The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-08-30
For the Peoples Press.
WHIG ABOLITIONlST

Hhat ,ctH you gain at The BDlloi Boz in
Iermont? What could you gain by COM
plete political Triumph IN every non S,dUe
holding State?-Your defeat iu this State is
inevitable, and all that you can possibly ex-
peel to accomplish, is to defeat TIE Wing
Ticket for Governor and Lieut. Governor.
Now in this case-tt is not impossible that
f.. ID. Barber will be elected to the second
Office; and perhaps by the continued msfor-
tune of the two prominent parties, neither
will succeed in the legislature, and as a neces-
sary consequence, MIR. Barber will occupy
the official station of Chief Magistrate.
From this point then. as you have been to
good deal of trouble, and as many of you,
to accomplish his Election, have abandoned
your duty TO your Country-and your rights
as citizens, let US enquire into the probable re
suit what steps will then be taken to abolish
slavery, or to ameliorate the condition of
those unfortunate men, Will you petition
! Congress, praying for its removal? This
has already been done. Will you then re-
monstrate with the south' This too has
been done; rs must be admitted by every can
did man, not only without advantage to the
cause, but to the injury of the Slave. So
then, you accomplish just nothing for all
your soIicitude. your sacrifices, and your mis-
directed efforts, and yet to accomplish this,
you have lost the proud consciousness ofhav-
ing served your country; and have forsaken
those great questions of public policy, for
which you have hitherto striven, and for
which you have so severely auffered You
have also elevated to high and responsible
office, one who you have denounced hereto
fore, as being dangerous politician, and an
unprincipled man. Bnt what would you
gain by complete political triumph in eve
ry non-slave State? Suppose at this mo-
ment, you held the ascendancy in all the
States, north of Mason s. Dixon's line; sup
pose the President, the Cabinet, and Con-
gress were yours. What chains would you
unloose? What slave would yon lberate?
None, not one. Not single fcttcr would
snap, nor a single slave go free. Before
Cod, and clear conscience believe it, and
believe it is susceptible of proof The
southern States are protected by laws which
you can neither revoke nor abolish, by any
authority whatsoever; and you might as well
undertake to abolish the Englis Corn Laws
as TO prohibit American slavery. But you
say it might be done in the District of Col
umbia. True. so far as its continuance there
is concerned. Bnt think you the keen-eyed
SLAYER would allow such law to pass, with
out first transferring his slaves to some Join
ing state? ave, and into more intolerable
bondage' For the honor of the nation, |
hope its existence in that District will be
prohibited, though not as much on account
of the slaves, for they would still he IN SER
vitude elsewhere. What then do you gain
by political power. but dust and ashes? a
tenantless tenement! body without a soul?
Slavery is moral evil, a great one, and it
can only be removed by those all powerful
weapons-moral suasion and moral reform
the Temperance cause has several times de
feated itself by Lfgislatien. The, Christian
religion has more than once been retarded
and robbed of its brightest Jewels by state
patronage! charge you then, abolitonists
as one without Il hority, but in the name of
Him who declared-''my kingdom is not of
this world" to drop your carnal weapons, or |
abandon forever, the delusive hope of com
forting your dying hour, with the con-
scionsness of having ''fought the good
fight. d.