Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-05-31

others good, and thus 10 defeat the great
ehd of his existence, is wrong, and should
be instantly repudiate d-tbat lie soil, like
the sun. air and ocean, is the Joint and
tenury of the racc--that every
individual is entitled TO enough Of each TO
satisfy his necessities man enters the
world with certain wants, with physical
and mind 10 guide those ener-
gies, competent TO satisfy those demands
that if he is deprived Of the soil from
whence spring those things capable of sat
isfy!ng his necessities, his right toeexist-
ence is Incomplete, and if he lives, it is
not by right, but by safIerance-that if
every one has an individual aud absolute
right to the produces of his own industry,
then no other person has any right 10
them, and it therefore follows that the
children, the sick, and the lame, and all
those unable 10 produce, have no right to
the necessarics of LIE, and that such. if
they are allowed 10 exist must be regard
ed as paupers upon the benevoience ana
charity of others, and that the great end of
mans existence hangs upon the mere
contingency Of Individual capriciousness.
twas also urged, that in consequence Of
this exclusive right to private property,
the wealthy few had always been enable
10 hold the lives If the masses in their
handS-to bring such into ELECTION, and
to make them the mere Instruments TO the
qualification of their selfish passions-that
these evils were not the mere accidental
abuse oftrust granted TO property holders,
but as necessarily and as lesltinately
grow out OF 1t, as whips, chairs, gags aod
all The horrors aad in! pucitieS of plan
tation follow the ADMITTED right Of Que
man TO chalteize another, or beast.y ia
loxicalion, with all It's concomilout evils,
follows the admitted use Of alcoholic
drinks, or war and violence, from the
principle Of physical resistence-that ex-
elusive possessions With exchange on the
equivalent system, is a great wrong in it.
self, mGLum III Sc. Il was conCeuded
that governments, though oStensibIy de-
signed 10 protect life and person, were, in
reality, but an instrument Of property for
its protection-thdt canning and crafty &C.
cIesiastical Of political aspirants could, by
The aid Of wealth, virtually occupy the pull.
pits, dictate in the halls Of Legislation, sit
upon the bench Of justice, preside over it,
erary institutions, govern the press
Throughout The country. and create pub
lie sentiment 10 the land that should n,ir-
ror forth themselves. 1t was also argued,
that if appropriation be 40 attribute, nat
ural to man, it by no means necessarily
followed, that every Object appropriated
must be the Individual and absolute pro
2"Tty of the appropriator-that it is as
common for chiidren. before they learn,
from the present social structure Of socie.
! y, the necessity Of individual property as
essential 10 protect them from want, and
! from the aggressions of others, to apIro
+ pirate to themselves or others, Certain
Istars, beautiful clouds, birds or animals, q;
dolls, hoops or other play ngs--lhat i
mine ateA Mjne' may BE- applied to OBJ
jects too subtle and common 10 be con
verled into substantial property, and We
held in common, may not the goods 0
the earth, the ,necessaries OF life, be helc
on the same principle, without doing VIC
lence TO the attributes of possession ane
appropriation ?-that if the doctrine Of ap
/ preparation be correct, land ii is not de
aied, that prlncip lie must be false which
will, when carried 10 its natural anG leg
i,ina;e results, allow, as Ia Great Britain
only one 10 erery eight hundred of its in
habitanls the privilege of appropriatinG
soil to themselves, aal muiiltudes from
7 a2Propriati"g food sufficient 10 preserve
life, but that that must be The correct prin
lcipIe " hicn will allow every individual Il
appropriate to himself whatever is essen
thai TO his wants and comfort, and that will
protect the weak, the Ignorant and the de
cripid from the infringenen!s ofthe aVari
clcus, or, what is better, will destroy the
.aliment which feeds and keeps alive tht
principle o. RIGHTEOUSNESS. Ill.