Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-03-03
VERMONT TELEGRAPH.
BRANDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH. 3, 1874
WILLIAM G.. BROWN, EDITOR.


The crueleSt taskmaster that ever
wreathed his lash around the mangled
flesh of dying mortal, is ready to join in
the loud, incessant song that chants the
praises of liberty. Says distinguished
STAKEHOLDER, whose fame is blazoned from
the rivers to the sea, every pulsation of,
my heart beats high for liberty!' What
kind of of LIBERTY? The liberty TO drive
sixty human beings, day by day, away to
their cotton fields and to fitch from their
honest hands their daily earnings at the
crack OF the lash ? The liberty to disu.
mite at pleasure kindred ties, and to revel
upon maniac-shrieks and signs of broken
hearts, that pine for voices they shall hear
no more2 The liberty to fetter the body,
to darken the intellect and to pollute the
soul, that was formed to sing on Angel
harps forever2 Is this the liberty with
which he is so deeply charmed He
can enjoy it. He can sit lord, where
cringing suppliants fawn and mutter how
much they love him. He can support a
system which would degrade the dark
ages. He can make his country the by
word and scorn Of every civilized nation
on the globe. He can rail at mitres and
crowns and sceptres, while the badges of
has royalty are whips and letters. He
can boast of his skill in plotting the ship
of state, and hush the cries of danger with
his syren voice, while she is drifting right
onward to the rocks. He can call in to
support his darling system. man and man
mon, pulpit and press. Atthe same forge
where manacles are wrought, he can buy
bowie knives, to aid him in his fearful
work. He can call in the mag;cians of
the land, to torture the pages Of the holy
bible into the support of system of rob-
berry and crime The eloquent orator,
and the expert logician, and the learned
hnguist, and the mighty statesman, gath
er at his bidding around the topping edi,
fee. The poet-no, his voice is silent,
and true to nature, refuses to insult hui
manity by celebrating 10 song the beau
| ties Of corruption. He can sing of the
| pleasures Of pain, and of the joys of sor,
row; but his trembling hand refuses to
strike to Earring sounds, that would pic
ture the beauties of blood spangled fields
where SCARED and gashed and mnnacled
mei toll all day beneath burning san
he can not sing of the music of chains and
of dungeon hinges, and of dying groans
be can not sing of the loveliness of part
| ing scenes, where wild fareweIIs echo te
the meanings of broken hearts! There
| is not chord in the human soul tha
would vibrate to such discordant notes.
/ And even this gifted orator, in the very
hour when the torrent of his eloquence il
bearing his spel-bound audience whittier
he will when he has almost made then
believe that the slave-system is thing c
beauty, his crushed and indignant human
!, ity shrieks from his polluted lips, in eulo
eies of liberty. What is the word tina
} floats in pride on every starry banner
that echoes from every hilltop to thei
valleys, when the booming gun, and echo
, ing shout proclaim our Countrv's jubi
} lee; that Bunker Hill and Benning ton
: and Camden's fields giowed in the fam
of war. to achieve? LIBERTY. Fo
! whom2 for lords and princess for tn
: rich and powerful : for the snow-whit
features or the lily hand ? for ill bu
three millions, whom the law has I" mad
property, by declaring them to be proper
elty2"
ILLINOIS. The Supreme Court of thi
Stale, has decided that Foreigners have
: right TO vote.