Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-04-24
April "a, 1889.

posEn.-An article has been going the
rounds of the papers, lately, stating that
. white woman, in New-Jersey, some have
il in Pennsylvania judging from the ap-
pearance Of a colored man approaching her,
that he was on vile erraud, seized a gun
and shot him dead. The papers greatly
loud her heroism, as thus displaTed in
slauehtering The "black rufian." Brother
Grosvenor of the Christian Reflector, cop
les the article from the papers, and accom-
NAMES il with the following comments:
"While We would not cast even a
shield of oossamer over the colored Mis-
creant,' we ask those Editors who haze
so promptly published the account wheth-
er they have ever admitted into their col
umns one case from among the thousands
of cases which annually occur, of like
prscisels, like insults offered coIored fe-
males by qoliie "miscreants :" That
amiaLie system for which pro slavery
Editors have budgets of apologies always
ready 10 offer, that system is the hol-bed
nursery Of just such miscreants," with
only the difference of different color of
their super fciss. That system fer which
you apologize or at which you silently
connive, shuts up and chains the victims
pf the White miscreanl's" brutality, and
iorbids resistance, and thrusts "gag''
into the mouth of the insuted, and calls
her the 'miScrelni,' if she lifts a hand
bgainst a aoiite person. Such is aozr
FyS,em Of legal miscreaucy.' Gro th,n,
piler again aud again your apologies for
he 'wtttsd scpuLcarcs' you pao,.cl. BIZ
90 it with the distinc! apprehension that
ye are knOacm. Nay, be honest and tell
tOh sIorie<. Let the world read in YOUR
columns that for one such case of diabol-
cal touness on the part of colored men,
here are to be set down thousands on the
part oil tohHe men, and that these are !e
ealzeJ and sanc;ifed.' 10 Use the Hon.
Pra5le tIenry Clay's word, by that com
PACE which you say you will defend and
fulfil to the letter snd to the spirit of it,
sTeii the world this, and We viii 90 with
sou In branding every man mscreanl'
Eho with law or without law, whether he
/ Of one color or of another, practices or
ftiends those who do practice tina, most
R'ilnous OF all crimes. But Let us have
y more Of this parIsatjty-this holding
OF one man to execration for certain
~ because of his complexion. aud this
NPholJlng OF another in the same act or
'Envlng him uncauteriZed, We Mace tho
blanl Of inflmy on the front of that mis-
cfcan!' who can conniye at the white mans
Pull offered to the colored female, while
- ahccts to be horror stricken ut the
mne conduct in the colored man.-The
ply God is mo respectcr of persons );
nither may we be, if we would escape
ue Indignation of his eye and the venee-
bee Of his hand. This double game
s been played lang aud successfully
MnS enough and with sufficient success
merit the sua.light exposure of lis ia-
loIe meanness and unmitigaled turpi-
le. We boldly charge every apologies
Slavery, who is acquainted with tae
#ecra5ie system, be he minister or lay
pn, Northern man ora 'Chivalric
ulhfon,' with being guilty of uphold
the white man in his vlliany and o.
hing the distinction OF which we have
okeh. II any demur, let them show u:
herein we are wrong, aud we viii stanC
wrrected.' .s..
The Christian Jorrnal, late Cincinnati
XnDrpol il parrad in rim Nou, Vorl- aUuos,