Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-02-09
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.


2 z
The First Slav eholdcrs' Convention.
This celebrated assemblage closed its
iabors on Friday Jan. l4th. Contrary to
the indications of the preliminary meet
ing, the ultimate conclusions were Of the
most rabid and diabolical character. The |
design of the Convention, which was |
highly distinguished for the amount OF
talent and responsibility of many of its
members. was to make last and desper.
ale effort TO bully down the legislature 10
m entire and slayish subserviency to the
slave interest. This must be done now
or never, for new apportionment is TO
take place in the Stale next year, and the
slavehoIding sections have been declining
while the free labor sections have been
growing the SHAREHOLDERS feel that they
now hold their last clutch upon political
power, and unless they can overawe this
Legislature TO settle the policy of the State
in their favor, they have no hope. ea..
One Of their measures, for taxing the
State Treasury, treplenished chiefly from
the free labor counties, is TO pay large re-
wards for the detection of any person who
| Induces or aids sieve to run awav.
Another is, 10 employ bailiffs 10 watch the
! arrival and departure o. every steamboat
and railroad car. A third is, for the State
to pay the expenses OF con,esting all suits
in other States where the State laws con-
fict with the Act Of Congress respecting
| fugitives from services. @
The second class of propositions is de-
signed to Cypress aud drive out the free
people Of color. .Oae provision is, that a
Tree black convicted OF a crime, shalt be
sold out of the State for a given time, in :
stead Of being sent 10 the penitenliary, and
after that, shall not be allowed TO return
within the State No free negro shall
have gun, sword, or other weapon. Il
suppose. not unless the British come again,
in which case they would be called out,
as they were at North Point, and exhort-
ed. /" My brave boys, let as fight like men
for our coun,ry.''l They are to be oblig-
ed TO register themselves every year, and
the register to be printed. Also TO give
security at all times for their good be-
havior. or be hired out by the year by a
constable. Al their death, their land is to
be sold, and the proceeds distributed among
their heirs, and hereafter no free negro is
10 be allowed 10 purchase freehold OF 9
lease OF more than one year. Their chill
dren are 10 be taken from them, withou
, any exception, at the age of years, ant
! bound out to service to white persons unit
:. they are OF age. and then 10 receive sun
:, of money, males S75 and females S25
. and leave the Safe for ever. with the pei
!, atty of being sold If they return. A sal
!, or gift of slave 10 free negro is to b
!, void, and the slave is 10 be sold oul of th
r State, and the master punished
;. The last named ought perhaps in strict
- ness TO have been arranged III the thir
class oil provisions, those to prevent manu-
= missions and to aid In degrading the slaves
) No future manumission by deed or will
10 be allowed. The owner Of runaN
i slave is to pay reward fof his resoratior
= graduated by the distance the slave
= brou 2ht. No manumined slave with h
:" certificate to remain in the Stale. n
g meeting Of negroes is to be held after SUI
! set. No person to give intoxicating ltque
!, to a slave. A vicious negro who Is
slave for years may be sold.out of the Stat
The fourth class of provisions is again
n. interference" The having incendiaI
,p papers in possession is to be prima tac
ne evidence of seditious publication. Tope
Of suade, entice, or spirit q slave ID run ava
Sc or harbo- runaway IS made peniten
er larry offence in a white person; color
n. person n, slave or free, convicted, is to
n. sold out Of the State. anc the finding sla
"a on the premises Of a free negro is pria
10 facie evidence Of guilt
Some of these propositions were n
N. carried through without serious oppos
,ir lion. Several gentlemen did themselv
n. honor. in particular, by sanding up
On yindica,ion of the rights and ties OF natu
ms against that most 6endish proposition,
M wrestling The, guardianship Of. childr
/ abfrom their parents. Il. S. Alexands
elf Esq, the gentleman who acted as coan:
aid for Mr.. Torrey. expressed sent,mel
CIV which he will remember with sallsiactl
Try in his diving hour. Said he, There
on. certain natural feelings and alike kno,
10 10 the black as the white, aud these
OF must Observation-Disclosures have clal
ine cd the power to force from our bord'
wn the whole free colored population;
ed |: he would warn gentlemen 10. forego
leir dulgng IN these principles. He ciai
the ed FOR them The privilege of choosing
me. themselves their future homes. He ask
,rl in behalf of the better part ofih;s class
on people. inose Balnfai Ilgnis wnicn we o
ma selves enjoy. He objected 10 severing
He bonds of naturalconsanguinity and affini
on The proposition does not. i is true. to,
war the porent directly. but ]. wrests from !
the The dearest objects Of his affection, and
slares Il under the garb Of apprenllcest