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

blood. One crop OF It Is enough to cast
these poor girls out of the pale of their
religion and humanity. Their sorrows
and tears could not move them. Can YOU
wonder-can you blame me, that re-
nounce such a religion and clergy as in4
human and savage and such magis-
tracy as the frstborn of the Devil2 Had
these girls been the daughters of Albert
Barnes--would he and his church not
have spoken2 Would not the whole City,
State and Nation have spoken !-Have
rallied around those young girls, and
saved them from the lusts and brutality of
southern ruffians2 But their mother was
a poor slave, with few drops of African
blood 10 her veins. This extinguished
Jail sympathy for the poor creatures; and
they are gone! They are in the hands
of the ministers and magistrates of Balti-
more; and these hold them fast in dune
geon-tiIl they can serve them up to the
lusts of some demon farther south
And the pretenee! "They are our SIS.
TERs- absconders under improper cir
lcumstances!" Under cover of the sweet
lest and hottest human sympathies. claim
ling these girls for such purpose j. The
ministers and magistrates of this city CIV
ing them up knoacimg the pre:ence to be
false-and knowing, also, the purposes
dreadful doom to which they were to be
consigned. Two friendless young girls
surrounded with Ministers and Magis-
trates-with Westinghouse and Court
Houses, and Independent Halls a. with
Churches and Courts with Religions
and Governments,--clained as dear SIS,
: ters-carried off in open day, delivered
, over to the dungeon and the slave-auction,
TO administer to the brutal lusts of south
ern 6ends; and not one to go to their res,
cue! Heaven help me, for my heart is
burstingl
Dear brother-Must not some of u.s.,
;, go down South and be offered on the altar
} ! of slavery, before this nation can be arous-
= ed? Before its clergy and magistracy
K can be made to fee! for humanity? They
'f look on with perfect composure and brutal
IS indifference, and see all the fortunes and
al outrages that avarice, malice, and revenge
can invent, inflicted on our colored peo-
pie. They are AfricGnS-they are BLACK
l-they are SLAVES, and the children Of
slaves. Their solemn dignity and Anglo
- Saxon blood are net to be moved by the
= suferiags of suchl Would they not be
49, reached BY the blood of few more north
- ern whites and freemen-prousded they
could be assured that not one drop of AT
=. lrcan blood was In their veins2 ~
u The fourth of July was celebrated il
re- this city, by great procession Of Sunda!
ed Schools The white ministers & church
es got it up, AID followed in the procession
and Joined in the festival. But-mot on
- Of the cotored children seould they olto'
' eu to go IN the procession or join In the fest
~ cal. There were Barnes. Todd. WateI
~ man, Tying, and host Of other clergy
~ men and their churches but of the 80
CIR 900 colored people ofthis.city, they woul
7ye allow none to join with. them. 1t was II
"a. Dependence day,-and what have NEGRoI
got to do with independence :? sBesides-Gc
ere made them BLACKtl A good reasc
Sc WHY they can'twalk in procession Wi
eI- children, churches and ministers who
ens God made whitei "A good reason t.
9eu why they should be shut up in separa
oeu pens in all the WHITE, meeting houses
Ocn the city, 10 hear Christ preached as i
a ane respeeter of personsl - - -
ore The FIRST OF AUeusT-came al
EN- wert-unneticed by the white clergy al
and churches of the, city,-except in one
,erv lstance-tbe Free Chareh-where Fat
YES er Bourne held forth. He noticed il W
,nce Interest. The colored people noticed
,ade as you may we'll suppose they won
hem The instant deliverance of eight hGndt
# he thousand human beings from ,absoI
emo slavery to freedom And that without
are drop of blood shed |! 8 No event, thus
,sted of the 10Th century can equalh in subj
han ity and in its bearings The Revolut
N is unworthy to be named in connect
, chit with it. Yet the white religion and cl
THAT gy of this city and nation put forth
,blic their energies to celebrate and gIorify
whv dependence and the Revolution-but w
sons ged not tongue nor moved finger
cies, notice WEST INDIE EMAEcIRATIc
ve to Why2 They were Negroes-Africa
diff, God made them BLACK Nv
b;ts ? has Africans blood to- do with freedo
,d;ce What business have NEeRoEs to be fr
, rise Why should white religions and mi
r,ion :ers rejoice when Christ "opens the p
-rsal ION door" TO BLACKS2 -.
HITE T IELD.