Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-01-16
MISC ELLAN ECU S.
PR o S Pc TUS
OF TIL E LIB ATOR,
VOLUME TX.

OF l. 1 B r,
yoLUMEIx.
The first number of the Liberator was
issued January l, 1881. The eighth
year of our conflict with slavery is fin
ished, and we enter upon new campaign
with fresh zeal and an unwearied spirit.
We shall not stop to recapituIate the
scenes that have transpired, nor lineer
upon the memory of battles fought and
won.' We are abundantly satisfied with
the result of our labors in the cause of
our tasked and fettered countrymen.-
When we began those labors there was
but one periodical Qhe Genius of Univer.
sal Emancipation devoted to the aboIi-
ton of slavery. Now there are more
than dozen, exclusively confined to the
vlndicalon of inalienabIe human ripbts
to say nothing OF a hundred other Jour
nails which are more or less engaged in
maintaining the cause of the needy, and
the right of the poor Then, there was
not single ant-slavery society in exist
ence, based upon the doctrines of imme-
date emancipation; now, there are more
than fifteen hundred. Then, scarcely a
man could be found to regard our enter
prise with appreciation; now, not less
than hundred and fifty thousand are en-
bodied in solid phalanx, not merely
sanctonlng, but sustaining it, with spirit
and power
! Oar cry, from the commencement, was
for the immediate deliverance of the on
= pressed from chains and slavery. For
this, we were ranked among madmen.-
1t was said, that nothing but gradual
emancipation was either safe or practical
Bile; how gradual, no man undertook to
show. Well-eight years have passed
away. During that period, not less than
four hundred thousand slaves have been
emancipated by death, and their places
supplied by more than half million of
new victims Is not this a long time for
preparation ? But who are better pre-
pared for liberty now, than they were
eight years ago2 None. And we seri-
ously ask, has not the experience of two
centuries shown, that gradualism in the
DRY, is perpetuity in practice? Is there
an instance, in the history of the world.
where slaves have been educated for free
dom by their taskmasters? But if-bv
any management or contrivance-sucb
an event had happened, or such schoIas-
TIC treatment had been successfully given.
still, our cry would continue to be for i'm.
mediate and unconditional emancipation:
because to predicate a right to enslave
men upon their ignorance, much more
upon the complexion of their skin, is ab-
surd, inhuman, monstrous. If the lapse
of two hundred years be not sufficient to
meet the claims of gradualism, Qhe rights
of man out Of the question: no quarter
should longer be given to it by any friend
of God or man.
The Liberator is unalterably devoted
to the rights and interests of the coIored
population of the United States. whether
bond or free. 1t will continue to pursue
The even tenor of its wav,' undeterred bv
opposition, untrammelled by sectarian in
tinence, unseduced by political favor. l.
VIII make war upon sect or party, no far
tner than sect or party make war upon
bleeding humanity. We have no inten.
ton to assail any mans creed, or promul.
gate any peculiar theological sentiments.
IN the Liberator. The ground we occn.
Ply IS common ground, broad ENOUGH to
accommodate all who subscribe to the
Self-evldent truths of the Declaration of
American independence, and to the in.
Splred truth of the gospel, that God has
made of one blood all nations of men,
we invite, therefore, the CO operation of
all who love liberty, and abhor despotism
The charge which is brought against ms
Tor the purpose of overthrowing the Lib.
orator, that we design TO assail the station
OF the clergy, or the authority of the
church, in our columns, is false. What.
ever may be our theological opinions
this paper is not the medium tbronob
which to promulgate them. Our course
on this subject, will be as impartial ~
mat pursued by any an'i-slavery or tenn
peranee publication in the land.
As the heaven-originated cause &C
PEACE belongs, by right, to no BODY Of T
men excluslvely-as it is not local Or
partial IN lis bearings-and as il is inf.
nately connected with the bloodless over. 4
hrow OF American slavery-we shall Il
continue TO devote small portion of the Il
4lberator TO its free discussion. On this n
ubJec:, our sentiments have been frankly a
vowed. 1t is great, solemn, most r.
interesting subject. Who can object to y
tree discussion of i2 Was truth ever f
vorsted in an open field with error2- T.
Y nat aboiitionist will refuse to take orr re-
aaper-what subscriber will withdraw 81
IS name--who that claims to be friend te