Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-09-06


| 6.Judge Sherman has been little obser.
want Of the influence OF the Missouri Com
promise and Of the Cotton Trade, when be
ascribes the violent exclements in favor Of
slavery, al the North, to the Incorporate zeal
OF the abolitonlsts. For, in the first place,
there has not been any such intempsrance
as he alleges, in quarters calculated TO arouse
such spirit. And, in the second place.
men are not goaded 10 frenzy against those
who condemn that which they themselves
detail and il the people Of the North had moi
been, in some sense, in favor of slavery, they
would not have rallied with such eagerness
and desperation for its defence.
7.Judge Sherman assumes, that the tone
and manner in which abolitionists tteat the
subject, is so characterized by "extrcme and
Incorporate zeal" that they "defeat their own
Object and he says, that 'not only the slave
holders, but the ministers of religion, who
do not partake ofihis characteristic" to wit,
Of "intemperate zeal" are prescribed aud re-
preached. We utterly deny this foul charge.
We call on the Honorable Judge for his
proofs We join issue wit. INN, and will
insist that he shall either bring forward ca
SEES in which ministers Of religion have been
prescribed because they do not partake Of
the Characteristic of incorporate zeal. or con.
Tess the calumny. Neither age nor emf
hence should protect the author Of such a
charge unless it is founded in truth
s. Judge Sherman refers TO tho Rev. DR..
Edwards, formerly of New Haven. as a
case in point, to show the righteousness of
the aboitionsts. He says,
Had the Rev. DR. Mdwards and others
mho pnhlfrlu oenouead tho ,pa,euroe If
emancipation adopted in Connecticut soon
after the revolutionary war, called slavehoi-
ders yAN-sTEALERs, in staring capitals, us is
done in the declaration OF the convention at
Philadelphia, TO which have before alluded.
would il not have excited, in the northern
Yankee, more Of resentment than conviction,
and less of compliance than opposition"
Nothing could be more unlucky for Judge
Sherman than his reference. Ii he had
studied his case before he gave his opinion.
he would have known that DIR. Edwards is
a standard author among the aboliionists.
and portions OF his famous sermon on the
"lnjustice and Impolicy OF Slavery" are ha-
biiual!y quoted as among the several denun-
citation. ofthe system As the Judge has
cited by guess, and as he may possibly read
these remarks, we Will quote few sentences
OF Di. Edwards. and ask him 10 point out alb
clifton passages in comparison with which
he would deem these persuasive and mild.
"Ile who holds a slave, continues to de.
prlve him of that liberty, which was taken
from him on the coast OF Africa. And If i;
were wrong TO deprive him Of it in the first
instance. why not in the second2
Every man who cannot show that his ne,
gro hath by his volun,ary. -s"dueI forfeited
his liberty i hound Immediately 10 manunlt
MIN.
You will not deny that liberty is more
valuable than properly and that il is great.
er sin 10 deprive man of his liberty during
life, than 10 deprive him OF his whole proper.
| ty; or that maa.sieaiing is greater crime
than robbery. Nor viii you deny. that to
hold in slavery man who was stolen, is sub.
staniially the same crime as 10 steal him
You daily violate the plain rights Of
mankind, and that in higher degree than If
you committed theft or robbery
ITO convince yourselves, that, your infor.
nation being the same, to hold negro slave
is greater sin than fornication, iheh, or
robbery, you need only bring the matter
home 10 yourselves"
The Doctor is your witness, brother
Sherman, and trust you will not impeach
him IN count. Gentlemen ofihe Jury, what
say yon2 The fact that this very sermon Of
Dr. Edwards had a leading influence in pro-
curing the reluctant quasi abolition OF slave.
ry IN Connecticut is sufficient common, on
the case with which this learned advocate
prepared bimselfto argue his case. Should
he attempt an evasion by reference 10 the
STARING CAPITALS" in the Anti
Slavery Declaration, we will offse, them
with the italics OF Dr. Edwards. which were
The fashion OF that day 10 mark things speci.
ally emphatic. And as TO the wisdom oil
such method Of treating the subject, we
might borrow an inllusiralion from some oil
the temperance lectures. On this point we
quole from The Connecticut Observer.
I'VE recolect that not far from three
years ago, Mr. S. undertook, in Temperance
TO prove, that rumselers are
marderers and he denounced them in no
measured terms, as guilty Of killing their
iellow.men with malice aforethought Was
THIS wIse2 Undoubtedly, it is wise to speak
the truth about the sins Of men. Not indeed
10 deal out the truth in irritating epitheis
not to say that a practice is sinful without
evldence-but with proper proof 10 call
things by The right name Had DR. S. atlen.
ded the Albany Convention, he would have
found that body unanimous in the opinion,
that hard words should only be used TO ex-
press the conclusions of calm and sound ar
gumentaton. They have his authority for
using hard language in such cases; in which
alone they wish TO employ il. He calls rum