Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-02-17
VERMONT TELEGRAPH.
BRANDON WEDNESDAY, FEB. II, ls41.
WILLIAM G. BROWN, EDiToR.
SLET US ALONE.,,

- .sLET US ALoNE.o
The following letter accompanying the
Telegraph of Jan. Is, which it seems
Rev. NJ Bruce, of Wilmington, Vt. had
sent to friend in Virginia, has just been
received at our office, with the request
that we would return it to Mr.. Bruce
It was post-marked, Burlington, Va, Feb.
8, Is4l.
We do not insert it because it contains
any new Developments of hostility to The
Ami Slavery cause, but rather to show
the extreme sensitiveness and spirit of pro-
scrption, which has given to the flames,
or returned with bitter anathemas, so ma
ny of our Northern publications.
Mr.. Bruce: Dear sir:-Mr. Ball
does not reside in this neig hborhood now,
consequently your paper is hereby return
ed. Please read it for your own good,
and send no rore such south Of Mason's
and Dixon's Line. We do not need north
ern Lights to teach US the truth. God
has endowed US with reason, aud if we do
not exercise it according to your views,
you need not be specially concerned q bout
it. Let us alone, aud We will let you en-
joy unmoIesled your own view upon all
subjects. We stand for ourselves and not
YOU for US. NEEDLE with your own af-
fairs, and we will manage ours.
l. seems to be the opinion of some, tina:
man has no right to NEEDLE with the af-
fairs OF others, unless those affairs tend d.
rectIy to injure himself, or his particular
friends: that he has no right to ask even
a mitigation of the suftrings which a
stranger IS doomed to endure; especially
! if that stranger should chance to have been
born on The other side the globe, or to
have caught FROM a suItry cline, a darker
| hue than his own. How perfectly unnat-
ural and unaccountable it is, that, human
sympathy should not be limited by lines
and rivers, by tribes and cans-:hat an
American should care whether the people
Of China worship God or gold whether
her millions are sending up to heaven
their wailings, or their afleluiahs!
| We have no rightto NEEDLE Human
itv must look on, and see the knife of pow.
er sundering at blow the dearest ties oil
the bleeding heart, and dashing the cup OF
happiness that years of toll have been fill.
ing around the hearth of ove-she must
listen to cries for mercy, and shrieks of
agony, that break with startling shriIness
on the ear of night, and wake the forests
| with their wo; but if she dares to breathe
a sigh, or drop tear Of pity,-the fire and
the faggot and the chain are ready! Is il
not 500 Are not the whole South com.
bined, TO aid in the work of siIencing re
monstrance, and of drying up the chan
nels of human sympathy =? especially i
her sweet waters chance to ,gush across
the far-famed line. that marks the bound
airy of their dominion! What right hav.
: they to NEEDLE with the afflirs of India
by sending missionaries and bibles ant
tracts into their very midst. 10 tear dowl
] the temples of Gaudama, and TO build up
: on their ruins, the sanctuary of the mos
High! But we should 60 among our owl
. heather, whose ignorance and debase
!. ment can hardly find a parallel in foreign
) climes, and gather little groups aroun
= some slave.built shed, and read 10 then
: the bible and talk Of Jesus; life would b
IS the Forfeit
= But we are connected with them b
other ties than those of common brother
lie hood. We stand responsible for the ha,
se oc and slaughter. which the system {
slavery will inevitably produce. unles
prevented by IFS timely and total abolish
ment; and we ask to be rid of that re
D. sponsibility. We are bound by the cor
4 stitulion, to unite in putting down insuI
= rections. We are bound to surrender /
4 the man-hunter the flying fugitive, to b
e. taken back to his claims. We suppo
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