democratic republican
principles, when the favorite son of hi
party has proclaimed in the ears of civ
i!ized world that whGt the lao make
property, IS property meaning by tn
s what men, women, and children
Principles put in practice so revolving {
our natures and opposite to democracy a
these, would cost Turkish Pacha hi
life, and a Jew to be pat TO DEATH
Neither Turks nor Jews are allowed b
their religion to enslave their brethren
A prisoner of either the Mahometans @
Jews on his embracing their religion
- circumcised and advanced to all the right
of a native Jew or Turk. At Hindoosta
are black Jews who were once slaves bl
now enjoy all the privileges Of the origin
al descendants of Abraham.
In our country Christians enslaa
II Christians, and democrats ensIave dem1
70 crGts!!!!!!! This position has moth
!; ing but truth for its support. Let him dc
:. ny it who dares. Is it not therefore wit
Z. the utmost propriety that at anti-slaver
: conventions Democrats OF, the old Jefe1
. son school should particularly be invited
: Surely, there are many such mingled i
= each of the contending political parties
- These we need. And those we shal
n have unless they prove traitors to tn
- cause of human liberty. But, let us Sc
what Jefferson says on the subject of A
n. merican Abolition,-the very cause j
- which we are now engaged. In his lei
: ter to Gov. Cole, of Illinois, dated
at MONTICELLO, Aug. Is, 1914.
d. Dear Sir,--Your favor of July 81:
IN was duly received, and was read with D,
culiar pleasure. The sentiments breath
ed ed through the whole do honor to bot
We the head and heart of the writer Min,
mt on the subject of the slavery OF negroe
"a have long since been in possession of tn
as public, and time has only served to civ
of them stronger root. The love of justic
ne and the love. of country plead equally tn
It's cause ofthese people and it is moral II
ed proach to Us that they should have plea,
ed ed il so long in vain, and should hay
as Produced not single effort, nay, tea
in not much serious willingness to relic,
them and ourselves from our present COZ
Of dition of moral and political reprobatio
ur From those of the former generation
Az who were in the fullness of age when