Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-08-31

movement, If they do not know that IL will
be so taken. 1t is just in this way that
those VINO have been too cowardly or too
heedful of their own reputation to Join
openly in the work of violence and des-
truction, have cheered on others TO do it,
and pointed GU: its victims. A very little
attention to past events would have taught
the Herald editors this, and would have
taken from them even the poor apology of
and ignorance, for throw
ing out such fire brand. which. for aught
they know, might have fallen where it
would do serious mischief
Teach the doctrine that il is the conduct |
of the abolitionis:s which produces these
outbreaks of mob rage, and turbulent spir-
is, of whom there are enough everywhere,
will not be slow to learn the lesson, and
apply it as suits their own notions and
feelings. They will soon learn TO throw
all The blame on the producing cause, and
clear their own shoulders of its weight
and the next inference will be, that so
much guilt deserves summary punish
nent, which of course they will be prompt
] TO inflict charging still all the blame of
their violence on its victims. | do not
know how the editors Of the Herald and
such as they. !. can evade the charge of
thus becoming the instigators of riot.
I 1t is not true that the feelings of the
mob in these cases are but the reaction
of the extraneous exerlions'' OF abolitionists
against slavery Their action is not .'ex-
traneous," ifby that term the editors mean,
out of the sphere in which they have
moral and lawful right to act. They are
enphatically minding their own busin. IS,
in their efforts to overthrow slavery, by
Withdrawing from it the aid and counte
nance of the North. and bringing to bear
upon it the moral power of purified and
, regenerated public sentiment. Even the
liberty Party, which seems so obnoxious
to the HeraId's displeasure, has proposed
: no action but in accordance with the Con-
stitution and laws of the land. Though |
differ from the members of that party as to
: the expediency of their course, and have
ever opposed The formation of political
anti slavery party, yet recognize their
right. as perfect as that Of Wings or De.
: mocrats. so to act if they think proper
Il Their "exertions" are no more "extrane.
6 Gus" than those OF either of the other part.
les.
) The Herald says that
y Previous 10 the incorporation Of aboli
J. iionism into politics, and while the subjec
" was treated as a moral or benecolent ques
!. tion, and while its relations TO civil powe
was confined to its Legitimate limits, these
u horrible outrages did not occur, becaus.
Y the over-much excited spirit of retaliation
a which leads such violence, did not exist.
~ If il would not be too much trouble
= neighbors. would you be so good as TO tel
- when that was ! According TO The best o
D. Fmy recollection, Iii you refer to any perio,
within tia statement more utterly at va
rance with truth was never made. AL
most every one of the most memorial
Id outrages perpetrated upon the colored pee
r. ple ard the abolitionists since the ant
IS slavery enterprise began, was before tn
ch date of the political organization. Th
e first step toward that organization We
ce taken in the summer of 1889 and the pal
he ty was not fully formed till le40. Exec
ab- this last affair in Philadelphia. and that
IN last fall in Cincinnati, what serious dl
its turbance has since happened, specially q
feeling the colored people or The aholltIo
ind lists 7! Was the riot of 1888 in New 4or
the which drove "twenty men and two Gu
lch ker women from Chatham street chap,
de- before yelling crowd Of some hundred
pho if not thousands OF assaiants. produced
der the political organization OF years ate
lily Did the same cause place New York .
or der mob-law and keep it there day aft
ems day, in the summer of 1884. when Lev
SUR Tappan's house was sacked. and the al
east litionists were forced to leave the city
onp stav at the risk of their lives! Is |
YET Boston property and standing mob OF 8;
one. from whose fury the city authorlt
inst could protect Win. lord Garrison !
an where but within the walls of prison,
4 Of be ascribed 10 the same cause2 And
can ou,rages in Utica. Cincinnati, Provlden
lood Salem, and numerous other places. mos
this ia 1895, and 1886, was the political
no lion Of 1910 the cause of all these
dis il is needless 70 multiply proofs OF VIVA
hich almost universally known, and what nc
! ar. inc could make me believe the editors
de- the Herald ignorant oil, but the neces'
, be of otherwise imputing TO them lnientlo
such talshood. | have vet more to say on
It's as Herad's article, but must put II Oh
more next week.
.,;o BusINEss-There has been deci
= of Improvement among the jobbers In all
! .oJ. Of goods this week. The iowboats y
r.;n An the river last evening with
es ne freiphts. and from the Southern
coh ,,s..,,o s,a,es there are a