Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-07-27
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ed 10 be. for the time being, signal Fri.
umph OF the slaveholding power; bat his
prompt reelection and return 10 the House
humbled that power in the dust. His
constituents cordially endorsed his course,
10 regard 10 the case ofthe Creole and,
u we are not mistaken, they instructed
him TO present again to the House the
resolutions on that subject, which had sub
Jscled him to censure, and TO the necessi-
~ of vaca,ing his seat in that body.
Since his return 10 Congress, we lin con-
mon with a great multitud.) have been
daily expecting to see him Offering the
resolutions aforesaid, whether instructed
to do so or not,-and demanding action
upon the same bot, up TO this hour, we
have waited 10 vain We believe il was
stated in the Emancipator, some weeks
ago. that MIR. Giddings intended to do the
deed, but would take his own time for il.
The right time for it, in our judgment.
was. the very first opportunity that pre-
senled itself on his return; for how can
ne or his constituents know, whether be
is allowed to remain in his place as
matter Of sufferance, or as one who has
been unJustly. censn-ed for an innocent
and laudablc act2 Of course, if be will
/" behave himseILn the southern cover
seers" will graciously allow him 10 repre-.
sent ~ his free constituents; but, not 9TH
erwise. if they can help it! Why did he
not bring this matter 10 an issue at once?
He ought 10 have driven those usurpers to
the wall, or reduced them 10 the terrible
necessity Of sending him back again to
Ohio, as one too Stubborn to wear the yoke
and chains of a slave. 1t seems 10 us that
he ought not to have waited the sixtie,h
part oil an hour. if he could have helped
IT, without demanding of the House, the
repeal of its vote of censure. To make
this demand, by the presentation of his
Creole resolutions. Just at the close of the
present session, will neither have brave
appearance. nor produce the legitimate
effect that belongs. to the act. Perhaps
there are sound and valid reasons for this
delay, and the friends of liberty would be
glad 20 know them, if any such exist.
We feel very great respect for Mr.. Gid
dings, and cannot believe that be is influ.
enced by any feelings of timidity, or that
be has committed any other error than
that Of judgment as to the most suitable
time when to try the temper, oflhe House,
in regard to his particular case Liberia
Ter. II
COTTON IN INDIA.-- The Naichez
Courier contains extracts from a letter of
Mr.. Thomas J.. Finnie, who, about two
years ago. in company with three Other
Mlssissirpians, en- barked for India, for the
purpose Of engaging in the cultivation OF
cotton. He is setlled, it appears, on the
banks of the Jumna, a branch ofthe Gan
ges. and has the control of tract of land
combining 5000 acres. with a. village of
III thousand inhabitants. He is just as
sure of making cotton there as on the
hanks of the Mississippi. Labor is so
cheap that cotton may be produced at half
the cost of its production in The United
States. The wages Of laboring man is
8 ,62 cents per month, he furnishing his
own substance. With the advantages
Of favorable soil and climate. and low
wages, what is to prevent India from be.
coming formidable rival TO American
cotton in the European markets. Mr..
Finnie is so well convinced of what can
be done, that he intends to plant FIVE hum
dred acres in Cotton on his own respoa-
sibiIitv.--Troy Wig.
THE YANKEE We
paid flying visit on Saturday last to
"Osis's Steam Excavator, in Brooklyn
where il is at work digging down the hill
/ formerly known as Fort Green" and
filing up the shallow inlet and quagmirt
entitled !. the Walabout," or so much of j
as lies ABOUT the roadlo Flushing. The
Geologist " is surely a great curiosity
He walks right into mountain as though
| it were plate of hot cakes, and dips itnI
q cart load al shovellul, as fast as yol
please. He cuts right and left path som,
six rods wide through The hill and thel
lakes new swarth. He is locomotive
land advances by his own steampower
! whenever the earth has receded befor,
him. grades and stakes down for himself
and only requires one man :otend shove
Land another 10 look after the fire and en-
:. pine, though one ortwo others are genera
Wv employed 10 smooth the track befor
/ him, &c. besides tending the carts, whicl
tanproach 10 be filed on one rail-track an
and go off loaded by another.
i II he comes 10 stone weighing only
4 ton or such matter, the Geologist make
no bones of it, bui pitches !, into the cal
like q peck Of gravel. If he comes to
!. stone weighing some Tour or five tons, b
takes him up more carefully and lays hir
out the other side of his path. All this
!, effected by an immense and compl,ca'e
/ larm, worked BY much ingenious and no.
Ell machinery. The inventor is now dead
, and the company has spent $50, 600 upo