Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-01-02

ical forests, that darken and hedge our
way. But we feel it due to ourselves, 10
observe here, that TO redeem our character
from the odium thrown upon it: to falsi-
fy the self-complacent assertions of those
sage theorists upon the African character,
who, were it not for the opportunities they
have enjoyed, would be as ignorant as
those they abuse, we only ask the same
measure of aid that would be indispensa-
bic to any other race surrounded by SINH
lar circumstances. Among the causes
achieh bare combined to close the hand of
charity against the cOlomy, are those forid
and gloaoing descriptions that haue been
gicen Of the pecuniary ability Of the peo-
pile, the docitity and tractability of the ma
tires, the fertility Of the soil and the gem
eral resources Of the country Visitors
feeling feversh interest in the colony,
and prurient to disseminate news, have
visited only the best houses in the colony,
s0here erery nerre has been strained to
make a decent exhibition, and feeling no
disposition to dive into the infections of
hospitals. and make the gauge of disease
they have assumed aohat they there sap as
the general measure of circumstances, and
gone off and reported accordingly.*
when individuals who feel bat gen.
eral and indefinite interest in the colony,
have heard that the natives are throwing
away their idols to the moles aud bats of
the earth, and en- masse becoming Christ
ians: that the slave trade is whitening un-
der the moral breath of the colony-that
the country produces every thing, and
that every thing grows without labor, and
that the colonists have only to pluck the
fruits, eat and be happy, they have rejoic-
ed in the success of the scheme. to which
they cannot rid themselves of feeling of
Indebtedness, but to which the bounties of
nature have precluded the necessity of any
pecuniary offering from them. This
tampering with disease may lulI the pa
| tient for while, but its effects will be to
suffer the complaint to acquire strength
a~s~perable to all attempts at cure. Where
is there Country on earth more fruitful
In resources than America But where
would the colonies, planted onthose shores,
now be, had they not been sustained by
the powerful hand of European patronage
On all the principles of human calcula-
ton, they would exist now, only as his
torlc fact, that an attempt had been made
to co!onize that country
The reader, by recurring to the part
we have placed in italics, will see that the
Liberia Herald dsprecates the fallacious
reports about the prosperity of the colony,
with which our anli-abolition people suffer
themselves to be regularly diddled out Of
their money. 1t also shows US just how
these wonderful reports are made up, by
persons who are predetermined, and who
only see the fair side, and do not look a,
the vast amount Of deep poverty and mis-.
cry which that little settlement embraces
The next paragraph in the article is thai
which has been regularly quoted in al
the colonization papers as the beginning
and disproves another of the false pretenc
es under which money is gathered:
1.-The first requisite to the prosperit,
; and advancement of the colony, is thu
suppression of the slave trade in our vi
entity. This trade has been graduaH
acquiring strength for the last four gears
Its ravages have been more fearful, AM
the vessels engaged in it more numerous
THAT AT ANY FORMER PERIOD OF TIL
coLoNY's HISTORY. An exterminatin!
war has ragged over an extent of fly mile
, around US; nearly all communicate,
auth the interior has been cut off; land
haze remained untitled; erery article o
food has adraneed 200 per cent. an price
and horror and confusion haze ragged o,
eUery side"
"* See Capt. Abel's report which has been echo
ed from Dan to Beersheba, of the colonization
world"
MAHAN AGAIN.-The Cincinnati Ga
zette informs us that this unfortunate vic
tim of republican slavery is still in tht
. power of his prosecutors. having been ar
rested, Immediately on his acquiltal, 10 an
swer in civil action brought bv Grea.
house, for damages assisting the escape o
) his slaves. The case is certainly hare
; one; and we are not aware that the ques
ton has ever been decided, whether .
man. brought and held within the iuris
; diction OF state by a criminal process
: which his acquittal has proved 10 hav,
) been groundless. can then be arrested
| within that jurisdiction. to answer in dam
] ages for an alleged wrong done within an
other jurisdiction, and which was n,
$ wrong by the laws of the State where TIL
t deed was done. If such is the law be
: tween the States. We have only to say, tn,
: sooner the law is altered the better or
e will work such expressions as will max,
5 all men desire to have the Union itsel
E dissolved. We have not heard The decis
+ ION OF the kentucky court. circumslanc,
r which awakens apprehension, as w,
e should have supposed any court mus
1 have Instantly discovered so injurious