Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-03-13
MISC ELAN EOUS..
From the Pennsylvania Freeman.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF SLAVERY.
Europeans driren by the lash IN the
West Indies

Europeans drtren 6y the lash IN the
West Indies!
When Gov. Nc Duffie, in his MESA ge
to the legislature of South Carolina, main
TIMED that the best state of society was
that in which the operative was the prop
erty of the capitalist-and predicted that
in few years slavery would be introduce
ed into the now free states; and, when a
representative from the South, threatened
on the floor of Congress that domestic
slavery should be introduced into the
heart of the North, no one save the few
and feeble advocates of equal rights and
universal freedom, seemed aware of the
fact, that the modern defenders of slavery
were as ready 10 enslave the white labor
er of the free states, as the colored man
of the South. But the writings of Chan
cellor Harper, and the bold avowals OF
John c. Calhoun, and his admirers, must
now convince the most scepticaI, that the
true slaveholding spirit has "no respect of
persons'-that it would as readily reduce
to bond !ge the white man as the black
IT HAS NO PREJUDICEs ON THE SCORE OF
COLOR. 1t has no faith in the cumpati-
bility Of the exercise of the rights of
freedom, with daily toll in the field and
workshop, whether on the part of the me-
gro of South Carolina, Or the Pennsylva-
MA farmer, and Northern artisan. Il has
no faith in our common humanitv-in
the universally of its capabilities for self
government,-in its general capacity for
improvement. Its philosophy is tint of
the Apochryphal Preacher: How can
he get wisdom who holdeth the olouob
and that glorieth in the goad! That
driveth oxen, and is occupied in their la
bors, and whose talk is of bullocks 2"
A late English publication, "Truths
from the West Indies" by Capt. HOBO
SON, of the British Navy, affords fear
full illustration of the compIacencv with
which those who have trampled down the
black men, can degrade the WHITE labor
er to the condition of a beast of burden.
In the summer of 1884, the people of
England, through their representatives in
Parliament, abolished the chaltel princi.
pie; and proclaimed that the days of even
mitigated egro-slavery were numbered.
Against this measure of partia! iustee
the shareholders of the West Indies con.
tended TO the last, with the ferocitv and
desperation of wolves Interrupted in their
foul orgies, and driven from their banouet
of blood. No sooner, however, did the
news Of The passage of Stanley's Eman-
cipation Bill reach the islands. and the
slave-colonies. than the planters entered
into plans and speculations to supply their
es ates with new slaves. The vigilance
of the British cruisers rendered an at
tempt to revive the old African slave trade
dangerous and uncertain. The whole
power of the government at home was
pledged against the African trade and
negro slavery. What then was 10 be
done2 The memorable spirit of slavery
demanded new victims, and since these
could not be obtained from Africa thew
were actually sought for in Europe
The simple and kind hearted peasantrv
of the Portuguese islands of Madeira and |
Fayal, were fixed upon as the obiec.s ofI
West Indian rapacity. Emissaries were I
despatched to these islands, whose mission
was to circulate glowing descriptions of
he plenty and prosperity of the slave
colonies, and the ease with which fortunes