Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-06-07

IL tney are all SOUND anu united.
Q-Again. Is it the principal design
and use of existing civil governments, as.
they are at present administered. 10 enable
one portion of the COMMUNITY, Wig: the
Office holder and lawyer, the capitalist,
the employer, and the trader, by large
salaries, by protecting The claim to private
property, by laws establishiugsthe system
Of banking and usury, and by enactments
generally fayoring their interests, TO live
in ease, affluence, luxurious slolh,f and
aris,ocratic pomp and pride, upon the
ayails OF the labor and toll OF anothe. por-
lion. Wit: the laborer. The poor. and the
slave2
A-Aye: all true; every iota.
Q-Are the enac,ments Of civil gov
ern nents general, unequal and partial !;
favorable to The rich and oppressive to the
poor. Furnishing as crimes in one. things
OF the same nature as those which they
uphold and protect in the other2 For
example. By. the laws relative to mortgag.
rs on real estates &c.. are the rich ena-
bled TO gain immense amounts ofproperty
and sums ofmoney scithout an equivalent,
which in the eye Of impartial justice is
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sheer robbery and are still regarded as
shrewd and honorable men; while the
poor man who gains one hundred dollars
soifhouE an equioaient; viz!: BY stealth,
is called a thiefor robber, and is sentenc.
ed TO imprisonment for term of years
and during his imprisonment iscompelled
TO hard-labor a0ithout cages. sleeping no
on beds Of down. and eating two meals q
day Of something like hasty pudding and
molasses, or beef heads or shanks and 20
taloes, and in the mean time is subject L
the insults and abuse Of hireling stony
hearted Turnkey. and il be attempt to IS
cape is liable TO be shot through the hear,
while his poor wife and babes if he hav,
any are LEFT TO shift Cor themselves, or cas-
themselves upon the cold and heartles
chariy() ofthe aims house or poor iarm
I Aye; this is unequal, partial am
Oppressive legislation.
Q-Is it true that those classes of me-
whose professional business and occupa
lion il isio expound and execute the leg
salive enactments ofhuman government
are The mos, devoid OF humanity, most e1
/, torlionate in their demands as well a
least lenient in enforcing them, and j
their general characters and TRANSACTION
a most reckless Of duty and principle ofan
;. classes of equal numbers in the commul
!, ny!
d A.-Aye; VIGOROUSLY.
,. Q-Is this proof that the institution
q human government is at war with man
y true social nature, tending TO blast the s.
'r cial sympa,hies, and make men tyrannic
c. and oppressive toward their breihren |!
Aye: demonstration. Forif b
man governments were an ordinance
u God as commended by clerical politician
the duty ofexpounding and executing the
provisions would tend to make mea mo
a just, humane. and godly.
y FINALLY. Have contentious for /
usurped authority and power ofcivil &c
ernments been the cause of most OF
= civil wars, and wars between different |
:" lions, that have presented such scenes
carnage, making the earth a field of bio
and slaughter house for man exhil
e ing the horrible. atrocious spectacle,
seen elsewhere among eariRs inhabIlar
Of race at war among themselves, dol
= their utmost to destroy those of their o
species; enacted too, in the cou,endi
: parties, b. mea having no cause Of enm
= or hatred towards each other, but mt
cause for sympathy and good will, as
fering under ike oppression, and by tn
TOO whose condition is made neither be
- BY victory nor worse by dtftat. as
=: whole is strife between a few asplr
ambilious iyran.s eonterding at the
peose of the lives Of thousands. aye oil
of thousands. for civil authority and p
er for their own personal aggranl
ment, fame, and .eaown!
,c,. A-Aye; all true; much too Il
My Jehovah. God Of the Oppressed, spt