Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-05-11
S L A V E r Y


A friend Of mine. who has lately received a
letter addressed to his little children, from
friend of his at the South, permits me to use the
following extract. 1t affords glance at one Of
the many revolving features of that diabolical
system of outrage and brutality which is nursed,
built up, and perpetuated by the politics and the
religion of this country. The money received
for this woman, and her child torn from her Boz
som, may now be in the missionary treasury
Reader, will you ally yourself and cooperate
with those who do such things!
1.-THE slaves are not treated like human
beings. Black men and women are bot
and sold just as your pa would sell his
cows aad sheep. [ remember being last
year at place where there were seven
or eight men and women sold at public
auction When one was to be sold, he
was made to stand upon kind of plat
form, built up as high as table, and
closely examined by all who wished to
buy. l felt very bad all the time, bu,
controlled my feelings until little negro
boy, about}4 years old, was put up for
sale. lie was remarkably pretty little
boy. His curling locks. sparkling eyes
and ivory teeth, rendered him to me an
object of mingled interest and pity. Just
because nature had tinged his skin with
little DARKER color than ours: men, we
must call them cruel men, were about
to fasten upon that innocent boy the heavy
chains of slavery, and to stamp upon his
heaven born spirit the burning seal of
perpetual bondage. The little thing, as
though he had a glimpse of his doom,
clung to his mothers neck and refused to
go. The poor mother who had just been
sold, wept like her child, and her heart
seemed dissolved in an agony of grief.
The man who had pure based TIE woman
lived a great way off, and did not wish to
buy the little boy. How, keen must be
the pangs of mother in the thought that
her son is to be sold to an unknown mas
ter-rudely torn from her unfolding arms
land carried away to a strange home,
where no kind mother would watch over
him with maternal kindness, soothe his
little sorrows, and with anxious solieitude
j, watch over him. and weep mothers tears
around his bed i'll the gloomy hour o1
E sickness. AS they tore the little boy from
5 the arms of his mother, the tears al
5 streaming down his cheek, the weeping
# mother raising her fearful eyes to heaven
$ aud stretching cut her. trembling hands
! imp,oringly cried, ooh God! protect m!
: child." i could hear no more. My hear
was too tender. l fastened away from
!, the sad scene with feelings too deep 70
i words. As | lay that night upon M
pillow the image of the innocent boy wa
is before me, the words Of his mother rims
4 ing in my ears, "Oh God protect N
n, child" Such, my dear little friends,
r, the consequence of slavery. As you sa
* your prayers a, night, will you remembf
that poor little boy and thank Goo tn
- You have such good and kind parents ?"
L see not how those who adopt sue
80 lsentfnenis as are expressed in the foIloE
TO- ing resolutions, can continue 10 co-oPera
for with SHAREHOLDERS and their abbenors al
allies, in preaching to the heather.
~ presume they will not. after having Il
IA point under Investigation. Wlllthey g
nth attention to it and speak out again.
rts full and consistent testimony is the thin
ce- From the N. H. Baptist Register
of ne church In Cornish
Alta meeting Of the Baptis: Church
sea Cornish, holden Dec. 1S, lo4i, the ioilo
I'M ing Preamble and Resolutions were ado
lish ed. and ala subsequent meeting u =
lres voted that thew be signed by the Clerk
non sent to the Editor of the New Hampsl
The Baptist Register for publication,