Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-02-12

LOCOMOTIVE from Reading III PhiiadeI
phld, OH the railroad. on Thursda ~
Y Sun
If this statement be true, and This oner.
alton was on perfect level, not on de-
scent, it places railroads in most impos.
ing attitude before the public. Here is a
single locomotive, drawing as much as
| good sized shipS,--it seems impossible. =
The statement will unquestIonablv receive
a good deal 0! aittntion.-N Z. Ban
Register.
The SUGAR BEgr-Dayid Lee Child.
Esq. who has devoted much rme and la
Dor TO the culture and manufacture of the
sugar beef, has been awarded a premium
OF 500 for his sugar, by the Massachu-
sets Agricultural Society--being the
same article for which he received a med
al at the late Mechanics Fair in this CITY.
Bosf0a Gazette
LIE STAGE.-The last few months
seem to have been singularly fatal 10 the
actors OF the stage. Finn and Eberle
perlshed aboard the Lexineton; Mrs.
husset IS IN state of hopeless derange-
neni, aud confined in the Hospital al
Baltimore. Price recently died suddenly
In New York. Fielding recently died Of
yellow fever in New Orleans. Knight
recently died at Elhton, in consequence of
an accident; and foreign papers contain
several accounts OF the same Character
80, that they were wise! ''-Zion's Ban.
ner.
HE VALUE OF A SLAVES LIFE IN
SOUTH CARoLINA.-Some months since
Wnhe man IN South Carolina murder
ed slave. The case was one of great
lnalIgnltv, and the murderer was sen.
fenced to be hung. A petition was got
up In his behalf but Governor Butler re-
Jected the prayer, in decided terms, alleg-
ing that 1t was high time the laws pro-
tectlve OF the persons of slaves should be
enforced. His answer to the petition was
published IN the papers of the North, as
an evidence of the reign Of justice in a
slave state. Every body, except few
d'sbellevlng aboIitionists, thought OF course
that the criminal wouI! suffer the sentence
of the law.
Now what is the factl THE MURDER
Err is PARDoNED! We cannot be mis-
taken. We have it from one who was
on the spot and knows what he testi6es
Governor Butler reprieved the condemn
ed man. The reprieve extended beyond the
term OF his office; his successor, Govern
or Noble, beng petitioned, pardOned The
murderer. -Phitanthropist
TINS rs the case which attracted so
much attention at the North, where all
the Antl-Abolltion papers published Gov.
Mobiles letter with great triumph, as a
complete Recitation of the ISLANDERS of the
| abolitIonlsts that The laws do not project
The life of slave We again sci up orr
challenge for the production of a SINGLE
CASE IN WHICH WHITE MAN HAS BEEN
ExEcU TED AT THE SOUTH FOR THE MUIR
DER OF A,sBAvE
North AND SoUTH.-Let US not spend
our reprobation on the besotted south, but
on the cold-blooded. pro-sIaverv NORTH
The north Can destroy slavery peacefully
It she will. The South alone cannot
Moral Influence is the Herculanean SDe-
chic that will kill the dragon. This is
with the North. But she exerts it the
wrong way. The northern meeting
house is against abolition. The meeting
house Is the castle Of northern influence
Slavery can never be abolished till anti
slavery takes its citadel. Let its guns
then be planted against this strong hold.
ana II II won't surrender Oh The summons
OF truth let tTath's artillery play on lis
walls. The enemy is at the north
Waste none of your ammunition on the
distant and senseess sonth, till you van.
qulsh the north. The south Then Yields
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