Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-05-29

they die; that their ears are often cut OH,
their eyes knocked out, their bones Drok-
en-, their flesh branded with red hot irons
that they are manned, mutiated and burn,
ed 10 death over slow fires. AL these
things, and more, and worse, we shall
prore. Reader, we know whereof we az
firm, we have weighed it well more and {
acorse WE WILL PROVE. Mark these
words, and read on; we will establish all
these facts by the testimony OF scores and |
hundreds Of eye witnesses. by the te stlno-
ny of Stockholders ia all parts of the slave
states, by slaveholding members of Con-
gress and of state legislatures, by ambas-
sailors to foreign courts, by judges, by
doctors Of divinity, and clergymen of all
denominations, by merchants, mechanics, !
lawyers and physicians, by presidents
and professors in colleges and professional
seminaries. BY planters, Overseers anddriv-
ers. We shall show, not merely that
such deeds are committed, but that they
are frequent; not done in corners, but be-
fore the sun; not in one of the slaye
states, but in all of them; not perpetrated
4 by brutal overseers and drivers merely,
but by magistrates, by Legislators, by pro-
fessors of religion. by preachers of the
gospel, by governors of states, by gem
itlemen of property and Standing and by
delicate females moving in the highest
} circles of society," We know, full well,
the outcry that will be made by multi
! tudes, at these declarations the multi
form cavils. the fiat denials, the charges
of exaggeration' and falsehood' so often
/ banded, the sneers of affected contempt
g at the credulity that can believe such
: things, and the rage and imprecations
r against those who give them currency
e We know. too, the threadbare sophistries
! by which shareholders and their apollo
d gists seek to evade such testimony. If
they admit that such deeds are committed,
e they tell US that they are exceedingly
s rare, and therefore furnish no grounds for
$ Judging Of the general treatment of slaves;
o that occasionally brutal wretch In the
;, free states barbarously butchers his. wife
ID but that no one thinks of inferfing from
A. that, the general treatment of wives at the
ir North and West.
Sc They tell US, also, that the slayehold
5, ers of the South are proverbially hospita
r bic. kind, and generous. and it is incredi
: Bile that they can perpetrate such enormi
O. ties upon human beings; further, that j
at is absurd to suppose that they would thui
he injure their own property, that selfinter
OF est would prompt them to treat their slaves
IL with kindness, as none but fools and mad
o. men wantonly destroy their own property
% further, that Northern visitors at tn
Ii South come back testifying to the kin
e L., 81 .h~ks a. n
cir themselves corroborate such representa-
k tons. All these pleas, and scores Of 9th
he ers, are bruited in every corner of tn
,u- free States and who that hath eyes I
it'll see, has not sickened at the blindness th;
nd saw MOI, at the palsy Of heart that fe
ep- not, or at the cowardice and sycophanc
led that dared not expose such shallow fall;
II cies. We are not to be turned from OF
IN purpose by such vapid babblings. l
IT'S, their appropriate places, we propose
no consider these objections and various oil
has ers, and to show their emptiness an
mt folly.
the The foregoing declarations touchin
wn the infections upon slaves, are not ha
let hazard assertions, nor the exaggeratiol
Ie of fiction conjured up to carry point :
ms nor are they the rhapsodies of euthu.
ked asm. nor rude conclusions, jumped at /
wo hasty and imperfect investigation, nor Il
Tor aimless outpourIngs either of sympatt
Ish or poetry; but they are proclamations
led deliberate, we'll weighed convictions, pr,
yed duced by Accommodations OF proof, by aft
pu- nations and affidavits, by written testimt
his MES and statements of cloud of witnes
ct as hn hot
what they have seen, and all these il
the lprcgnably fortified by proofs innumerabl
lily in the relation Of the STAKEHOLDER to
the slave, the nature of arbitrary power, al
yes the nature and history of man.
OF the witnesses whose testimony
are embodied in the following pages. m
use, liority are Shareholders, MANY of the I
ony mainder have been shareholders, but nc
hat reside in free States
,us- Another class whose testimony will
and given, consists of those who have furnis
eed- ed the results ofstheir own observati
list, during periods of residence and travel
,sti- the slave States.
ess- We will first present the reader with
en- few Personal NARRATIVES furnish
ion by individuals, natives of slave states a
ton others, embodying, in the main, the
owe suits OF their own observation in the mi
are of slavery-facts and scenes of viii
that they We're eye-Witnesses.
he'd In the next place, to give the reader
lent clear and definite a. view of the actl
year condition of slaves as possible, we p
With pose to make specific points, to pass
gnis review the various particulars in {
leld, slaves condition simply presenting su
IRON cient testimony under each head TO SCI
ined 1.-The question in every candid mind n