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

see il as black pedestal Of guilt, reared |
BY those laws, between The poor slave and /
his owner. flinging from il the darkshade Of
its demoralizltg influence. possessi1g the
fearful capability Of unhumaaiziag humanity
on each side Of il o, good God! how de-
plorable must thai moral aposlacY be which /
has produced such laws, and built such I
monument Of turpilude, and that too under |
The brilliant beams Of a righteous revelation!
Even momentary thought Of rem bears |
With ii thrill Of horror, as i passes from
one avenue 10 another, in It's flight through
The soul. Il is enough to congeal all the
feelings and sensibiliiies Of the mind. Do
they mol completely strip man Of his man
hood2 Do they not unman him, and turn
bin into thing? O yes!
And 10 this hearl-wilhefing doom. any
person, either white or black, Sir Isaac
Newton as well as Bob The negro. Is liable
according to those laws; for they ray no
Attention 10 HE notion that thick lips, curled
hair, long heels, and black skin are si,u-
ated in the scale Of existence somewhere
between the white man and the ornng
oufaag, and therefore doomed by the fast
boiling power of fate, 10 inter niaable vas
lsslage. They do not say, A slave is a
negro or black man. but, A slave is one
who IS ia the power Of his master" Now
lif lnose laws happened 10 be like.the Medo-
Persian statutes, in some of the world shak-
ling revolutions Of human wickedness, the
black man might chance TO get the whip
hand of the white, and lash him on under
The yoke. But it may be that your legisla-
Tors, when framing those laws, had their
( eyes.on the renowned prodigies Of martial
skill and valor, with the ilIustrious christian
lluminaries, that poor Africa has given TO
the world; or perhaps they then thought Of
the ssbleaehed, = ihin-ipped, and straight
haired predictions of that pro-slayerY scare
crow, which has been so calamity used,
not only as an execrating tool, but as a
blood shedding, marlsr-making weapon a.
| gainst athe infatuated abolilionists.',. Ifso,
I4here IS Sufficient reason for their not desig-
naiing the unaduteraied negro as the ex-
i elusive victim OF those laws. This would
never do for them, and Be at the very time
perhaps, attended in the Legislative hal, BY
half cast " slaves. But We say that those
laws and tleir singular creature are opposed
Ito the laws Of God. And now for the
PAooF.
|. Thou shalt not steal, is one Of the
laws Of CID. Thou shall not take from
another, BY any means auhnfeoer, thai
,rhich belongs 10 him, Difhouf his consent.
or the appreciation Of dipine justice. This
we think IS the import o. The commandment.
Now man possesses certain natural. ORR
ginal, intrinsic, inalienabIe right, and
that IS right to himself This is an I'M
deniable, positive. seifeyident truth. II
is so plain and palpable that not even the
Shareholder will think Of defending /, for
himself; because he knows that no man Of
common sense will ever dispute IT. Well.
if this is the right Of airy one. i must be
the right of erery one Of ALL the nations
of men that God has made Of ONE BLOOD.
Now il The shareholder will moi deny this
] as he can not-he is bound al once to LEI
the oppressed 60 free;n but X he denies il,
he denies his right TO himself, and fatty
coniradicts the Declaration Of independence,
aud thus proves himself an enemy 10 the
Republic. He may choose what horn he
pieases Of this fri JENNA. with which, con-
slitulionally. 10 gore; and, religiously, TO
kin, his slave system. This Indispensable
fright is taken by his holder from The slave,
and consequently the holder is guilty Of a
breach Of The eighth commandment II
will nsver do to have recourse to the Grip
| pied notion that as persons are BORN into
slavery, others have right to them, and
not themselves. He who does this, faces
The Declaration Of Independence sword IN
hand. He binds himself 10 prove that God
entered prosiso in the constitution Of hu-
man rights, By which some Of our race
could perpeiually enslave others. without
revealing what class, or caste, or color they
should be. And snpposing he conld sue
coed in proving this, il would be afier> get
ting into the centre Of an inexplicable lab
yrinih, for y would have yet 70 prove,
without any possibility Of proving 4, lha,
whites had the right Of mastery, before i,
could be Of any use 70 him. Every human
being having IN original right 10 himselG
the condition or circumstances Of his birth,
can no more take il from the child of the
siare, than i can from the child Of the
4 oIn1eI. and conference.-the h ,uhn aaI-as n.