Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-02-23

YOUR route, IN the Tree, as well as the slave
State, so far as is absolutely essential to-
your escape, the horse, the boat, the food,
the clothing, which you require; and feel
40 more compunction for the justihable
appropriation than does the drowning man
for possessing himself Of the plank, ,ha.
floats in his way. /
But we proceed to offer you our advice
on another point. We do not wonder,
that siaye-ships witness thousands of cases
of suicide. We do not wonder. that so
MANY of the slaves of the South lay VIC |
lent hands on themselves and on their it,
lie ones, who inherit the fig h,tuI doom of
slavery. But The heaviest load of life,
which the maIignity ard ingenuity of op
pressors can devise, Is 10 be borne patient
| ly. Least OF all, Is to be thrown off by
the black crimes Of sef-destruction and
murder OulY trust i'll God, beloved
( brethren, and you will soon te, where
you will "hear not the voice of the op-
pressor," and where he wicked cease
from troubling and the weary be at rest "
J Cherish no vindicliye or uEkind feel
ings toward your oppressors. Early and
late and with all possible cheerfuIness,
yield them your unrecompensed toll.
Submit to stripes and TO every exaction,
which you can submit to, without sln
Your consent to violate Gods law, let no
I-brlbes, nor menaces, nor suferlngs, be
able to obtain.
If you would have Him. who hears
1.-the signing of the prIsoner,' grant you
a speedy deIlverance, then pray earnestly
and perseyerin Civ to Him for yourselves
and your oppresSors.
Have no confidence 10 pro-S!avery
preachers. Those shaun ministers Of the
gospel whether at the North or South,
who dare not rebake oppression, would
barter away your sous for one s'uIIe OF
the proud tyrants, on whom they fawn.
Reject Their teachings with holy Indigna-
lion: aud Gods spirit will supply their
pieces with His own perfect lessons of
truth. -" vi. ..*
Peri!ous as il is, you should, never.he
less, snatch all your little opportunities to
learn 10 read. The art of reading is an
abundant recompense for the many stripes
1t may have cost you 10 acquire II. The
slave, who has learned to read map,
has already conquered half the difficulty
iE getting to Canada; and the slave, who
; has learned TO read the Bible, can learn
! the Way to heaven. Haveno conscience
against violating the nexpressib!y wicked
! law, which forbids you to read it nor
indeed against violating any other slave
:, holding law. Shareholders are but pi-
rates; and the laws, which piracy er acts,
h,r II ri
to tramnel the consciences of its victims.
We shall get as many copies of this
Address, as we eau, into the hands of
2 your white friends in the slave States.
10 these, as also to the few (alas how
: few of the coIored people of the South.
who, some by permission and some by
stealth, have obtained the art OF reading,
we look TO acquaint you with its conten.s.
= Communications Of "a similar desi 9n--that
OF enlIghtening and comforting you-wiII
probably be made from time 10 time here
!, after. We close the present one with q
I btief reference TO few of the facts, which
= argue the speedy overthrow Of slavery Id
f the United States. %a
: There are now o1t two nations in all
/ Continental America, that uphold slavery
e These are our own and Brazil. In the
West Indies, slavery has received lis death
blow, and will expire, ere the close OIL
: another five years. The literature oil
Europe--and especially the Americ;t-
i svaylng literature Of EngIand-s well
e ilnbued with hostility to slavery. Texas
r will b. speedily reannexed to anti slave
!, ry Mexico. unless the favor of Europa al
e nations prevent it: and that favor she will
d enjoy, on no less condition than that o.
!, following the fashion of the thies, ana
n running up The abolition fig ..
e The South would quickly give up slave
r. ~, were she deprived OF her English
. market for cotton and her Northern mar
= ktt for sugar, But India will soon enable
7. England 10 dispense with blood StaI nec
q cotton and Northern conscience is tas
coming to REVOLT at the consumption 0
IS blood stained sugar.
IS The principles ofabol,ion have already
d struck their roots deep in the genial sol
p of the free States of our Union; and, ever
d at the South, aboiitionisIs are multiplying
g rapidly. The idea that a pfo-slaverv maj
IS is TT 10 preach to Christians, and that
e. pro-slavery man is Fl! to legisale for re-
Re pubiicans is becoming exceedingly a.
TO horrent and udicrous all over the North
ID and this idea is too absurd to euov ,
81 greatly prolonged favor, even at th,
South.
y Wounded, wruhing, slavery still cries
r. ''let me aone-let me alone" But tn,
people will Hot let it alone; and srlcf
is ptoVIdeaces, as the msuerecIions on boar,
H. OF the Amistad and Creole. shows tina
IN God will not let it alone His decree ha
et gone forth. tha. slavery shall continue II
IN be tortured, even unto death Lift IL,