Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-01-18

viii very easily De perceived now DO
it. la the first place Fam myself physi.
caliy, intellectually, and morally liberated
in no slight degree am liberated from
the expense or toll of working for them,
or such Of them as do not require a sub
stitute. ! am freer intellectually by fore
going the use CT all stimulants whatever.
And morally who can doubt that most of
the articles for which we are indebted to
slave labor are exciting to The lowest pas,
sions or tend to the most debasing con-
duct? So much then for my freedom
To an equal, or perhaps greater extent
do | free some one negro iaborer. My
conduct has the most serious effect in the
| planters eyes, for he knows very well that
if he could no: find market for his pro-
duce, his slave would be valueless to him
! and might SO free. Commercially speak
ing he would be scarcely worth keeping
| if there were no export market for the
produce For the estates must then be
transformed from plantations to farms with
a greater variety of products; more still
would be repaired, and humanity, hu
maneness, must be allowed TO grow up,
and the slave would be one Of flmily
from which it would scarcely e@desira-
bic to Separate him. The third class Of
persons which such conduct in a direct
manner tends to liberate,t though they may
not believe il, consists of all who stand
between the producer and consumer,
whether as shipper sailor, hctory-slave,
store-keeper or in any other kind Of de-
grading employment; for looking at man
and his neglected capabilities these are all
very lowIy occupations. :...~.-:...=
This, then, appears TO me the most e.
fcient courset TO be pursued individually
for the Liberation ofthe negro slaves not
only in the United States, out 10 the West
Indies and Brazil. Furthermore for the
Moderation of The laboring mans condi
ton throu ghout the whole of the tropicaI
!, region; the state Of things al present be-
inc such that the men and women of that
zone are held IN bondage to tickle the
palates of northern men and women. Ii
has always been lustlul appetite Of some
: kind which has subju gated nations, but
Ue seem now to have arrived at the very
: pettiest cause for servility and warfare
which could enter the heads of any PEG.
pie. ~ *.<..~ 49,
The like course Of reasoning applies tc
every other moral reform. Each Que ha;
to say let me not only think Alright, bu
" be right, aud do right in all practica
matters, as well as theological arguments
and then. but not till then, am | really
; friendly to the proposed REFORM Wer'
! this the general conviction, were this TIT
general conduct, how rapidly would re
form 60 on. Rather would it not at ono
r. be successful. Contemplate for a momen
The fact of there being no sale at Bosto
for sugar, molasses, or cotton. Wha
will become of those turbulent sailors an
their girls How shall the discontente
=, shipwri5nrs be pacif5da These ME
:. must turn to their fofefathers' purer pul
suits and grow their own corn and Iine
:, Then the cargoeS may 0 back 10 Charlie
ton or New Orleans; and the slave
must be set 10 spinning litte for then
J, selves, and planting trees, for no norther
:. lumber could be bought, and thus eve
= the soil would be in the way OF restor
ton to a fertile state. The fIctory CIR
must 70 home, and learn The househo
= duties, and respect faulty virtue, and q
longer call 10 the priest to marry the
: just at the last moment that will ensul
=. the ofspring's legitimacy. Facts Of tn
n. kind do not appear in printed commerce
is. tables, bot they are printed in deep, bac
10 letters upon the fair bosom OF society, u
nd iii lis purity is almost entirely lost.
Or In OLD Eng aud it is not unusu Al to ST
be a number of town politicians 5ssembIir
ed. to redress their grievances or to resist il
er, posts, and spending over their debat
ust more money for dflnk and tobacco th
c!e twice tie amount Of the payments tn
led wish to escape. And this is about IA
+ measure of all noisy patriotism. 1t
me more costly than the results are wor
or The STAKEHOLDER is willing you shor
lest TUX against him as ieTceIy as you plea