Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-01-26

t5) If brother Hascall designs by this
70 allow the slave TO escape by all peacea-
bic means. very well. But if he pretends
that anything except Christian nonTesist-
ance-of-evil has the leas, claim on him
patiently to submit TO the outrage" l
deny il altogether. The doctrines and
practices of the American Revolution, and
every constitution and law according
therewlh. arm the slaves with weapons of
death. and put their ungodly oppressors
under their feet at once. The vignette of
a Virginia paper exhibits revolu,ionist
with his oppressor under his feet aud his
body transdxed with a, javelin-the sue
#cessful hero exclaiming; SIC sempcr tyr
annis-so aIoays 10 tyraats! Put this
doctrine into the mouths Of slaves and this
practice into their hands, and it would be
instant desolaiion and death, to everything
and everybody opposing their freedom.
If brother Hascal will require the slaves
in their condition TO practice Christian
non-resistance- oi-evii, / trust he will MOI,
be so Inconsistent as TO reject it himself: in
his condition. 1855 za.s s i
(6) This making the lawto be the cree
ture Of slavery, and Shareholders only the
adopters of it, is all. moonshine. Slavery
is not the creature of law, but of last
veholders, moved by lust of power and
of gain, first create slavery, and then create
laws to protect it. ==.--. &. -.~
~ He who buys slave for the pur-
pose of liberating him, and not of holding
him as property, is not a Shareholder, but
a s|ave-Lbetator. tits slarery, not eman-
capatsoa. that the resolution makes TO be
sinful. - ..T. i =
(5) From the moment his, mind was
made up to emancipate the slaves, and be
engaged in the work. he was no Ion ger a
STAKEHOLDER. any more than he who has
been thief IS any longer thief after his
mind is made up to quit stealing and he
commences restoring the stolen goods. IL.
(9) This placing the responsib lny and
The sinfuln ess on the law" the law
making power" or anywhere else excep
on the shareholders, is all deIusion, hum
bug and folly. There is just as much
PROPHECY and reason in talking about the
sinfulness of rife which a man has
mad to shoot his nsighbor wnh-or the
sinfulness of the rfe-makiag power, as Of
the sinluiness of the law and Of The law
making power The sinfulness is attach
ed 10 the Individuals who make the laws
and the rifles and use them for enslavin =
and killing their fellow beings.
I0) Professor HascaIl has fallen into
ia capital mlsapprehension, as to the true
sentiment Of this resolution. Although
he may have thought it to have been the
spontaneous production of fanatical
brain, | can assure him it was drawa with
much more care than he appears to have
exercised in examining it. He evidently
supposes that the resolution makes all
shareholders, individually and personally,
equally and alike, to stand s'among the
highest criminals before God and the uni.
verse; Now careful examination Of
the resolution will show that it does not
undertake TO settle the question as to how
many shareholders, IN their individual and
personal acts, are gully ofthe !" highest
crimes which slavery" involves" The
positive declaration ia the resolution is
simply thls-that those who per3etrate
1.-The highest crimes which it is possible
for men to commit against their Maker or
their fellows, are among the highest erin.
inals before God and the universe" Jpst
as plain aud proper as to saY--he who
murders IS TO be ranked among murderers.
1t is only reiteraiion Of the idea advarc.
Cd i IN the % resolution, and repeated in
The Sd Or perhaps il might with more
pfoprietg be said to be 40 inseparable link
IN the chain Of ideas commencing with
the % resolution and ending with the
osa- The main object of these five res.
oiations was, to explode the ridiculons, |
but prevalent doctrine, that while slave
holding is complication Of enormous
Sins, those who commi, these sins may be
good and Christian men. This q b ESQ.