Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-07-24
For the Telegraph.
Leaf from the Menaorandum OF a Lady.
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NO. L.
Having, one evening only, attended
the Anti-Slavery meeting, recently held
in Union Village, N Y. have eagerly
sought the report Of that meeting, in the
various papers of the day which came to
hand. l have felt not merely curiosity,
but an anxiety, TO learn the disposal OF
the resolution advocated by Gerrir Smith,
Esqr., that night, viz: t'rhat slavery is
stealing, he9,'' involving the universal
ly acknowledged principle, that "the par
taker as as bad as The thief" OF course
those VINO are consumers of the produces
of slave labor, cannot be accounted inno-
cent, but must upon the great principle Of
relation, be cldssed with the accessories ot
| the crime. from the consideration that In
proportion as the demand for these pro-
ducts is sustained, the indictment 10 per.
petuate slavery will continue TO exist.
| have now for the first time seen the
account of that meeting, as reported by
Mr. Stanton; bat do not gather from
| that, the final action on the resolution. Ii
was laid on the table for that night, at the
request of one who "had some conscien-
tious scruples," &c. Obliged to leave in
the morning, did not hear Mr.. CuIver's
remarks in opposition, but it struck me
very forcibly, and should think incon-
powerfully, as being the truth; and that
the only consistent ground for the Anti
Slavery community, is the ground OF
total abstlnence,-that for them, (alow
me to say. for Us, there is but one con-
sistent course, and that is simply and
decidedly this, to "touch not, taste not,
handle not'' the accursed thing. can
see but one possible point on which TO
hang rejonder, and that is practicable
ty. And will not an impartial view of
the subject, and our own best interests as
connected with it, do even that away ?
The obnoxious products in use among
US, as were we'll set forth in the address,
are sugar, rice, and cotton
So long as the maple aud the beet exist,
we shall be without SO much as the shad-
ow OF an excuse fol- using southern SUI
gar. Our own barley and oats havelong
been approved substitutes for rice, and
happily too, our grand commercial depot,
n. T., affords rice from the banks of the
Nile, and other regions undiscovered by
the man-stealing system.
And now, comes sthe all-absorbing
cotton But may not even this colossal
argument be undermined by very few
simple words? Let the daughters Of N.
England, and all the free States, reSotce
TO return to the spindle, the distaf and
The loom, ana invariably refuse to make
use of fabrics manufactured from an arti-
Gle grown by the labor OF fellow-beings
in bondage.
1t IS TO be expected that our manufac-
turers will rise in battle array against
this, because their craft is in DANGER but
what is either their emolument or embar-
rassment, in competition with the cause of
the oppressed2 Shall the avarice of man.
and the circumstances which grow out of
1t, be set in competition with the eternal
principles Of truth and righteousness
have not now time to expatlate on all
these so interesting points, but suggest
them in the exigency of the moment, as
subjects for consideration and future en-
largement. ] bless God for the light OF