Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-05-29
Miscellaneous,
From the Human Rights.
COLONIZATION.

mere has been public debate at Gin
clnnati, between Mr. Gurley, Secretary
Of the Colonization Society, and Mr.
blanchard, late agent of the American
Antl-Slavery Society. IF colonization
were not brazen as well as Janus faced Il
must have covered in the person of its
smooth and oily Secretary before such q
truth-telllng man as Blanchard. The
last speech of the latter is given in the
Philanthropist, and we make counle of
extracts % show how Mr. GurIey was
handled.
CoMMENcEMENT.---Mr. Blanchard.
rising, replied. That the abolitionists
held no doctrine more Jacob; than
the one just avowed by his opponent, IN
the presence of the audience, that 1T IS
a crime IN the sight of God TO separate
The acife from the husband, and the parent
from tbe child In saying this, he sol
emnly declared that Judge Bushrod
Washington was criminal in the sight
OF God, when he did this very thing; mol
By compulsion, but from motives of gain.
in the sale of filty-fou of his Young
slaves in 1891; and, on being arraigned
in.the public prints. he published iustifi-
cation OF this torcible separation of fami.
lies, in the. Baltimore Chronicle of thai
day.. YETI this same man-according to
Mr. Gurley--this criminal In the sight
Of God was reelected president of this
society each successive year. till 1929.
when he died; when this same gentle
man, my respected opponent, pronounced
his eulogy, saying, he scas alscays gooern-
ed by the nOblest motiUesl
Sir, L here briefly ask, where is the
moral tendency of this scheme, disposinq
to emancipation2 Not one of its nresi.
dents, nor to my knowledge of its vice
presidents, ever emancipated a single
slave. Charles Carroll of CarrolIton.
the second president, left one thousand
slaves to his heirs. He never, to my
knowledge, parted with one while living.
except the twenty which he gave to the
city OF New-Orleans, to be slaves to the
city corporation. Their condition there
may be easily guessed. Sir, went from
this debate but yesterday eve, to take tea
with a gentleman, mot an abolitionist.
who is just arrived from New Orleans
He informed me that he often saw. amonr
other curiosities Of the place, slave girl
walking the streets of New Orleans. yok |
ed with a collar of iron. having long
prongs projecting in every direction from
the neck. Now, sir, has this girl been
convicted OF crime. and sentenced to this |
Inhunan condition ? No, Sir I. 1t was
her master or mistress who had put her
TO this torment. because he or she Judged
the girl to have been, or about to be gull
ty OF some mischief
: 1t was to the corporation of the civ
OF NewsOrleans, the second president Of
this society made present of twenty
slaves. And this society, besides ALWAYS
having been managed by Shareholders. has
now a president. Henry Clay, who has
solemnly declared, in printed speech.
nat he s0o4Ld not glue up his slares, for
Laoersa, d. the society s0ere noac ready to
take them 0toGy.'
CLOSE Suffer me, I beg you, sir, to
appeal, in closing these my last remarks. i
. my respected opponent himself He IS
man as [ am. He wears the same
christian profession. has taken part ofthe
same ministry, and must shortly stand at /
ne same judgment seat with myself ,
low can ne thus pervert the rig hit ways q
u the Lord? How can he urge this Z
cneme upon honest and confiding minds. Z
when ne knows that its promises are fall. Z
acIous, and pretensions false2 How can /
le consent to put the piely and philan-l i
hropy OF this nation upon sending ont Fl,
reemen TO be Struggled back as slaves . /.
Why will he thus put us upon rolling
his wheel of Ixion-this stone of Sisv-
'nus-ln one hopeless perpetual round,
Vniie the slave increase pours into our :
'nnaPpy country above $4,000 wretchss c
ach year-kept under statutes which p