Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1839-06-11

h'5hcd 10 show the ImpraiieabIlity of tho means
employed. The spirit d dcnunciaton is most
fcehnFly reproved, and muh as he desires the ut 1
ter extinction Of slavery, AID would regard il Ain
IN himscif he would no, nakc !, IN article Of re-
hgious creed nor dare to ienoance others, having
no divine vocation for The tcrcise Of force or con
stfSul or injustice, even "a tho Liberation Of The
slave.
The concluding paragraphs of this letter arc so !
eloquent aud go bcaui'tuiJand poverty expressed
that we transfer them onlin to our columns
The opinion OF the civilized world has been 70, |
ages maturing into setilsdaonyiction that slave
ry, IN any OF IT'S forms, is lin and rcptvaDe
any people. More than three thousand years ago, |
the debosement Of The human character, by its OPP
Grafton upon tho slave himself was noticed by the
greatest OF the poets, who says, that the dag which
makes man slave takes away half hit worth
Its degrading and corrupting influence upon the
neart and mind Of the master is not less philosoph
ically true. The new theory which attempts to
convert slavery into blessing and slaveholding
into virtue, rs, in my deliberate Judgment, a
more lamentnbc debasement of tln human soul
than the mere endurance Of seryitudc can effect
II places the animal below the level of the
brute creation. 1t surrenders his soil 10 the do
mlnion OF his vllest passions, bellies the Divine
revelation Of God of mercy, and insults the
throne OF Omnpotence. 1t reduces the natural re-
latons between man and man exclusively to the
standard OF physical force, and males tyranny and
OPPRESSION inflicted by the strong and suffered by
the weak. to comprise the whole duty of man.
This system bears the same relation to that of
the Declaration of Independence as idol worship to
the worship Of the true God The substitution Of
it's creed TO that of the natural rights Of man would
bring him back to the alternative of the worship
of Moloch aud Mammon,
And devils to adore for deitics'
Should this system become the prevailing doctrine
OF the South it is impossible that this Union should
long continue. AS its avowed basis rests exclu-
svely upon physical force, to physical force il will
resort. not only to sustain its Institutions but
to encroach upon the institutions of freedom else
where. This disposition is already manifested 10
many ways; in the brutal treatment experienced
by citizens of free Sates if 2ected of fhyorng
abolition in the slaveholdng jprisdictions-in the
nsoent demands on the free states to deliver up
their citizens for allcdged offences against the slave
laws-n the conspring OF American Shareholders
in foreign land against the life of one of the great
champions Of human libery-n the rufian threats
of assassination addressed to members of Congress
for daring to presen. your peti;onsln the surren-
der Of the post Office to ynching lawn the nur.
der OF Lovejoy-in the burning of the Pennsylva
MIA hal-n Southern commercial conventions tc
force the natural channel oftrade from North tc
South--in Southern railways and banking compa
mics combined TO link the Mammon Of the Yves
with the Moioch of the South. and in the strain
OF commentator upon the land-robbng practice
OF the Anglo Saxons, and their virtuous abhorrenc,
OF custom houses, embellished by their black e,
reverence and punctuahty for their debts Of honor
; Fellow citizens, when witness scenes like thee
transacted in the face Of day; when hear princi
pies like these issuing from the professors chair
from the chanceors bench, from the diplomat
saloon, and from the land jobber's gaming and din
ner table, all in frghtfa harmony with one another
! hang my head in dependency at the prospect
Of the rights of man, for the short remnant Of m
; days, throughout this Union, and even in the Dis
irict of Columbia. Yet do not despair for tn
cause of human freedom. ] beise the cause whic
its votaries are called 10 defend and wbic
they may yet hope 20 defend and vindicGlo, is tba
of our tree institutions against the daring encroach
ments OF slavery upon them. IL is for them yo
will have ultimately 10 stand to your arms and
! is for them that would gladly now you bUckl
on your armour. ! desire not TO interfere wit
the institutions Of slavery where they are estat
4 ishcd-l would not abolish slavery without do
regard to indemnify the stakeholder for the los
and to avoid the necessity for that, would begi
: the process with generation yet Unborn. ] o.
here faithfully TO the stipulaions ofthe Condnl
my faith before God to support and can lend m
r hand to project for The abolition Of slavery
these United States without The consent Of the
masters.
= That the day viii conc when slavery shall /
: oxiingushed not only IN the District Of Colanb
be, throughout our country. and Throughout II
b., world I believe, because II has been explicit
promised in the Holy Scriptures, aud because n
. progress towards that improvement in the cond
: lion Of man upoa earth IL clearly Indicated by Il
- whole tenor Of human history But that the da
:, Is yet for distant not permitted to doubt al
that in our conniry II sill be preceded by couyu
sious aud revolutions ia the moral, political 81
= physical world. from which t0rn away my ey'
3 to more cheering contemplation. appears to b. Il
:, probsble. Thatyou may ENJOY ia peace ali u
" rights that you possess ADD be speedily restored
:, those Of which you have recently been deprived.
!, the hope and prayer and shall continue 10 be Il
earnest eneeeyor Of your friend and fellow eiiize
= JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
b. Commission (or erGniniEg Lake Harbsrs.-A
o. important commission from the topogrs phieal b
resu al Washington lie now sitting al Detroit,
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