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

such an admission, he should not feel the
necessity of abandoning some other things
which he holds 10. He here admits the
duty of Withholding Christian fellowship"
from shareholders; and yet he will go into
religious co operation with them in preach
ing the gospel, He denies and rejects
their Christianity - get he aoilI join a0ith
them and employ them as teachers and |
preachers of The christian reRgioa!!*
"a Suppose the resolution had pertained I
TO idolatry instead Of slavery, and had run |
,hus:-" RESOLVED, That the advocates and
abeltors Of idolalry in the United States are
al least as culpable as the idolaters of Aus
lralasia" Would brother Hascali have
thought the correctness of the sentiment TO
be doubtful? Or suppose cannibalsm to
have been the sin specified, and the resolu-
ton had expressed the sentimen: that it
would be al least as culpable in the profess
ing Christians of enlightened New-England
TO advocate and abet cannibalism, as for the
benighted inhabitants of the Pacific Islands
to practice it, Would brother Hascall have
thought the correctness of the sentiment
doubtful? If it be said that the cases are
lot parallel = that the difference of circum-
stances is greater in the cases have sup.
| posed, than between the North and the
South in regard to slavery - still there is a
difference in circumstances, as TO education
and habit, between the North and the South,
and the opponents of Anti-Slavery them
selves magnify this difference when it will
serve their own ends-when they are apol-
ogizing for slavery. And if there were no
other difference than what comes from the
hardening and binding influence of habit,
on the part of the perpetrator of any crime,
as compared with the situation of his advo-
cate and aoeltor, it would be abundantly
sufficient to sustain this sentiment Of the
Eresolution objected 10 by brother HascalI.-
Suppose, all other things being equal, two
individuals GO forth, the one TO the COM
mission of any given crime, the other to
looking on: advocating and abetting his
course and practice. Who will say that the
latter would be less guilty than the former ?
But il is not so between the North and the
South in regard to slavery. The people OF
the South LAT least those who grow up
there are taught that slavery is not sinful.
! do not say that this exculpates them.
am now inquiring after the comparative
culpableness Of advocates and abettors at
the North. repeat, then, that in the edu
cation of shareholders everything is done
that can be done to persuade them that
slavery is right. While in the education of
the people of the North every needed faciI-
ity is now enjoyed for understanding and
knowing and feeling that il is wrong = that
it is altogether sinful. They occupy posi-
tion where they can look on and see its cor
rupting, mischievous tendencies, and ruin
Gus results. They can behold, and know il
they will, and realize, the havoc il makes of
every tender and ennobling sympathy
desolaton of social happiness-the prostra-
ton of purity and honesty the sacrifice of
temporal and eternal interests to the gratif-
cotton of the 5asest lasts. The slave holder
becomes blinded and hardened with his own
ungodly practices; and the eountenance and
support he gets from those who stand at a
distance, look on and encourage Linn, con-
firms him in his course and blinds and har-
dens him the more. All these things being
so. there is nothing palmer to my mind
than sthat the advocates and abettors Of
| slavery at the North are at least as ulpabe
as the shareholders at the South"
+ (5) The resolution does DOT undertake TO
specify as TO who or how many "SaVe their
influence and aid TO Davis" 1t takes for
granted that some did. And this is not
denied, and will not be. Those who did, it
dec lares to be "equalIy criminal with Davis
himself" If the time and the space could
mol be better employed just now, would go
into presentation of facts, at this point,
showing somewhat the extent TO which he
! was countenanced and aided. The Doctors
Of Divinity and popular Baptist clergy in
general who are opposed 10 Anil Slavery,
gave him distinguished consideration in
Boston. At Hamilton, the Professor whose
turn it was to occupy the Chapel pulpit,
! placed Davis in it on the Sabbath, and he
defended slavery from the Bible TO the STU
dents. Brother Hascal does not say that
the Professor "took notes with view 10
refuleo Davis argument" If he had
heard Of anything Of The kind, he would