Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-07-24

inhuman in It's influence, and I
internal in its tendency! Should | de-
plct the horrors of heathenism, and thus
procure the cooperation of the slave
holder in breaking the yoke of idolatry
that long has CALLED the spiritually en-
shaved Burman, but never touch his own
demoralizing pa g0aiaing institution, who
would blame Q. S. Murray. or any other
being, for calling the measure an opera
tive absurdity-a practical abomination
But in this very manner thousands act
Ii connive at sin, tacitly sanction its
agency. Thus to act in relation to the
most monstrous criminality, and to use
its products in exterminating crime or in.
iquity of anothS character, is no better,
IN my humble opinion, than pious non
sense. Does He who sits enthroned on
the riches of the universe need money
that is whipt, and screwed, and bolted out
of the blood, and bones, and muscles. and
marrow of one class of his creatures. in
any manner, to benefit another class p
The affirmative ofthis question, we know
is not the theory of any christian but the
daily movements of many afford no other
answer to it than ges.
But what is slavery2 What is IT'LL
Does not its horrible monstrosity call
loudly for the bold, vet peaceful, opposi-
ton of every herald of the sin-opposine
cross 1t not only brutalizes, or at least
tends TO brutalize, being made ain the
image of God" and, by an act of the
most fiagitious outrage, robs him even of
HIMSELF, when it reduces him to a
chattel-a thing-but, when it keeps the
Bible from Him, with every means of
beneftting his intellectual nature. it de-
clares IN tones that roll up to the eternal
throne, and ring through the dark cay
erns OF perditlon's doleful pit-there ID
satisfy the envenomed envy of devils
that the holy Ruler Of the universe shall
have no moral control over millions oil
His rational creatures.
/ The benign and benefcent RELIGION OIL
Jesus was constituted to confer everlastino
welfare, alike on the Barbarian. Scvth.
lan' bond, and free;" and, practically to il
lustrate this blessed truth, its divine Au.
thor says, "Go teach all nations;a' but
; American slavery virtually says, in bold
opposition to heavens own incarnatt
King, that It's CALLED, and peeled, and NAL
treated victims must not be taught. A.
Tar as many poor southern negroes ar,
) concerned, 1t was useless for John to saw
Behold the lamb of God = for whethe
he "taketh away the sin of the world
; or not, this system of iniquity envelope
t their eyes that they cannot behold Him
: it throws itself between them and Hi
; atoning blood. The curse of broke,
> law hangs over the slaves devoted head
!, in common with other human beinos:-
and though Christ was made curse fo
him, as well as for others, still this irsti
tuition Of cruelty willnot let him to Christ
Ii ne is morally contaminated, and !;
fountain is open for sin and for unclean
ness" he is no better off than if there wa.
no such thing, for this monstrous system
Will not let him 60 near it. If his hear
pants, and his bosom heaves, and his death
t less nature longs and yearns for learning
for liberty, for happy Immortality; his
paintings and heavlngs, and long ings, anc
warnings, are all in vain; for this diabol
, ical complication of full-grown abomina
/ tons, blinds him, letters him, bolts the
gates OF glory against him, and goads hin,
on through life of wretched vassalage
to the dismal shades of everlasting night
But viii slavery remain as it is-usurp
ing the authority of the Almighty, tramp
Ing on His holy enactments, and shack
r ling the moral agency of man2 MOI
90 on you abolilionists Though not q
7 prophet, | hesitate not to predict the 6nal
! triumph of your cause. Why because
: the eternal God land | speak it with rev.
/ erence) is an aboli:ionist. Can the pride
: grating hiss of reproacb, the soul-an
: noylng groan of disapprobation, which i:
: sent continually to the South, be stifed
0 ] Can the hiohlY heated eycitement ca.,sz