Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-07-14

srs.
: I shall stay here several DAYS loDo.,
md then proceed TO Maine. am inTia9
On every hand TO pulpits, and even ept,est
I'd to deliver addresses on this parti,nIa.
sabiect, in various parts of the COUNT
You see my paper is out-you shall be3!,,
from me again. l am well. Yours
JONATHAN DAVIS
MARKs.
Several things here are worthy Of =
tention.
1. His notice of the condition Of II.
colored people at the North. He r.
proaches the abolitionists, or mocks >,
them, that the colored people at the Norb
are in so degraded a condition. Butres3
aIonga little way, and you will find bin
exulting in the fact, as be reckons ittob.
that the abolitionists among the Banjt
ministers at the New York an Bosom
anniversaries are "smalI minorityn
The large majority, Of course, he recy
ons 10 be on the side Of slavery Nov
put these things together. How is it that
the small minority are TO be held accOea.
able for<the condition of things which BE-
sneers at among the colored people
What becomes ofthe responsibility Of tie
large majority Especially will his ab
surdity in this matter appear, in view Of
the fact that the abolitionists are strvia,
to elevate the condition Of the colorcd pe3
pie, while their opponents are crushn.
them down. But the man is quite coasz
ent with himself, after ALL For, if lhee
be any sincerity IN him, he believes lbu
ty to be a sad and destructive maladV
colored people, the only remedy for which
can be found in sIaveryl On this poju
abolitionists disagree with him altOge.hrr
and they expect yet to convince the
world that they are right. They bod
that liberty is better than slavery, for the
colored man as we'll as for the white man
that the degraded condition Of the col.
ored man, whether at the North or at the
South, comes from slavery, not HOM Nbez-
ty. The spiritsof slavery, and its practical
Influence Oh the condition of the colOnd
man is not confined to the South. Ii:
very language am now reviewing, from
the mouth of jonathan Davis, siagehoI!,
ing Baptist miaister-and the same Ian.
guage is In the mouths of his northern
coadj utors-is itself an exhibition Of cue
the principal means by which the diabo.i
cal work is accomplished. 1t goes to
show conclusively that the church is one
of the principal strong holds of slavery.
Her religious guides teach that SLAVERY
is blessing and liberty a curse 10 The
colored man! What other so Sroa3
hands as these can be found giving sup
port to this body and soul killing Jugse'
nauehl2 Candidly, deliberately, sincere
ly, and soleInnly, give it as my bumbs
opinion that these afford it more effect
aid than all others together.
/ 1t will be observed that have not TS
stopped to refute his SANDER, in reprsseH
ing that the condition of coIored peopeg
worse at the North thar at the Soulb
shall do nothing more here than to DAT
the truth of his representation, on bis |
point. I care not at this time to do more
than to take him on his own ground, aDt'
allowing his statements to be true as 10
the actual condition of the co!ored people,
show what brings them into that conf
ton. Irepeat then, that the degradaHa
of the colored people, North and Soul
comes from the treatment they rec'i'
from just such men as jonathan DAVIS
who is STAKEHOLDER, and all others Tn'
aid and assist them in their neflfI0"
work. Shame, shame to him, for setN
down the degradation OF the coIored pa
pie to the want of humanity in aboIt'on''
The abolitionists are the only class v,
show them humanity. His hordIho"
efrontery, and inpudence in this ma'R'
are exactly worthy ola profe sed minD'
OF the gospel who holds thirty OF bis j.
low beings in slavery!
| 2. TIE support giren to souther" sfa'"
! By ministers and churches at the A"'
His testimony to this point is to''