Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-01-19
VERMONT TELEGRAPH.
BRANDON. SATURDAY IAN. is. 1870.
For the Vermont I,eiegraDh.

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from You touching an Anti Slavery meeting
heidsin Brandon, W., Nov.25, at which we
were both present and took part. You COM
plain OF my denuncialory language. You
rspake me for using uncourleous and un-
christian epithets. Be assured nv heart
I will never be alienaled from you or from
any man for rebuking in me whatever YOU
think deserves rebuke.a Those who have
rebuked me in kindness have proved my
best friends. But let me say 10 you now,
as said to you in The meeting, am erieyed
and amazed at your sfi1rls TO shield man
stealingl clergy from their .merited and fast
approaching doom. ).
! The following. resolution was under dis
| cussion at that meeting:
Resolred, That The American Church
and Clergy constitute a BROTHERHOOD of
! THIEVES, ihasmuch as they habitualy prac-
tice and sustain the highest kind Of theft 49,
i j. e.,MAN Este ALING; and it is the duty of all
10 cease 10 recognize them as the church
and ministry Of Christi
uNcoNrRADlcTEO FACTS.
l.. There are seventeen millions Of inhab-
iiants 10 the U. States. 2. One sixth of
them are compelled 10 live in state of
lconcubinage, without any legal-marriage
/ 3. Husbands and wives, parents and chill
dren are torn asunder. f. More Than one
4 hundred thousand children are stolen annu-
ally and sold as goods and chauels. s.
Parents sell their own children at auction
for purposes of gain and PROSTITUTION. 6.
One. sixth Of the population are forced to
toll during life without wages. 7. One
sixth Of the inhabitants Of this nation are
punished with stripes, Imprisonment or
death for reaching their childien 10 read the
Bible. 8. Men who live by breeding bu-
man beings for the market are chosen 10 be
Presidents Governors and Legislators. g.
Shareholders, slavebreeders, slave-traders
and slave-hunters, by thousands and lens
Of thousands, are fellowshiped as christians,
aid members IL good standing in the Bap-
list, Presbyterian, Methodist and Congre-
lgational denominations. 10. While sheep
thieves and horse-thieves are arraigned be-
fore criminal courts, condemned and cast
into prison, raan-thieyes, by thousands, un-
blushing and unrebuked, come before pres
byteries, associations, conferences, and &C.
clesiaaical councils, and are licensed, or
o dainsd and consecrdted TO preach the Cos
pei, and are received by the American
Church and Clergy as christian ministers.
IL. Man thieves are in Baptist, Methodist,
Presbyterian and Congregational pulpits as
christian ministers, as Reverends, Elders,
Bishops and Doctors OF Divinity, while
horse thieves and sheepihieves are in dun
aeons as convicted feIons. IL. This Re-
public licenses thal,in the National Capital,
4 which il condemns as piracy when COM
mitted on the high seas, or on the coast OF
2 Africa. l3 One-siyth Of the population is
held and used as property by the rest. IA.
The victims Of all these outrages are hunt
: ed with blood hounds and rifles, shot down,
+ or torn 10 pieces by dogs, if they attempt
TO run away from their sufferings, and those
!. who thus hunt them and shoot them are
: tfellowshiped as christian ministers BY The
4li. above named Recommendations. Is. The slave:
take refuge from the whips, fetters, chains
Re- blood-hounds and rifles Of the American
Church and Republic among sdrdges, ant
. these savages are buichered BY said church
81 aud Republic for giving refuge To- thei
- slaves.
My brolher---you will not, you can moi
on you dare not, deny one Of these facts, TO
: lthey are known and read Of all met. Thes
Facts make up the slave system. In ID
] meeting 10 Brandon said this slave sys
tenn is a system Of Mef, and thai this sys
y item Of theft is sustained by what is Gale
: the Church and Ministry Of Christ-by ,h
BAPTIST, Congregational, Presbyterian an
Methodist denominations. sad that ihos
!. who. 10 any way, coun.enanced aud su'
n. tanned this system Of man stealing, WEI
not the church and ministry Of Christ, b.
bRorHERHooD OF THIEVES. The ioiiowlu
lis the substance Of remarks mace by "
-tE in reply, as / noted them down while yt
.ss were speaking extracted from my Journa
q aDaniel Hascall--c called Prof. Hascali,
- Baptist minister in Rutland, said ha
oss, never paid one dollario Anti Slavery le
loss. 'tpTers, aud never shall If what have nc
81 heard is specimen Of them. We ought
ron. make proper distinctions. ! would not
lst' vile slave holders 10 the communion or p
NJ, for. hing ago Joined church that {
clnd.d shem: vel ! would unite Nth ID.