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

WentY wears were added TO the African "
slavetrade. 10 accommodate the South, and 81
five slaves counted three whites, as the ba- o.
SIS of congressional representation. Then e
was the time to have insisted on the aboli- Il
lion of slavery, instead of yielding, and a
adding ten fold yigor to the Unsuitable hat r
red against the ebon race. What if three f
or four of those states had refused at first
to enter the Union! Did not two of
them do it after all our coaxing cringing,
and miserable expediency2 They would 4
have come in within three or four years ,
after, and without slaves. K
The other states would have marched
forward to grandeur and greatness, un-
trammelled by this awful system. And
the very fact that we had parted on grounds
SO honorable to US, would have given to
the world a mosl glorious exhibition of
justice and humanity. We should have.
had God and all good men on our side.
yea, the approval of our own conscience
es. We should no: have had genera
ton at the North at this time one half of
whom seem to be debauche1 in their no
lions. of right and wrong. in relation to
human liberty; as much, fear, as the
besoAed masters of the South. 1t was a
corrupt agreement of the majority OF a
nation, with minority, 10 crush human-
ity; 1t was the most guilty compact for
twenty years against the guiltless poor OF
injured, unofending Africa.
Suppose we had stood up for God and
, our. corsciences while the Shareholder had
separated and formed his slaveoligarchy,
, without the aid Of northern freemen to
subdue the instruction of the slave. The
troops and navy of Great Britain kept the
4. slave of the West Indies in subsection,
! and not the planters; and so it has been
: in this confederacy, the military force OF
. the North and the free states have restrain
= ed and held back the southern slave from
= his liberty. Again, the slaves, without
r 1.-The clause of surrender In the Constitu-
y ton, which was another crime of expedl-
y ency, committed against the law of God
- and our common humanity by the North,
" would have fed to us on the long line Of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana. and Illinois
:, not to be pursued with southern venge.
Il ance, and met by northern law, northern
:, justices and constables.
*, - No, if we had Withdrawn all connec
- ton with the South all countenance, anc
= held back the loan of our non-slavehold
:. ing character, as cloak to cover up the
- rottenness of her most loathesome deform
). ity, the South would long ere this have
e abolished slavery herself, from the dis
grace it would have been to her institu
- TONS Suppose she had cut loose from
the Joint inheritance purchased by the va
y or of the Revolution, because we woul
: not participate in her crimes, she woul
then have stood such monument of cor
~ ruption and avarice, murder, meannes
. and teebleness, that there would not hav
= been nation in Europe so lost TO Sc
,s' respect as to have entered into treatie
y with, or acknowledged the independents
- of community whose foreign commerc
- was kidnapping, piracy, murder an
- blood, whose domestic pursuits were nott
~ ing but lust, women-whipping, robber!
- and extorlion, who paid their iaborers j
ne kicks, curses, and lashes, who sold thei
:. own children. brothers, and sisters, b
~ contract, or public outcry: No the nation
na of the earth would have regarded ther
~ as hoses humani generis," the enemie
:, q dts of the world, whom to have destroy
- ed would have been considered as tn
" greatest Of public virtues.
~ But they have been preserved from th
- universal contempt, and war of mankin
~ from their confederacy with the free states
ae But whatever has gone to save tn
of South from the execration of the worl
:, has been exactly so much deducted froi
- northern virtue and character. SLAYER
- has always been maintained at the e,
- pense of northern character, until E.
90 rope now regards the pro-slavery men
II the North, and he shareholders of Ii
et South, as on par, and stencil in tt
nostrils of mankind. The admission
&c Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alab
~ ma, and Arkansas were all base bowins
,ar to expediency, at the expense of our poe
o. - sable brother; They were departure
~ from, and violations of the spirit of tt
;as constitution What have we gained t
~. blackening the valley of the Mississp
r,h with slavery, feebleness, shame, dishono
80 sorrow, and an unspeakable amount
- human miserv2 The country at Il
- north and the south is every way Il
:, worse. Again we bowed to the Sou
~, 49, under the famous tariff compromise,
H. -, which the North sacrificed more than Fl
~ hundred millions, to the slaveholdir
an south. They now desire hard mon'
ne, government with which to overtime
,ar northern credit We lost from SO to ,
o. millions in the late reyu!sion in moni
is affairs, by the unnatural credit the slav
holders obtained at the North by pilferir
DON from the future, and anticipating crops
ona be raised in 1889 and 1910, from Il