Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-05-24
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as come IRON buying as cheap as POoSioie
and selling as dear as possIble-from
causing SO large number to work forthe
support Of so large number who do not
work-and from keeping up legislation.
litigation, and taxation--it causes all the
bIoodshed and desolalion Of wars, slavery
and piracy. The property system is 10
fact one great system Of piracy upon hu.
man rights.
Il promotes caste. It builds up one
class 10 the putting down Of another. II
turns the nvails Of improvement into the
rockets Of individuals, to the deprivation
Of the community and the injury OF the In
dividuals themselves. II monopolizes the
advanlages of labor-saving machinery,
thereby making the rich richer anil the
poor poorer, turning the latter out Of en-
uloy and crowding them from the soil, and
giving power and dominion TO the former.
Ii separates between man and man. per-
sisls 10 driving them asuuder. and prevents
reconciliation. All its dongs are aggress.
ions upon right. 1t has not one redeem
ing feature.
All this may be styled "negGtion,"
perhaps, and we may be called on for an
aErmation. Ia other words, we may be
lOd that this is only tearing down, and we
may be called on for what we would build
70 10 its stead. In reply we say, let The
robbery cease at once. and The restoration
be made as fast as possible. AS fast as
any ore sufficiently redeemed, let them as
,emble together 10 communities, redeem
the soil if necessary, and live out their
principles. Tie falsely selfish need not
be alarmed There will be no effort on
The part Of reformers to take away proper
" from them. There is no need Of this,
and no disposition for il. Property can
easily be produced, under the community
system, to every desirable extent. Elith-
uo mankind have lived 10 get property.
Henccforth let them only get property to
i've. Let that which ms heretofore been
an end bringing the human race into slave
" for its attainment. be hereafter only u
means for producing universal redemption
lud disenthrallment.
The truth il, there is precious little Of
rue freedom in the world. Violence
reignS American slavery is only one OF
Ne forms, or departments OF the great sys-
lem Of despolism that has hitherto govern
Ia mankind. The labor system OF the
S9uh is not so much worse than the la.
nr system of the North as It has been
hough 10 be. Not that look upon the
hrner more favorab,y than others do, or
ban have Heretofore done - but that
box upon the latter less favoraby. And
lot that would create enmity or Jealousy
but that I would have human hts
hd the true interests Of mankind better
hown and better regarded. The differ.
nee between the Southern and Northern
Eslems, is the difference between cow
hides to the back and starvation 10 the
re The latter has less odium attached
phlhan the former, because lis means
attaining its ends are made 10 work
norc Obscurely. But the oppression, if
be not Of the same kind and degree, Is
Nm the same source, tends TO the same
Ads and is part OF the same system.
This oppression Of man by man comes
Am perversion of natural affections, as
nukeuness and gluttony come from a
Version Of natural appelites, and ss
Aoredom comes from a perverson of
nral passions. Man has turned his af-
Mons from bis broIher-man to sordid
" He has eaten and drunken unnalur-
Aiugs and thus turned away his uppe-
EOm what is natural. And :his un-
val eating and drinking has poisoned
meameJ his blood and thus turned
y his natural passion from procreolion
eenliousness. My own present view
Nat the unnatural es!icg and drinking
very much at the fouudalios Ofall the
sAief Not that believe an arbitrary
Y was pronounced upon all mantAno,
single act Of a single individual, or a
dindividuaIs. The law broken was
and is not, despolic cOrd. Il was
Is, me relation of things eristing.-