Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-07-13

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a particular State. degrading ment chat
telss can absolve al nations from the obi
CATION of regarding the ipjured beings as
men, or bind them to send back the iniur-
ed to their chains. The character of
slave, attached to man by local gov
ernment. is not and cannot be incorporated
into his nature. It does not cling to him,
go where he will. The scar of slavery
on his back does not reach his soul.
The arbitrary relation between him and
his master cannot suspend the primitive
understandable relation BY which God binds
him to his kind.
The idea that particular State may
fix, enduringly, this stigma upon human
being, and can bind the most Just and gem
lerous menito respect il. should be rejected
with s:orn AMI indignation. 1t reminds
us of those horrible fctions. in which
some demon is described as Stamping an
Elndelible mark of hell on his helpless VIC
films. Il was the horrible peculiarity of
the world in the reign of Tiberius, that il
had become oneyast prison. The unhap-
/ Ply man, on, whom the bIighting suspicion
OF the tyrant had fallen, could find no shell
ter or escape through the whole civilized
regions of the globe. Everywhere his
sentence followed him like fate. And
can the law Of a despot. or of chamber
l of despots, extend now the same fearful
doom to the ends of the earth? Can a
!. little State at the South spread its web Of
cruel, wrongful legislation over both con-
!; tihents? Do all communities become
i spell ,bound by a law ina single country
creating slavery? Must they become the
!, slaves liailers2 Must they be less merci
, ulthan the storm which drives off The
bondman from the detested shore ofserVi.
tude, and casts him on the soil offreedona
i Must even that soil become tainted by an
ordinance passed perhaps is another hem
ispherel Has oppression this terrible
ounipotence2 Must the whole worlc
register the Shareholders decree? Their
. the earth is hlighted, indeed. Then, a:
D some ancient seets taught, it is truly thu
empire of the principle ofevil, ofthe pow
, er Of darkness Then God is eethronee
here; for where injustice and oppression
are omnipotent, God has no empire.
i / have thus stated the great principl
I on which the English authorities acted ii
! 1.-The case Of the Creole. and on which al
! nations are bound to act. Slavery is til
e creature OF local law. having power not ;
3 hand-breadth beyond the jurisdiction 9th
! country which ordains it. Other nation
. know nothing oft; are bound to pay i
Il no heed. l might add. that other nation
l.are bound to tolerate it within the bound
a lof particular State, only on the ground
n on which they suffer particular State I
# establish bloody prosecutions, to use tn
q rack in jurisprudence. or to practice othe
/. lenormities. They,migh much more jus
!. 1tifably put down slavery where it exists
a than enforce a foreign slave code With
i their own bounds Such is the impree
!. nable- principle which we oil the free State
O. should recognize and earnestly sustain.
n] HARD NAMES There was one poir
Q we omitted in our haste last week, whe
e DEFINING o1RsPosITIoN.s We entlrel
IA disapprove the practise Of. calling har
o names, and bestoWing opprobrious ep
thets. We entirely concur with Mr.. Pie
Z pont on this subject, that it is not in GOO
n taste. nor calculated to promote the caus
= We will not call the .rumseller thief
r robber or a murderer; but we aoig sho
e him, for it can be easily done, that he do,
is a greater injury to the community than Il
is thief, the robber and the murderer put L
al gether-MaaDe Temperance Gazette.
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