Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-09-20
ERMoNT TE.LEGRAPH.

black subjects abroad, to those of their white
subjects at home, where Charity ought TO
begin. Was the ransom Of The thirty mil
lions paid by the Chinese, a purchased
Whose yoke did it tighten? Who draws
the balance between purchase paid and
purchase received2 The government paid
twenty millions TO the planters, and increas-
ed their national debt so much, smaking
E S0l,000 per annum," an everlasting bur-
den 10 the white slaves; p but how much is
the burden of these white slavesn tighten
ed by the untold treasures from China, Scin-
de and Inda2
This aristocracy, in its walks abroad, can
prate about Liberty 10 " Free States y and
point at slavery here, and American incon-
sistency. Morpeth, Lord and Viscount,
could even aOin a place among abolitionists
in "the Liberty Bell" Shrewd woman,
that M. w. c., she only wanted noble
clopper to her Bell. 1t all sounds we'll for
Freedom.
This AristocracV loves the ear of Philan-
thuphy, that it may better blind her eyes with
gift or purchase OF freedom. But does it
wish TO abolish slavery? Itvaunts nightly
because the black man, Son Western midas
Shore" has dropped his chains and letters so
that he can walk to Church; and, in "Jew-
elPd India" it has decreed blow at serfdom
but when it cries, in measured numbers,
"Slaves cannot breathe in England" it re-
minds US of what Pope said of the Monu-
ment,
Londou's tall column pointing to the skies
Like proud bully lifts its head and lies.
No slaves in England! Perhaps the labor
err is paid for his TOLL Ask the man who
gets his shilling or eig hteen pence day in
the summer season, and pays eight or ten
shillings bushel for grain to feed his fami-
ly. Ask the woman who reaps down their
grain, while one child watches over another
at home, whether, with all Der toll, they are
! not scanlily fed, and clothed, and mlserably
housed. Perhaps they have no overseel
with his whip 10 enforce submission TO toll
! Ask the Peasant where he feels the whip
/ The scorpion lash tells through the wants
and necessities of his dependent family. NJ
i Oyerseers! Look at that squad, in piebald
uniform, with shining scabbard and polish
ed frelocks, round the tavern doors in every
large town; and say, if you dare, they have
no overseers. Perhaps they do not feel thu
fetter or handouts. Look at the Pillories il
the market places, and the Stocks on almos
every village green. Perhaps they neve
die under the severity of their punishments
4 Ask those who are perishing from starvation
for want OF employment, ashamed TO beg
ana org they cannon because this Atis.oores.
have monopolized the soil Perhaps parents
are not forced from their children, and chill
dren from their parents. Ask those VIII
! toll in Factories and delve in Coal Mines
what care they can exercise over the moral
Of their offspring. Perhaps there are no in
stances Of aggravated cruelty, no traces Q
buckshot, brand or lash. Look at cripple
childhood, and naked woman, a mother en-
D ceinte, dragging the coal hods, with chat
: round the body aid passing between tn
f legs. They have better harnesses for thei
, beasts of burden above ground. Perhap
$ the minds eye is not extinguished. If it
n not, we must not attribute it 10 the miligatio
$ of his suffering, or the measure of his op
n preston, but because Providence has so cor
: stituted man that the divinity which is i
t him cannot be obiiteratet. ..:..
: No slaves in England! None to cry, '@M
J Lord" or our Honor" or" His Excellel
/ Cyl" or His serene Highness," &c. &C.
Let those who have been there say wheth;
4 this kind Of servility, is more in vogue an
where else. With the higher grade of A
+; istocracy il is hereditary, and the lower graz
purchase it. 1t peryades all classes.
Il sixpence so earned costs not much sweat
The government are the cause Of this degr
. dation. 1t allows no man to enter its cour
> of Justice with his hat on and enjoins Il
= use Of all titles ii has bestowed upon its n
J. OfilyJ anu mas, III odys uoA ioh5 past, pe
u secuted those who refused to bow 10 this id
u of its formation.
:. Emancipation 10 the West Indies /! p
: cts and Orators have echoed its eulogy III
der the spreading canopy of the blu
= coucave;" but the shouts of the ran some
j slaves in the Antilles, are become Il
ID groans Of the oppressed slaves in Gre
NJ Britain. The medals that commemora
a the event. must perish liz the rust cause
. by the tears of suffering woman and ne:
: lec,ed infancy. The first of August Dug
p 10 be c.lshraied' Il ,ue must have Pie "