Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-01-20
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We cut the following extracts from the
Cincinnati Observer The edilor takes Il
rom 4 pamphlet jus, published, by G. ~. |
r,lav. member elect of The Keutuchy ie-
p;slainre ID review Of speech Of Mr.. r. T
and gives il as his opinion, that
he sentiments Of Mr.. Clay accord with
the sentiments of large majority Of the
neople Of Kentucky W. Chronicle.
n. Wlcklife calls me to account, and
would hold me up to public odlum and m
diunation. because / = dared to discuss
the merits Of slavery. When the question |
IS. shall. we increase or decreasethe number
If slaves-what else, under the high
heavens. remains to be discussed but the
merits Of slavery! Yet am not q slave
~ dare do all 4 man may dare. Thanks
10 liberty, may yet speak, though all the
world be deaf. shall speak advisedly
GALAXY, honestly. bold y-as one freemanto
another speak as one who plants his foot
upon the rsght, feeling that he who falls
for his country. most gloriously falls 4
declare then in The face of al men, that1
beLieUe slaceTy to be an eUlt- AN ecaI NOR
ally, economically. physically, inteHectu-
ally, socially. retigiously, politically.
eUsl IN It's inception. sn Us durdtioz, and
IN Us catastrophe--an uamixed ecst,
s0ithopt paIliatiOn or defenee. sare IN ne
cessity. Still. am no emancipationist.
far less an 6 a6olitionist;;n but like nine
tenths of the Shareholders, in ailthe world,
rest now where | was in the beginning
La part. because like them, ] know not
what to do; partly, because if | knew. |
have not the power to act-but mostly.
because there is something 10 the hearts
of all men which teaches them It's better
to " bear those ills we have. than to fly to
/ others that we know not of. Yet still it
lis an evil That which distinguishes
this age above all preceding time, is the
| invention of steam power and lis applica-
ton to machinery since then man has be-
/ come god like in his evidencing almost
creative power. The world is teeming
| with improved machinery, the combined
/ development of science and art. Ious Il
is all lost zoe are comparatively hiring
IN centuries that are gone We cannot
Ohio is many years younger; possessed
/ of fewer advantages than our Stale, the
next census will give her perhaps go
members, whilst Kentucky will probably
be struck down TO IL members OF the Ma
/ tional Legislature. Cincinnati has man.
ufactures TO sustain her: last year she put
up 1000 houses. Louisville. with supe-
rior natural advantages, as all the world
| knows, wrote q to rent upon many of her.
i houses already made. Ohio is free,
Kentucky a slave State. Upon the sand
| hills of New EaeIand. where once grew
Jumpers and black jacks. are now villages.
manufactures. meadows, wheat fields. all
the comforts. and many of the Injuries OF
| life. Ia the South. where cotton and TO-
4 bacco once rewarded the husbandnan, can
now be seen sterile pine groves, clay banks
and naked rocks; the crab tree and null
len now struggle into life. where once
Il iuxurlantly grew the walnut and the vine.
New England is cultivated by whites
Virginia by blacks. The glory of the
| Old Dominion has departed, and New.
i York has become the Empire STATE.
"Our autum forests ale illumed with
the camp fires ofthe emigrant, as be leaves
the home Of his youth and the graves Of
bis ancestors forever, 10 seek IN the far
ives. more c.ngehiai sotl IN siie untamed
wilderness: a single pnny wagon. thin
'lsagea vile, ragged chiidren' his dogs
ana MS gun are ms only household
these, these, MT WlcklItfe, are The rsrals
q stare labor. Tel me not OF England
with q territory not much larger than
4 keniucky--a mere specl above wide
oceans waves there she stands. amid
the wreck Of centuries. the queen OF the
world, and the mistress Of the seas; The