Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-02-16
as described above, would abolish American
Slavery in as many centurles4
Yours, for the slave,
JESSE STEDMAN.

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JESSE STEDMAN. /;
Here is another communication, with
equal propriety coming under this same
general head. Its developments are just
what might have been expected of Wind
sor. While the influence of the Chron-
icle continues 10 be what it has hitherto
been there, An.;.Slavery meetings will |
continue TO be mobbed aud broken mp
there, as they have been. .... ....-
For the Vermont Telegraph.
Cornish, N. H., End mo. 9th, 1912.
Dear Brother:
On last third-day, which was the first
OF the month, pursuant to arrangements
made by Benjamin Comings of Cornish,
II. G. Wright aud others went to Wind,
sor VT, to discuss the following ques-
ton:
Which is more entitled TO our sympath-
les, the Africans, or Indians, in Amer
ica2
This question was given out for de-
bate, knowing that Anti.Slavery could
not be discussed on any other condition,
SO near the Vermont Chronicle. We met
in the Court House to discuss the claims
Of humanity. The meeting houses there
are all consecrated to man stealing, con.
cubinage, Aeathenisna and murder. The
tall steeples all look very gracious Y On
the State Prison, though they frown a
sectarian thunder storm on each other.
That State Prison is not fit for demon
lied dog" to live in, las Davis Baker
calls the Cuba Blood .Hounds,) which the
religion of the United States imported to
hunt down the poor Indian amid the ever,
glades of Florida. But it is what the
Vermont Chronicle calls christian insti
tuition. Il looks like breathing hole o.
the botomless pit. | don't wonder thai
Windsor is personi6cation Of mobocracy
1t cant bel p being so, if it acts under the
: Inspiration of that doleful den.
Well, l was going to tell you some
thing about our meeting. should think
between seventy-fve and a hundred PEG
pie came in. We did not choose any
president or chairman. Henry remarked
: that if the audience would be seated, thu
e meeting would begin. There were som,
r fifteen or twenty boys, with several drunk
en-, brawIing men who remained in tbt
: back part of the house, and kept up con
tirueI talking and !aug thing. Henry
commenced speaking, but soon a peal 0
laughter and 6endish yells and bowling:
threatened the swelling roof. He waite,
+, till the tumuIt had subsidized, and then pro
a ceeded; but soon another yell and tn,
J.; crash of breaking seats drowned his voice
e He kept his ground for nearly three quar-
g tiers of an hour | should judge-while a
v intervals his voice was quenched BY III
; groans and vells of The mob. Henry cor
), fined himself to the statement Of few
- facts relative 10 slavery.
>, l followed Henry in few remarks OF
O the abuse which the Indians had suffered
$ stated facts in relation TO the policy O
S the United States and the Pnritans in re
$ gard to them. | spoke of the treatmen
I OF the Semlnoles, and in this connection
o said some pretty hard things about s!are
: fy, but there was 40 disturbauce of not
while was speaking. talked perhap
> half an hour. / was followed by Davi
:. Baker. 'Fhe rabble had now become in
), ten. on breaking up the meeting. The,
e halIowed, and STAMPED, and howed Iik,
e very fiends. The speaker held his grount
r for time. The mob had got to such ;
+ pitch OF desperation, that we saw Their.
, was no use in proceeding farther in the
discussion. The meeting accordc 81,
broke up. a shout of triumph went up
: as if to dash The roof of The building
against the heavens. Then followed tht
D boast, that there had never been an anil
Il slavery meeting attempted in the place
! which they had not broken up .. =.
| have no doubt, that tie mob wer,
: made drunk, and Set on by those affecting
responsibility and standing in society
There was Temperance meeting in the