Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-11-18
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aware that some deny the constitutionalty
Of slavery, on the ground, that i is nowhere
mentioned in the constitution. Yet, il APP
pears evident to me, that il was, and is, toll
Grated by the constitution Of the United
States from the fact that slavery existed
preyious to, and is nowhere forbidden in,
that instrument. Again, States have been
admitted into the union, with the express
privilege of holding slaves as properly
The slave, then, is by law as much the
property of his master, as the horse is the
property Of its owner. Would it be just.
and right, for Legislature TO make law
that the inhabitants Of this State shall no
longer hold properly ia horses! The same
arguments that would hold good in one
case, would in the other, in aelegal point Of
view. Hence, l think, that in justice to the
Shareholder, we cannot abolish slavery by
Legislative action, without giving them
some remuneration. (e)
Therefore, without further remarks Twill
proceed TO lay before your readers, plan
which, 1 think, if universally adopted by
abolitionists, would soon lead to AN ul,i-
mate overthrow Of slavery, not only in the
United States, but.throughout the civilized
world. The power would apply 10 turn
this great wheel, is not physical force, nor
political action. II is combination for
non-assistance, founded upon the principle
that if aboiitionists did not support slavery,
it would soon become Improbable, and of
course die away. Let the subject of nom
assistance be,generally discnssed, through
out the United States until Il is well under
stood. Let the planters of the South, who
carry on their plantations independent of
slave labor; Let commercial men and mer-
chants, manufacturers and consumers Of
cotton, sugar, rice, aud tobacco, enter this
coordination, and neither purchase nor use
pm article that is the product of slave labor,
when il can be dispensed with, or when
substitute can be found that is the product
4 free labor; and in few years slavery
4 i'll be no more. All that is necessary in
0Fder that this plan may have its designed
I'D glorious effect, throughout The world, is,
BAT il be PIT in practice
appeal 10 aboIitionisls in heart for help
b this cause. ForI verify believe il 10 be
ihe only consistent method OF attacking
bis monster. Let US awake up TO this sub
ject; and let our mode Of attack, and our
motto be non7dSsistdnce and soon we
should see the monster retiring from our
forders. ] am aware that this mode Of
httack will b. attended with some little
Inconvenience, at FIRST. But, if so glorious
10 object can be brought about by it, who
would not be willing to suffer some little
Inconvenience I? Let abolitionists at the
forth, generally, enter into combination for
|on-assistance, and let their principles be
Promulgated at the South; and it would
tause light TO burst in upon the minds 81
be poor benighted slaves, and their friends
above the brightness Of the at noon
lay" Al the same time, il would hang
5 cloud Of dark foreboding, over th'
|eads of the shareholders, for time; whel
'he scales, as It were, would fall from theil
|Ies, and they would see as Pharaoh did
at it was for their interest TO let the
oppressed go free.' Let trading-houses, ant
ipufacturing companies enter the list, and
aboliiionists be resolved that they viii
kpport slavery no longer; and in few
ears il would become extinct; and we a:
nation should moi be guilty Of NANTES
njustice 10 one class, while we were en-
eavoring to liberate millions Of our fellow
FEATURES from a ,uorse than Egyptian bond
re. Cd N. D.
Albany, Oct, 1910.
EDlToRIAL NoTEs.
(a) What or where the evidence is.
now not, and cannot conceive.
(b) This sentiment has not come from
||e longest-iried, and most faithful friend
If the cause. And if ii had, the CORRECTNESS
j il would remain TO be proved. If Anti
avery Societies are to be abandoned, be
Al. use they have not yet accomplished III
prk, or for any other reason, why. nc
Pndon Temperance Societies, Tract Sc
| lies, &c. &C., for the same, or as Plaus
.'| reasons.
ID No.
I'D have no confidence whatever in pc
Lea action alone; and very little initas a
|'xiliary. Sill am unable to apprecial
g force Of my brothers argument aga;n
If force il have. There are much stron.
reasons against it, in my own mind
True, he has shown the Inconsistencies
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