Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-02-10
Produce of slave Labor.

Do not those countenance slavery, who
purchase and use the products oil unpaid toll! !
As we sit down 10 our tables of molasses
and rice, ard fruits, do we not hear voice,
that says, 9 be not parlakers OF other mems
sins 7'' But have we not right to use
what we bave lawfully purchased? Not il
we have purchased stolen property. The
slave-master has no riehtto sell that rice.
Il was the honest earnings Of another man. .
But had he not bought that man No, he !
never did and never can rightfully purchase
| a man. True, he went over with The form, !
| and paid the stipulated value, out deny !
that human flesh is salable properly.--3
Who gave man dominion over man? Did |
his M aker? No other being in the wide I
universe but God bad right TO do it,
Show me the deed that conveys His prop
erty over to the pretended owner, and ] will
! endeavor 10 sweeten the cup of slavery. but
will never ask again that ii be dashed to
earth. And if man is not rightiuiIy salable,
be is not righlfully purchasable. Then eV-
cry slave holder has purchased stolen prop
erty and a demand comes from his Maker
and rightful owner" Let the oppressed go
Free" If after this, the buyer Of stolen
property Uil hold on upon his false claim,
he had better prepare to answer for i, when
the case shall some up in heavens great
chancery. And if he has no right 10 the
man, he has no right TO his earnings
Those earnings are stolen property But
who are these away on northern hills that
buy this,stolen property p They are chris
tidn db5Ltionists! The vety men who de-
ny the right Of property in human fesh-;-
the very men whose mightieSt energies are
at work TO put down what they themselves
!, support! What! purchase stolen goods
and The price of blood too? cannot feel
that it is right TO feast upon the signs and
groans of broken hearts, that it is right to
wear garments spotted with human blood !!
Eat! they are dates for a lady's lip,
. Rich as the sweets that the wild bees sip;
: Mingled viands that nature hath poured,
From The plenteous stores OF her flowing
hoard, -.". -s
5 Bearing no trace Of mans crueity-saye
j The red life drops ofhis human slave.
/ List thee, lady! and Turn aside,
" it'll loathing heart, from the feast of pride;
For mixed with the pleaSan: sweets ii bears,
Y Is the hidden curse of scaiding tears,
Wrung DOT from Woman's blooJshol eye,
= By the depth of her deadly agony.
Look they are robes from foreign loom,
e Delicate, light, as the rose-leat's bloom;
[, Stainless and pure is their snowy tint,
-, As The drift unmarked bv fOptstrl,'> print
u Surely such garments should flung be
s For woman's soflness and purity.
d Yet fling them off from thy shrinking limb
f| Forsighs have rendered heir brightness dim
- And many mothers shrek aud groan,
, And many daughters burning moan,
!. Add many sob of wild despair,
From woman's heart, is lingering there"
)e The following letter from our esteemed brothe'
h can not fail to interest readers. We shut on
from the colored the light of heaven, an
wonder at the obtuseness Of his vison-dty by =
81 fitch from him the last mite of his earnings, ah
are astonshed that lie does not become rich-hca
!. upon him mountains of insult and injury, and .!n
. it strange that he is bowed down by the sicknes
: Of the soul! - ...
"a, ToRoNTo, u. c., Jan. 81, 1871.
be Dear Brother Murray -
he You know the enemies of our hoi
cause in their weakness and ignorance
bo alle9e that tn African race and their de
scendants in America, are inferior in rot
Of intellect 10 white people, aud consequeu
ly that they ought t" be held in Slavery
~ Allowing The premises to be true, what
9n logical conclusion is this! 1t is eqIvaIrr
NJ to this rery rational proposition and inf
ence. A small portion of the white peopI
pa of the United States are superior in iute
we lectual capacity 10 the great mass of III
liu inhabitants; therefore they are born to t
"a !yranls, and thu common people to be slave
ct will not dwell upon the "reductio Il
at absurdum," for. am prepared 10 repei Ii
,ih silly aspersion, that the eolored race al
ac- naturally inferior in intellect to those Of tt
we fairer hue. II, indeed, they are inferior
- their present degraded condition, (Which
fully admit the crushing hand Of oppre>
-, ioa has made them so, and nothing is wan
J. ing 10 make them equal as a people 10 II
= descendants OF Europeans, but the remov
of oppressive laws and wicked inAueuc
10 which so long have crushed them. and Il
IN possession of equal advantages for culiv
ISIS lion. In spite of the depressing and di
till couraglng circumstances attending the
existence among as, some Of them ha
ess given full proof of their capabilities, al