Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-09-06

bend It's existence, and if we fail TO obey, il |
is through faithlessness - an unregener-
ate seli-loye, fear Of the consequences
which may ensue from obedience = just
as others whom We aim TO reform 10 some
respects, sin against light and knowledge. |
II zoe may be justified for resorting to ex-
pedients of our own rather Imam obedience
10 the law, why may not they1 and what
becomes of our controversy with their
wickedness2
When you suppose the case of the
whole race being converted to right views
and remark that I" there would be no
means in existence uncontaminated with
this sin to keep alive single individual
till the fruits of regeneration could be pro-
duced." do you not give .utterance to an
idea which is erroneous, viz. that sin can
attach to property created or produced ?
When We abstain from the fruits of OPP
preston il is not that they are themselves
contaminated, but because our consump-
ton OF them would act as stimulus to
the robber to continue to plumber his VIC
Tim in future. Abstaining carefully now
from the products of labor Of the southern
slave. were every bondman 10 be emancipa,
ed Tomorrow, SO that my CONSUMPTION Of
what they have produced up to the pres
! ent could have no influence as a cause to
have an unhappy effect in future, not be-
, lieving them contaminated, l should then
} have no scruple in partaking of them ac-
: cording TO my necessities. = Such, upon
further reflection, think, will be your
| conclusion.
can make no distinction as matter oil
principle between The purchase of the rob-
ber's claim to the soil and the products o.
labor. Any claim TO individual property
o is a violation of that Divine law which
makes all the interests o! the whole hu.
man race one and inseparabie. Yet in the
q effects which follow a violation of the Law
in regard TO the soil aud the products o
i labor l perceive disproportion in evi
= which makes the former matter of great
er moment with ale, and constitutes it III,
u turning point in our attempt to regenerat
/
o the race. Do away with The power to mo
J. nopolize the soil and you Danish almos
&c entirely the ability to monopoize an,
thing else Deny man access to The sol
10 aud you cut him of from existence a
70 completely as if you deny him air {
breathe. Labor, which is necessry 10 hi
&c we'll being, independent Of the provision 70
his necessities which he resps from it. b
can supply himself. The earth upo
which to produce by labor, air and waite
he can mol supply. Withhold Them and b
pershes. Being the foundation then upo
ur which are based all claims to individu'
as property, the monopoly of the soil is II
ar FIRST which the true man will attempt
he live down, ami he will add thereto pra
~ lical denial 10 the right 10 individual pro
10 erty in every Thing else as fast as be ma
If do perceive then reason for making d
&C. ference between purchasing right to u
in the soil, and purchase of boarding
vet cIo.hing, because Of the difference in Il
es- consequences which follow the one al
no the other. Be it observed too, an assos
Ind tion Of mature and healthy persons wi
access to the soil are independent Lab
md will do all the rest. Every thing IN
ssh needs can be produced. 81
E to You tell me "the faster trade and me
Ike ey 60 iuto disuse the better. But see
)ur other way al present buttc make the m
nor innocent use Of them for their destruction
to So says the slave holder partially ava
10 ened. Slavery is wrong. but here we {
EN- right among il, we can not help ourselv
his We mus: make the best use we can Of
Bile, by fitting and preparing our slaves
Us. freedom &C., &C., &c. Winans.
rted Methodist priest goes further--itis nee
iffi. sary according to him for the priests a
lion bishops to hold slaves. thereby to give
, TO sier access to the minds of slave hold
pre- to correct them. As they do. so reas'
that the warrior, the rum seller; but will st
} 10 reasoning do for us2 Dove endeavOr
, in we can for some better wayq The p
L. Of necessity. shrunken. as It may seem