Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-09-29
LETTER FROM ]. P. MILLER,

To the President Of the vi. Anti-Slavery
Convention, to be holden al Rochester on
the 9th inst.
Respected Sir.-it is with unfeigned re-
greet, that unavoidable business OF per-
soma! nature, prevents me the pleasure of
attending with you upon this interesting
occasion. Few opportunities Of this ma
ture have been neglected by me, since the
organization of our Society, and have
always returned from them filled with
new life and yigor in the cause of eman.
cipation. To see hundreds of our ladies
and gentlemen gathered from our hills
and from among our vallies, assembled to
devise ways and means of extending the
blessings of spiritual and temporal free
dom to their fellow men, is to me glori-
Gus sighr. And it is rendered still more
so, by the reflection that our cause, like
that of the Great Captains of our saliva
ton, has to stand on its intrinsic merits !;
unaided by the dignitaries of the Church,
or heartless politicians, except now and
| then the latter give in their adhesion, the
better to secure portion of the loaves and
fishes. Our cause is daily, yea, hourly
assuming most important hearing upon
the destinies of this nation; and while
tremble to see the subserviency and doub.
lings Of our statesmen to the slave power,
/ rejoice in It's advance.
How dc we stand in our national coun-
ciIs2 Is the 2lst rule repelleda No sir.
The whole nation is gagged. Like a
llyrannical school-master who intends TO
punish in a most exemplary manner, some
unfortunate urchin, but the better to cover
his fendish designs, proposes to punish
the whole school. Thus has Congress
gagged this entire nation. While Martin
Van Buren, was rightfully charged with
yielding to slavery's dictatioL, what ha
John Tyler and his satellites donea The!
have said 10 the entire people of this coun
: try, your politicians must be confined II
: what the President pleases to mention il
> his Message, lower homage to human
: oppression than this our country has nev
er made. What next will follow in GU
national councils, time alone will UNFOLD
II is my earnest wish that the abelitionist
|, of Vermont will let no opportunity pas
of presenting their petitions both to gu
State Legislature and to Congress, for III
abolition Of Slavery in the District Of Co
umba, in the Territories and the suppress
, sion Of the foreign slave trade. The n
! cent opinion of the Supreme Court OF ii
United States that slaves cannot be articl,
oe traffic under the Constitution OF the [
: S., being every where called persons
i that instrument, precludes the necessity
including the domestic slave-tradesin o.
petitions. We must not, trust we shs
not. falter. We have endured the veno
and wrath of ecclesiastical malice with
Z fortitude which, l trust, nothing but ir
j reliance on the Gospel Of Christ cou
! inspire. We are now called upon to
! through the ordeal of political vengean'
Our crime ia both cases is one and
= same. We insist on remembering the
in bonds as bound with them. The Il
do. the Pole, nor the Greek, while
!, would commiserate their condition,
" no, able 10 draw of our minds from
sad situation of three millions OF hun
beinps.-"bone of our bone and fiest
our flesh," deprived Of their natural ZIG
within the boundaries of our own couR
Nor can we forget the humlliatlng
that while our missionaries are sem
distant lands to disturb heather inst
tions,--no. more wicked than the 81
institutions Of our own country-they
N, often susiained-at least in part-fron
proceeds of the sale of human being
''o home. How long. ask, shall 1
things remain Until by scattering
,, and truth through the length and bre
- Of our land, the advocates Of human
0'se preston, in church and state, shal
0ps longer be countenanced in the ey
freemen, but shall with due consel
' 9 = excluded from the pale q chrisiianit.
,srrv utilization. THAT this day may be