Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-09-22

laid hands hold of Goterah, their head
man, made ham their tail. turned their
backs, and dragged him off. schsle Harris
and Demory acre peppersng their hams
Nth buck-shot. IN While they Uere gath
ering np their dead TO tote off, I had the
best chance Of Gny TO fire into the groups Ell
But they soon slung their shattered bod
ies, and aoent off as # the aotcked one aoas
! after them, ~
Such language as this would not so we'll
have answered the purpose of the address.
Such "ways and means" as these for car
rying On the missionary work among the
poor benigh!ed heather Of Africa, exhibited
in this plain, unsophisticated shape, would
no doubt have staggered the faith aud shut
up the pockets OF some of his most Jealous
supporters. But ii was the same story, af-
ter all. Only, instead Of placing e. S.
Broom al the window, shooting them
down, "sonae5ody'' stood there" somebody"
while this work of wholesale slaughter was
going on, suffered the shocking disaster to
have nice watcb-tube shot aDdy! &c.
That somebody who performed and suffered
such things, and others, was 'one OF three
persons, Brown, Demory, and Harris-fhe
latter Two being Stationed below. Who
then could the somebody have been above,
but himself2
| In connection with these contortions and
tergfersations of language, in his address,
he made large drafts upon the creduity of
his audience, BY sitting in much of the mi
raculous. He made Con 10 have done a
very large part of the hellish work. Among
other wonderful things that He did, in the
holiness Of the battle, the poor ignorant ma
lives were sci to hewiA G down each other
man against man, and the smoke was made
TO divide horizontally, part Of it being lift
ed up and The other part made to fall to the
ground, in order that somebody and bis
companions below might see them! AnC
I" somebody" was very wonderfully preserv
ed, amds, flying balls and poisoned arrows
He displayed an admirable tact at divertins
the attention of his audience, occasionally
from the horrible scene he was exhibiting
At one point be found occasion TO speak 0
the deer in Liberia, which he represented
10 be as plentiful in that country as the rec
and chipping squirrels are in this In The
introduction 10 his tradgedY, as he was des
cribing a sally Of bis upon certain native:
who were driving slaves TO the coast, be
J stated that the natives brandished theiI
knives over bis head-and he frightened
them away by telling them that if they
struck him with their knives God All Nigh
ty, who was just above the tops Of the trees
would instantly strike their arms from thei
! shoulders, and hurl down thunder and ligh
tening upon them and smie them all dead
to the ground But what he made the mos
Of, for these frequent diversions, as he wa
describing the progress Of things towards
the appalling and Internal work Of human
butcbery that was ahead, was, that The aoorl
Of converting and saring souls 1cds al
the ohile going on! By this means b,
turned off attention at several differen
, points, as he proceeded with his "interest
ing''f narrative. And as often as he touch
ed this string a shout of, "bIess the Lord !
/ glory to God ~ would 60 up from the minis
; tiers on the stand and from all the surround
ing camp.
"My ear was pained--mv soul was sick"
: fad that there are individuals VIII
thought that his iRtroduetionto his tradgedy
showing the immediate cause Of the wal
cleared up the matter on his side, lhrowin:
all the blame on the natives. MY ow,
| mind did not arrive at that conclusion at al
but the contrary entirely. On his owl
story, as given in his discourse, he wa
himself, personally, the assalent, maxim
war upon the natives, as many as three diff
lerent times before they retaliated Th
facts as stated by him self were like these
There was Spapiarl by the name Q
Blanco, an eXten sive. slaVe-trader on TIL
coast. One of the established and principa
paths leading to his place ran across dis
: tant part Of the territory now claimed by th
Colonists. There was no other route b
which the natives could reach his establish
ment, without very great Inconvenience
. Now Brown took it in his head TO go an
throw himself across the path, and turn th
{ slave traders in other directions-at leas
10 prevent their occupying that path f
= their nefarious business. So he took o.
; ders from the Governor of the Colony an
!, proceeded, and, as he said, with knit
Il which he showed US from his pocket Will
s sneaking. cut the binds from the slave