Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-10
VOL. XII. NO. 3 s.

nave otlen heen asked al home VIII
was the color OF the Hindoos, and hav
always answered, Enough | do not re
member how or where / got my infor
nation they are about the color Of our
American negroes This | find TO be
nearl y the fact The majority of the ma
lives OF this country, particularly on the
more southern portions of IL, are quite
black. 1t Is true there are many of them
pretty falr colored, resembling mulauoes,
but, for the mos. part, they are as have
stated, quite black, some of them as much
so as any African / have ever seen. If
the Africans were created black, as many,
who ought to know better, think and say,
how does 1t happen that so large por-
ton of Asiatics are nearly like them, as
| far as color is concerned Were they
created black, also! If so, that foolish
thing which you have no doubt seen. and
which goes by the name of the Negro
Sermon is pretty correct when it states
that Adam and Eve were both black
folks But, by the way, il is quite likely
THAT the first man was as near the color
lof the African as that of the European
that is he was an Asialic, and very dark
skin. 1t surely, then, does not become
any Of US to despise people on account Of
the darkness of their skin Much less
does 1t become US to deny them Christian
instruction. Why, then, If black folks
are 10 be put out Of Sabbath school.
, then Brother Campbell must turn out all,
or nearly all, his orphan children to ig-
norance and idolatry. | feel no preiu-
Idice, or at least think l feel no preju-
dice against the natives of this country on
: account Of their color. y, no! poor
d mortals, could make them my equals, in
all respects, provided they were Christ
ians.'
We had intended to present a number
of facts and authorities TO show how the
heather are likely TO be affected by the
knowledge that cannot be much longer
+ hid from them, that the present attempts
e for their conversion are made by Christ
" ian Societies, organized and managed in
% subserviency to slavery. Another miss
y ionary to India, Mr. Allen, In the employ
81 of the American Board saws, in letter
p which we find in the Springfield Ga
~ zette:
az May the Lord have mercy upon our
10 native land, and cause it to become a
E land of liberty, and not the country Of
: slavery, as it is too often called. The
e. character of the United States is, in ere
Is Ty respect, wofully fallen in this part of
g the world. 1t will not rise again in our
A day, TO where it stood in general opinion
Su three or four years ago. YAn can form
no idea of the opinions and feelings
e. which prevail here, respecting our coun-
BY try-its religion, political and CONNER.
s. cial state, It's slavery, etc. Indeed, many
II of the people think, as some Of them say,
le- that we had better be in our own country
lr. preaching to the slaves, or rather to theiI
BY masters to give them their liberty
OF The Rev. Justin Perkins, Missionary
Is in Persia, from the same Board. says, ia
on a letter TO DIR. Osgood, dated Ooromiah
ed July S, 1897
So Every European who meets us, as ht
INT strolls through these distant regions, fo
the curiosity. for honor, or for gain, goads u
len by tauntingly, but justly pointing US 4
wn American slavery, that blot of inconsist
ira ency which so mars the escutcheon of on
ana Republican glory. And were the ma
ltves of this country, TO which we hag
e is come to bring the tidings of 'peace o
rty, earth and good will TO men, to know {
> VI lHe eAlSteuCe VI AlnetICdH SadNeEYt nov
5 is would they be wrapt in amazemeni. an
ell pointedly apply 10 Us the cutting rebuk
$ a Physician heal myself and with re;
ries son for degraded as are the lower elias
on es, and particularly the nominally Chris
e it ians, in these countries. who are trodde
usi- down to the dust by their Mohammeda
hen masters, and affecting as it often il,
e, of witness their suffeFings, there is still b
this small comparison between the horro
cca- of their condition and that of the Sout
ldia, ern slaves Yes; though l blush, a
! the my heart sinks at the Acknowledge
9 as candor compels me 10 say, that in all .
from travels and residence in the regions
ID of Mohdmmeddn despotism. have sc
cav nothing in the shape Of oppression to eql
Ser the rigors under which millions Of j
hich mortal beings are at this moment gro'
the ing, in our own Christian, PTotesta
Y - Republican America, May the
gov knowledge which Persias and Nestc
ans shall receive of American slavery,
ner- the intelligence of lis removal, and d
blow right early
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