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

en-" "moSt merciIul, &C., ana nave or Il
dered their crouching vassals TO accost Il
them thus. When did not vice lay claim G
40 those virtues which are the, opposites Of /
its hab.tual criInes2 The guilty. accord G
ing 10 their own showing, are always In /
nocent, and towards brave, and drunk
ards sober, and harlo,s chaste, and pick
rockets honest to fault. Every body
understands this. When mans tongue
grows thick, and he-begins to hiccough
and walk crosslegged, we expect him. as
a matter of course, to protest that he is
not drunk so when man is always
singing the praises Of his own honesty.
we instnctively watch his movements and
look out for our pocket-books. Whoever
is simple enough to be hoaxed by such |
professions, should never be trusted in
the streets without somebody to take care
Of him. Human nature works out IN |
shareholders Just as it does in other men, |
and in American shareholders Just as In
English, French, Turkish, Algerine. Ro-
man and Grecian. The Spartans boas.ed
Of their kindness to their slaves, while.
they whipped them to death by thousands
nj the affairs Of their gods. The Romans
Landed their own mild treatment of their
bondmen, while they branded their names
on their flesh with hot irons, and when
aid ihrew them into their fish ponds. or
like Cato sthe just starved them to
death. II is the boast Of the Turks that
thew treat their slaves as though they
were their children, yet their common
name for them is dogs and for the mer-
est tribes, their feet are bastinadoed TO
Jelly, or their heads clipped of with the
cime.ar. The Portuguese pride them
selves on their gentle bearing toward their
slaves, yet the streets OF Rio Janeiro are
filed with naked men and women yoked
in pairs to carts and wagons, and whipped
bv drivers like beasts of burden.
Shareholders, the world over, have
sung tho praises of their tender mercies
towards their slaves. Even the wretches
that piled the African slave trade, tried to
rebut Claik son's proofs of their cruelties,
by speeches, affidayits, and published
pamphlets, setting forth the accommoda
lions Of the middle passage and their
kind attentions to the comfort of thos,
whom they had stolen from their homes
and kept slowed away under matches, dur
ing voyage of four thousand miles
So according to thetestimony of the auto
crat of the Russias, he exercises grea
clemency towards the Poles, though h,
exiIes them by thousands to the SHOWS o
Siberia, and tramples them down by mill
ions. at home. Who discredits the afro
cities perpetraled by Ovando In Hispanic
Ia. Pizarro in Peru, and Cortez IN Mex
co.-because they filled the ears of tn
Spanish Court with protestations of thei
beniguant rule2 While they were yok
inc the enslaved natives like beasts to tn
draught, working them to death by tho
sands in their mines, hunting them wit
bloodhounds, tortusing them on racks, ar
broiling them on beds OF Goals, their re
reservations TO the mother country teemt
with eulogies of their parental sway !
The bloody atrocities of Philip Ill,
the expulsion of his Moorish subject
are matters of imperishable history. WI
disbelieves or doubts them! And yet h
courtiers magnifed his virtues and char
ed his clemency and his mercy, while Il
wall of million victims, smltten dow
by a tempest of FIRE and slaughter
loose al his bidding, rose above the
Deums that Numbered from all Spain
cathedrals. When Louis XIV. revok
the edict of Nantz, and proclaimed tv
millions of his subjects free plumber
persecution, when from the Engli
channel TO the Pyrennees the mangl
bodies Of the Protestants- were dragg
on reeking hurdles bysa shouting pop
lace, he claimed TO be the father of h
people, and wrote himself His mc
Christian Majesty
But we will not anticipate topics. I
full discussion of which more natural
follows than precedes the inquiry into I
actual condition and treatment of slay
ia the United States.
AS shareholders and their apologies a
volunteer witnesses in their own eau
and are flooding the world with testimo
that their slaves are kindly treated Il
ahev are well fed. well clothed, we'll no,
ed, we'll lodged, moderately worked. a
bountitully provided with all things ne,
ful for their comfort, we propose--6s
10 disprove their assertions BY the les
mony Of a multitude of impartial witne
es, and then to put shareholders the
selves through course of cross-qcesti'
ing which shall draw their condemnati
out Of their own mouths. We will pre-
that The slaves in the United States
treated with barbarous inhumanity; d
they are overworked, underfed, wretch
lv clad and lodged, and have insuffici
sleep; that they are often made to W,
round their necks iron collars armed W
prongs, to drag heavy chains and weig
At their feet while working in the fit
and 10 wear Jokes. and bells, and i
horns: that they are often kept confii