Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-05-18

ect reasonable offence; and the more
often it is. the louder will be their out.
ries when they perceive that probe is
bout to be put into it,
We affirm that the Union is not OF hea-
rem. 1t is founded 10 unrighteousness,
ind cemenled with blood. 1t is the work
If mems hands, and they worship the idol
which they have made It's a horrible
nockery Of freedom. In all its parts and
it is misshapen. incongruous.
unnatural. The message Of the prophet
70 the people in Jerusalem describes the
exact character of orr republic" COM
PACT - ..=
!" Hear the word of the Lord, We scorn-
full men, that rule this people. Because ye
have said, We have made covenant with
DEATH, ard with HELL are we at agree
ment: when the overlooking scourge
shall pass through, it shall not come unto
US: for we have made LIES our refuge,
and under FALsEHooD have we hid our
selves: Therefore. thus saith the Lord
God, Judgement will lay to The line, and
righteousness TO the plummet: and the
hall shall sweep away the REFUGE OF
LIES, and the waters shall overflow the
hiding place. And your covenant with
DEATH stall be annulled, and your agree
ment with HELL shall not stand: When
theoverfowing sconrgeshall pass through,
then We shall be rodden down by it,
Another message Of the same inspired
prophet is EQUALLY applicable:
'Thus saith the Holy One of Israel,
Because We despise this word, and trust in
oppression and perverseness, and stay
thereon Therefore, this iniqnity shall be
10 you as breath ready to fall, swelling
out in high wall, aohose breaking cometb
suddenly, AT AN INSTANT. And be shall
break it as the breaking of potter's yes
sci that is broken in pieces; be shall not
spare SO that there shall not be found in
the bursting of it, sherd to take fire from
the hearth, or to take water withal out OF
the pit" q. @.s:.+as a." II
Slavery is combination Of DEATH and
HE'LL, and with it the North have made a
covenant, and are at agreement AS an
element of the government, it is omnipo.
tent, omniscient, omnipresent. As a com
ponent part Of the Union, it is necessarily
a national interest. Divorced from north
ern protection, it dies; with that protec-
ton, it enlarges its boundaries, mulliplies
It's victims, and extends its rarages. Read
the following confession of Mr. UNDER
WOOD, OF Kentucky, in recent debate in
Congress
TO dissolve the Union. and separate
the different States composing this con.
federacy, making the Ohio river the line,
and Mason and Dixon's line the boundary
line, he knew as soon as that was done,
Slavery aoas done in Kentucky, Maryland,
and large portion of Virginia. and i:
would extend to all the States south of this
line. The DISSOLUTION OF HE UNION
WAS THE DISSOLUTION OF SLAVERY. 1t
had been the common practice for South
ern men to get up on this floor and say,
" Touch this subject, and we will dissolve
this Union as remedy" Their remedy
aoGs the destruction Of The thing they aoish.
ed TO sore, and any sensible man could see
it. If the Union were dissolved into two
parts, the slave would cross the line and
then turn round and curse his master from
the other shore"
In the same debate, Mr.. Arnold, of Ten.
nessee, said ....:...
He would ask his Southern friends
1ohat tie South had TO relg on, ifthe In.
ion acre dissolred! Suppose the di<soIu
lion could be peaceably effected, (if thai
did not involve a contradiction in terms.)
WHAT HAD THE South TO DEPEND Up.
ON? Ali the crowned heads were agains
her. A million Of slGves acre ready to
rise and strike for freedom at the first tap
of the drum. Ii they were cut loose from
their friends at the North, friends tina
ought to be, and witAout them The SouA
mad no friends whittier were they to look
for Protection How were they to
sustain an assault from England or France
aO,th that cancer al her ritals? The more
the South reflected, the more clearly she
must see that she has a deep and rital IN.
tereSt an maintaining The Union
These are slavehoIding witnesses, and
IN the present case, their testimony is true
What is this Union, then, bat. horrible
combination TO prevent three millions o.
people, now held in AFFECT slavery, success
fully resisting their oppressors2 Who
can support it, and not be traitor to the
rights of mankind? Who will dare 10
pretend that its repeal is foreign from the
antisslavery enterprise? Mark the Ian.
guage of Mr.. Underwood -" The disso
luton Of ths Union Is The dissolution OF
slareryP Then its preservation is essen.
tial TO the perpetuily oflhat hellish system !
Let the North withdraw, and achat has
The South to depend upon? Where else
can she look for PROTECTION while she
is engaged in setting all the laws of God
at defiance, trading in human flesh, open
ing the food. gates of RIGHTEOUSNESS. and