Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-12-15

- - oSt ruu ~ HOT JOIN tue, Temperance |
ranks not you, 0 no-you don't like
the men !.
But the Anti-Slssery men are so rash
and inconsiderate."
Then you have joined them. trust, on |
the ground Of principles and not men,
and oy the exertion OF kind moral in
iaence.' tried your utmost TO curb their
fashness. correct their mistakes, and put
the cause under 4 wise and judicious
mana gment.
Motive not done ,hat---their mea-
sures"-
0 yes-I understand it, they are such
set OF lncorrigibles, &c &c. tina, you have
more hope of the shareholders than Of
them Well-b1t If you don't like their
way Of doing the thug, you probably
have some plan Of your own-some sys-
TEN ofcolrespondence with shareholders
some plan TO show the superiority of free
over slave labor -or some other scheme,
by which you propose to do the thing.
| No, can't say that | have-but I'm
as much Anti-Siavery as you are.'' ..-.
! Observation-Disclosures as you have
no plan of your own, suppose you give
(somethiDg now and then. (in silent way.)
TO aie US IN oor efforts .e
! mot - .ts.sz q
/ You give something 10 the Colonization
i Society, then--once the darling Of your
near. -. 80.
4 Not of laie.--The truth is, don't ex.
actl, like either society but Pm as much
Anti-Slavery as you ares
:, Well. II you are a minister, you do
.his--you preach or the subject; you
speak and pray about it, from time TO
tive. in tie church and prayer meetings,
aud especially on the Sabbath; and then
you open your pulpitto The abolition ad-
vocates, at least, the better and MOTE mod
era,e sort Of them
"Wby--no--my people are so sensitive,
that haven't thought it expedien. 10 agi-
tate the suhject-~but Pun as much Anti
Slavery as you are" Ia .s..." .sas=
Well, then, minister or not, you a,
least firing the subject into your family.
You mention il at the family altar, con-
verse with your wife and children about
g it, and take every method possible TO en-
list them in the good cause, as you used
70 do, tor instance, in respect to colonial,
iiicn $3.50
mol never mention these political
things in my hmiIy--but. | am as much
Anti-Slayeiy as You are. t.Af.-,..-,
You take some Anti-Slayery periodical
. then. that you may keep pace with. lht
: progress OF the cause, and circulate 1t alst
. among your neighbors, who are not a
much An.i-SlaVery as | aln.
.What, that Liberator and Emancipa
ltori No, sir--such papers are not need
= ed at the North, they had better be sen
: to ihe,Sou.h. 10 those that have got slaves
You have doubtless subscribed for on
: or both OF these, then, TO be sent 10 som
TX friend at the South that owns slaves; 70
II instance, that brother minister that wen
v. down there from your Town. and marie
OF "a wife with her hundred negroes. @
oil MOI don't think ii exactly belong
y. to meto NEEDLE with other peoples mai
as tefs, but I'm as much Anti-SIavery as yo
n, are"
ed suppose. then. when you hear me
Ii reyiling abolitionists. and calling Thea
nd fanatics,' cut-throats,' :ncendiaries,
n. foreign emissaries, &c. &C., you Away
Il. step right up and take their parts. and te
- their revilers-. Hold, sir--l'm as niue
he Anti-Slavery as they are
i, "No-I never do that exactly"
81 Well, you at least make an apolog
:. for them on such occasions.
re WHY cant say precisely as
10 that"
~ You al least keep still, then-you &c,
!, tainly do not join them in their cavils.
T., Why-l-don't-know that d
! ! but--bui-Tm as much Auti-Slavery 8
=. you are" e..
81 Nest likely; and so when talking wit
e abolitioniss--myselt for instance-yor
a fault. finding. il you have any. is vi.
IA slavery and Shareholders. and your apol'
:, gies aud allowances always on the side
~ abolition and abolitionisis; on the comma
- sense principle. you know, that we alwa,
i find fault with our opponents, and apol
:. gize for our friends.
~ Mo- tell you the abolitionists al
=. so rash--but then I'm as much Ant;-Slav
-. ry as theyarr." -
- Well. then, you have done somethiu
~ in some way. and al some lime, To aid Y
cause, most certainly. Come, now, Z
us what Lei Us have the precious seer
:. s-come.
= "Why-rye-Pve-
!. What have you--except It be TO HI
faul, with aboliiionists Bot, no natl
If you have as Yet done nothing for y
.ou poor STARE. you have at least done som
thing for the poor coIored man a: 20
oil door. You have yindicated, doubles
nth the claims OF the free to equal rights a
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