Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-07-14

This resort of the STAKEHOLDER has forced
upon our mind some reflections, which we
beg our readers carefully to consider. Our
popular commentators, while they make the
New Testament speak approyingly Of chat
itei slavery, profess to believe that the spirit
OF Christianity will in process Of time do
! It away gradually-very gradually indeed
lit will die out as Christianity progresses.
SO, for aught we know, MIR. Davis processes
to believe. Slavery, say they, was approved
BY the New Testament, IN the circumstanc-
les Of the case. Well, what has been, may
BE- Nay, what has been, is. The very
circumstances on which they rely TO justify
the chattelizing of men in the-days Of Paul,
and in our days and country south of Ma
lFon's and Dixon's line, exist abundantly
llhe world over, and will exist. There are
lslx hundred millions of our race whom we
term heather. A vast majority Of mankind
they are, and far below the minority in point.
of mental power. On the wings Of the
steam engine, the civilized and powerful
portion OF the race are beginning to pene-
trate and perVade the mass of the barbarous
and the weak. On the greenest and most
, desirable spots they establish foo,holds.-
Now, with Bible interpreted TO justify
slavery in certain circumstances-an just
the circumstances which in heaihen coun-
tries they fnd-what will prevent the Chris
tians from enslaving the heather. Can
the missionaries educated at Andover and
Princeton rebuke the ensEavers? These
. very missionaries and their descendants and
5 first converts, with their pro-elavery CON-
mentaries in their hands, and in heir hearts
for the heart has more to do with them
than the head, we fear--may be the leaders
+ in the business of enslaving the six hun
dred millions. rs thy servaat dog, that
, he should do this thing?" the missionary
: will exclaim withsthe Syrian. All! but he
was! Little as he thought il, he did that
: very thing. Looking at The human heart
as it is, and atthe all-powerGul circumstance
!. es, we earnestly ask, is it safe-is il SAFE
) to sprinkle the heather world with mission
, through pro-slavery commentaries. The
t Christians of the South who defraud the
: laborer of his hire to pay the salary Of the
: missionary, used to mourn over slavery as
an "entailed evil"-not to be justified by
reason or scripture-but by the sad neces-
sites of the case. Now, thanks to north
: ern theologians, they are quite contented
r with slavery as a gospel institution. They
= take their seat with Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob, and claim Paul and Philemon as their
abettors and Whippers-in. Who shall say
that in one or two or three generations the
! same change shall not come over the mis-
f sionary stations, supported in part by these
southern Christians? Such a change is,
l I've believe, the natural course Of things,
and we see nothing to prevent it but the
: lprogress and success Of the abolition cause.
Friends of the slave and. the Bible, we
Icall on you@to weigh well this matter. You
have struggle before you. If you succeed,
: you will wipe away slavery from the face
? of the earth, and the Bible shall be honored
j. and loved by innumerable millions on their
|, way to heaven. But if you slumber and
lr fail, the book which you revere is to become
Y the mere charter of great corporation o.
IS human flesh mongers, who are to mete ou
is our race, and tread them under foot to the
ID end of time.
n Surely we would not throw astone in the
Is way of the glorious enterprise of converting
a the world to Christ, when the work is to be
n done in the way it was begun by Peter anC
N Paul, and as we believe it has been contin
il ued by not few devoted missionaries O
II our age but most vital question has come
= up and one on which there Can be no neu
), trality. We submit whether il is not quite
i. las important that we should know the Greco
If of our missionaries in regard to human
is rights, as it is that we should know wha
Of they believe in regard to the doctrines @
,e the trinity, depravi,y, Regeneration, baptism
,e &c. &c. We protest, for ourselves, agains
,e being implicated, in any possible way, witt
in the propagation Of pro-slavery gospel
,e I"nglad tidings," that the stronger may bu
j. and sell, and bind with chains, and lacerat
N with whips, the weaker reasctors Of Coz
nj image! Why, what church, at any rate
p what Orthodox church, vii admit an appl
IN cant to its bosom, without first ascertainin
~ hoD he understands the Bible, in regarl I
b. the metaphysical mysteries Of the. being G
BIZ God, and the operation of HIS Spirit upo
Ithn ahnH tho