Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-04-06

HU''"hi'y, III all dWluliy Hte
resting probationary state where all man
Interests are In jeopardy.
:. Because, like deadly leprosv. !
poIu''ng aud sickening influence is fe
In the church Of God
8, Because it binders the Righteousness
CONSISTENCY and gt6ry of the nation. an
presents provocation to God to entireI
destroy it.
! Ill. What zee think of the apology
founded on southern tap, made on hepar
Of protesting christians, for not enamel
p0's@g their slares. While we think
that some may honestly present it, we be-
Ieve it to be the honesty of Indifference
Did they deem slavery in itself sin
did they desire to rid themselves of it, i,
would be no difficult matter to accomplish
it. Many emancipa,e themselves 10 spite
OF all the efforts of their masters tor retain
them. Now j: will be allowed on all
hands, tina: with a conntenance from their
masters, pass and provisions, the facii.
ties for escape would be greatly augment,
ed. In this way all the healthy might be
emancIpated, and the others might be set
at liberty where they are, without any
more danger of their being taken up and
sold, than there would be that miserabIv
Sick horse would be taken up and soId
There would De no profit in it. Such, OF
course, the masters ought to take care of.
But we think the slaves Of christians and
mora'sts might be emancipated on the
soil. Surprising they should be? what
would happen? "Wny they would
be taken up and sold" What thousands
OF emancipaed slaves taken Up and sold in
The face Of thousands OF christians who
had owned them, but whose consciences
would let them do so 40 longer! What!
lake them up and sell them by virtue Of
the foul laws against which these thou-
sands OF christians are pleading and pyav,
ing! Such thing could uerer b..
- But The emancipators would be Ivncb
I'd" Well that would be glorious; those
suffering 1t would De ranked wi;htbe mar.
yrs. But could that be? Are slave. |
holders so blood thirsty Could thew
daughter Thousands? With all our hor-
or at slavehoIdiog as a crime, we cannot
mink so meanIy of Shareholders. The
dea is horrible! And if it is true, the
ooner we take care Of ourselves the bet-
err tor 1t has only to be found fo~ their
interest, and shareholders thus entirely
cad to virtue will spread slaughter thro'
ur country and carnage and plumber
wherever they go. The idea presents
''cture OF deDravity that has no fellow on
Il The pages Of history. We cannot be-
'eve that America has fallen to soch a
epth of baseness. Christians everywhere
hou'd repudiate slavery at once, array
themselves against sIavehoIdng laws, and
dot them from every statute book in
which they have been placed by unrigh,.
'ous Legislation.
w. WY zoe NEEDLE qoiAh slarerv !
|. We belong to the United States of 4
"er'ca' Those states are bound togeth. |
r by civil compact. The character Of
Individual State effects The whole. and
bis IS still more eminentIy The Gaze ftba,
tate is protected in is unrrghIeousn. S and
aseness by the National Legislature. |.
hen becomes national reproach, and
Nat rrProach attaches itself to every indi-
IduaI mhablIant OF the nation who silent.
y submits to it. This na'ion is disgrac.
q by slavery, and its injustice cries I'D to
'eaVrn against it. And is i, nothing to
IS That our country is by-word and
'ssng2 That our boasts of E'9eedom
re answered by sneers that we deservs7
5 1t nothing to US that the same injustice +
Which has preceded the ruin of other ma
IONS exists In our own to call down the
engeance of heaven upon asa
2. We are members of the church-ofI
he Methodist Church-a church which /
tarted upon the glorious enterprise off
preading scripturaI holiness through the
rorId. SIN and holiness are opposites,
nd cannot be amalgamated. Slavery is
in, and it is Inconsistent for holy church !,
ehtertain sin. Such thing cannot be.
Therefore by virtue of our character as