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

erhaps. an heir Of glory "a separate table /
!, 80, il and an inferior seat in The house
+ God2 But where shall we end our
n,erroaa,ionsf There is not Shareholder
= the world who does not iransgress tbs
Az every moment Of bis life.
3. God, as an intelligent and moral Be
nc. 4 governed By laws Of His own-or
avs peculiar 10 himself-in all His opera
ions. Aching according 70 those laws, to
accomplish His own purposes, He has made
man ! moral agent. But The American
slave-laws incapaciiate him Cor moral agen-
cv we need moi rummage allahe stores
Of logic and literature 70 prove this. No
being can be moral without being a free,
saenl; and no being can be free agent:
without having will Of his own. And
supposing the Creator had given him that
facolty originally, il il Is absolutely sub
iected 10 The will Of another, il is just as If
he never possessed il. He is mere ma
chino, acted on BY foreign influence, "a
living frame work, kept in motion BY the
will Of another. Who would think of cali
ing thing, either hying,or inanimate,
moral agent; and why should a-being who
j. converted into a thing, be considered oae2
Well, this is the predicament of every slave
in America Il matters mol that the Crea-
tor has made them free moral agents, as
far as your laws extend, land that is as far
as human beings can stretch any laws
they are stripped Of their moral agency, and
consequently so far uncreated. Perhaps
you have never dreamed that your legisla-
Tors are anli.creators, but they are, as much
as Geo. Thompson IS an anti-slavery man.
But notice still closer. Some Of the Inca
.ments of Gods image in man belong 10
those powers which constitute him moral
agent; and il his moral agency is stricken
off, those lneaments are blotied out, The
divine image is mutilated, and his moral
nature SO far decomposed. Some may say
that men can not Illustrate The purposes OF
the Almighty /; but let such persons look al
the shareholders of America. Again,
4. God acted according to His own Pc
culiar laws when He gave man-not a man,
or any number Of men--but MAN-ihe race
Of man without exception, g dominion over
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over everything that creepeth
upon the earth.n 1.-THE slave-hoIder denies
that this dominion involves a subordinate
right Of ownership 10 those things. he will
only destroy bis own avowed right 10 any
of them, and cut The throat of his pretended
right Of ownership or prosperity in bis fel
low beings. He may choose which Of these
brands be pleases to fix on himself the
burning mark Of reprobation with, as a
Illustrator Of divine purposes. And now
what are we to think Of the dipinely au-
llorized and constituted lord and owner Of
these creatures, being himself sunk 10 their
level, degraded 10 the brutal inferiority Of
their~condition, and driven hi,her and thilh-
er, as they are, and with ihem2 What are
We to think of the sceptre Of control being
wrenched from his grasp, The crown of roy
atty dashed from his brow, and his whole
nature, immortal and all. turned into an
article o. commerce, chatiel, piece oil
goods2 Il IS no surprise that such crea-
ture is denied trial BY jury. For what a
curious Thing il would be TO see Judge and
jury solemnly sit 10 try an OK. Ia this the
slave-holdtr is consistent. Why should he
Try thing Your slave law makers ought
10 60 70 school, and learn TO say that 9 a
slave isl thing, and not = slave IS one.,'
But look az this wonderful Illustration Of
divine DESIGNS! this astonishing usurpa,ion
Of infinite rights and aulhorityi The sim
pie fact IS, that the tremendous magnitude
Of the guilt involved in this, has nearly
acquired the power Of anniIIilating in ones
mind the indignation is merits. and of leav-
ing nothing IN view Of il bat upu,,erable
wonder, something like an awful precipice.
that necessarily dashes into pieces. what.
ever may drop from its summit. Can Won
imagine that God designed, when He gave
dominion 70 man over the brute creation.
that any Of his progeny should fabricate an
insulation by which others could possess
nothing, nor acquire anything Can YOU
inlnk that He entered a provision 10 that
arrangement BY which Americans are aa-
lhoIlzed TO convert their fellow creatures
INTO two footed caltle,-te use intelligent,
'mperlshable spirits, as merchandize,- Ito
sell them, swap them, mortgage them, trade
mem away for the brutes thai perish, for