Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-01-16

land of America, came into existence when h
political and personal liberty were priced Il
next after the salvation of the soul, as the a
greatest good human authority could con- r
fer. Slavery, in no form, ever sprouted c
on this soil. Physicians assert, that GER c
tain persons are predisposed to certain t
diseases, SO may say of the citizens OF s
this state, on the great question OF humani- {
ty, now pending before the American peo- ,
pie, they have a predispostion to join
against any cause or question in which
liberty is threatened with destruction or
overthrow; TO range herself against the
oppressor, and with the oppressed, to seat
herself by the side of the prisoner, and
lock arms with him who is ready to per-
ish. She is ready to say to the bondman,
"Entreat me not TO leave thee, or to re-
turn from following after thee, for with
er thou goest will go, and where thou
lodgest | will lodge; thy people shall be
my people, thy God shall be my God =
where thou diest will die, and there will
be buried the Lord do SO to me, and
more also, if aught but death part me and
thee"
The resolutions, adopted by the legisla-
ture of Vermont, addressed to Congress,
last year, covering the extent of ordinary
constitutional action, on the part of the
contederacy, cheered the heart of the phi
lanthropist, and armed humanity herself
with new power to march to the terrible
contest between the forces of light and
darkness, truth and fasehood liberty and
T.. - IF
those resolutions the stakeholder must
have seen Swallowed out. in coming days,
his Indictment trial and final overthrow.
Then he saw sovereign state march into
the field. Then the stakeholder found out
the falsehood ofthe GddLe-headed charge,
that the aboitionists were only few, de-
caved old women, subject to Mysteries, and
a few moon-struck, fanatcal men, who
nursed and fed themselves on visions, and
spent their time in frances, or lost them
selves by diving into the mysteries of
prophecy, and second sight, or in wiring
commentaries upon Mormon Bibles. But
these noble minded men of the South,
whose minds scared into the lofty regions
of chiyalry, where women-whipping is
one of the most distinguished features or
employ ments of that chivalry, (for except
in those peculiarly gay and>gallant regions
women are not whipped) through John
G. Calhoun, the prince of nulifcaiton
raised the cry, that before the Vernon,
resolutions were considered, by the Sen.
ate, a string of resolutions, all split out o
one log, and by Mr.. Calhoun, must frs
be considered, as counter statement, t
those from Vermont, as a sort Of break
water to prevent their consequence
Thus the culprit, arraigned by Vernon
was determined to open his cause, intro
duce his evidence and sum up his caus
and make the most of his argument, befor
the prosecution was heard, and thus fore
stall the Judgment ofthe court. have n
doubt, this new and improved mode ador
ed by the shareholders in Congress, oftr,
ing criminal, would relieve the gallov
from bending under the weight of many
pirate, and the state prison from the CO..
fnement of many a scoundrel. The!
highly cultivated Shareholders deny II
slaves right of petition on any subjee
any more than mules dogs or horses.
the ground that slaves have no rights to
violated, no matter what is done to Ii
slave, by any one, he as slave havir
no rights, nor any interest in any right
which can be violated, therefore he cana
as slave assume to ask for the redre
of any injuries, because he the slave h
nothing which can be injured. He h
nothing which can be the subject Of leg
lative address, on his own prayer, for
admit it, would be admitting there W
something the master had not crushed a
destroyed, in appropriating the slave
himself. The slave, says the master, c;
not petition for himself for any thin
therefore the freeman can ask no great
right for the slave than the slave could
himself, therefore the freeman can not !
tition for him. And if it be right to {
ny the petition of the slave, in person,
the freeman for him, therefore it must
right to deny the petition of soverei
state, who asks for the same thing, y
the whole nation, fit ask for any thing
behalf of the slave who has nothing, a
is entitled to nothing, on the ground. Il
the nation is agent for the state, who
agent of the freeman, who is agent of
slave, or nothing this whole matter re
ing on legal nothing, no matter h
high you pile considerations upon nc
ing, and extend the boundaries of nothil
10 nothing it must come at last. In t
bark-mill circle southern mind revol,
on the question of slavery. We KIN
not which most to wonder at, the gross
humanity it manifests, or the shall
logic by which they effect to maint
this proposition. Let us examine fol-
moment one Of the prominent reasc
why there appears to be such numer
and active force upon the floor of c