Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-01-16
VOL. XI. NO. II

'N'S' u " inquire TITO the pro-
prie'y oil reporting and passing resolutions
addressed to Congress praying that body
10 ABOLISH The internal slave trade. between
The states, slavery In the District OF Co.
lumOia, and IN The territories of The Uni
ted States, and 10 prevent the admission Of
new slave states and Texas into the Union
by special request and invitation from Ire
Vermont State A. S. Society, on the 25,h
25.h and 9th Of October, 1888 Mr.
Stewart addressed the Committee as fol-
lows
Honorable gentlemen Of the Joint Com.
mitlee-You are clothed with power r.
me most exalted purposes (; not 10 lnol.re
INTO the propriety of bridge over a riv-
er, the Suita bleness of granting a bank
charter, in this or that town. Of increasinp
or diminishing the tax on this or that dis.
.rict OF county;-no, your duty extends 10
eight lines as many people as those who
constitute this sovereign and independent
state, who are your countrymcn, YOUR
brethren, your fellow beings, born in The
republic, not TO lis rich inheritance hut
ltS orphanage, not TO lis glory, but ms dis
honor; not 10 rs rich treasures of knowl
edge and religion, but It's utter Intellectual
bereavement and heaihenism. not 10 lis
liberty and independence, but its slavery
and loss of all things, not TO liz bright and
glorious hope, but its blackncss Of dark
ness, in despair. In behalf Of two and a
hall millions Of your wretched fellow men.
found in your own glorious but disgraccd
country. the cry for pity, help and mercy
IS waited In every southern wind which
. blows over the lands of chains and tears.
and has brought 20 Vermont the deep la
: mentations of the implied, the unwept,
and the unmourned
D To what friend should the slave sooner
4 90 than to the freemen Of these wales and
$ mountainsl
: The dark unbroken wilderness, which
: half century since covered this beauii-
II full land, was not removed by a genera.
II ton of unpaid slaves-no the white mon
o alone was the pioneer. The sturdy birch,
n the majestic elm, The solid beech. the no.
S bic maple. the hated massive hemlock and
: the cloud-propping pine, the anakim of
e the vegetable kingdom, have fallen before
: the freemen of Vermont, and made the
earth 10 tremble in their dying grodnS-
n fe middle and aged men, turn TO your
J. early remembrance, when the vallies aud
L hills al Midnight were illuminated with
s. the funeral piles of these forest giants -
s who was high priest, who presided at The
l. sacrifce2 The sunburnt and hard knuck-
d led freeman of Vermont, stood in his SOM
> bre linen frock, his sacerdoial robes, and
I. performed the duty. No unpaid slave ev-
IT er heard the cruel sound Of the masters
s. horn call his unrested limbs from his piles
IS OF straw to his miserable toll in Vermont.
l. No; your mountains would have held
their breath. and refused ala echo 10 that
= hated sound. Vermont was the first born
child after the revolution. Although. it
came into the confederacy amidst storms
and tempes,s. which lowered upon her
birth yet she was born perfect. in all her
limbs, her moral faculties showed that the
n Declaration OF Independence was her no.
n bic sire. She was not like her bext sis
n Ter, Kentucky, who came misshapen.
o. limping. halfmade up with rickels, before
rs her birth and ever since. Yes. those
as moral ricketts,, slavery, has sadly disfgur-
o. ed that sister, and her unwilingness TO be
ID cured Of her complaint, proves that her
he mind is as badly affected as her BODY is
OF deformed Poor Kentucky is not asham-
Il ed to steal, but too proud 10 work, and GO
dishonest 10 pay those who do!
Vermont has penetrated to the central
r. line, between the equator and the pole,
and On the outer line OF the nation, in the
=, far north, last year sent up her resolutions
- to Congress against slavery; those reso-
:, lutions were truly the moral aurora bore
80 ais, the true northern lights, to alarm the
- proud, terrify the wicked. enligh;e the
~ Ignorant, yea. 10 intimidate those ricketv
:" lmps and monsters, who feed and gorge
= themselves on human flesh and blood.
+. Vermont in presenting those noble res
olutions 10 an American Congress. 10 face
of so much leagued malice and cruelty,
" appeared like an angel of mercy walking
9 upon the high places of the earth. Who
n might not, on that day, have coveted the
- honor OF a birthplace in your state2 II
= seven cities O. antiquity contended each.
= for the honor of being the birth place OF
~ Homer, then may the man Of Vermont
- be justly proud that his state was the birth
;, place of these resolutions, and stood in the
> front rank of humanity. and first as state
" which mounted the parapels OF slavery.
Vermont, before her existence as a
eu state had tasted ofoppression. She s,rug-
gled into existence under twelve acts Of
- outlawry passed against her, BY The state
on of New York.
VI You had double war for your indie
pendence, yea, treble, with the British
IN Empire and the state Of New York and
ia New Hampshire, each claiming iurisdic-
ng ton over you. Your mountains and for
md ests were your abiding auxiliaries in these