Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-01-13

M hands, my feef, my eyes, niy He ' ~
5odv, myself What pleasure wealthy 9
.lavs-holding farmer may have, from year |
10 year. in seeing bis young broods Of hors- I
IS, sheep. cattle, swine aid SLAVES. They
are all his properly, the man as well as The
horse the woman as we'll as the COW; the /
boy as well as The pig; The girl as well as
he lamb. He rears and raises the whole
for the market He feeds his slaves well,
for the same reason that he does his swine.
For he knows that no one would be fool
enough 10 give as much for any kind Of ]
live stock when they are poor, as he would |
if they were 10 good order. He need not
braa then Of his kindness 10 the slave. Il
is his interest 10 keep him well, and who
would thank him for ii. Now this IS The
best feature. Of American Slavery. We dol
not Willy it. Il is complete, absolute, IN
voluntary servilude. Il is the lowest state
Of debasing, degrading, bru,alizing vassat
age into which rational being can be sunk.
With one fell swoop, then i SEXES mans
tights and immunilies and tears them all
away from him and here we have mani.
fold violations Of The holy commandments.
Il is impossible 10 disprove This. II man
has any such thing as an original right, he
must have received il from his Creator
His Creator only then, or SOME agent or
agency authorized by Him IN His revealed
will, can justly take il from him. Well,
there is nvt Shareholder In America who
can give even the shadow Of proof that
he is such an agent, or that he has such an
agency over his slaves; and consequently
| il is infinitely beyond the power Of any
slave holder in America TO disprove that he
deliberately, Systematically, and perpetually
violates The commandment.
| Let Us suppose that A. meets B. at the
midnight hour and takes a sum of money
from him by force. HERE'S a breach of the
eighth commandments Well. A. meets his
victim again, and compels him TO work a
year for him, giving him noihiug but food
and raiment, and just such as he pleases,
for his LAHORE The produce of poor BIS
Toll, is as good TO A. as the money Of which
he robbed him. Now is not the latter affair
as much breach Of the commandment as
the former? Certainly Well lids Is Amer
| Jean Slavery. A hundred fold robbery was
comui,,ed in the case Of each creature Of
The frst cargo OF slaves that ever landed on
the soil Of America. Parents Sad children,
husbands and wives, brothers and sisters,
were robbed by kidnappers, Of children and
parents, wives and husbands, sisters and
brothers; and in this. Of course, The i'll fated
beings themselves were robbed of rights
given Them BY their Creator, interviewer in
physical, and intellectual nature. Ii this
was not plumber Of the first degree-of The.
most atrecious order--fnen Alexander, Ca.
sar, Tamarlane and Napoleon, were harm.
less, inoffensive men. Those creatures were
dragged by the allied forces of violence,
villainy felony. and fraud, controlled and
directed by Supreme cuaiditY, from the wiles
and retreats from which they were routed
by The terror-striklns approach Of slave-ships
and men stealers. Crimeless and innocent,
| in chains and manacles, they were then
stuffed and slowed, crammed and crowded
into filthy floating sfy-the 6.test emblem
of hell that earth could afford-where they
were abused for theft misfortune, Irampled
on for their misery, and logged for their
| wretchedness: Then starving and pinine,
groaning and languishing, dying and living,
griefworn and broken-hearted, they had to
pass through long and lingering voyage,
something like half an eternity Of wo. and
al leigh reachtd The land Of their everlast-
ling bondage, and there was the origin of
your Patriarchal Institution. - Patriarch
al Iasfitution!!! What ferocious and rea-
son-daring foolery il is TO give such an
enormous abominaiion that venerable title !!
For the sake OF common sense lei The
world hear no more oft With nconceiv-
ably greater propriety might the Pharisees
be called saints, instead Of ;swhited sepul-
chres," than this deep, aid dark, and dis
nal, this lonesome, large. aud Ioathsome
tomb Of human rights and prerogalives,
Pa,rlaIchal Institution" Those who bo't
the first slave who Landed ia The coun-
/ try, had no just right 10 them before or
after the purchase, any more than The kid
nappers u buying Them then, they made
themselves sharers Of the blood and Grim.
lnality Of The kidnappsrs But If this was
the case, what has il 70 do with modern
shareholders Just as much as his poster