Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-10-16


would be christians If they We're not
sIGres. (which cant be christians fullY,) [
separated in all the ties Of human nature,
which the system cant nuiify. In short,
it is enough TO make an angel weep, aud !
devils laugh out Still, it is not ssave-
ry as il is by whole world full. Ii don't
begin to depict it, 1t is a sort of sketch
for children. Men ought not to need 10
read it. Yet it is a book to be put into
the hands of the masters in Israeli
They are just getting as far as that, in the
anti slavery science.
Now, my venerable friend, allow me
to say here by the by. that although |
regard that work as one of great interest
and ability, have no respect for New
England clergyman's conserving 10 buy
it. or accept il, or read it. or for the abb
olitionism to be engendered by it in his
heart or head. 1t is proper book to in
form iIliterate and uniformed people of
the country They need light on the
practical nature of slavery. They must
get it from an,i-slavery men and books,
whereas taey ought long ago to have been
furnished with ii from the pulpit and the
press. A clergyman ought to have been
an abolitionist years ago, BY force of his
intelligence and knowledge of the coun-
TRY and its customs and character, and his
knowledge of the Bible, showing his du-
lty, and of his own christian feelings and
principles. prompting him to perform it.
He has no right to wait for West India
expedients, or to be narrowed up into an
inal or mental excitement by tales of
horror and instances of diabolical cruelty.
i have long since done with looking at
the South, for the guilt or the danger, or
the chief mischief Of slavery. The North,
and not the South, is the scene and thea
tire of all these. The root of slavery is
imbedded in the North. Its leaves and
blossomings and dead ripe fruitage are
seen in the South. Its living and abid.
ing distructiveness has its home among
the hills of The North. There is the
calm, settled, deliberate, organized, and
religious malice against any interference
with the Internal system. There it is au
thor:tatively maintained, that bible chris
tlanlty sanctions human cnsIavement.-
There the pulpit scowls at the abolition
lst, and the meeting house door is shut il
his face. There The county conferenc,
passes the insoient resolution, that he i
d rot admissible to the pulpit or the pIal
form, 1--WE care nothing about his perch
Of ing up in the pnlpi) of the dedicated
house, where custom leads the people /.
Re took for moral guidance and the truth
without he has the consent ofthc pastor
IS thus giving the pastor the Key of know
edge, which he is sure TO keep from b,
ing turned, and the key of sympathy.
gives him the formidable power of InouI
ding the public sensibii,ies and svmpa
al thies to the funherance of his own secla
rlanlsm. whatever it may BE-, and his ow
y personal power and influence, which man
kind are always 100 prone to seek an
: too fond of exercising There, in lh
= church meeting, anti. slavery is prohiI
tied theme, and the abolitionist sileuce
To- man. while slaveholding is temderlv res
pec,ed. and fcllowshipped. There tn
70 pulpit. which the antI-slavery advocate
must mot enter. is open deferentlalIv 10th
ng occupacy of the eloquent divine from III
South. whose ease and convenience a,
DIS the care and the duty Of some faihft
servant whom he has left behind him
he the purlieus of the parsonage, lest con
ing north he might fall within the disiur
H. ing influence Of the abolition fana,icisn
and be taught the north STIR and The vi
hs tues of Canada line. There, where h
ecclesiastical association can meet, 10 til
N, noble town of Lyme--that strong hold
antI-slavery and temperance, and hold
deliberate session, and take no though:
10 The slave system as an obstacle in Ii
way OF the Gospel. unless intruded upo
n It by some oficious aboIitionists :--whel
no free, spontane us. or effective action
u taken on SO vital and awful a ouestio,
ana nothing done. but the appointment
- some committee to address the theology
the South, or something of that sort-n
ITS much matter what. in my humble appr,
hension. Here is the seat and fountai
ng of the whole national mischief. 1t
pro-slavery, and not slavery ITSELF techni
Id ally so called. that should give US alsrr
and be the object OF our assaults Instea
nd of looking south--we ought TO look G6oI
as. Instead of a book on slavery, "
-, want one on pro-slavery. Pro-stare,
as IL is-instead of Slavery as it is
:, the book we should have and should rea
AMI study, and its details and develIoI
- ments would alarm The sagacious min
: far more than the animal decorations
he The plantation. II is that par of the sla,
system of Ameraca, which works in til
northern communitys--on the moral an
spiritual plantation there,--about ii
northern press and the New Englan
pulpit, that should most dismay u.s.
: There is the great power wheel TIL